Bitcoin is consolidating between roughly $76,500 and $81,000 after its best August in years, as traders weigh a Treasury-driven liquidity rally against a surprisingly hawkish message from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. Ethereum is outperforming Bitcoin this month on broadening ETF demand. The week’s biggest catalyst is Friday’s U.S. jobs report, which could decide whether … Read more
If you only look at one week of markets this quarter, this might be it. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh just delivered one of the most hawkish speeches of his tenure, an unresolved military standoff over the Strait of Hormuz is keeping oil and gold both elevated, and Friday brings the single most-watched U.S. economic … Read more
Asian markets head into September still digesting new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole debut, even as the region’s own data is quietly improving. China’s official factory-activity index beat forecasts Monday, South Korea’s Kospi is riding a record-setting, chip-led rally, and Taiwan’s semiconductor and assembly giants are positioning for Apple’s next iPhone launch. Layer … Read more
If you’re trying to figure out what could move UK stocks this week, here’s the short version: it’s a week of two halves. The first half belongs to company earnings, with five UK-listed businesses reporting results on a single day. The second half belongs to a US jobs report that, despite being an American data … Read more
This week, two big stories are colliding in the U.S. stock market. A dense “second wave” of AI-infrastructure earnings — led by Broadcom, Dell, and a handful of enterprise software names — will test whether the AI spending boom Nvidia and Marvell confirmed last week has real breadth. At the same time, Friday’s August jobs … Read more
Bitcoin is having its best week in nearly two years. It opened this week at its highest level in more than three months — above $79,000, with an intraday move as high as $81,000 — and it isn’t moving alone. Ethereum, XRP, and a wide range of altcoins are rallying right alongside it, and the … Read more
This week’s markets are being pulled by three forces at once. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, who took over from Jerome Powell in May 2026, delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote as Chair on Friday — just three weeks before the Fed’s next policy meeting. Markets are no longer simply debating whether the Fed will … Read more
This week, Asian markets are caught between two genuinely binary events — and everything else is background noise by comparison. Monday opened with a sharp tech-led selloff: South Korea’s Kospi fell as much as 3.1% intraday and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped roughly 1.9%, as volatility tied to Alibaba and Samsung spilled into the broader … Read more
The FTSE 100 just did something it hasn’t done since May: it strung together six straight winning sessions, closing Tuesday at 10,871.17 and pushing toward record territory. The FTSE 250 has been even stronger, breaking above 24,000 for the first time and sitting roughly 9% higher for the year. That headline sounds like an unambiguous … Read more
This week, three big stories are colliding at once in the U.S. stock market. Nvidia and Marvell Technology — two of the biggest names in artificial intelligence — report earnings that could confirm or challenge the multi-year AI spending boom. Meanwhile, new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh steps up to the podium at the Jackson … Read more