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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed down by -0.52% on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down by -0.51%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down by -0.17%.  E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -0.48%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -0.17%.Stock indices settled lower on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrials falling to a 2-week low.  The prospects for the US-Iran war to continue boosted crude oil prices to a 3-week high and weighed on market sentiment on Monday after President Trump said he’s not interested in extending the expiring 60-day truce with Iran.  The jump in…

An anonymous trader on Polymarket holds a No position on the CLARITY Act worth about $414,895, roughly 2.6 times larger than the $160,200 in liquidity currently available on the market where it sits.CryptoSlate’s live market data puts CLARITY Act odds near 20% Yes, a number now widely read as Washington’s probability estimate for the bill. The real issue is how much of that 20% reflects a broad crowd and how much comes from one position sitting on a thin book.A number that measures the wrong thingPredictbook identified on Aug. 11 that the account was newly created, with no trading history…

Some crypto disputes fade quietly after the initial outrage cycle passes, but the ongoing case involving Gate.io user @jheioff has simmered for weeks before boiling over into a public, six-figure bounty for information following a $1.7 million theft claim against the exchange. This week, Jheioff put real money behind the frustration, offering $100,000 out of pocket for leads that could crack the case open, and pointedly noted that Gate.io has gone quiet on the matter entirely.How This Case Actually StartedTo understand why this bounty matters, it helps to go back to where the whole thing began. In early July, Jheioff,…

Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. Bots message each other through a persistent Agent Inbox and hand work off by @mention. The feature launched as a one-day public beta plugin from co-founder Teknium. It now ships bundled and default-on inside Hermes Desktop, in Hermes Agent v0.20.3. Is it deployable? Yes — today, on a desktop, at no license cost. Bot Mode shipped first…

The loudest story on Meta ($META) in mid-2026 is that the company is “incinerating capital” — that a $125 billion-to-$145 billion capital-expenditure bill for AI data centres is value destruction dressed up as ambition. That framing is not just bearish; it is probably backwards. Meta Platforms (META) trades at $612.91 as of July 1, 2026, and the variable that will decide its 2026, 2027 and 2030 price is not how much it spends on AI, but whether that spend becomes a revenue line rather than a cost sink. In late June the company began selling AI compute — locking in…

Tesla (TSLA) reported second-quarter vehicle deliveries that comfortably exceeded Wall Street expectations on Thursday, signaling a significant rebound in demand as the electric-vehicle maker navigates an increasingly competitive global market.The company delivered 480,126 vehicles worldwide during the second quarter, according to a statement released Thursday.The result came in well above analyst expectations. FactSet estimates had pointed to deliveries of approximately 409,000 vehicles, while Tesla’s company-compiled consensus forecast stood at roughly 406,000 units.The stronger-than-expected performance marks a notable recovery for Tesla after a challenging period. Vehicle sales came under pressure from slowing electric-vehicle demand, rising competition, and political controversies surrounding Chief…

Taiko reopened its cross-chain bridge after moving through a four-stage recovery from a June 21 attack that drained roughly $1.7 million, letting users shift funds between its Ethereum layer-2 network and the Ethereum mainnet again and confirming that every bridged asset now holds full one-to-one backing. The reopening followed a week in which Taiko urged users to pull funds from every bridge on the network and paused its systems after confirming that its chain-state verification mechanism had been compromised. The team sealed the attack path, brought in independent security experts to review its fixes, and sequenced the restart so that…

Shopify stock has rebounded in the past few weeks, moving from the year-to-date low of $94.47 to the current $121.63. This rebound may continue, helped by its modest revenue growth and encouraging technicals.Shopify stock jumps after crucial settlementShopify, the operator of the biggest e-commerce software, soared after reaching a settlement with Shopline, a company owned by Joyy, a publicly-traded company. The two companies asked a judge to bar Shopline from distributing its software. In a statement, Shopify said that Shopline had copied its Dawn theme, rebranded it, and sold it against it. Its chief counsel said:”We took them to court and…

The USD/ZAR pair was little changed on July 1 as traders reacted to hawkish remarks by South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Lesetja Kganyago, who spoke at the European Central Bank (ECB) forum in Portugal. The pair was trading at 16.40, a few pips below last month’s high of 16.67.SARB may hike interest rates in JulyThe USD/ZAR pair wavered even after Kganyago, the head of South Africa’s central bank, hinted that the bank may decide to hike interest rates later this month. If this happens, it will hike rates to 7.25% and the prime lending rate to 10.75%, the highest level…

US stocks opened lower on Wednesday as investors booked profits in semiconductor stocks following a record-breaking first half of 2026, while renewed US-Iran tensions and expectations of tighter monetary policy also weighed on sentiment.The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 253 points. The S&P 500 slipped 0.46% while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.68%.Semiconductor stocks lead declinesChipmakers came under pressure in trading after posting outsized gains during the first six months of the year.Micron Technology dropped 7.6%, although the stock remained up 238% year to date. Sandisk fell 9% after surging more than 650% during the first half of 2026. Nvidia and…