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Crypto Dispensers, a Chicago-based operator of Bitcoin ATMs, is considering a potential $100 million sale as its founder faces federal money laundering charges. In a Friday press release, the company announced that it has hired advisors to conduct a “strategic review” and explore buyer interest. Crypto Dispensers mentioned its 2020 shift away from physical ATMs toward a software-driven model, a transition it says was meant to address rising fraud, compliance pressure and regulatory scrutiny.CEO Firas Isa described the sale review as part of the firm’s next growth phase. “Hardware showed us the ceiling. Software showed us the scale,” he said.The…

The dollar index (DXY00) on Friday posted a 5.5-month high but gave up most of its advance and finished up +0.03%.  The dollar found support on Friday’s hawkish comments from Boston Fed President Susan Collins and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, who said they favored keeping interest rates steady.  In addition, an upward revision to the University of Michigan US Nov consumer sentiment index was bullish for the dollar.The dollar had early support on Friday from weakness in equity markets, but the support faded as stocks rebounded.  The dollar also came under pressure Friday on dovish comments from New York…

ARK Invest closed out the week with a fresh round of accumulation across several of its flagship funds, picking up positions in Circle, Bullish, BitMine, Robinhood and Bitcoin ETFs as crypto-related equities rebounded. The largest set of purchases targeted Bullish, with ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) and ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) expanding their exposure, according to trade notifications for Friday. Combined, these buys amounted to about $2 million, following Bullish’s 5.75% gain on the day. ARK also continued accumulating BitMine, with purchases across ARKF, ARKK and ARKW totaling approximately $830,000. BitMine closed slightly lower…

Furthermore, for decision makers responsible for steering the US economy – whether through monetary or fiscal policy – such data delays confound and undermine the quality of policymaking. The November employment report is to be published only on 16 December, more than a week later than originally scheduled, and not until after the next Federal Reserve decision on 10 December. The Belated September Jobs Report Suggests a Slightly Stronger Labour Market Than Many Assumed The belated release of the September jobs report on Thursday did give one a delayed sketch of the state of the economy two months ago before…

In trading on Friday, shares of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (Symbol: CTSH) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $75.15, changing hands as high as $76.67 per share. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. shares are currently trading up about 5% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of CTSH shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Looking at the chart above, CTSH’s low point in its 52 week range is $65.1547 per share, with $90.82 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $75.98. The CTSH DMA information above was…

The real-world asset (RWA) market value could more than triple its current value by 2026, as it expands beyond crypto-native use cases and utility, according to Chris Yin, co-founder and CEO of RWA-focused layer-2 blockchain Plume. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Yin said that RWA value has taken off in the last year and he expects it to increase by three to five times in 2026, as a base case. “Currently, we are tracking to over 10x the RWA holders number since the start of the year and so we expect us to keep inflecting and we think it’s not crazy to imagine another…

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ25) today is up +164 (+3.32%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ25) is up +72 (+1.90%).Cocoa prices are sharply higher today as dollar weakness sparked short covering in cocoa futures, which had become heavily oversold following the sharp selloff seen over the past two weeks.   Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.  Shrinking ICE cocoa inventories are also supportive for cocoa prices.  ICE-monitored cocoa inventories held in US ports fell to an 8-month low of 1,740,127 bags on Wednesday.On Wednesday, cocoa prices sank to…

Money managers may need to rethink their approach to digital assets, with over a third of young, wealthy investors in a recent US survey indicating they had moved on from advisers who don’t offer crypto exposure.Crypto payments provider Zerohash’s survey of 500 US investors aged 18 to 40, released on Wednesday, found that 35% had moved money away from advisers who didn’t offer access to crypto.Those surveyed had incomes between $100,000 and $1 million, and more than half of those who moved money due to an advisers lack of crypto offerings said they had moved between $250,000 and $1 million.…

Net income surged 65% from a year earlier, hitting $31.91 billion. That kind of profitability tells traders one thing — the AI boom isn’t just a story. It’s printing real money. What’s Driving the Surge in Sales? Data center revenue is the engine here — and it’s running hot. Nvidia posted $51.2 billion in the segment, a 66% jump from last year and well above the $49.09 billion analysts expected. Of that, $43 billion came from compute, essentially its GPUs. Networking chipped in $8.2 billion as customers keep building ever-larger clusters to handle AI workloads. CEO Jensen Huang didn’t shy…

Key Takeaways Binance continued receiving hundreds of millions in illicit crypto flows from scam networks, according to a new investigation. President Donald Trump’s regulatory pullbacks, combined with his business ties to the crypto industry, have raised questions among investigators about their impact on exchange oversight. Binance has said it is “categorically false” that it “turns a blind eye’ to criminal activity.” A cross-border investigation has concluded that millions of dollars in criminal proceeds continued to flow through Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, even after the company pledged to tighten its compliance controls following a U.S. guilty plea. The findings,…