Iran Attacks At Least Two More Tankers In Gulf Waters In Past 24 Hours

Rickards: The Real In AI Is Not 'Super-Intelligence', It's China Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, It's past time to look beyond the AI hype. The stock valuations of the leading hyperscalers and frontier AI modeling companies are almost certainly in bubble territory. But the market will sort that out in time. We all know the names of the AI stocks whether from the hardware, software or compute vectors - Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google (Alphabet), Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA and a few others. Some of these names have valuable core businesses...

Stablecoins Move $400M An Hour, With 73% Of Volume Outside Banking Hours: Coinbase Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoins moved more than $400 million an hour in adjusted transfer volume during the third quarter of 2026, as quarterly activity reached $891 billion, more than quadrupling since early 2023, according to a new report commissioned by Coinbase. The report found that 73% of screened stablecoin transfer volume occurred outside US banking hours, including nights, weekends and holidays. Distribution of stablecoin transfer volume by time of day. Source: Coinbase and The Block Research, via...

One Key Signal Says Rate Hikes Could Be Coming Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance For a while now markets have operated under the assumption that inflation was cooling, rate cuts were inevitable, and the Federal Reserve was slowly steering toward a soft landing. Hell, Jim Cramer started celebrating Jerome Powell’s “soft landing” some 925 days ago with inflation at 3.1%. Today, inflation is at 3.8% and Powell is leaving his post at the Fed and turning over his impossible task to Kevin Warsh. Which is to say the consensus is starting to unravel fast....