State Street said the main reason for the dollar's decline earlier this year was that US investors reduced their foreign exchange hedging of overseas investments, rather than that global investors increased their hedging of US portfolios. "The more pronounced activity comes from domestic investors adjusting their foreign hedging ratios," Chris Pizzotti, global head of foreign exchange sales and trading at State Street Markets, told the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's FX market structure confe...
UBS analysis pointed out that if the US Supreme Court rules that Trump's tariff policy is illegal, it is expected to force the US government to refund about 140 billion US dollars to importers, equivalent to 7.9% of the estimated federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2025. Once the US government loses the case, the huge tax refund will immediately lead to wealth...
Tesla (TSLA. O) reported lower-than-expected third-quarter profit despite record sales of its electric vehicles, a sign that the company is facing pressure from changing U.S. policies and rising costs. The company reported adjusted earnings of 50 cents a share in the third quarter. Analysts' average estimate was...
The resignation of the French prime minister has triggered turmoil in the government bond market, which not only exacerbates the pressure on French finances, but also threatens the transmission of monetary policy from the European Central Bank, and the United Kingdom is not immune. Click to view...
According to the IFC Macro Research Report, Powell came without warning at the Jackson Hole meeting, and some remarks ran counter to what the FOMC press conference said in July. In his review and outlook on the economy, Powell's views on the labor market changed 180 degrees, and he began to be extremely concerned about the downside risks to employment. This change in frame of reference...
Curve community members phil_00Llama recently launched a proposal to "stop all subsequent Layer2 development", proposing that deployed L2 can be retained, but suggesting that subsequent development be terminated. It believes that the L2 chain requires the same level of maintenance effort as the Ethereum mainnet, but the benefits are meager (currently all L2 daily benefits are about $1,500); the L2 technology iterates extremely fast and has short-lived characteristics, resulting in high operation...

Gold futures edged up in relatively light trading, but are expected to end the week slightly lower on the uncertain outlook for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and resilient US economic data. Analysts at MUFG said in a note that strong initial requests and retail sales data had kept the market cautious ahead of the next Fed meeting. Still, gold prices are up 27 per cent so far this year on geopolitical risks and concerns about dollar-denominated assets stemming from the dollar's slide. Analys...
Coinbase Quarter 1 revenue fell 12% quarter-on-quarter to $2.03 billion, trading revenue fell nearly 19%, and several analysts cut their second-quarter and full-year revenue forecasts. JPMorgan noted a "30% quarter-on-quarter decline in institutional volume" and a 3.1 basis point decline in institutional expense ratios from 4.1 basis points. However, Coinbase's acquisition of Deribit, the world's leading crypto derivatives exchange, for $2.90 billion was seen as a "bold bet in the derivatives sp...