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BlackRock CIO Dumps Stocks for High-Grade Bonds. Heres Why

BlackRocks Rick Rieder is cutting stocks. He says high-grade bonds paying 7% to 8% now beat the 10% to 12% he expects from equities.　　Rieder is chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock and oversees about $2.4 trillion. He spoke on Yahoo Finances Sozzi Unleashed about the 10-year Treasury yield above 5%.　　Why the US Treasury Yield Matters　　The 10-year yield is the interest rate the US government pays to borrow for a decade. It shapes mortgage rates, company loans, and stock prices.　　This month it rose above 5% for the first time since 2007. TradingView data shows it at 5.167% on Sept. 26, with the 30-year yield at 5.49%.　　10-Year US Treasury Yields. Source: TradingView　　The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate to 3.75%–4% on September 16, its first hike in more than three years. Rieder called the moment “not a crisis, but an eye-opener.”　　Rieder graded stocks a B-minus, lower than he had for a long time. He still likes chipmakers and memory storage, where he sees order backlogs. However, higher inflation-adjusted rates and slowing AI growth weigh on the rest of the market.　　An income fund he runs yields 7.2% with an A-minus credit rating. It also holds bonds that mature or reset

Yesterday 10:38Industry

Zano rolls blockchain back a month after Gateway Address exploit

Zano has rolled back approximately a month of blockchain history after a vulnerability involving Gateway Addresses allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar to enter circulation, according to its core team.　　The Zano blockchain has been restarted at block 3,833,000, immediately before Hard Fork 6, which introduced the affected feature. The recovery requires participating nodes, miners, stakers, exchanges and other services to adopt the update, the team said Sunday.　　The rollback invalidates a month of legitimate transactions along with the unauthorized tokens, meaning transactions made during that period will no longer appear on the recovered chain and may need to be reconciled. It also cannot reverse payments already settled on other blockchains. The team said it is working to account for any losses and will publish a reimbursement and claims process.　　“Doing nothing meant unauthorized ZANO and fUSD in circulation without limit, diluting every holder and breaking the most basic promise a currency makes: a fixed supply,” said Zanos head of marketing and growth Quinten van Welzen. “It would also tell every future attacker that exploited coins get to keep their value. No project survives that.”　　Zano identifies Gateway Address exploit　　Zano has not released a post-mortem at the time of publication, but confirmed the issue

Yesterday 09:23Industry

A $202 billion US Treasury settlement hits September 30, and it could trigger a surprise move in Bitcoin

A $202 billion U.S. Treasury coupon settlement on Sept. 30 will test overnight financing at quarter-end. The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York says the market is calm for now but warns that net new supply could lift repo borrowing rates. Whether that pressure reaches Bitcoin is a separate, unobserved question.　　Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $84,005.19 24-hour change: down 0.31% Loading price history… 24H Down 0.31% 7D Up 2.89% 30D Up 8.13%　　The Treasury calendar puts a reopened 10-year inflation-protected bond and two-, five- and seven-year notes on Wednesdays settlement date. The TIPS, two-year, five-year and seven-year announcements set public face amounts of $19 billion, $69 billion, $70 billion and $44 billion, respectively, totaling $202 billion.　　Treasury also estimates $143.58 billion of publicly held coupon debt will mature that day, leaving $58.42 billion of net new face value. That is a measure of securities issued beyond maturities, not an observed cash drain or fall in bank reserves. Auction prices, inflation adjustments and Treasury spending can change the cash effect. Bills auctioned just before quarter-end are scheduled to settle Oct. 1, outside this coupon figure.　　The New York Feds current schedule calls for roughly $15.6 billion of reinvestment purchases over Sept. 15

