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Crypto presales did slow down over the past few months. As prices across the market remain under pressure, risk appetite has faded and many early-stage projects are struggling to maintain momentum. Capital has become more selective, with investors less willing to back ideas that rely purely on optimistic price narratives. That slowdown, however, does not mean opportunities have disappeared entirely. In bearish conditions, attention often shifts away from short-term speculation and toward projects that focus on infrastructure, efficiency, and long-term relevance. This is the environment in which LiquidChain ($LIQUID) has started to stand out. LiquidChain centers its message on a…

XAU/USD Current price: $ 4,035Easing Middle East tensions cause Oil prices to edge sharply lower.United States employment data taking center stage this week. XAU/USD holds above $4,000, but sellers hold the grip.Spot Gold trades in the $4,030 price zone, little changed from Friday’s close, yet down on Monday after starting the week with a bullish gap. The US Dollar (USD) eased throughout the first half of the day, as easing Middle East tensions caused Oil prices to fall. The barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) hovers around $78, down from last week’s close at roughly $85. United States (US) President…

Palantir topped second-quarter earnings on Monday and more than doubled commercial revenue growth from a year ago. The stock surged 8% after the numbers were released.Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: 41 cents adj. vs. 35 cents expectedRevenue: $1.94 billion vs. $1.80 billion expectedRevenue climbed 93% from about $1 billion a year ago. Palantir reported net income of $1.07 billion, or 41 cents per share, compared to about $329 million, or 13 cents per share in the year-ago quarter.”Forget consensus,” CEO Alex Karp told CNBC’s Seema Mody in an exclusive interview. “To my knowledge, no businesses…

Key PointsJPMorgan Chase had a record second quarter, and its stock is sitting at a high of $354 per share.Jamie Dimon thinks AI stocks are inflated, and that would keep him from investing right now.History has shown that investors who keep investing and don’t try to time the market win out.10 stocks we like better than JPMorgan Chase ›Is now a good time to invest in the stock market? According to Jamie Dimon, the answer is no. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) said in an interview last week that geopolitical tensions and a highly valued market are issues,…

A single midsize seed round doesn’t reveal much about what’s trending as the hot emerging area for startup innovation. Looking across hundreds of financings, however, one forms a clearer image about where the hotspots are clustering. That was the intent of our latest Crunchbase News data dive into seed-stage trends. For this installment, we focused on mid-sized rounds of between $5 million and $10 million, analyzing around 800 global seed financings that closed this year.  Why this range? In a startup investment climate characterized by the ascendance of megarounds, the idea was to focus on rounds more representative of the…

Many people are busy saving and investing for their retirement, aiming to stop working with a $1 million nest egg. Many others are busy saving and investing for their retirement knowing that they will never end up with anything close to $1 million. Are they doomed? Not necessarily. Here’s a look at whether you might need $1 million by retirement, along with why many people get by retiring with far less. Image source: Getty Images. Setting the stage First, understand that millions of people have simply not saved enough, according to this table based on the 2026 Retirement Confidence Survey:…

Merrill Private Wealth Management has added a 14-person team from Morgan Stanley’s Graystone Consulting business that oversees more than $13 billion in client assets.The team works with a national client base that includes ultra-high-net-worth families, entrepreneurs, corporate executives and retirement plans. It includes advisors Alfred Hammond, Matthew McLaughlin, Anthony Mancini, Peter J. Ciovacco, Scott Tobey and Michael Egan, as well as eight support staff members, according to a Merrill spokesperson.The team has been with Morgan Stanley since at least 2009, according to BrokerCheck. They are departing an institutional practice overseeing about $747.7 billion in client assets, and with over 50…

Wherever volatile fuel prices head this year, don’t expect bargain flights.Airfare in the U.S. in June was up 26.5% compared with a year earlier, according to the latest federal data.Airline leaders say customers continue to book even after carriers hiked fares. They told Wall Street analysts this month that they’re expecting to hold onto that pricing power at least through the rest of the year, if not longer.Traveler Marjorie Aran said she and her husband paid a combined $800 to go from New York to Chicago in economy on United Airlines this week to visit their daughter.”We used to go…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems. Sean noted that while a hack performed by an AI agent is novel, the hack itself was not  “some new advanced thing.” “It was more like Nixon’s people breaking into Watergate than some real stealthy cyber-op,…

While Strategy’s preferred STRC shares ended July well below their $100 par value, investors were told that their August dividend will not increase, holding at 12%.Executive chairman Michael Saylor delivered the news in a tweet on Saturday, continuing to pitch STRC as a way to “stretch your income.” August will be the second month that the dividend will be paid semi-monthly after shareholders approved that change in June.STRC shares closed at $89.46 on Friday, clocking a 5.42% price increase for the month which began with a dividend hike — 50 basis points to 12% — after a poor stock performance…