The 30-year mortgage rate just crossed 7% for the first time in over a year
Mortgage rates reached a new high in 2026, making it even more expensive to buy a home with a loan today. Source：MarketWatch
Elon Musk is pulling in even more cash. Meet his $23 billion underground venture.
The Boring Company, a tunneling startup that works closely with Tesla, just raised $3 billion through a private funding round. Source：MarketWatch
UK House of Lords backs mandatory digital asset strategy over Labour position
The amendment would require the UK Treasury to develop a strategy covering cryptoassets, stablecoins, tokenized securities and digital financial…
The future of retirement: Work until you die
Social Security, once seen as “oldage insurance,” will eventually disappear, this author predicts. Source：MarketWatch
Investors should be eating up these 9 restaurant stocks, analysts say
Contrarian investors have opportunities for doubledigit percentage gains in inflationbattered stocks, if gas prices come down. Source：MarketWatch
Why $500 checks won’t help Americans facing 15% increases in Obamacare premiums next year
Rising healthcare costs have been a major issue for lawmakers in recent years. Source：MarketWatch
OKX brings OpenAI and Anthropic bets to Europe as pre-IPO trading grows
The exchange is offering up to 10x leverage on privatecompany valuations alongside 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs. Source：CoinDesk
Europe’s top regulator questions Polymarket and Kalshi’s EU access, warns of authorization gaps
ESMA said that event contracts may fall under existing EU binaryoptions bans, cryptoasset frameworks like MiCA or national gambling laws. Source：CoinDesk
Liquid Network resumes block production after $320M exploit
Liquid restarted block production after deploying emergency software updates, though transactions and peg operations remain suspended as recovery efforts…
Polymarket names former Amazon finance chief Warren Jenson as its first CFO
Jenson becomes the prediction market’s first CFO as Polymarket builds its regulated U.S. exchange and global platform. Source：CoinDesk
MoneyGram launches Visa stablecoin card as remittance rivals expand
MoneyGram is following rival Western Union’s lead, rolling out a Visa stablecoin debit card as it expands blockchainbased payments. Source：Cointelegraph
Monument Bank delays retail tokenized deposits, cites regulatory issues in the UK
The Londonbased challenger bank tapped a Canadian custodian to meet the Financial Conduct Authority’s regulatory requirements. It now expects to roll out…