Yesterday 09:15Industry

THORChain under fire over Bitget, ETH evolves beyond blockchain: Hodlers Digest

ThorChain under fire because it wont blacklist stolen Bitget funds　　Stop me if youve heard this before: A centralized exchange with lax security gets hacked by the North Koreans for $387.5 million, and then somehow shifts the blame game onto a decentralized exchange for not blacklisting the addresses.　　The drama began on September 25 when the Asian focused exchange Bitget revealed $351.6 million in “unauthorized transfers” but it later upgraded the tally to $387.5 million. It said a preliminary investigation had linked the IP addressees to VPN services used by a North Korean hacking group.　　While that isnt firm proof, CEO Gracy Chen said its investigators had flagged other similarities with previous thefts.　　North Korean hackers were believed to be behind the $1.5 billion Bybit exchange hack, and much of the funds from that attack were then swapped on the decentralized exchange THORChain (which is not a mixer and funds can still be traced after being swapped).　　Chen then publicly called on THORChain to block the addresses linked to the attack. “Decentralization is a design principle, not a shield for facilitating known stolen funds,” she thundered. Thorchain politely said no dice, which has set off a massive debate over whether they can or should comply

Yesterday 08:22Industry

Riot Platforms repays $200M credit facility, releases collateral

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms this week repaid a $200 million credit facility from Coinbase Credit, releasing its collateral.　　The facility had been secured by a pledge of Riots financial assets, including Bitcoin, USDC and cash, which was held in the custody of Coinbase Custody Trust Company.　　Riot finished paying the remaining principal and interest on Monday, according to a Friday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.　　No early termination fees or penalties were incurred by Riot in connection with the prepayment or termination.　　The miner has also continued to expand its data-center business, as Cointelegraph reported in August, when Riot Platforms secured a 20-year agreement to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a “leading frontier AI” company.　　The customer was Anthropic and the deal was valued at about $9 billion, Bloomberg subsequently reported, citing people familiar with the matter.　　Cointelegraph reported in May that Riot Platforms posted $167.2 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2026, with its newly launched data center business contributing $33.2 million.

Yesterday 08:22Industry

Core Lightning patches flaw that could let revoked channel state escape penalty

Core Lightning, a Lightning Network node implementation, fixed a channel-close flaw in v26.06.7 that could let a peer broadcast an old, revoked channel state without triggering the penalty for cheating. Bitcoin Optechs Sept. 25 explanation of the now-public patch makes the risk concrete for operators still running older builds.　　Lightning peers replace earlier channel commitments as balances change. If one broadcasts a revoked commitment, the counterparty should be able to claim a penalty. Before the fix, Core Lightning could instead treat that funding spend as a cooperative close when its outputs matched shutdown scripts already on record.　　That depended on a specific channel setup. A peer that had not specified an upfront shutdown script when the channel opened could later name the output script of its revoked commitment in a shutdown message. It could then abandon the cooperative close and broadcast the old commitment. Matching the outputs alone made the transaction look legitimate, bypassing the penalty path, according to the maintainers patch notes and regression test.　　Related Asset Bitcoin BTC · $84,183.45 24-hour change: down 0.14%　　The repair checks a transactions locktime and sequence encoding to recognize a commitment before looking at its outputs as a possible mutual close. The materials describe a potential

Yesterday 07:15Industry

Crypto Weekly: BCH and NEAR Surge 34% as Altcoins Outpace Bitcoin

Key TakeawaysTotal market cap jumped 4% to $2.99 trillion as bitcoin briefly breached the $3 trillion mark on Tuesday.Capital rotation into altcoins sparked major gains, led by bitcoin cash surging 34% after CME news.Experts expect another leg up to erase bitcoins year-to-date losses and push altcoins to record highs.　　Market Cap Nears $3 Trillion Milestone　　The crypto economy closed the week in the green, with total market capitalization jumping from $2.87 trillion on Sept. 20 to $2.99 trillion—a 4% increase. In fact, the market breached $3 trillion on Tuesday as bitcoin and several altcoins reached multi-month highs.　　By Thursday, total market capitalization fell back below the $3 trillion threshold as bitcoin dropped from over $87,000 to $84,000, pulling its market cap below $1.7 trillion. Despite the pull-back, the top cryptocurrency still ended the week up 4%. With just three days left in September, the price action increases the likelihood of a double-digit monthly gain.　　While bitcoin posted modest gains, moving closer to breakeven for the year, several high-cap altcoins jumped 10% or more as investors rotated capital across the sector. Bitcoin cash led the charge, surging nearly 30% after CME announced plans to launch a BCH perpetual futures contract in October. After topping out

