Investors pulled $8.9 billion from gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in June, with North American merchandise accounting for $5.5 billion of the withdrawals as bullion’s worth slide deepened. The month-to-month retreat got here as gold recorded its fourth straight dropping month. The metallic fell 11.7% as a hawkish Federal Reserve and Middle East tensions steered buyers…
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) shares fell 1.6% to $132.22 on Wednesday, July 08 snapping a seven-day profitable streak that had pushed the refill 25%. The inventory surge hit the brakes after a report raised the prospect of Democratic lawmakers concentrating on the corporate’s authorities contracts. A Rally Interrupted The drop halted one in every of Palantir’s…
A federal choose has accepted Elon Musk’s $1.5 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ending the case over his delayed disclosure of Twitter inventory purchases in 2022. US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan signed off on the settlement on July 8 after warning she wouldn’t rubber-stamp the deal. Why the Judge Scrutinized…
Google has banned prediction market extensions from the Chrome Web Store beneath up to date Developer Program Policies. Extensions that facilitate or allow real-money trades on predictive outcomes face enforcement beginning August 1, 2026. The change provides a new distribution chokepoint for Polymarket and Kalshi simply as sector volumes hit information. Why Google is Blocking…
The World prediction market, which launched on Solana (SOL) barely every week in the past, mentioned it should transfer to Robinhood Chain. The staff provided no clear cause for leaving so quickly after its debut. The swap reverses a narrative from days earlier, when World was Solana’s homegrown reply to Polymarket and Kalshi. Now it’s…
President Donald Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire over on Wednesday, reviving fears of a markets crash in July. Stock futures fell greater than 1% whereas oil surged and gold climbed. Wall Street’s early response suggests warning reasonably than panic. The larger query is whether or not renewed struggle danger triggers a deep July sell-off, or…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned that the EU’s revived Chat Control plan threatens cybersecurity for everybody, after European lawmakers voted Tuesday to fast-track the message-scanning invoice again for a choice. Parliament will now maintain an actual vote on Thursday on whether or not to carry the scanning rule again, and opponents want 361 votes…
Bitcoin’s June 2026 low close to $58,000 doesn’t meet the on-chain situations that marked prior cycle bottoms. The flooring sits beneath realized value, close to $54,000, over a horizon that extends into This fall 2026. Sentiment has reached excessive concern, whereas valuation and on-chain metrics sit above the degrees recorded on the 2015, 2018, and…
Crypto safety incidents climbed roughly 50% in the primary half of 2026, whilst whole losses fell about 60%, based on a mid-year report from blockchain safety agency SlowMist. The agency recorded 182 incidents value roughly $956 million between January and June. A yr earlier, 121 incidents prompted round $2.373 billion in losses. Crypto Attacks Climbed…
Shiba Inu’s group destroyed greater than 117 million SHIB tokens on July 8, marking the most important single-day burn in six months. The deflationary spike, tracked by Shibburn, despatched the tokens to a lifeless pockets, completely eradicating them from circulation. The token has slipped almost 9% over the previous month even after a modest weekly…