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Fintech giant Stripe announced Wednesday a slew of new product launches at its annual Stripe Sessions user event. The highlights include a new AI foundation model for payments; stablecoin-powered accounts; a new Orchestration offering, and a recent migration with chip behemoth Nvidia. Stripe’s payments foundation model has been trained on tens of billions of transactions, Emily Glassberg Sands, Stripe’s head of information, said. So it “captures hundreds of subtle signals about each payment” that other models would miss, she said. One use case is improved fraud detection. Stripe’s previous models “gradually” reduced card-testing attacks by 80% over two years. Card-testing…

Solana pushed back to $145 this week; its first return to that level since mid-December. The move confirms renewed strength across large-cap altcoins as market sentiment improves in early 2026. Still, while SOL’s price recovery is drawing headlines, a different conversation is taking place beneath the surface. Traders are once again comparing mature Layer-1 rallies with early-stage infrastructure plays that may offer far greater upside. One project consistently entering that discussion is LiquidChain ($LIQUID). While Solana trades at a multi-billion-dollar valuation, LiquidChain is still in its crypto presale phase, producing strong funding and staking numbers at a fraction of the…

by Calculated Risk on 1/09/2026 01:12:00 PM The Federal Reserve released the Q3 2025 Flow of Funds report today: Financial Accounts of the United States. The net worth of households and nonprofits rose to $181.6 trillion during the third quarter of 2025. The value of directly and indirectly held corporate equities increased $5.5 trillion and the value of real estate decreased $0.3 trillion….Household debt increased 4.1 percent at an annual rate in the third quarter of 2025. Consumer credit grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent, while mortgage debt (excluding charge-offs) grew at an annual rate of 3.2 percent.…

Imagine being the typical SpaceX employee over the last few months. Your shares IPO at $135 and within a few days they peak at $225/share (up 67%) before they begin to decline. As of this morning they sit at around $139, or about 3% above the IPO price. Given this, what percentage of your shares would you sell once your lock-up ends? This question isn’t just relevant to SpaceX employees, but to anyone who’s ever held a concentrated position in an individual stock. After all, do you hold on in hopes of future growth? Or do you get out in…

The most heavily trailed supply event of the year landed on August 6, and the SpaceX (SPCX) stock went up. Roughly 911.5 million shares held by insiders and early backers became eligible to trade, around 43% more than the entire float sold at the listing, and the freely tradable portion of the company jumped from under 5% of shares outstanding to nearly 12% in a single session. Every wire had flagged the date for weeks. The shares rose on the day and kept rising for three more.That is not a market absorbing supply gracefully. It is a market that had…

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator participates in a Bloomberg Television interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20, 2026. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCoreWeave shares jumped 11% in extended trading on Tuesday after the AI infrastructure provider reported revenue than topped Wall Street expectations.Here’s how the company did relative to LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: Loss of $1.14Revenue: $2.58 billion vs. $2.56 billion expectedRevenue climbed 112% during the quarter from a year earlier, CoreWeave said in a statement. Net loss of $626 million increased from $290 million, or 60 cents per share, a year ago. The…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed down -0.06% on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.11%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -0.34%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -0.07%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -0.30%.Stock indices settled lower on Monday.  The broader market was under pressure on Monday from higher crude oil prices, which boosted inflation expectations and T-note yields.  WTI crude oil surged more than +5% on Monday, pushing the 10-year T-note yield up by +5 bp to 4.70%. Join 200K+ Subscribers: Find out why the midday Barchart Brief newsletter is a…

A total 195 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in the first half of 2026 — far surpassing counts seen since the second half of 2022. Already, H1 is above the new unicorn totals for all of 2025, when 193 companies were minted with that status. In this bifurcated funding environment, we also see a wide range in valuations, as well as select companies that raised multiple rounds at a significant valuation increase in the space of months. Among this cohort, robotics and AI neolabs were the leading sectors for new unicorns. Other industries that stand out were in financial…

MissionSquare Retirement, a Washington, D.C.-based retirement plan product provider focused on government employees, is expanding its personal wealth management services.The firm will offer brokerage accounts (including individual retirement accounts and taxable accounts), as well as a robo-advisor that supports IRAs and taxable, non-qualified investment accounts.MissionSquare manages and administers over $73.6 billion in assets, focusing on 457(b), 403(b), and 401(a) retirement plans for public-sector employees, including those at state and city governments.As part of the move, the firm will appoint Shannon Hogendorn as head of wealth management to lead its rebranded broker/dealer subsidiary. MissionSquare Wealth Management will work with Apex Fintech…

Nvidia is attempting to turn its artificial intelligence chips into Wall Street’s newest asset class, partnering with six large asset managers on a $500 billion financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure much like commercial real estate, toll roads or other assets you can borrow against.The chipmaker signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms for Nvidia’s customers, the company said Monday in a statement.Executives from the seven companies joined CNBC’s Becky Quick in a rare live joint interview to discuss the effort.The effort aims to mobilize…