Yesterday 07:06Industry

Can XRP price break $1.57 as whale withdraws 580M tokens？

XRPs supply outlook tightened after a whale withdrew 580 million tokens, with the broader exchange data pointing toward declining sell-side availability. Reportedly, the whale completed seven transactions involving approximately $900 million worth of XRP.　　The scale of this withdrawal introduced exchange-side supply into focus as moving tokens away from exchanges reduced the amount readily available for immediate trading.　　Importantly, the withdrawal stood out since it involved several transfers rather than an isolated one. Additionally, spot flows and reserve changes highlighted whether supply reduction extended beyond the whale transaction.　　Outflows deepen the exchange supply contraction　　The broader exchange activity favored the supply contraction around the whale withdrawal. At reporting time, XRP had recorded $6.76 million in spot net outflows.　　These negative netflows implied withdrawals exceeded deposits during the measured 24-hour period. Importantly, recent activity also showed frequent negative readings across the historical chart.　　Discover more　　Exchange security audit　　Ethereum staking service　　Crypto tax software　　XRPs Exchange Reserve USD, meanwhile, declined 2.48% as of writing, adding another layer to the exchange-supply outlook. The declining reserves suggested exchanges collectively held less dollar-denominated XRP value during the 24-hour period.　　Combined with spot outflows, the reserve fall validated the evidence of shrinking exchange-side availability. The reduced availability could therefore reduce the immediate selling supply in case

Yesterday 07:03Industry

Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 may slip past US export curbs as Beijing signals approval

Washington‘s export restrictions may not block Nvidia’s newest workstation chip from getting to Chinese customers, and Beijing looks prepared to open the door.　　Two people familiar with the matter said some industry executives believe the RTX Pro 5500 falls outside US export restrictions.　　Discover more　　Financial Markets News　　Bitcoin mining hardware　　Blockchain development tools　　Beijings Industry Ministry sought purchase numbers from ByteDance, Alibaba and other companies. Some were then told the government plans to sign off, a source told The Information.　　Chipmaker calls Washingtons controls outdated as 84GB card awaits launch　　The report has not been independently verified.　　“US firms continue to be restricted by a combination of outdated US export controls, which cover gaming products released nearly a half a decade ago, and Chinas own limits on US imports,” an Nvidia spokesperson said.　　Nvidias product page for the RTX Pro 5500 lists it as a Blackwell workstation card with 84GB of GDDR7, designated for rack-mounted configurations. Buyers can still only register for availability alerts.　　Seven Chinese firms hold H200 licenses, but no chips arrived by May　　Beijing went the other way a year ago. China‘s Cyberspace Administration told the country’s major tech companies to stop testing and cancel orders for Nvidias RTX Pro 6000D, Cryptopolitan reported in September 2025.　　Nvidias H200 is

Yesterday 06:59Industry

BTC/USD price outlook: Bitcoin/US Dollar tests 1 (100%) arc – Awaiting directional confirmation

Overview　　Based on Arc Cycle Analysis applied to the 1D chart, Bitcoin U.S. Dollar is interacting with the 1 (100%) Arc within the current Arc Cycle. Price remains centered around this Arc, indicating that directional confirmation has not yet been established.MetricReadingMarket BiasUndecidedPreferred ScenarioAwaiting Directional ConfirmationPrimary Target ZoneUpside: 88,000 – 92,000 | Downside: 76,200Scenario ConfirmationSustained 1D close above or below the 1 (100%) ArcCurrent Arc LevelDecision Arc (1 100%)Cycle StatusCoiling on ArcArc IntegrityDiscover moreExchange security auditSecure crypto storageCrypto tax softwareCrypto trading courseBitcoin investment guideTesting　　Market outlook　　Price remains centered around the 1 (100%) Arc, indicating that the market has not yet established a directional bias within the current Arc Cycle. The preferred approach is to await confirmation before anticipating the next significant move.　　A sustained 1D close above the Arc would favor continued movement toward 88,000, with further upside potential expanding toward 92,000. Conversely, a rejection at the Arc leading to a sustained close back below 82,000 would shift the outlook toward the lower target at 76,200.

Yesterday 06:50Industry

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