Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, said that while AI and the Fed may be issues more at the forefront of the economic conversation, risk from the Iran war and its subsequent impact on fuel stores remains an important factor in the background. Slok also commented the possibility that the Fed may have fewer meetings, saying that market will still try to price the Fed regardless of the schedule.
Holly Framsted, head of global product strategy and development at Capital Group, joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." They discussed ETF and mutual funds flows as well as allocation shifts within model portfolios.
Clement Delangue, CEO of AI company Hugging Face, sat down with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow to discuss OpenAI models' hack on Hugging Face last month and the future of AI regulation. Talking about the hack, Delangue, said that while companies want AI agents to think outside the box, they don't want AI to 'think outside the sandbox' and stay in the closed testing environment. Delangue also discussed government involvement in AI regulation and said that there is a risk that too much government intervention would result in a 'concentration of power' and said that is one of the biggest risks in the AI space.
Bloomberg's Isabelle Lee joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Corgi is on pace to launch roughly 500 ETFs within its first year, more than BlackRock accumulated over many years. It already ranks among the largest US issuers by product count and says its eventual goal is 1,000 funds spanning leveraged stocks, buffered strategies, semiconductors and narrowly targeted themes.
JD Vance has flown into Switzerland to join Donald Trump’s envoys in 60‑day roadmap talks with Iran, after Pakistan and Qatar said negotiations were making “positive progress” on nukes and sanctions.
A US–Iran peace agreement to halt nearly four months of fighting, including in Lebanon, sent oil lower and global stocks higher as markets priced in a planned Friday signing.
PwC reports that crypto adoption is advancing unevenly across regions despite growing institutional involvement.
Trump used his Davos speech to tout US economic dominance, promote crypto, and revive his push for Greenland.
West Texas Intermediate prices dropped after the United States paused military action against Iran.
BNB Chain said a former employee allegedly used unauthorised wallet access to launch Asteroid Shiba (CRYPTO), prompting legal action.
Minnesota banned cryptocurrency ATMs from 1 August after residents reported about US$1 million in kiosk-related scam losses from 2023 to 2025.
Trump Media & Technology Group transferred 2,628 Bitcoin (CRYPTO) worth about US$165 million to Crypto.com in two transactions.
Russia expanded cryptocurrency mining restrictions affecting Bitcoin (CRYPTO) miners across Moscow, the Moscow Region and parts of Kursk from 15 August 2026.
Galaxy Research linked 1,367.05 Bitcoin (CRYPTO) worth US$88.6 million across 4,585 addresses to suspected Coldcard wallet drains.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO) miners generated US$875.35 million in July, up US$38.93 million from US$836.41 million in June.
Two whale wallets withdrew 2,957 Bitcoin (CRYPTO) worth about US$195 million from Kraken.
Cardano (CRYPTO) rose nearly 10% in 24 hours to about US$0.189 as preparations began for the network's Dijkstra era.
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe challenged Anthropic after AI agents recovered US$4.62 in Bitcoin (CRYPTO) from deliberately weakened wallets.
