The Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates on hold this week, giving itself more time to reduce inflation and assess the impact of President Trump's policies on the economy. The Fed has cut interest rates three times in a row since September, a cumulative 1 percentage point cut. The Fed currently has a base rate range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Several policymakers have said they expect fewer rate cuts this year as data show the U.S. economy is performing solidly and inflation is higher than....
On January 29 local time, Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and State Councilor, visited nuclear material production bases and nuclear weapons research institutes.
Goldman Sachs doesn't expect much new information from tomorrow's Federal Reserve January interest rate decision. The FOMC is likely to acknowledge signs of a stabilizing labor market in its statement, but is unlikely to provide forward guidance for policy action in March. The tariffs are expected to lead to a modest, one-off rise in inflation that the Fed is likely to ignore. Historically, Fed officials have played down the inflationary impact of tariffs and focused more on the potential GDP im...
The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model projects U.S. GDP growth of 3.2% in the fourth quarter, compared with a previous estimate of 3.0%.
The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model projects U.S. GDP growth of 3.2% in the fourth quarter, compared with a previous estimate of 3.0%.
Wintermute Asia, a Singaporean derivatives trading entity owned by cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute, has launched Contracts for Difference (CFDs) linked to the GMCI US Select Index, which tracks the performance of top cryptocurrency projects with legal entities in the US based on supply in circulation, enabling traders to quickly adapt to changing market narratives, particularly about the potential for building strategic digital asset reserves. Payments-focused cryptocurrencies XRP, Solana...
Daily Malaysian Palm Oil Point Forecast, a selection of research institutions report on the fundamentals and technical points of palm oil.
The technical aspects of the daily external futures varieties are summarized, among which four varieties, including Brent crude oil, have short opportunities.
DeepSeek disrupts the global AI community, making an already important week even more important... Click to view...
Hong Kong stocks of SMIC (00981.HK) and ZTE (00763.HK) fell more than 4%.
The TON Core team will roll out updates in the first half of 2025, including: a large "accelerator" kernel update on the mainnet; new tools for validators; improved Toncenter API (operations, pending, emulation, domains); user experience improvements + collaboration with community products; release of Payment Network Layer 2; sidechain research; new features in TOLK 1.0 (structures, pattern matching, smart contracts); support for $TON $BTC Teleport; new standards (pending TX ID, secure signature...
European Union foreign ministers agree on a road map to ease sanctions on Syria.
On January 27th, Geoffrey Kendrick, head of foreign exchange and digital asset research at Standard Chartered, released the latest market analysis, pointing out that the correlation between bitcoin and the Nasdaq index is significantly higher than that with gold. AI startup DeepSeek released a low-cost R1 model comparable to OpenAI, causing the Nasdaq futures to fall by 3.3%, triggering a large-scale liquidation in the cryptocurrency market....
U.S. stock index futures continued to decline, with the Nasdaq 100 index futures falling more than 4%, the S & P 500 index futures falling more than 2%, and the Dow futures falling more than 1%. Semiconductor stocks continued to decline before the market, with NVIDIA (NVDA. O), TSMC (TSM. N) and Broadcom (AVGO. O) all falling more than 11%.