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Frank Subasic has been named director of Janney Montgomery Scott’s new Coastal Carolina complex. The complex is designed to boost the firm’s presence across Aiken, Columbia, Florence, and Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Subasic will be responsible for overseeing the functions of 25 financial advisors across the region and will be reporting to Andy Kistler, Janney’s Southeast regional director. Prior to joining Janney, Subasic was an executive director and branch manager at Wells Fargo Advisors.  Christopher Davis has joined Altus Equity Group, a real estate investment firm, as VP of asset management. Davis will lead Altus’ portfolio performance and asset strategy. Prior to joining Altus, Davis held senior roles at Bluerock Real Estate. Davis will…

Wheat futures are facing midday weakness on Wednesday. Chicago SRW futures are down fractionally in the nearbys. There were 209 deliveries against May CBT wheat overnight, with 196 coming from a Marex customer. Kansas City HRW futures are down 7 to 8 cents are midday. Minneapolis spring wheat futures are down 4 to 5 cents.Wheat production data will be released in the Crop Production report on Monday, with all wheat production seen at 1.885 billion bushels. Winter wheat is seen at 1.325 bbu, with HRW at 748 mbu, SRW at 342 mbu, and white winter at 234 mbu. Don’t Miss…

US President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the US central bank, setting the stage for a high-stakes Senate confirmation battle.The decision, announced by Trump on his social media platform Truth Social, confirms Thursday reports that Trump would move ahead with the 55‑year‑old ex–Fed official and Morgan Stanley banker as his preferred candidate.The President said that he had known Warsh for a long time and had “no doubt” that he would go down as “one of the “GREAT Fed chairmen, maybe the best.”Prediction markets and Wall…

Meta soars 9% on strong guidance while Microsoft plunges 7% on AI spending concerns. Tesla edges up 2% despite first annual revenue decline.

DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, today announced its 2026 transformation into “The New Financial Platform,” a global financial ecosystem designed to expand access to modern banking, investment, and payments infrastructure for the world’s underserved populations. The vision, unveiled by co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou during the biannual keynote session, positions the company beyond its origins as a cryptocurrency exchange and into a unified financial platform connecting crypto, traditional markets, and real-world financial services. At the center of the strategy is a long-term mission: empowering the 1.4 billion underbanked people…

Live cattle futures settled Wednesday with contracts up 60 cents to $1.40 across most months. Cash trade has yet to kick off this week, with sales of $185-187 in the South and with northern trade at $193 last week. The Central Stockyards Fed Cattle Exchange showed no sales on the 944 head listed in today’s online auction, as bids were reported at $185 live and $186-187 using their BidTheGrid™ method. Feeder cattle futures closed out the day with gains of $1.42 to $2.17. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was down $0.23 at $245.32 on August 13. USDA wholesale Boxed Beef were…

Zug, Switzerland, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire Status, one of Ethereum’s longest-running open-source projects, has re-entered the spotlight with USS Status, a satirical sci-fi cartoon that turns crypto’s chaotic past into comedy, along with the launch of a unified privacy super-app and gasless L2 network. An Old Giant Awakens Status, the open-source privacy super-app, has launched an overhauled unified app, a gasless L2 network, and a new identity personified in an irreverent and satirical web cartoon. One of the oldest established projects in the Ethereum ecosystem, Status has weathered the industry’s volatility while continuing to quietly build an open-source platform that…

Opinion by: Joshua Sum, head of product at Solayer LabsConsider a single, borderless financial market operating around the clock, where a farmer in Nebraska can instantly hedge wheat futures. At the same time, a pension fund in Tokyo trades Tesla shares seamlessly, all without permission, intermediaries or geographic constraints. This isn’t science fiction.It’s the logical endpoint of blockchain technology and asset tokenization, a vision that has captivated everyone from JPMorgan executives to Silicon Valley dreamers.Yet this remains a distant future. Not because we lack ideas, but because we’re trying to build it on a foundation — today’s blockchain infrastructure — that…

The Trump-led Greenland incident reflects not only political drama, but also the fragility of the traditional pricing power system. The same applies to the financial sector. As BTC’s “underlying value” is repeatedly validated amidst global uncertainty, and XRP continues to enter cross-border clearing networks, a clear trend is emerging: hashrate is moving from behind the scenes to the forefront of asset transactions. Against this backdrop, Moon Hash is seen as a more relevant answer—it doesn’t create sentiment, but rather adapts to structural changes. Moon Hash uses Proof-of-Work (PoW) hashrate at its core, transforming the mining system, previously only accessible to…

New York, United States, January 28th, 2026, Chainwire QXMP Labs announced that it has registered approximately USD $1.1 trillion of certified real-world, in-ground assets on its proprietary Layer-1 blockchain, QELT. The announcement follows the activation of QXMP’s proprietary oracle infrastructure, which is designed to ingest and verify qualified geological and scientific documentation and record the data on-chain as cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves. The development marks a step toward enabling large-scale, compliant real-world asset tokenisation and settlement using blockchain-based infrastructure. Addressing the missing Liquidity in Tokenised RWAs Tokenising real-world assets (RWAs) requires more than price stability. It requires deep, predictable, and continuously…