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ON 24 JULY, THE INTERNATIONAL CRUDE OIL FUTURES SETTLEMENT PRICE INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY BY OVER 6 PER CENT. WTI CRUDE OIL FUTURES CONTRACT SETTLEMENT PRICE INCREASED BY 6.17 PER CENT IN SEPTEMBER, REPORTING USD 92.19/BARREL. BRENT CRUDE OIL FUTURES CONTRACT SETTLEMENT PRICE INCREASED BY 7.04 PER CENT IN SEPTEMBER AND REPORTED USD 100.69 PER BARREL。
View DetailsON 24 JULY, THE HK$0.7777 WAS RECEIVED AT THE TIME OF BEIJING AT 03:00, WHICH WAS 27 POINTS LOWER THAN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE TURNOVER IS $30,712 MILLION。
View DetailsOn 24 July, at 23 local time, according to Israeli sources, Israeli Defence Minister Katz said on the same day that the Israeli side was now ready for “all that might happen” in view of the current escalation of tension with Iran. It is alleged that Katz convened the same day the Israeli Chief of General Staff, Zamir, and senior military officials to hold an emergency security assessment meeting at the Ministry of Defence headquarters. Katz issued a strong warning to the Iranian side at the end of the meeting. He claims that if Iran chooses to launch any form of attack against Israel, “it will bear a devastating blow from Israel”. (In Russian)
View DetailsOn 24 July, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account was suspected to have been stolen and an anomaly was published in the early morning with a token contract address, which was later marked as “SCAM” in the Robinhood Chain block browser, suggesting that the user might be at risk of fraud. The post has now been deleted。
View DetailsOn 24 July, Alphabet Inc. issued a 100-year bond on the British pound market earlier this year, at a time of massive global debt, which for the first time fell by 90 pence per pound sterling. The data show that only Pound1 billion (1340 million) was issued on Thursday, 2126, for bonds due. When the technology giant issued the bond in February this year, it was issued at slightly lower prices than the nominal value. The risk premium, relative to the no-risk base rate, once touched the height of 139.8 basis points. Of all the high-level corporate debt of benchmark sizes globally, the bond had the longest remaining term. It is being hit by both market concerns about artificial intelligence-related bond issuance and a general rise in government bond yields at a time of renewed fiscal deficits and inflation concerns. The price of this bond could fall by almost 15 pence, owing to its long duration and a 1 percentage point increase in the rate of return. At the same time, Michael Teig, a credit strategist at Yushu Bank, wrote in a report on Thursday: “The recent increase in credit spreads on super-large cloud-server bonds has rekindled the debate among investors on the feasibility of their business model, particularly in the context of the large-scale capital expenditures of these companies.”
View DetailsOn 24 July, OpenAI anticipated a large deployment of AMD Helios. According to the head of the OpenAI infrastructure, the company had started using the AMD Helios GPU rack three months previously, and OpenAI planned to work with AMD to develop the MI500 series of AI chips and subsequent products。
View DetailsON 24 JULY, THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ISSUED $21 BILLION IN A 10-YEAR INFLATION-FIXED BOND (TIPS) YIELD OF 2.438 PER CENT, UP FROM A HIGH OF 2.438 PER CENT SINCE 2008, ABOUT TWO BASIS POINTS HIGHER THAN THE MARKET FORECAST AT 1 P.M. OF NEW YORK TIME, INDICATING THAT DEMAND WAS BELOW EXPECTATIONS。
View DetailsOn 24 July, Thomas Kurian stated: “Our current clients have increased their expenditures after making commitments to us. Their actual cost is about 50 per cent higher than the promised amount. This is due to the differentiated advantage of our product mix and our strength in market promotion and enforcement, which is also directly reflected in our double growth in revenue and business profits.” This excess contributed to the explosive growth of its cloud operations, which rose by 82 per cent over the same period。
View DetailsOn 24 July, at the AMD Advancing AI Assembly, AMD CED CHEO Souzizhang stated that the AIS market was expected to reach $1.4 trillion by 2030; the CPU market for the data centre was expected to reach $220 billion by 2030; and the market as a whole was expected to reach $2 trillion by 2030。
View DetailsOn 24 July, Black Forest Labs, the German Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, was testing its first model for robotics (AI) to expand operations from photo-level image generation to physical AI. The company's Flux 3 model is able to learn from images, videos and audio and can predict the next move based on what it sees, enabling it to compete in the field of “visual intelligence”. Black Forest Labs has worked with Mimic Romantics AG to develop an action model called Flux-mimic and is being tested with manufacturing partners, including Audi AG。
