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Brent crude slid to $70.78 a barrel on July 2, a third straight day of roughly 1 percent losses, as tankers resumed normal transit through the Strait of Hormuz and analysts warned of a swelling global glut.
Six federal agencies have five weeks to finalize GENIUS Act rules before July 18, 2026, a deadline that puts Circle's reserves, Coinbase's 3.5% USDC reward, and community bank deposits in the regulatory crosshairs.
Milan software firm Bending Spoons, owner of AOL, Vimeo, Evernote and Eventbrite, closed its first Nasdaq session up 39.7% on July 1, 2026, minting four billionaire cofounders before shares retreated the next day.
Bitcoin fell beneath $60,000 on June 24, 2026, its lowest since October 2024, capping a 20% monthly drop driven by a record 13-day, $4.3 billion ETF outflow streak and Strategy's first sale since 2022.
June payrolls of just 57,000 jobs, roughly half the forecast, sent the dollar index below 101 to around 100.68 on Friday, its worst weekly drop since April, as traders slashed the odds of a September Fed rate hike.
Gold vaulted above $4,100 an ounce on July 2, 2026, touching $4,140.90, after June payrolls added only 57,000 jobs and traders cut September Fed rate hike odds to roughly 50 percent.
52,900.07 was the Dow's record close on July 2, 2026, up 594.83 points after a soft June jobs report of 57,000 payrolls eased Fed rate-hike fears and drove money out of chipmakers into value stocks.
JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo report Q2 2026 results on July 14 and 15, riding record trading revenue and reviving deals even as CEO Jamie Dimon warns the market's little tsunami masks mounting geopolitical and credit risks.
SK Hynix filed an amended F-1 on June 30, 2026, seeking up to $29.4 billion by listing American Depositary Shares on Nasdaq under ticker SKHY, positioning the deal as the largest ADR offering in history.
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Fidelity Investments will require roughly 6,200 Boston employees and more than 15,000 staffers in three other states to work in office five days a week starting September 2026, ending its hybrid policy entirely.
London hosts Samsung's redesigned two model Z Fold 8 lineup, the Z Flip 8, Galaxy Watch 9, and first Galaxy Glasses on July 22, roughly two months before Apple's expected foldable iPhone reveal.
$20,000 is the new annual ceiling on federal Parent PLUS borrowing as of July 1, 2026, replacing decades of uncapped loans and leaving families to bridge the gap on college bills that now average more than $38,000 a year.
