Jim Cramer Flags a Monumental Day': Will NVIDIA Earnings Move Markets?

Mad Money host Jim Cramer told followers he senses a monumental day, just hours before NVIDIA (NVDA) reports fiscal second-quarter earnings after Wednesdays close. The cryptic post landed as the stock steadied near $213 in quiet premarket trading.  Wall Street consensus calls for roughly $92 billion in revenue and $2.09 in adjusted earnings per share. Therefore, the guidance that follows the print could set the tone for the entire AI trade.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Performance Pre-Market. Source: Yahoo FinanceWhy NVIDIA Earnings Count as a Market Event  NVDA closed Tuesday at $213.05, a 2.19% rebound that snapped a seven-session losing streak. The stock changed hands near $213.77 in Wednesdays premarket, up 0.34% on light volume, ahead of the 5 PM EDT earnings call.  The muted move hides the stakes. NVIDIAs market value sits near $5.16 trillion as of this writing, large enough for its after-hours reaction to swing the S&P 500.  The report also doubles as a referendum on AI bubble risk, since a handful of chip and AI names now drive most index earnings growth.  Beyond the headline revenue figure, analysts expect data center sales near $85 billion. Meanwhile, options and money-flow data had already flagged an earnings trap setup, where even a beat may fail

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Digital Euro Will Offer 'Maximum Level of Privacy,' ECB Board Member Says

In briefECB executive board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro guarantees the maximum privacy current technology can offer, in an interview published Monday.Offline payments would be visible only to the payer and payee, while online the Eurosystem could not identify either party, though the banks involved could.The European Parliament agreed its negotiating position in July, with a pilot due in the second half of 2027 and first issuance targeted for 2029.  A digital euro would give users as much privacy as current technology allows, a European Central Bank executive board member has said, in the banks sharpest answer yet to the charge that a central bank digital currency would let Frankfurt watch how Europeans spend.  Piero Cipollone made the claim in an interview with Italian outlet ilsussidiario.net, conducted on August 10 and published by the ECB on Monday. Asked whether the bank could monitor payment habits and track how each citizen uses the currency, he said offline payments would run directly between individuals, with the details available only to the payer and the payee.  Online, he said, the Eurosystem would not be able to identify the people making or receiving payments. Only the banks involved in a transaction could do that, including

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Ethereum News: Is Tom Lee's Bitmine Buying More ETH?

In Ethereum news today, ETH is changing hands around $2,460, essentially flat on the day, a quieter tape than the headlines circulating about corporate treasury buying might suggest. The bigger story isn‘t the price candle. It’s a wallet.  On August 26, on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain flagged a transfer of 20,000 ETH, roughly $48.9M at the time, from Kraken to a wallet linked to BitMine, the treasury vehicle chaired by Tom Lee. Lookonchain inferred a purchase based on the exchange-to-wallet flow pattern, though BitMine has not officially confirmed the transaction.  The move follows a well-documented pattern: BitMine reported holdings of 5,847,611 ETH worth roughly $14.7 billion after another large weekly buy disclosed on August 24, and Lee has said the firm‘s goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s circulating supply could be reached before the end of 2026, with roughly $350M more in ETH needed to close the gap.  Unconfirmed or not, the optics matter. Institutional accumulation narratives have moved markets before, and the question now is whether this latest inflow is enough to tip a technically overheated chart in either direction.  Ethereum News: Can the ETH Price Hit $2,630 This Week?  $ETH is hovering around the $2,450 level.  At $2,457.87, ETH sits in a tight band between

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XRP is up 32% this month, but whales are moving billions

XRP is on course for its strongest monthly gain in more than a year after recovering from below $1, even as a fresh pullback and heavy whale activity test the durability of the rally.  CryptoSlate‘s data shows the token trading near $1.40 as of press time, down about 5% over the past 24 hours, after climbing as high as $1.70 during last week’s broader crypto market surge.  This price performance contrasts with the fact that XRP is on track for a roughly 32% gain in August, per CryptoRanks data. This would mark its best monthly performance since July 2025, when it advanced about 35%.  The recovery has been accompanied by stronger demand for US spot exchange-traded funds and rising stablecoin activity on the XRP Ledger.  Large holders, however, have also moved billions of XRP through Binance in recent weeks, creating competing signals over whether whales are accumulating or preparing to sell into the rebound.  ETF inflows accelerate even as XRP retreats  Institutional demand has continued after the initial price breakout, with US spot XRP ETFs recording about $23.87 million in net inflows on Aug. 25.  The haul was the products largest daily inflow since May 11, when they attracted $25.8 million, and extended their run of positive

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Revolut Launches Euro-Pegged EURR Stablecoin

In briefRevolut has begun a phased rollout of EURR, a euro-pegged token, to selected customers in three EEA markets.The token is issued by Bridge Building S.A., a Stripe subsidiary licensed in Luxembourg, with Revolut distributing it through its app.Revolut says wider EEA availability and stablecoins in other currencies will follow this year.  Neobank Revolut has started rolling out a euro-backed stablecoin to a selected group of customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, the fintech said in an announcement on Wednesday, in the first concrete product from a stablecoin plan it announced more than a year ago.  The token, EURR, is designed to hold a value of €1 and is integrated into Revoluts retail app, giving customers a way to move between euros and crypto on-chain. It will run on several blockchains and work with external wallets, and Revolut said a wider EEA rollout and other currency-denominated tokens are expected later this year, subject to regulatory readiness.  EURR is issued by Bridge Building S.A., a Luxembourg entity licensed by the CSSF as both a crypto asset service provider and an electronic money institution, and owned by Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure firm Stripe agreed to buy for $1.1 billion in October 2024, in a deal

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Rent and Sell Energy TRON : TronBid Expands Its Marketplace With Two-Sided Trading

Berlin, Germany, August 26th, 2026, Chainwire  Rent and Sell Energy TRON : TronBid Expands Its Marketplace With Two-Sided Trading, Bandwidth Support and New Resource Tools  The TRON resource marketplace now allows both buyers and sellers to create orders, while TronBid expands its infrastructure with Bandwidth trading, Quick Rent, Flash Recharge and B2B API access.  TronBid, a peer-to-peer marketplace for TRON network resources, has expanded its platform with a series of new features designed to give both buyers and resource owners greater control over how TRON Energy and Bandwidth are traded.  The platform now operates as a two-sided marketplace, allowing sellers to create their own Energy and Bandwidth offers alongside the existing buyer order system.  The update changes a common model in the TRON Energy rental market, where resource owners typically accept existing demand or rely on automated selling services. On TronBid, both sides of the market can now determine their own terms.  A Two-Sided Market for TRON Energy  TRON uses Energy and Bandwidth as network resources. Energy is particularly important for smart-contract interactions, including USDT TRC-20 transfers.  Users without sufficient Energy may have to burn TRX to execute these transactions. Renting Energy provides an alternative by allowing network resources generated from staked TRX to be temporarily delegated to

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Gold pauses recovery as US PCE inflation test approaches

Gold (XAU/USD) edges lower on Wednesday as buyers trim their exposure ahead of the US Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index data, due at 12:30 GMT. At the time of writing, XAU/USD trades around $4,615 after reaching $4,697 on Tuesday, its highest since May 14.  The Federal Reserves (Fed) preferred inflation gauge is expected to show headline PCE inflation easing to 3.6% YoY in July from 3.7% in June, while core PCE inflation is forecast to hold steady at 3.3%. On a monthly basis, the headline index is forecast to rise 0.1%, following a 0.1% decline in June, while the core reading is expected to increase 0.2%, up from 0.1%.  The data will be closely watched and could determine whether Gold resumes its recovery or loses momentum. Another soft inflation report, following the July Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) figures, could encourage traders to scale back expectations of a Fed interest rate hike at its upcoming meeting. As a non-yielding asset, Gold generally performs better when interest rates are low.  According to the CME FedWatch Tool, markets are currently pricing in a 64% chance that the central bank will leave borrowing costs unchanged at its September meeting.  Alongside the PCE