View DetailsON 24 JULY, THE BRITISH REVENUE AND CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION (HMRC) DISCLOSED THAT SINCE THE LAUNCH OF THE ENCODED CURRENCY TAX COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE IN NOVEMBER 2023, OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, A TOTAL OF 502 ENCRYPTED CURRENCY INVESTORS HAD REACHED A DISCLOSURE SETTLEMENT, WHICH RESULTED IN A CUMULATIVE TAX RECOVERY OF OVER POUND8 MILLION, OR AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT POUND1.6 MILLION. OF THESE, 2024/25 SETTLED 280 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, IN THE AMOUNT OF POUND354 MILLION; 2025/26 RECONCILED 222 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, IN THE AMOUNT OF ABOUT POUND4.78 MILLION. AT THE SAME TIME, THE NUMBER OF "ALARM LETTERS" SENT BY THE HMRC TO ENCRYPTED INVESTORS ROSE SIGNIFICANTLY, REACHING 64,982 IN FISCAL YEAR 2024/25, A 680 PER CENT INCREASE FROM THREE TO FOUR YEARS AGO. WITH THE ACCESSION OF THE UK TO THE OECD ENCRYPTED ASSET REPORTING FRAMEWORK (CARF), SINCE JANUARY 2026, ENCRYPTION SERVICE PROVIDERS HAVE BEEN OBLIGED TO COLLECT USER IDENTITY AND TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATION AND REPORT TO THE AUTHORITIES, AND THE SPACE FOR INVESTORS TO HIDE THE PROCEEDS WILL BE FURTHER REDUCED. CURRENTLY, ABOUT 8% OF BRITISH ADULTS (ABOUT 4.5 MILLION) HOLD ENCRYPTED ASSETS。
View DetailsOn 23 July, Levitte, White House Press Secretary: Greer, United States Trade Representative, will issue a tariff announcement today。
View DetailsON 23 JULY, THE ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) DIGITAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE 23 WAS HELD IN CHENGDU. THE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LI LO SEONG, PRESENTED THE OUTCOME OF THE MEETING. AMONG THEM, LI LO SEONG, FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE MINISTERIAL MEETING, RAISED THE “OPEN SOURCE” TO THE APEC LEVEL OF MINISTERIAL COOPERATION AND, WHILE RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF RESPECT FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, ENCOURAGED ECONOMIES TO SUPPORT OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES AND TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN AIIC INTERNATIONAL OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY COLLABORATION。
View DetailsOn 23 July, the Chicago Futures Exchange Volatility Index reached a high of nearly a month, now rising by 3.39 points to 20.03 points。
View DetailsOn 23 July, the United States “Axios News Network (Axios)” reported that, in an interview, United States President Trump had revealed that he was “considering seriously” the resumption of large-scale combat operations against Iran, and that the new operation might have included a more devastating blow than the previous “Scissical Fury” operation. According to the report, Trump said: “They (Iran) have not suffered enough”. According to the information received, a final decision has not yet been taken by Trump. (CCTV International Times)
View DetailsOn 23 July, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that a round table would be held at Washington headquarters on 17 September 2026 to discuss issues related to the transition of the United States stock market to a 24-hour trade, including preparations to support overnight trading, operations and resilience in the round-the-clock market, and the opportunities and challenges of expanding trading time. In his statement, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said, "We are moving towards a new day in the United States stock market -- and a new night. As the round-the-clock trade expands, I am excited to expect that the United States stock market will be connected to those markets that have achieved a continuous flow of transactions, and that a balance will be achieved in all-weather transactions, while protecting investors and customers. The round table will be open to the public and the discussion will be broadcast live on the SEC website, followed by video replays. The round table marked a further step forward in the modernization of the capital market infrastructure of the United States following the introduction of electronic delivery rules and encryption regulatory frameworks in Atkins。
View DetailsOn 23 July, according to Onchain Lens, Hyperliquid whale 0x3527 1e16 held 122,000 SPCX multiple positions with a value of approximately $13.58 million, with an average current entry price of 126.04 dollars, a market price of 111.29 dollars, and a current loss of approximately $1.8 million and a liquidation price of $22.27 million。
View DetailsOn 23 July, on the basis of OnchainLens monitoring, Abracas Capital transferred $223.5 million worth of assets to trading platforms over the past seven hours, of which 2,211 bitcoin was transferred to Kraken, approximately $143.8 million; 30,825 had been transferred to Binance, about $59.2 million; 11.5 million USDCs and 690,000 USDTs were transferred to Binance, about $12.19 million; 5.89 million USDDTs were transferred to Bitstamp, about $5.89 million; and 236 million USDCs were transferred to Kraken, about $2.37 million。
View DetailsOn 23 July, for the second time, the United States House of Representatives, supported by a minority of Republicans across party lines, passed a resolution in Iran ' s War Powers Act, calling for a cessation of the war against Iran. On that day, the result of the House roll-call vote was 214 in favour and 208 against. Four Republican deputies joined the Democrats in voting in favour of the resolution. In June this year, the House of Representatives adopted a similar resolution, at which the same four members of the House of Representatives voted in favour. This action is largely symbolic, but it also highlights the unpopularness of the Iranian war, as well as the growing concern of a minority of Republican parliamentarians — who may face strong opposition in the mid-term parliamentary elections just a few months later。
View DetailsOn 23 July, the future spending commitment of the Google parent company Alphabet jumped to $81.1 billion。
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