Bitcoin (BTC) starts the second week of December above $90,000 as “Santa rally” talk begins. BTC price action focuses on a key resistance area in the low $90,000 region, but traders still see another dip coming. Federal interest-rate decision week hangs over risk assets despite broad consensus that a cut will result. The Fed decision will decide the fate of a Santa rally for stocks, analysis agrees.

Stablecoins were once a minor appendage of crypto markets, a functional parking spot for traders cycling between Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, framing no longer fits. With a circulating supply above $300 billion and annual trading volumes exceeding $23 trillion in 2024, stablecoins have matured into a parallel dollar infrastructure. They extend US monetary power into markets where financial systems are fragile or inefficient, while exposing fault lines for countries that rely on them most.

A content creator who went viral after uploading a fictional outburst about chips has won one of the UK’s biggest entertainment juggernauts. Angry Ginge has charmed the nation over the past three weeks and last night took the I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! crown on ITV. He beat ex-EastEnders actor Shona McGarty, Celebs Go Dating…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday. Caylo Seals/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Caylo Seals/Getty Images North America Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Defense Department is reviewing the video of several Sept. 2 strikes against an alleged drug boat off the Venezuela coast to determine whether it will be released to the public.

Republicans in Congress privately made fun of Donald Trump only to come around to support him when he won their party’s 2024 White House nomination, outgoing GOP House member Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday. “I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started – excuse my language, Lesley – kissing his ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in a clip of an interview that is set to air on Sunday on CBS’s…

A flashy provincial entrepreneur who tried to catapult a small Brazilian bank into the big league, Daniel Vorcaro’s heady rise was almost as spectacular as his downfall.  The 42-year-old basked in the trappings of wealth, investing in a luxury hotel and football team, as the rapid expansion of his Banco Master raised eyebrows among luminaries of high finance in Latin America’s top economy.

Spoiler alert: Winner of I'm a Celebrity... Get me out of here! revealed in Monday's paper review. The incident at Heathrow on Sunday is leading the Metro's front page. A three-year-old girl was among 21 people treated for injuries after men allegedly used what police believe was pepper spray during a suitcase robbery in a multi-storey car park at the airport.

Circle, the publicly-listed issuer of one of the largest US dollar stablecoins globally, has entered into a strategic partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Bybit. Bybit has entered a strategic partnership with an affiliate of Circle to expand liquidity and usability of its USDC (USDC) stablecoin, according to a joint announcement on Monday. “The partnership aims to expand USDC access across Bybit’s global ecosystem, strengthen liquidity of the world’s largest regulated stablecoin, and reinforce Bybit’s position as a regulatory-compliant platform committed to transparency and trust,” the companies said.

In the past, the United States deported Iranians individually on commercial planes. But two months ago, the Trump administration reached a deal with Tehran to coordinate the return of Iranian citizens.

Elon Musk has called for the European Union to be abolished after the bloc fined his social media company X 120 million euros ($140 million) for a "deceptive" blue checkmark and lack of transparency of its advertising repository. The European Commission hit X with the ruling on Friday following a two-year investigation into the company under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which was adopted in 2022 to regulate online platforms.

Ethereum whales have opened massive long positions on Ether (ETH), totalling $425.98 million, in what looks like a bold bet that the downside is over. Key takeaways: Ethereum whales opened leveraged long positions totaling $426 million. Ether’s ascending triangle targets $4,030 ETH price. Top traders open new ETH long positions Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed the ETH/USD pair trading at $3,140, 20% above the $2,621 low reached on Nov.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK. Michael Andrew Harrison, who represents Seaham on Durham county council, is appealing the levy against his business Churchills Management Ltd, arguing that the employee — who is of Thai descent — did have the legal right to work.

Major US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is returning to India after a two-year absence from the market. Coinbase has resumed app registrations in India as it prepares to roll out local fiat on-ramps in 2026, Coinbase APAC director John O’Loghlen announced at India Blockchain Week (IBW), according to a Sunday report by TechCrunch. Coinbase’s return to India comes more than two years after it…

Tunisian director Erige Sehiri scooped the Marrakech Film Festival’s top Etoile d’Or prize for her female-led feature Promised Sky over the weekend.   The drama about three Ivorian women living together in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, is Sehiri’s second fiction feature after 2022 Directors’ Fortnight selection Under the Fig Trees. Promised Sky cast member Deborah Lobe Naney won Best Actress for her performance as a young mother living away from loved ones as she seeks to give them a better future.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reform UK has denied breaking electoral law after a former member of Nigel Farage’s campaign team said the party leader had breached spending limits when he won a seat in parliament in last year’s general election. Richard Everett, a former councillor for the rightwing party, submitted evidence to the police that some of the spending on Farage’s campaign for the seat in Clacton, Essex, had not been properly declared, according to the Daily Telegraph.

EXCLUSIVE: AI start-up My SMASH Media has secured additional funding and recruited Allison Gardner, the former Director of the Glasgow Film Festival and a very well-known industry figure in the UK business. The Edinburgh-based company has an AI-powered matchmaking tool for the film business called SMASHCupid, and Gardner coming on board coincides with it receiving an R&D grant from Scottish Enterprise, the government body that supports business in the country.

Many utility companies are pinning their short-term hopes on “demand response” solutions that require companies to curtail activity at peak times. AI model builders typically run data centres at full capacity during “training runs” — where they feed LLMs with vast amounts of data to improve accuracy. These rises in activity can clash with consumption from other customers — including households — during peak usage, increasing the risk of blackouts.

Crypto giant Binance has been granted three separate licenses from Abu Dhabi’s financial regulator, providing a green light to operate its exchange, clearing house and broker-dealer services under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority’s (FSRA) regulatory framework.  The FSRA, an independent financial regulator of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), a financial free zone in Abu Dhabi, has approved licenses for…

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Philippines digital bank GoTyme, which has 6.5 million customers, has rolled out crypto services in the Philippines following a partnership with US fintech firm Alpaca. A total of 11 crypto assets can now be bought and stored in GoTyme’s banking app via an auto conversion from the Philippine peso to USD, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Solana (

Thailand has launched airstrikes along its disputed border with Cambodia, after both countries accused one another of breaching a ceasefire deal brokered by Donald Trump. Thailand’s military said airstrikes were launched after at least one of its soldiers was killed and four others wounded in clashes along the countries’ tense border on Monday morning. Thailand’s air force said it was using aircraft to strike military targets in several areas, accusing Cambodia of mobilising heavy weaponry and repositioning combat units.

Bitcoin is currently hovering at a critical technical level that needs to be defended to prevent major losses, according to crypto analyst Daan Crypto Trades. He was referring to the 0.382 Fibonacci retracement zone, which serves as a key area of support and resistance during market cycles.   “I think this is a key area for the bulls to defend,” he…

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From encrypted chats to decentralized messaging Encrypted messengers are having a second wave. Apps like WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal made end-to-end encryption (E2EE) a default expectation. But most still hinge on phone numbers, centralized servers and a lot of metadata, such as who you talk to, when, from which IP and on which device. That is what Vitalik Buterin is aiming at in his recent…

It was completely unforeseen, a shocker: Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning. The warrior congresswoman, so dogged and fierce, leaving the field of battle, her alliance with President Trump shattered. Her video resignation statement last month — that she'll be leaving Congress a year before her term expires — came after President Trump said he would throw his support to someone else for her seat.