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Key TakeawaysThe Federal Reserve announces its rate decision on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. ET, with markets expecting it to hold rates at 3.75% to 4.00%.CME FedWatch showed a 90.6% chance of a hold and a 9.4% chance of a hike on October 24, down sharply from near coin-flip odds after the hot September CPI report.The bigger question is December: FedWatch prices about a 74% chance of at least one more hike, and all 100 economists in a Reuters poll expect one.Bitcoin trades near $80,

Hedera is preparing to upgrade its mainnet to version v0.78.2 on Wednesday, October 28, marking another technical update for the network as blockchain infrastructure continues to evolve. The scheduled maintenance is set to begin at 17:00 UTC and is expected to take approximately 40 minutes, during which users may experience temporary disruption to network services.The upgrade follows Hedera's recent move to v0.78.1 on October 16. While v0.78.2 is not being presented as a major network overhaul,

PrefaceFranklin Templeton, the global asset manager, has put another $150 million of its tokenized money market fund on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The token is called sgBENJI.According to CoinDesk, the addition raised the fund's balance on the network from about 48 million shares to nearly 193 million, worth about $200 million.For XRP holders, the obvious question is whether this is good for the XRP price. The answer is more interesting than a simple yes or no. In this article, you will learn what s

PrefaceOn October 21, 2026, Solana changed the system that decides when a transaction is final. The Solana Alpenglow upgrade replaced TowerBFT, the voting method used since 2020, with a new design built by Anza. Its goal is 150ms finality, meaning a transaction becomes impossible to reverse in about a seventh of a second. TheSolana Foundation says it was activated in epoch 1064, at about 13:36 UTC.Much of the coverage skips the details that matter. The 150ms figure is a target. The old 12.8-seco

PrefaceOn October 21, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued its final GENIUS Act rule, the first federal rulebook that turns the U.S. stablecoin law into day-to-day requirements for payment stablecoin issuers. Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould called it a "clear, practical framework."Bitcoin Magazine reported that the OCC is the first federal regulator to complete its part of the framework. The rule and the Act both take effect on January 18, 2027.For

Overview Intel reports third-quarter results after the US close on October 29, 2026, with the conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern (2:00 p.m. Pacific), corresponding to roughly 5:00 a.m. Singapore time on October 30. Results had not been published as of this article's verification point. One figure in the foundry expansion story is widely misread. Intel Foundry's second-quarter segment revenue of $5.8 billion, up 31% year over year, gets cited broadly as evidence of progress in the foundry busin

Overview ServiceNow reports third-quarter results after the US close on October 28, 2026, with the conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, corresponding to the early hours of October 29 Singapore time and a call at roughly 5:00 a.m. Results had not been published as of this article's verification point. This report contains a set of contradictory figures, and the contradiction is itself the answer. Company guidance calls for third-quarter subscription revenues of $3.975 billion to $3.980 billion,

1. Today's Market: The Money Went to AI and Chips While the Dow Barely MovedUnit: %, single-day change on October 27; all three readings are positive, so the zero line sits at the left edge and every bar runs right on one shared scale. The Nasdaq reads +1.18%, the S&P 500 +0.60% and the Dow +0.03%. The three indexes rose together and still finished 1.15 percentage points apart, and that spread is the day's conclusion: what rose was not the market but the part of it carrying the most

Overview Visa reported fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results on October 27, 2026, covering the period to September 30. Fourth-quarter net revenue of $12.139 billion grew 13%, full-year net revenue of $45.903 billion grew 15%, and the board raised the quarterly dividend 16% to $0.780 per share. Two sets of figures in the report point in opposite directions, and together they answer the question about consumer and cross-border demand. Payments volume is slowing. Fourth-quarter payments

Overview Robinhood reported third-quarter results after the US close on October 27, 2026, with net revenues of $1.424 billion setting a record and growing 12%, while net income of $476 million fell 14% and net income attributable to Robinhood of $468 million fell 16%. That contrast needs separating into two stages, because the cause of each is entirely different. The first stage sits above the tax line. Revenue grew by roughly $150 million, but operating expenses rose roughly $100 million and ot