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...

Goldman Sachs analyst Andrea Ferrario told clients in a note on Tuesday that investor sentiment has surged to its strongest point in years, with the firm’s Risk Appetite Indicator rising to 1.09, the “highest level since 2021” and in the “98th percentile since 1991.”...

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...

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...

The Gulf is fast emerging as part of China’s next big financial play, with years of diplomatic overtures now translating into hard cash. Chinese banks’ lending to the region jumped nearly three-fold to a record $15.7 billion in 2025, excluding bilateral loans, with...

India’s holdings of US Treasuries have fallen to a five-year low as the nation pushes to support its currency and diversify its reserves, joining a broader shift by some major economies out of the world’s biggest bond market. The country’s holdings of long-term US...