Deutsche Bank says its first crypto custody service is weeks from launch in Germany, starting with Bitcoin and Ether. The bank's product page lists five tokens, so the gap between a supported asset and a usable service is what clients will meet first.
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- Confidence65
Eutelsat rose 25% in five days on Ukraine's Starlink curbs while SES added 2.6% in a session
Eutelsat shares rose 25% in five days after Kyiv said SpaceX curbed its military Starlink service, CNBC reported. SES rose 2.6% in the session Eutelsat traded 23% higher, and Deutsche Bank expects Eutelsat to give back some of the gain.
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- Evidence58
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Deutsche Bank upgrades Chime to Buy from Hold and raises target to $35 from $30 after solid Q2
Deutsche Bank upgraded Chime Financial to Buy from Hold and lifted its price target to $35 from $30, about 25% above a share price near $28. Crowdfund Insider ties the move to second-quarter results and MyPay, while the Stride synergy estimate of more than $100 million is Chime's own.
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- Evidence45
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Meta, Lam and Texas Instruments report into a chip index down 8% this month
Meta, Lam Research and Texas Instruments report next week after the Philadelphia semiconductor index fell 8% so far in October. Goldman Sachs expects five hyperscalers to lift capital spending to about $1.2 trillion next year, and investors want proof that profit can outgrow it.
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Healthcare led the S&P 500 up 0.33% on Thursday as Treasury yields fell and AI-linked shares sold off. The Labor Department put September producer prices up 1.3% against a 0.6% forecast, yet the 10-year yield's session low was still 5.037%.
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- Evidence72
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- Confidence70
Insuring major US AI firms against default costs a record as Korea's stocks fall 7.5% in an Asia rout
South Korea's stocks fell 7.5% and Japan's 5% on AI financing fears, then the selling faded in Europe and the US, channelnewsasia.com reported. The cost of insuring major US AI firms against default hit a record the same day, and we think the debt is where the risk now sits.
Reality
- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+10
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CoreWeave's 2032 notes yield near 15% as the stock falls to $65.78
CoreWeave shares fell about 15% to $65.78 on October 14 as yields on its $1.25 billion of 2032 unsecured notes climbed toward 15%. Deutsche Bank's Buy-rated $150 target, set August 7, is about 2.3 times that close.
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Chip stocks slide further as US inflation raises the risk of rate hikes
South Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% as the chip sell-off deepened on US inflation fears that raised the risk of rate hikes. CNBC ties Dell's 11% drop on Wall Street to doubts about enterprise AI returns.
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Japanese life insurers have sold 289 billion yen of foreign bonds this year, about 0.3% of their overseas holdings
Nippon Life, Meiji Yasuda and Daiichi Life, with nearly 220 trillion yen between them, are due to unveil investment plans next week. The analysts quoted by name expect JGB buying without a broad sale of foreign bonds.
Reality
- Evidence58
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- Hype gap+25
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- Confidence55
German regulators handed banks about 41 of Europe's 72 MiCA approvals in the third quarter
German regulators issued 42 of the 72 MiCA authorizations granted across Europe in the third quarter, according to FinPlanet. All but one went to banks, yet the 65 banks in FinPlanet's count are under a fifth of the 363 licensed entities.
Reality
- Evidence42
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- Hype gap+8
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Delta Air Lines cut its full-year earnings forecast to $5.10-$5.60 a share from $6.50-$7.50 after its third-quarter fuel bill rose 62% to $4.1 billion. With fares already up about a quarter and seat growth speeding up, rivals have less room to pass on the next fuel increase.
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- Evidence78
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- Hype gap+5
- Incentives35
- Confidence76
Christian Bittar, formerly of Deutsche Bank, had his Euribor conviction quashed days after the Court of Appeal cleared five ex-Barclays traders. He had pleaded guilty, so the ruling bears directly on former Barclays trader Peter Johnson, who also pleaded guilty and has begun his own appeal.
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France's borrowing premium over Germany has widened to its highest since 2012, SCMP reported, as fiscal worries build before next year's election. Handelsbanken's FX strategist says the euro's weakness now comes partly from French politics, on top of a dollar lifted by a Fed leaning hawkish.
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Five former Barclays traders had Libor and Euribor convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal after the Serious Fraud Office chose not to oppose. The SFO still says its evidence was ample, so it now defends the investigations while giving up the verdicts they produced.
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- Confidence82
CME's FedWatch has Wednesday's quarter point at 94.5%, up from under half a month ago, and the ten-year at 5.04% shows bond desks bought it in advance. The forecasts still diverge on what follows.
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- Confidence66
Naked Capitalism says Bessent has moved to contain longer-dated Treasury yields, against the Fed. Duration holders should care more about that than about another Iran sanctions threat.
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buildOne report1 publisher Banks fund FINOS's OSERA to backport security fixes into more than 50 legacy open-source lines
FINOS says its bank-funded OSERA alliance now ships patched builds of more than 50 older open-source project lines that member banks still run. The signed, tested builds go only to paying members, while anyone can read the patched source.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
Moonshot AI closed its last private round at about $50 billion, nearly 12 times its end-2025 value, ahead of a Hong Kong IPO planned for early 2027. Public buyers will be asked to price a company valued at roughly 167 times its June revenue run rate.
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Zilch has invited banks to pitch for a float as early as 2027, against a $2 billion private valuation of about 14 times revenue. The listing would test what public buyers will pay for a 2021 fintech price attached to a lender still reporting losses.
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Escorted Hormuz oil flows give Iran more reason to escalate before the midterms, analysts say
Analysts expect Iran to drag the war past the Nov. 3 midterms, even as U.S.-escorted Middle East oil exports climb to almost 13 million barrels a day. Their case is that the escorted barrels cost Tehran leverage and leave escalation as one of its two remaining options.
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Earlier coverage
- Bond selloff lifts the discount rate under long-dated valuations to 5.145%
Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Ant's Falcon FX model goes live at six banks, and the benchmark it sets is narrower than the headline
Invest · August 20, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Twenty-one banks commit to a 2027 dollar stablecoin before naming a chain or a custodian
Invest · September 2, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Oracle spent roughly half of fiscal 2026's entire capital budget in one quarter
Invest · September 11, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- ECB's Pontes settles tokenised assets in central bank money eight hours a day
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Saudi Arabia's central bank exits mBridge after a single proof of concept
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Futures leave the Fed's surprise in an 11.5% chance of a hold
Invest · September 14, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Swissquote asks who pays for the leases if the AI race slows down
Product · September 14, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- A $22bn sale of 30-year bonds cleared 6 basis points below where they traded hours later
Invest · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Citi will custody bitcoin on its equities platform, and plans to hold the coins itself
Invest · August 18, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers