The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association has published new industry guidance clarifying how foreign exchange spread grids should be interpreted, arguing that they are designed to provide contextual pricing guidance rather than serve as firm quotes, contractual commitments, or measures of execution quality. The paper, FXPA Guidance: The Role and Interpretation of FX Spread Grids, was
BitGo has expanded its institutional custody platform to support YLDS, the SEC-registered yield-bearing digital security issued by Figure Certificate Company, giving institutional investors access to regulated custody for one of the first blockchain-native fixed-income products registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The digital asset infrastructure provider said YLDS can now be held through
The decentralized finance (DeFi) market experienced significant momentum on June 26, 2026, as digital assets staged a sharp recovery following a period of persistent selling. Leading the broader market rebound was Aave (AAVE), the largest decentralized lending protocol, which surged by more than 19% within a 24-hour window. This massive rally propelled the token to
Markets await Middle East peace progress, monitor central bank policy shifts, and analyze the yen’s persistent weakness against the dollar. US-Iran Truce and Strait of Hormuz Stability Financial markets are navigating a period of cautious optimism as the United States and Iran move toward a temporary truce following recent military exchanges near the vital Strait
The lazy take on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is that it is simply the cheaper Nvidia — a discounted way to own the same artificial-intelligence (AI) boom. That framing misses what the share price is actually doing. At roughly $532 in late June 2026, AMD is no longer priced as a diversified chipmaker; it is
The reflex take on Broadcom (AVGO) is that it is just another way to ride Nvidia’s AI boom. It is closer to the opposite. Broadcom’s growth engine is custom AI silicon — the application-specific chips (XPUs) that Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic are commissioning precisely to escape Nvidia’s merchant-GPU pricing. So when you buy AVGO
The lazy take on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is that it is just another expensive artificial-intelligence (AI) trade. It is not. TSMC is the one AI monopoly that trades at a discount to the companies it supplies — and that gap is the whole story behind a 2026 price forecast that runs from a
The tired framing of Intel is the fallen giant that missed mobile, missed AI, and handed its manufacturing crown to Taiwan. That story is two years out of date. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) closed at $128.76 on June 26, 2026 after a turnaround run that has lifted the stock nearly 500% under chief executive Lip-Bu Tan
Given the bullish sterling sentiment seen across the FX markets today, GBPUSD currency pair can be expected to rise to the next resistance level 1.3265. GBPUSD reversed from support zone Likely to rise to resistance level 1.3265 GBPUSD currency pair recently reversed up from the support zone between the strong support level 1.3165 (which stopped
Forget the reflex that says memory chips are dumb commodities doomed to boom and bust. The single most important number in Micron Technology’s (NASDAQ: MU) fiscal third quarter is not the record $41.5 billion in revenue or the roughly 85% non-GAAP gross margin — it is the $22 billion in customer cash deposits the company