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XRP is trading at the $1.40 level again after failing to break the $1.50 ceiling last month, and somehow, that’s the bullish part of the story. Social sentiment just hit its second-highest reading in two years, driven by Rakuten Wallet’s full-scale XRP integration. So what is our XRP price prediction for next week? Starting today, @Rakuten_Wallet users in Japan can convert @Rakuten Points into XRP, spot trade in-app, and spend across 5M+ merchant locations. With 44 million Rakuten Pay users and $23B in loyalty points now redeemable for XRP, this is one of the largest retail deployments… pic.twitter.com/P7I52bGjVL— RippleX (@RippleXDev)…

, and several other market leaders are flashing the same warning signal. They broke out from classic cup patterns, opened with strong momentum, attracted fresh breakout buyers, and then started drifting back toward their breakout zones. That is not the kind of clean follow-through you want to see in a healthy rally.This looks increasingly like a bull trap setup where smart money used the rally to sell into strength, book profits, and quietly reduce exposure while latecomers and retail investors rushed in chasing the breakout. When leadership names fail to hold pivots, it usually signals that the rally is losing…

Global payments enablement and software company Flywire Corporation has entered into a new strategic partnership with KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. KnowBe4 has selected Flywire as its preferred partner for global accounts receivable (A/R) and international payments. The newly signed three-year agreement will provide KnowBe4 with an invoicing and payments solution tailored for enterprise-scale needs. The cybersecurity firm, which currently serves over 70,000 organizations worldwide, has committed millions of dollars in annual payment volume through the Flywire platform. Scaling operations and ditching legacy providers As KnowBe4 continues its rapid global expansion,…

Key PointsMechanical resonance imaging (MRI) equipment specialist Iradimed (NASDAQ: IRMD) ended the stock trading week in style on Friday. On the back of a well-received quarterly earnings report, investors traded the company’s shares up by more than 4%. That was robust enough to trounce the 0.3% gain of the bellwether S&P 500 index that trading session.A double beat to put a cap on the weekIradimed posted its first-quarter figures that morning, and Mr. Market clearly liked what he saw. The company’s top line expanded by 13% to just under $22 million, which exceeded the average analyst estimate of $20.8 million.…

’s share price has been under pressure due to rising costs and concerns that its post-Humira days won’t be as robust. However, the stock price decline put the market in a position to trigger a trend-following signal, which happened after its Q1 earnings results. The results initially left the market wanting more, but the stock price drop at the open triggered a buying frenzy. Share price immediately moved up from the low, confirming support at a critical level and indicating high potential for a rebound. AbbVie’s trend-following signal includes its long-term, 150-week exponential moving average (EMA), the price action, and…

May 2026 The Effect of the Federal Reserve on the Stock Market: Magnitudes, Channels and Shocks Benjamin Knox and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Abstract: We survey and extend work on the Federal Reserve’s effect on the stock market, focusing on three empirical findings: The effect of monetary policy surprises in a narrow window around announcements from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the pre-FOMC announcement drift, and the FOMC cycle in stock returns. We discuss the magnitude of the Fed’s impact (directional effects or effects on average stock returns), the types of shocks coming from the Fed (pure monetary policy…

Labour has been urged by Tony Blair’s thinktank to scrap the pensions triple lock amid mounting pressure on government finances.With the Iran war threatening to derail public spending plans, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) said the “unaffordable” manifesto pledge to maintain the triple lock should be torn up as part of a wider overhaul of the state pension.The triple lock guarantees that the basic and new state pensions will rise every April by whichever is highest: inflation, average wage growth or 2.5%.Saying change was “unavoidable” as Britain’s steadily ageing population drove up the cost of the policy, the thinktank suggested…

Under the Genius Act, stablecoin issuers must hold short-term Treasuries in their reserves. The Treasury market is the largest and deepest financial market in the world, but it’s also a fragile one. In March 2020, a net increase in sales of Treasuries versus the prior month of less than $100 billion caused the entire market to seize up. What happens in a world where, as Treasury secretary Scott Bessent predicts, there are $2 trillion of stablecoins outstanding? Meanwhile, as the stablecoin Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Visa said its settlement pilot for stablecoins now supports nine blockchains and has reached a run rate of $7 billion a year.The company announced on April 29 that it added Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo to a pilot that already used Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Stellar.Visa said the annualized settlement run rate is up 50% from the prior quarter.The pilot remains bounded by Visa’s own language, but the signal is in where the volume sits. Stablecoins are entering the part of payments consumers rarely see, the settlement layer that moves value between issuers, acquirers, banks,…

prices have surged, with June delivery reaching $126.41 per barrel and June WTI at $110.31, following President Trump’s indication that the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian oil exports may continue for months.This situation is driving oil prices to their highest levels in over 4 years and significantly impacting the global energy market. The US Central Command has intercepted 42 commercial vessels attempting to breach the blockade, leaving 41 tankers with about 69 million barrels of oil stranded.Energy stocks like and are sharply rising as free cash flow projections improve with higher oil prices. The is also outperforming the broader .The…