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Canadian dollar rebounds as US jobs miss, rate-cut odds shift
The Canadian dollar recovered to three-month highs in early September after the Federal Reserve held rates steady and US employment data missed expectations by 103,000 jobs, narrowing the interest-rate gap that had weakened the loonie earlier in the year.
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Vitol CEO warns China's crude import collapse poses unsustainable market risk
Russell Hardy, CEO of Vitol, argues that China's crude imports have plummeted from 11.6 million barrels per day in 2025 to 6 million bpd by mid-2026, creating an unsustainable gap that could trigger violent market swings when demand rebounds later this year.
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China imposes 99.2% anti-dumping tariffs on Japanese semiconductor chemicals
China's Ministry of Commerce issued preliminary anti-dumping rulings on September 7 targeting Japanese dichlorosilane imports, imposing deposit rates as high as 99.2% and threatening to disrupt semiconductor supply chains as trade tensions escalate.
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Data center construction hits record $75B pace as markets weaken
Private data center construction spending reached $75 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in July 2026, up 57% year-over-year, while overall private construction declined 0.5% and residential and office sectors continued to soften.
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Bank of America: Fed rate hikes add $50B to annual T-bill costs
Bank of America estimates that Federal Reserve rate hikes could add roughly $50 billion in annual interest costs on outstanding Treasury bills, highlighting the fiscal strain from the government's reliance on short-term borrowing.
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Tether CEO outlines strategy to expand dollar network while building Bitcoin and gold reserves
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has positioned the stablecoin issuer as a diversified financial entity, allocating profits to Bitcoin and gold holdings worth approximately $31-32 billion combined, while maintaining $186 billion in USDT circulation.
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LG TVs Record Audio With Screen Off, Gamers Nexus Investigation Finds
Gamers Nexus spent 500 hours and $70,000 investigating LG smart TVs and found them scanning Wi-Fi networks, recording microphone audio with the screen dark, and uploading captured speech—contradicting LG's July statement to regulators and reporters.
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Ethereum arbitrage: builders earn $5.24 per $1 burned, Bitquery finds
Bitquery's 30-day analysis of Ethereum arbitrage found builders captured $5.24 in receipts for every $1 in network fees burned, though onward payments to validators complicate the final profit picture.
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Ethereum Foundation Designates FOCIL and Frame Transactions as Hegotá Must-Ships
The Ethereum Foundation has identified two "must ship" proposals for the Hegotá upgrade after evaluating 62 EIPs: FOCIL (EIP-7805) to strengthen censorship resistance and Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) to enable native account abstraction.
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Xverse launches self-custodial Bitcoin staking with pooled access
Xverse opened enrollment for a pooled Bitcoin staking product that lets users earn BTC yields without surrendering custody. The pool went live September 7, with rewards beginning around September 10, and enrollment closes September 9 or at capacity.
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Chinese corporate profits surge 26% in Q2 2026 as AI boom triggers stock selloff
Onshore-listed Chinese firms posted a 25.7% year-on-year profit jump in Q2 2026, with IT sector gains reaching 142%, yet major indices fell sharply as investors fret over massive AI capital spending and domestic economic headwinds.
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Liquid Network Hackers Return $269M Bitcoin, Retain $47M
Hackers who withdrew 4,000 BTC from Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC worth $269.2 million after Blockstream patched the bridge nodes, but roughly 600 BTC remains unaccounted for amid questions about their white-hat claims.
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US home listings hit 2-year high as affordability crisis halts buyer demand
New home listings climbed to their highest level since August 2022, but pending sales fell to lows not seen since February, signaling a supply-demand mismatch as mortgage rates and prices squeeze buyer purchasing power to record lows.
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AUSTRAC Cancels GetCoins Registration Over Scam Exploitation
AUSTRAC canceled the registration of GetCoins (BA Digital Ventures Pty Ltd) on June 4, 2026, citing alleged exploitation by organized cryptocurrency investment scams. The cancellation is part of a broader regulatory enforcement wave that saw 45 remittance and virtual asset provider registrations canceled, suspended, or refused renewal over the past year.
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Malone Lam Faces Plea Hearing Over $245M Bitcoin Theft
Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean, appears in federal court Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing in connection with a $245 million Bitcoin theft orchestrated by an 18-person racketeering group called the Social Engineering Enterprise.
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Anthropic adds usage details and customization to Claude iOS app
Anthropic rolled out two new interface elements to its Claude iOS app: a usage details button that surfaces Claude Code allocation consumption for Pro and Max subscribers, and a customization section giving users more control over their mobile coding environment.
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Solana ranks fourth in Zcash spot trading with $64M in 24 hours
Solana ranked fourth globally for Zcash spot volume with $64 million in trades over 24 hours, a 220% jump from prior metrics. The surge highlights DeFi's liquidity growth but underscores cross-chain bridge risks that have historically been the largest attack vector in decentralized finance.
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Bitcoin Miners Halt Sales After $30B AI Infrastructure Pivot
Major Bitcoin miners have stopped selling mined coins and shifted to holding mode after redirecting over $30 billion toward AI infrastructure, creating a supply squeeze on exchanges and signaling a structural shift in miner behavior.
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Bitcoin drops 2% as $80K resistance holds on Labor Day lull
Bitcoin fell 2% in thin Monday trading as the US Labor Day holiday erased weekend gains and left the $80,000 level once again out of reach, though bulls held most of the month's 25% rally.
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Chainlink Hits Eight-Month High on Bottomline SWIFT Partnership
Chainlink's LINK token surged 6.8% to $13.64 on Monday, its highest level since January, after the decentralized oracle network announced a partnership with Bottomline, a top-three SWIFT services provider serving 1,200 financial institutions worldwide.
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EIP-8141 Frames: Pay Ethereum Gas in Any Token or Get Sponsored
EIP-8141, a draft proposal since January, would allow Ethereum users to pay transaction fees in alternative tokens or have applications sponsor them entirely, while also preparing the network for post-quantum cryptography.
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SK Hynix accelerates 1c DRAM ramp, targets 34% production share by Q4 2026
SK Hynix is ramping production of 1c DRAM technology from 13% of its mix in Q2 2026 to a projected 34% by Q4 2026, positioning itself ahead of Samsung and laying groundwork for mass-production HBM4E in 2027.
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MiniCPM5-2B tops sub-4B open models on Artificial Analysis Index v4.2
OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B, a 2-billion-parameter model built with Tsinghua University, claimed the top spot among open models under 4 billion parameters on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2, signaling a shift toward efficient AI for edge devices.
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Ethereum prototype cuts blob-recovery computing load by 11–18×
An Ethereum prototype dividing blob-recovery duties among nodes showed an 11–18× reduction in reconstruction computing work in 1,000-node simulations, offering a simpler path to ease layer-2 scaling strain without full RowDAS complexity.