Bybit wins Dubai VARA licence for spot crypto trading
Bybit's Dubai unit secured a VARA licence for spot exchange services on October 22, adding a sixth regulatory approval to its 2026 tally — derivatives are not covered.
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Treasury bonds rally as tech sell-off drags 10-year yield below 5%
The benchmark 10-year yield dropped by over 19 basis points for its largest single-day fall since March 2023, closing in at 4.9591% on October 23 as the AI tech rout pushed investors toward government bonds and long-dated funds gained nearly 2%.
Kraken's Payward wins in-principle approval for Kazakhstan license
Payward received conditional approval from Kazakhstan's AFSA to run a digital-asset trading and custody business inside the AIFC zone.
Fed meeting and Big Tech earnings put the $800 billion AI bet on trial
Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon report this week while the Fed decides on October 28. With hyperscaler capex near $800 billion and S&P 500 profits up over 32%, the AI rally faces its toughest test of the year.
Weekly Outlook: Gold, Bitcoin & Forex Key Levels for October 19–23, 2026
Weekly outlook: gold, Bitcoin and EUR/USD key levels, marked charts and themes for the week ahead.
Dow tumbles 650 points as selloff spreads beyond tech, Nasdaq steadies on chips
The Dow Jones lost 652 points on Friday as the tech-led selloff spread into defensive stocks, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.52% and the Nasdaq held steadier as chip stocks bounced.
EUR/USD defends 200-week SMA as France bond rout collides with Fed-ECB week
The euro closed Friday around 1.1190, roughly 93 pips above its 200-week moving average at 1.1105. France's bond selloff and a week packed with central-bank decisions leave the pair with little room for error.
NVDA Analysis Today: Key Levels, Chart and Outlook for October 23, 2026
NVDA at 212.10 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
Bitcoin, gold contracts are Robinhood's fastest-growing prediction markets
Robinhood says price contracts on bitcoin, gold and oil are its quickest-growing prediction-market products — and September's biggest event contract followed the Fed's rate decision, not sports.
US500 Analysis Today: Key Levels, Chart and Outlook for October 23, 2026
US500 at 7,635.30 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
Coinbase Ireland fined €3.25 million over customer-fund safeguards
The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland €3.25 million for safeguarding and outsourcing breaches — the second Irish penalty on the exchange in under a year.
Top 5 most-traded crypto coins October 2026: where the money moved
Price charts show where coins sit; volume shows where money actually changed hands. Ranked by 24-hour trading volume, October 23's five most-traded coins turned over more than $100 billion — two of them dollar-pegged stablecoins, and every one of them moving on a verifiable 2026 catalyst.
Ethereum Price Analysis: ETHUSD Key Levels and Outlook for October 23, 2026
ETHUSD at 2,401.01 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
Volvo Cars shares crash 30% on shock Q3 loss as China demand collapses
Volvo Cars shares plunged nearly 30% to a record low after a SEK 3.7bn third-quarter loss that was five times worse than expected, as the automaker cut 2,500 more jobs and blamed China's demand collapse — a pullback now reaching even Hermès and Cartier.
Brent crude tops $113 as Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia escalate
Brent crude climbed to $113.75 on Friday after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, an Aramco headquarters evacuation and a Libyan pipeline shutdown deepened supply worries.
GBPUSD Analysis Today: Key Levels, Chart and Outlook for October 23, 2026
GBPUSD at 1.33755 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
EURUSD Analysis Today: Key Levels, Chart and Outlook for October 23, 2026
EURUSD at 1.12126 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
Asian stocks sink as AI bubble fears hammer tech; Nikkei sheds 5% in a week
Japan's Nikkei dropped 1.3% on Friday, closing out a brutal 5% weekly loss, as Thursday's Wall Street tech rout spilled across Asia and investors pared bets on further Fed tightening.
Binance offers 600,000 XRP in rewards to users holding RLUSD stablecoin
Binance is putting up a 600,000 XRP pool for anyone who keeps Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in a Binance wallet for the next four weeks, and the first payout arrives on October 30.
Nasdaq selloff: AI spending fears trigger worst day since June
The Nasdaq Composite plunged 2.6% to 26,008.86 on Thursday, October 22 — its steepest one-day fall since early June — as earnings from Meta and Tesla reignited investor fears about the cost of the AI spending race.
Gold Price Analysis Today: XAUUSD Key Levels and Outlook for October 23, 2026
XAUUSD at 4,035.35 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
Gold price sinks to $4,041 as yen-intervention speculation grows
Spot gold slid 2.4% to $4,041 on Thursday, its weakest since Aug 3. The drop came with an odd twist — a sinking dollar and a jumping yen — that has traders asking whether Washington intervened in FX.
TSLA Analysis Today: Key Levels, Chart and Outlook for October 22, 2026
TSLA at 379.46 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.
AXIS token price surges after multi-exchange listings and airdrop launch
Axis Robotics' AXIS token debuted on October 21 with listings across Binance Alpha, Upbit, Coinbase, KuCoin and a dozen more venues, climbing above $0.30 on nearly $190 million of turnover.