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PUMP and PI are also well in the green on a daily scale. Bitcoin’s price failed at $65,000 earlier this week, and the subsequent correction pushed it south to a 17-day low of $62,400 before it found some support and rebounded to $63,000. Most larger-cap alts are also in the red in the past 24 hours, led by more painful losses from HYPE, UNI, and AAVE. BTC Back to $63K It was just over a week ago when the primary cryptocurrency was riding high and tapped a monthly peak at $67,000 after the favorable US inflation data for June.…

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Money market Funds at risk of declining as special funds and fixed income gain market share. [ Courtesy] Discerning Kenyan investors are fundamentally reshaping the country’s collective investment landscape, pivoting away from traditional money market funds toward special funds and fixed income products as they hunt for higher yields in a tough economic environment. This is according to the Capital Markets Authority’s (CMA) latest quarterly report. Total Assets Under Management (AUM) in Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) reached a record Sh851.7 billion as at March 2026, up from Sh756.3 billion in December 2025. The sector has grown by 1,404 per…

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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a specialized segment of the crypto market. You may have heard about digital art selling for large sums or seen brands launching NFT collections. You may wonder if these tokens are still relevant and whether they have any real value. This guide covers what an NFT is, how NFT marketplaces work, how NFTs are used in art, and even how to create one. What is an NFT? An NFT is a type of digital asset that represents ownership of a unique item like art, music, or gaming collectibles. To fully understand this, it helps to break…

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How much is geopolitical fragmentation affecting global GDP?   Goldman Sachs Research estimates that rising geopolitical fragmentation in the past decade has cut about 1% cumulatively from global GDP. There has been a larger impact in emerging markets (a 1.9% hit to GDP) compared with developed markets (a hit of 0.8%).   Looking forward, an improvement in the geopolitical alignment index—a hypothetical return to mid-2010s levels—would imply a 0.8% increase in global GDP by the end of this decade, Allen and Briggs write. Meanwhile, further political and economic fragmentation, similar in scope to what already happened in the late 2010s,…

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U.S. warehouse construction has seen an 18% increase in Q2 2026 compared to the previous year. This growth is predominantly propelled by demand from data-center equipment suppliers. With over 305 million square feet of warehouse space currently under construction, the industrial real estate market is experiencing a significant rebound.More than 305 million square feet of U.S. warehouse and industrial space was under construction in the second quarter of 2026, up 18% from a year earlier, according to real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. It is the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth,…

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A hardware wallet keeps your Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) keys on a small device that never connects to the internet, so there is nothing online for a hacker to reach. For years, that design has kept holdings safe while hackers went after exchanges and online wallets, and it’s the reason many long-term holders keep their coins in cold storage.  But the protection failed on July 30, when an attacker drained about $70 million in Bitcoin from roughly 1,200 Coldcard wallets in around 40 minutes without touching a single device. Many of the owners were holders whose coins had not moved in years.…

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Executive Summary The macroeconomic landscape of the Russian Federation demonstrates systemic overheating, industrial capacity bottlenecks, and structural labor deficits resulting from full-scale military mobilization. While initial war-time stimulus propelled real GDP growth through expanded sovereign defense expenditures, recent macroeconomic indicators signal severe deceleration, with growth expectations contracting to a narrow window of 0.0% to 1.0%. Sovereign revenue streams suffer ongoing attrition from targeted physical strikes on hydrocarbon refining infrastructure alongside sanctions-enforced export ceiling discounts. Inflationary pressures remain elevated across primary commodity supply chains, necessitating counter-cyclical monetary intervention by the Central Bank of Russia. Strategic debt accumulation across state-owned enterprises, coupled…

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