17+ hour, 47+ min ago   (428+ words) The week in one sentence. Speculators rebuilt their bearish conviction in JPY and EUR, kept selling AUD, and continued covering GBP, while WTI delivered the cleanest positive turn as both positioning and price moved sharply higher. The foreign-exchange complex turned…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (331+ words) World Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind World Network, has raised $52.5 million through a strategic sale of its WLD token as the project marks three years since its mainnet launch. The funding round was led by Pantera Capital and included participation…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (279+ words) FXStreet The selloff that started after Samsung announced jaw-droppingly good—and better-than-expected—results continued through the following European and US sessions ASML in Europe lost more than 7%, while VanEck’s semiconductor ETF in the US fell nearly 3.8%, slipping below its…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (284+ words) FXStreet The news is not brilliant: Middle East tensions are flaring up, US President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire over, and the US continued bombing Iran last night Washington also revoked the recent easing of Iranian sanctions, meaning that Iran…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (400+ words) DBS Group Research economist Chua Han Teng argues that Malaysia’s financial markets reflect confidence in the country’s solid domestic fundamentals despite lingering Middle East geopolitical risks. The Malaysian Ringgit has outperformed regional peers, government bond yields remain stable, and resilient…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (470+ words) Commerzbank reports that South Korea’s advance Q2 GDP rose 0.6% quarter-on-quarter and 3.7% year-on-year, beating expectations. Robust AI-related semiconductor demand and resilient domestic spending underpin growth. The strong data support prospects of a further 25bp Bank of Korea hike in August. USD/KRW fell…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (414+ words) UOB Global Economics & Markets Research notes that Bank Indonesia kept its policy rate at 5.75%, opting to let earlier tightening filter through. Despite the pause, the team still expects three further hikes totalling 75 bps by end-2026 to stabilise the Rupiah and…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (334+ words) MUFG’s Lloyd Chan expects MAS to keep policy unchanged at the July meeting while maintaining a tightening bias, distinguishing between energy-driven and domestically generated inflation. Strong Singapore growth and a positive output gap justify tight settings. MUFG sees MAS policy…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (552+ words) Every de-escalation headline of this war has been retraced, in April, in May and again in early July, and the market has bought each one on first print. What separates this version is that the equity bid arrived on the…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (423+ words) "The key point is that flows are accelerating from a depleted base. Energy holdings remain only at the 17th percentile of the March-July window, well below the early-March peak. That creates an important divergence: investors are buying aggressively, but positioning has…...