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El Salvador drew $138 million from its $1.4 billion IMF loan after the Fund waived missed Bitcoin targets and kept state purchases barred. From here the reserve grows only through documented donations, so its dollar value now depends mostly on the Bitcoin price.
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Kakao Pay Securities and Dinari are testing whether Korea Exchange shares can reach overseas buyers, chiefly in the U.S., as one-to-one backed tokens. Each token needs a real Korean share behind it in custody, so the trial mostly tests how those shares are sourced and held.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says an AI investment boom has offset the drag of $100 oil, keeping global growth at about 3% this year. She warns that the risk comes early, because the spending arrives well before the gains that would justify it.
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America's national debt topped $40 trillion in August, more than double China's, while its 126% debt ratio trails Japan's 207%. Japan holds about 90% of its debt at home, and the US has to find buyers for about $7 billion of new borrowing a day.
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His reversal from "manageable" to "insane" hands legislatures a fiscal instrument. But a levy on use is paid by adopters, and the only measured job damage so far sits at entry level.
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Tariffs imposed by one country move goods rather than shrink them, which is why the US Treasury spent the Asheville ministerial trying to turn a American cost into a shared one. The forum binds nobody.
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Bessent scoped his threat to countries and to five sectors rather than to a list of firms, which makes locating the Iran perimeter the day job of banks, shippers and payment companies with no Iranian customers at all.
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Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC settled Britain's first interbank transfers of tokenised sterling deposits in three pilot transactions. The Bank of England favours such tokens over private stablecoins, yet it still sketches a system where the two convert at par.
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BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain took 88.2% of tracked tokenized-stock volume in September to date, up from 2.3% in June. The surge coincided with a zero-maker-fee campaign on Binance and Robinhood's Stock Tokens launch, so the test comes when maker fees return.
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Gallup and Microsoft's first 37-country cut puts awareness, daily use and trust in accuracy in very different places. The spread lands on whoever has to ship one onboarding flow into all of those markets.
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Eight trade groups told Senate leaders the bill's rewards carve-outs would let stablecoins pay interest by another name. The White House's own April study puts the lending at stake at $2.1 billion, or 0.02%.
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Castle Labs says liquidity, collateral use and interoperability decide what comes next for tokenized real-world assets. The 77.6% wrapper share quoted alongside that argument counts instruments, and the dollars sit in Treasuries.
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Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay promised everyone a personal agent. The pushback was about Meta's record, not the model, which is a messaging constraint for anyone shipping agents.
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Cryptopolitan reports that the NVIDIA chief told Goldman's conference his stakes in OpenAI and CoreWeave are small next to the demand they create, and the two disclosed equity cheques do come to only $32bn.
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Two dollars under Oman/Dubai is a strange price for a corridor still running below normal. The September 6 OPEC+ meeting will show whether Riyadh was accommodating weak shipping or buying Asian share ahead of a 2027 capacity review.
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The SNP and the Greens have both backed a halt on new datacentre developments, while in east London a housing secretary overruled the local council to approve one. Either route adds cost to a build-out plan.
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IMF economists put AI's annual time savings at $2.7tn, with 96% landing in high-income countries. The war-driven energy inflation Georgieva describes lands hardest somewhere else.
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Buybacks at the long end, euros sold instead of Treasuries, Japan borrowing at an obscure Fed window. Deutsche Bank calls it soft-form repression. Duration holders pay for it in currency.
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Two Walter-controlled insurers restated related-party holdings from $1.4 billion to more than $17 billion. The correction, not the credit quality, is the number allocators should be reading.
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Korea's short-term external debt has passed 40% of reserves because foreigners bought won bonds after index inclusion. Where the banking system sources dollars matters more.
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