The S&P 500 closed Q2 2026 with a strong two-day rally, marking its best quarterly performance since Q2 2020. The rebound was driven by easing geopolitical tensions, institutional buying, and fund managers' window dressing, particularly in AI, semiconductor, and mega-cap tech stocks. However, the US Dollar Index hit a 13-month high post-June FOMC meeting, posing a headwind for equities. Investors now watch Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and upcoming US labor data closely, as hawkish signals or strong payrolls could boost the dollar further and risk a near-term pullback in the S&P 500.
The global reactive hot melt adhesives market is projected to grow from $2.02 billion in 2025 to $4.29 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 7.72%. Growth is driven by regulations limiting solvent-based adhesives, increased use of polyurethane adhesives in a...
Bitget has introduced a Cross-Asset Unified Account that integrates over 370 assets, including 100 tokenized US stocks (rTokens), into a single margin pool. This allows users to use tokenized stocks as margin for futures and margin trading, borrow st...
Researchers from Stanford and Singapore Management University discovered that 821 traders manipulated Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin contracts by pushing Binance’s spot price just before settlement, extracting $8.2 million. This manipulation occurr...
The global automotive microcontrollers market is projected to grow from USD 15.49 billion in 2025 to USD 34.31 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 8.28%. Growth is fueled by increasing adoption of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle electrif...
Thunder Gold Corp. announced results from six diamond drill holes at its Tower Mountain Property in Ontario, confirming the continuation of gold mineralization at depth and identifying new near-surface zones previously considered waste. Key highlight...
