FBI Agent’s Crypto Charges Highlight Wallet Oversight Debate as Crypto Stocks Climb

U.S. crypto-related stocks climbed in late trading on Tuesday following the unsealing of a criminal complaint. The shift suggests that investors are focusing more on wallet-access oversight than on risks linked to token markets.

MoneySimpler AI Trading Bot Lists Up to 4% a Day, Putting Audit Claims in Focus

MoneySimpler AI Trading Bot Lists Up to 4% a Day, Putting Audit Claims in Focus

MoneySimpler launched a no-code cryptocurrency trading bot on Monday while its website listed short contracts with daily returns equal to 1.25% to 4% of principal — the original stake — and a refund of that stake. Markets Insider carried the announcement as a GlobeNewswire press release and said its editorial teams were not involved. The economics, rather than the coding-free interface, are the investor story.
Kraken’s AI Trading Bet Kicks Off With $377 at U.S. Adviser

Kraken’s AI Trading Bet Kicks Off With $377 at U.S. Adviser

Kraken is redoing its consumer app to focus on “agentic trading,” where software tracks the market and tries to reach users’ goals. But a filing offers a sharper look at the project’s current scale. Kraken Adviser LLC listed just $377 in assets under management in nine non-discretionary accounts—where clients have to okay trades—and said it had no discretionary accounts, according to a Form ADV filed June 16.
NASDAQ: SPCX’s Thin Float Faces Its First Real Test—Why Anthropic and OpenAI Are Watching

NASDAQ: SPCX’s Thin Float Faces Its First Real Test—Why Anthropic and OpenAI Are Watching

SpaceX traded at $178.35 at 5:13 a.m. EDT Monday, down 3.59% from Thursday’s close and extending a two-session retreat. The market-structure explanation is more compelling than a fresh operating trigger: investors are repricing the scarcity premium embedded in its record IPO before a key index review. The stock is 21.0% below Tuesday’s $225.64 intraday high but still 32.1% above its $135 offer price. That reversal is Wall Street’s first live test of whether a mega-cap issuer can float less than 5% of its implied equity, create benchmark demand and preserve orderly price discovery—the setup Anthropic and OpenAI may try to replicate.
BitGo Targets Wall Street as Stablecoin Competition Picks Up

BitGo Targets Wall Street as Stablecoin Competition Picks Up

BitGo Bank & Trust is now offering institutions access to Aave, Spark and Tesseract, integrating the protocols via Narval. The move lets eligible BitGo clients tap these approved DeFi protocols right from their qualified custody wallets. DeFi, or decentralized finance, uses blockchain to power lending, borrowing and trading with software protocols instead of traditional middlemen.
Citi Wealth Turns to Advyzon for Global Unified Managed Account Rollout as Banks Push Deeper Into Alternatives

Citi Wealth Turns to Advyzon for Global Unified Managed Account Rollout as Banks Push Deeper Into Alternatives

Citi Wealth plans to join forces with wealth-tech company Advyzon, aiming to roll out a global unified managed account platform. The move is set to streamline client investments—combining ETFs, mutual funds, separately managed accounts, and alternatives under a single structure. Target launch for the first phase: fourth quarter 2026, covering Citi Private Bank, Wealth at Work, Citigold, and Citi Private Client segments.
Dow futures tick up as delayed jobs report nears and an AI tax tool rattles Schwab

Dow futures tick up as delayed jobs report nears and an AI tax tool rattles Schwab

U.S. stock index futures ticked higher late Tuesday, with investors eyeing a postponed January jobs report set for release Wednesday and an inflation readout coming Friday. By 8:11 p.m. ET, S&P 500 futures were up 0.2% to 6,978.25, Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.3% to 25,291.75, and Dow futures edged 0.2% higher to 50,385.
PayPal dumps CEO Alex Chriss, taps HP chief Enrique Lores as earnings miss and dividend debut jolt stock

PayPal dumps CEO Alex Chriss, taps HP chief Enrique Lores as earnings miss and dividend debut jolt stock

PayPal announced it will replace CEO Alex Chriss with Enrique Lores, currently leading HP Inc., following a gloomy profit forecast that sent shares tumbling in premarket action. Jamie Miller steps in as interim CEO, while David W. Dorman takes over as independent board chair, the company said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/paypal-names-hp-s-enrique-lores-to-replace-ceo-alex-chriss
UPI caps 2025 with record December surge: 21.63 billion payments worth about 28 trillion rupees

UPI caps 2025 with record December surge: 21.63 billion payments worth about 28 trillion rupees

India’s Unified Payments Interface, a real-time system that lets users move money between bank accounts via mobile apps, logged 21.63 billion transactions in December, up 29% from a year earlier, with value up 20% to about 28 lakh crore rupees, data from payments operator NPCI showed. Average daily value rose to 90,217 crore rupees from 87,721 crore in November, while daily volumes climbed to 698 million. Immediate Payment Service, an instant bank transfer system, recorded 6.62 lakh crore rupees in value and 380 million transactions in December, the data showed. DD News On Air
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PayPal Stock (PYPL) Holds Near $60 Into the Weekend as Analysts Debate Checkout Growth, Venmo Momentum, and PayPal Bank Plan

PayPal Stock (PYPL) Holds Near $60 Into the Weekend as Analysts Debate Checkout Growth, Venmo Momentum, and PayPal Bank Plan

PayPal Holdings, Inc. stock is heading into the weekend with shares hovering just under the psychologically important $60 level after a quiet final stretch of holiday trading. The stock’s most recently reported price stands at $59.97, down about 0.12% versus the prior close, with the last recorded session range roughly spanning the high-$59s to low-$60s. Nasdaq
Visa Stock News Today (NYSE: V): USDC Stablecoin Settlement, Legal Updates, and Wall Street Forecasts for 2026

Visa Stock News Today (NYSE: V): USDC Stablecoin Settlement, Legal Updates, and Wall Street Forecasts for 2026

December 20, 2025 — Visa Inc. is closing out the week with investors weighing a busy stretch of product headlines, regulatory developments, and analyst upgrades. Visa shares last traded around $349.25 on Dec. 19, up 0.94% on the day, with a 52‑week range of $299.00 to $375.51, according to the company’s stock quote page. Visa Investor Relations
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