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XRP rebounds 32% from $1 as ETF money pours in and whales reposition

XRP is on course for its strongest monthly gain in more than a year after recovering from below $1, even as a fresh pullback and heavy whale activity test the durability of the rally.  Related Asset XRP #5 XRP · $1.39 24-hour change: down 5.10% 24H Down 5.10% 7D Up 36.60% 30D Up 26.53%  CryptoSlates data shows the token trading near $1.40 as of press time, down about 5% over the past 24 hours, after climbing as high as $1.70 during last weeks broader crypto market surge.  This price performance contrasts with the fact that XRP is on track for a roughly 32% gain in August, per CryptoRanks data. This would mark its best monthly performance since July 2025, when it advanced about 35%.  The recovery has been accompanied by stronger demand for US spot exchange-traded funds and rising stablecoin activity on the XRP Ledger.  Large holders, however, have also moved billions of XRP through Binance in recent weeks, creating competing signals over whether whales are accumulating or preparing to sell into the rebound.  ETF inflows accelerate even as XRP retreats  Institutional demand has continued after the initial price breakout, with US spot XRP ETFs recording about $23.87 million in net inflows on Aug. 25.  The haul was

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GTA 6 Is Nearly There,' Rockstar Says After a Week of Leaks

Rockstar Games broke its silence on the GTA 6 leaks on Wednesday, calling the past week heartbreaking for its team. The studio said the November 19 release date still stands.  The message lands one day before a Netflix extended look that aims to reset the story. Take-Two Interactive stock closed at $232.93 on Tuesday, down 0.24%.  Rockstar Apologizes as GTA 6 Leaks Spoil the Reveal  The studio opened with an apology instead of a defense. Rockstar told players it never wanted them to see the game this way, and it thanked fans who sent messages of support.  More telling, however, was a parenthetical aside about development progress.  “We are very sorry that everything has taken as long as it has … from getting the game finished (nearly there!) to sharing more details and official gameplay.”  That line is the clearest status update Rockstar has offered since the delay. Meanwhile, the studio admitted that spoilers may now dull the experience it designed.  Rockstar also flagged a second slip. The extended look took longer to get ready than the team wanted, a rare hint at internal timing pressure.  The leaks began on Aug. 18 and never let up. Clips showed protagonist Jason shooting hoops, flying a plane and triggering a

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Quantum-Safe Crypto Pilot Launches on NEAR

Banks test quantum-safe digital asset wallets and transfers on NEARs testnet.MPC technology supports ML-DSA-65 signatures for post-quantum transaction security.Regulators assess governance, resilience and cross-border interoperability risks.  Banks and regulators have launched a cross-regional pilot testing quantum-safe infrastructure for digital asset wallets and transfers on the NEAR testnet. The initiative aims to assess post-quantum cryptography, operational resilience, governance, and cross-border interoperability before quantum computing creates practical risks for existing financial systems.  Banks Test Post-Quantum Digital Asset Transfers  The Responsible Fintech Institute (RFI) launched the pilot with Safeheron as its technology partner. Bison Bank and DK Bank will test wallet generation and on-chain transfers through a shared application environment. Regulators from Abu Dhabi, Bhutan, and Malta will initially observe the technical work.  The pilot uses a multi-party computation (MPC) protocol supporting ML-DSA-65, a signature standard established under NISTs FIPS 204 framework. MPC lets multiple parties sign transactions without reconstructing a complete private key in one location.  Testing will take place on the quantum-resistant NEAR testnet rather than the public network.  Therefore, the exercise does not indicate that current quantum computers can compromise NEAR, participating banks, or customer assets. Instead, it provides a controlled environment for testing future security standards.  Chia Hock Lai, chairman of RFI, said, “No single bank,

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