Recently, spot gold has continuously refreshed key levels. After falling nearly 2% to the $4,300 mark on October 18, in just one trading day, on October 20, spot gold regained all lost ground and set a new record high again, touching $4381.484 intraday, an increase of 2.46% on the day. What factors have contributed to the recent surge in gold prices? The traditional decline in real interest rates has been used to explain the rise in gold prices. October 18...
The CEO of American Express said that stablecoins are more of an investment vehicle and will not replace fiat currencies.
Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, said at the Solana Accelerate 2025 conference that Solana will become the backbone of global finance and will replace banks in the capital markets. Scaramucci pointed out that the world spends nearly $7 trillion a year on transaction verification, and Solana's high-speed, low-cost infrastructure can slash those costs significantly. He predicts that Solana will become one of the main financial tracks for the tokenization of real-world assets, from...
US Congressman Waters on April 2 accused former President Trump of using political influence to promote the family business to issue stablecoins for profit, and warned Congress to veto the relevant bill if it does not address its conflict of interest. She said Trump may try to get the government to fully adopt his private stablecoin to replace the US dollar payment system. Lawmakers from both parties are concerned that Trump's involvement in the crypto industry poses moral hazard and complicates...
Elon Musk has replaced his X avatar with a picture of a "golden chainsaw" sent to him by President Javier Millet of Argentina.
January 20th news, according to statistics, since the beginning of 2025, less than a month, the whole market has nearly 30 debt base announced due to large redemptions and adjusted the net value accuracy, an increase from the previous few months, involving about 20 fund companies. From the perspective of nearly 30 debt-based products involved, including both active investment bond base and index bond base, mainly pure bond funds. Class C shares with short-term trading attributes are more common....
Investment advisors could overtake hedge funds as the largest holders of US-listed spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) next year, CF Benchmarks said on Monday. Investment advisors could have more than 50% of the BTC and ETH ETF market next year, according to CF Benchmarks.
On December 8, US President-elect Don Trump said on NBC's "Meeting with Kristen Welker" broadcast on Sunday that he would not try to replace Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell after he takes office in January. Asked if he would seek to replace Powell, Trump told Welker: "No, I don't think so." "I think he would [resign] if I told him. But if I asked him [to resign], he probably wouldn't."
Bernstein expects bitcoin to replace gold within the next decade, and earlier Powell also called bitcoin a competitor to gold.
Nvidia will replace Intel and Sherwin-Williams will replace Dow as constituents of the Dow Jones Industries Average Index, effective November 8. The index changes are aimed at increasing representative exposure to the semiconductor and materials industries.