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The post FOMC Minutes: Why the S&P 500 Needs Rate-Cut Patience appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. It’s minutes week. The Fed will open the hood on its June meeting, and stocks will try to figure out if the engine’s still running smooth or starting to ping. If you care about the S&P 500 holding its massive Q2 run, this one matters. We’ll break down what in the minutes can shake equities, why “patient cuts” beat “fast pivots,” and how jobs, inflation, yields, and the dollar tie together. You’ll get a plain checklist for release day, a sector map for different rate paths, and a read-through for crypto risk. Quick heads-up on timing: the June 16–17, 2026 FOMC minutes hit on Wednesday, July 8 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Mark the clock. That’s straight from the Fed’s calendar Federal Reserve (FOMC calendar). The S&P 500’s rally still leans on a slow, steady path to rate cuts rather than an urgent pivot. The market wants confirmation that inflation risks are easing enough to trim rates later this

The post Phemex (2026) Spot, Perps, and AI Push: Key Insights appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Rongchai Wang Jul 07, 2026 08:48 Phemex’s 2026 report reveals dominance in derivatives, AI adoption, and new tokenized stock offerings. Here’s the breakdown. Phemex, a leading crypto exchange, has released its mid-2026 performance report, revealing a significant focus on derivatives trading, declining reserves, and a growing push into AI-driven tools and tokenized stock offerings. Daily perpetuals (perps) trading volume averaged $1.69 billion—2.41 times the spot market’s $0.70 billion average—underscoring Phemex’s positioning as a derivatives-first platform. Volume Peaks Tied to Market Turmoil Both spot and perps volumes spiked on February 6, 2026, as Bitcoin dropped 14.1% to its yearly low of $62,800, triggering heightened trading activity. On that day, spot volume surged to $1.19 billion, while perps hit $2.71 billion, their highest single-day level. While spot trading

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The post Dow Jones tags a record, then hides behind its dullest stocks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Dow Jones Industrial Average spent Tuesday arriving late to a party the rest of the market had already begun to leave. The index tagged a fresh intraday record near 53,300 at the New York open around 13:30 GMT, then handed the gains straight back as a rotation out of artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor names swept the tape. By the close it had shed more than 500 points from that high, finishing near 52,850 and down about 0.35%, which on Tuesday counted as resilience. The awkward part is that the record barely outlasted the opening auction, and it survived at all only because of the same stodgy, tech-light makeup that has made the index this year’s laggard. The Nasdaq Composite lost more than 1% and the S&P 500 roughly half that, while the Dow’s heavier weighting in healthcare, financials and consumer staples did exactly what it is built to do when the fashionable t