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Finance

Wall Street's Cantor Fitzgerald to Open Bitcoin Financing, Lending Business

The financial services company will start with $2 billion in lending.

Howard Lutnick (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Stocks Bleed as China Rate Cuts Signals Panic, Treasury Yield Curve Steepens

China's back-to-back interest-rate cuts signal urgency to shore up growth after the recent Communist party plenum offered little support to the nation's flagging economy.

China renminbi bills (Moerschy/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Is Still Strong, but Macro Factors Pose Risk, Crypto Analyst Says

Hardening government bond yields post a risk to risk assets, including cryptocurrencies, one crypto observer said.

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Markets

Bitcoin's Safe Haven Appeal Could Be Tested Soon, U.S. Bond Market Suggests

Recent developments in the U.S. Treasury yield curve suggest a recession may arrive soon, strengthening the case for investing in assets with safe-haven appeal.

(Laurence Dutton/GettyImages)

Markets

After Bitcoin ETF Decision, U.S. Debt Announcement May Be Pivotal for Crypto Traders

The Treasury's next quarterly debt announcement may not turn out as much a tailwind for risk assets as the previous one did.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at American University (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Philippines to Sell Tokenized Treasury Bond Next Week

The Bureau of the Treasury has set a minimum target of 10 billion pesos.

Manilla Bay, Philippines.

Markets

Ether Could Continue to Underperform Bitcoin as U.S. Bond Market 'Dis-Inversion' Resumes

The spread between yields on 10-year and three-month Treasury notes has resumed the recovery toward zero. Ether has a strong inverse correlation with the yield spread than bitcoin.

El mercado bajista y la caída en el volumen de trading pesan sobre Coinbase. (Olen Gandy, Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto’s Interest in Rates

U.S. interest rates are back on the rise, but digital assets appear to be unaffected.

(Armando Arauz/Unsplash)

Finance

Blockchain and AI Are Set to Transform Financial Markets: Moody's

Incorporating AI and digital ledger technology into business models may require substantial investment, but could help lower expenses and improve market liquidity over time, a report said.

Moody's website

Markets

Bitcoin Unlikely to Be Destabilized by Real Yields, Crypto Observers Say

The rise in real yields is more of a headache to blue chip stocks than to markets like technology or crypto and will not disrupt the medium-term growth story, one observer said.

Opyn's Crab strategy offers a new way to generate yield in a comatose market. (James Coleman/Unsplash)