Asia Pacific is leading the world in stablecoin activity, with over a trillion dollars worth of stablecoins moving in, out and within the region in 2024, according to an International Monetary Fund working paper. So, what’s driving Asia’s stablecoin surge?
Construction work continues at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, on Dec. 30, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images A hotter-than-expected wholesale inflation reading for February had traders contemplating the possibility that the Federal Reserve won’t be lowering interest rates at all this year. Following a Bureau of Labor […]
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A television station broadcasts the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks edged lower on Wednesday as the market […]
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Wholesale prices rose sharply in February, providing another sign that inflation continues to percolate even aside from rising energy prices. The producer price index, a measure of pipeline costs that producers receive for their products, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.7% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Excluding volatile food and energy […]
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