Jan 28, 2026 | Markets
President Donald Trump’s relaxed tone about the dollar selloff is fueling speculation the US currency is at the start of a longer-term decline. The dollar suffered its deepest one-day drop since last year’s tariff rollout after Trump said on Tuesday he didn’t think...
Jan 27, 2026 | Markets
Not long ago, Nikshep Saravanan was deep in the crypto trenches — trading memecoins, reaching out to venture capitalists, and trying to launch a startup for digital creators. By January, he’d dropped it all. These days, he spends hours on prediction markets, tracking...
Jan 23, 2026 | Markets
Wall Street ended a jittery week on a relatively quiet note, with stock traders digesting the rally of the past two days in the run-up to the Federal Reserve decision and the start of the big-tech earnings season. While the S&P 500 posted its first back-to-back...
Jan 23, 2026 | Markets
The dollar notched its worst week since May, fueling gains in the yen and other global currencies after a week of unpredictable US policymaking that rattled financial markets. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index tumbled 0.7% on Friday and is down 1.6% on the week, its...
Jan 23, 2026 | Markets
China opened the door for further yuan gains, as the central bank strengthened the daily reference rate by the most since August, pushing it past a closely watched level. The People’s Bank of China set the so-called fixing at 6.9929 per dollar on Friday, compared with...