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All three major indexes closed higher on Friday, October 9: the Dow at 51,654.95 for a 0.83% gain, the Nasdaq at 27,366.17 for 0.64% and the S&P 500 at 7,811.54 for 0.59%, taking back Thursday's selloff on AI valuation concerns. Rates, though, reached their highest since April 2002: the 10-year closed at 5.27%, up 3.8 basis points, after touching 5.3645% intraday, while WTI settled at $91.85. The stock in focus is Lumentum (LITE), which closed at $1,103.36 for a 5.22% gain, adding about $4.3B of

All three major indexes closed higher on Friday, October 9: the Dow at 51,654.95 for a 0.83% gain, the Nasdaq at 27,366.17 for 0.64% and the S&P 500 at 7,811.54 for 0.59%, taking back Thursday's selloff on AI valuation concerns. Rates, though, reached their highest since April 2002: the 10-year closed at 5.27%, up 3.8 basis points, after touching 5.3645% intraday, while WTI settled at $91.85. The stock in focus is Lumentum (LITE), which closed at $1,103.36 for a 5.22% gain, adding about $4.3B of

Overview TSMC holds its third-quarter earnings call on October 15, but revenue is no longer the question. The company's 2026 monthly revenue disclosures show July, August and September sales of NT$467.58 billion, NT$514.81 billion and NT$511.86 billion, for a quarterly total near NT$1.494 trillion. Against the same three months of 2025, which totaled roughly NT$989.9 billion, that is growth of about 50.9%. Revenue for the first nine months stands at NT$3.899 trillion, up 41.1%. With the top line

Overview The US consumer price index for September lands on October 14 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, which is 8:30 p.m. in Singapore. The print matters more than the past several releases, not because of the number itself but because of where it sits in the policy calendar. The Federal Reserve delivered its first hike in more than three years on September 16, the next meeting falls on October 27 and 28, and whether a second hike arrives in December remains an open trade. Current pricing is split in

The Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network as the project prepares to move its operations onto the Sui blockchain. The partnership also brings decentralized storage platform Walrus into the picture, with a shared goal of making AI training data easier to verify, manage, and license. 1.Sui Foundation Commits $30 Million to DATA NetworkThe Sui Foundation announced a strategic investment in DATA Network, a project focused on managing data used to train artificial intelligence model

Key TakeawaysThe XRP Ledger's payment engine contained an integer overflow bug, dating back to code written in 2015, that could have let an attacker create XRP from nothing in a single transaction. Developers disclosed it on Friday, October 9, 2026.Researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported the flaw through the XRPL bug bounty program on September 22. RippleX merged a fix the next day and shipped xrpld 3.4.1 on September 25, when more than 80% of default UNL validators were already running it.

Key TakeawaysLedger confirmed on Saturday, October 10, 2026, that "one of the impacted users' devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant," after buyers who purchased devices from Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis reported drained wallets.Onchain estimates of the losses range from more than $72 million to about $93 million. Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery counts more than 300 victim wallets, most on TRON and Bitcoin, drained within hours on October 9. Ledger has not confirme

Key TakeawaysSolana (SOL) cut its slot time to 200 milliseconds on mainnet on Friday, October 9, 2026, at epoch 1053, completing SIMD-0525, a four-step rollout that began at 350ms on August 21. Blocks now arrive five times per second, twice the original rate.Faster slots do not double throughput, because per-slot compute limits were cut to match. Epochs now last about a day instead of two, and blockhashes expire after about 30 seconds instead of about 60.The bigger change is Alpenglow, a new con

I. Macro & Market Sentiment· Market data: BTC $83,542.00（+0.72%）｜ETH $2,538.48（+1.21%）｜SOL $111.34（+1.27%）· Market sentiment: Funding rate -0.0005%｜Fear & Greed Index 69（Greed）· Data preview: US September CPI and core CPI next week will test the interest-rate path, with markets pricing in roughly a 19% chance of a rate hike on October 28. Read MoreII. Trading Signals / Hot Topics· [Today's Focus] BTC｜Spot ETF Outflows Diverge From the Price Rebound, Signaling a Disconnect in Capital

Overview The options market is currently pricing bitcoin volatility in the high thirties. According to the CF Benchmarks index page for BVX, the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index stood at 38.01 at 10:40 GMT on October 9. The same day, per CryptoTimes' coverage of that session's options settlement, Deribit's DVOL index read 36.26, at-the-money implied volatility was 32.0%, and bitcoin traded near $82,465. What matters is not the level but its relationship to volatility that has already occurred. CF