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Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, driven by rapid growth in its USDC stablecoin business and expanding payments operations, underscoring continued momentum in an otherwise challenging crypto market.For the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2025, Circle posted revenue of $770 million, a 77% increase from a year earlier, and reported net income of $133.4 million, or 43 cents per share. Analysts expected per-share earnings of 16 cents on revenue of $747 million. The strong quarter was fueled in part by a 72% year-on-year increase in the circulation of Circle’s US dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDC (USDC), which reached about…

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH26) on Monday closed up +0.15 (+1.05%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26) closed up +1.60 (+0.39%).Sugar prices rallied sharply on Monday, with NY sugar posting a 2.5-week high and London sugar posting a 1.5-week high.  Strength in the Brazilian real (^USDBRL) is bullish for sugar prices.  The real jumped to a 1.75-year high against the dollar on Monday, discouraging export sales from Brazil’s sugar producers. Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   Sugar prices also have positive carryover support from last…

Bitcoin price dropped 25% in 2022 and 50% in 2018 after similar on-chain loss signals, a warning sign for BTC’s next move.Bitcoin (BTC) traders are selling at a loss for the first time since 2022, raising odds that the biggest cryptocurrency’s ongoing price correction may deepen in the coming weeks.Key takeaways:Bitcoin is witnessing loss-driven selling that has historically lasted six months or more.These signals surfaced during previous bear markets, preceding sharp downtrends each time.BTC capitulation may last for another six monthsOn Monday, Bitcoin’s realized profit/loss ratio (90-day moving average) slipped below 1. The drop indicated that traders were dumping their…

Lean hog futures were up another 20 to 75 cents on Friday, as the bounce this week saw April rally $2.40. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $88.96 on Friday afternoon, down $2.08 from the day prior. The CME Lean Hog Index was 40 cents higher on Feb 18 at $87.59.USDA tallied 27,255 MT of pork sold in the week of 2/12, a 5-week low. Mexico was the largest buyer of 9,200 MT, with 5,600 MT to Japan. Export shipments were a total of 35,653 MT, the lowest for the calendar year. The largest destination was Mexico at 17,200…

Austria’s financial regulator has prohibited KuCoin EU Exchange from conducting new business, citing breaches of internal organizational requirements around Anti-Money Laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF) and the observance of financial sanctions.The Thursday decision by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) means KuCoin’s Vienna-based entity cannot onboard new customers or conclude new contracts or products within existing relationships until key compliance functions are “appropriately filled.”Sabina Liu, managing director at KuCoin EU, told Cointelegraph that two compliance professionals holding designated AML and sanctions oversight functions in Austria had “recently departed,” and that such mobility was common in “any regulated industry.”She said that…

The developer behind the fast-growing open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw has confirmed that any mention of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies on its Discord server can lead to removal.In a Saturday post on X, a user revealed that they were blocked from OpenClaw’s Discord simply for referencing Bitcoin block height as a timing mechanism in a multi-agent benchmark. In response, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger confirmed the action, writing that members had accepted “strict server rules” upon joining and that the community maintains a “no crypto mention whatsoever” policy. OpenClaw confirms ban on crypto. Source: SteinbergerSteinberger later agreed to re-add the user,…

The wheat complex is in rally mode so far on Friday. Chicago SRW futures are posting 13 to 14 cent gains at the midday portion of the session. KC HRW futures are 12 to 13 1/4 cents higher on Friday. MPLS spring wheat is 7 to 8 cents in the green at middayExport sales data from this morning showed 287,974 MT of wheat sold in the week of 2/12, on the lower end of the 250,000 MT and 600,000 MT range of estimates. That was down 40.99% from last week and a 45.94% drop from the same week last year.…

The Supreme Court has struck down President Trump’s tariffs. In a 170-page decision and a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that Trump’s use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was not lawful.  The case addressed whether the executive could leverage IEEPA’s emergency authority to set broad, economy-wide tariff duties in response to threats like trade deficits and cross-border drug trafficking.   Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a majority that included Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson, Gorsuch and Barrett, emphasized that Article I of the Constitution gives “Congress alone … the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises.”   The Court found that while IEEPA authorizes the President…

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have posted five consecutive weeks of net outflows, with investors pulling roughly $3.8 billion from the products over the period.During last week, the funds recorded about $315.9 million in net outflows, according to data from SoSoValue. The biggest weekly withdrawal during this 5-week streak occurred in the week ending Jan. 30, when spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded about $1.49 billion in net outflows.The net weekly outflows come as some sessions posted inflows. On Friday, Bitcoin ETFs saw about $88 million in inflows, but they were outweighed by larger redemption days earlier in the week.…

A slowing growth backdrop paired with sticky inflation is reigniting concerns about a mild stagflationary tilt in the U.S. economy — not a recession, but a more uncomfortable mix of decelerating output and persistent price pressures that complicates the Federal Reserve’s policy path.     Real GDP decelerated sharply to a 1.4% annual rate in Q4 2025, well below the 2.8% consensus and down from 4.4% in Q3, even as key measures of inflation remained stuck near 3% and real disposable income stalled, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  The Q4 gain was driven by consumer spending and investment, partly offset by declines in government…