Chevron eyes Iraq pipeline bypass of Strait of Hormuz
The shift is a hedge against Iran-linked traffic through the strait, the same chokepoint that handles roughly a fifth of global oil flows.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
The shift is a hedge against Iran-linked traffic through the strait, the same chokepoint that handles roughly a fifth of global oil flows.
Predict-market pricing now gives the bill less than 10% odds of landing this session, a slippage that pulls legislative certainty back out of the 2026 crypto narrative.
The selloff ties crypto more closely to semiconductor valuations and tests miners’ AI data-center strategies built on scarce, costly compute.
A 30-day implied volatility reading of 38% puts BTC below the Kospi's 81%, but still more than double the VIX, framing how far the maturing asset has and has not come.
BTC down 1.7% on the day as a 3% premarket drop in chip ETFs pulls Nasdaq 100 futures 1.8% lower and Taiwan stocks into correction.
SPCX has lost roughly 40% from its June peak, but $615M of perpetual futures exposure is still parked ahead of a $123B share unlock in early August.
The pullback isn't crypto-native. AI-sector fatigue, a 4% Nikkei drop, and a bid for gold and the dollar show the move is macro-led, with derivatives signaling an orderly unwind rather than forced…
The Friday rout started in Asian semis, not onchain, and Ether's ETF bid couldn't insulate it: $97M of inflows could not offset a single TSMC tape turn.
Ether underperformed Bitcoin as crypto market cap stood at $2.25T and the Fear & Greed Index registered 27, signaling defensive sentiment.
The Fundstrat chair sketched a three-phase path past 7,700 and through a 10–15% pullback before a year-end push, framing AI as the intact narrative underwriting the call.
Risk assets sold off across Asia, with the Nikkei off nearly 3% and the Aussie dollar weakening as geopolitical shockwaves hit both crypto and traditional markets simultaneously.
The jurisdictional split that has defined US crypto oversight for a decade is up for renegotiation, and the choice between securities and commodities frameworks will decide which products clear and…
The alleged 2020-era breach dwarfs prior state-actor election incidents and lands days before a US-China leader call, raising fresh questions over data-resilience and retaliation posture.
Bipartisan market-structure legislation is rolling out without the other side of the bipartisan coalition, and that is the actual story, not the bill text.
The all-stock-plus-cash structure is the visible hurdle, but the bigger signal is that PayPal's directors still see the company's standalone value above what two of fintech's heaviest buyers are…
Day 1,333 from the cycle low and day 283 post-peak land within roughly 100 days of prior cycle bottoms, while a flat DXY echoes Trump's first term and limits near-term relief.
The bill has White House momentum but no bipartisan path: Senate Democrats are publicly withholding support, putting the market-structure legislation in a holding pattern on Capitol Hill.
Wall Street's biggest lender is the latest major-bank chief to publicly question how fast frontier models are being shipped, joining a growing chorus across US finance.
The disclosure, tucked into Netflix's quarterly letter, shows how quickly AI production tools have moved from pilot to pipeline across roughly 300 films and series.
The post-IPO unlock window has historically been unforgiving for newly public names, and a clean break below the offering price usually marks the moment sellers stop defending the line.