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Wall Street Holds Its Breath as the Fed Keeps Rates on Hold — Jul 16, 2026 — With the S&P 500 hovering near record highs and the Federal Reserve signalling no cut before its July 29 meeting, investors are learning to trade a ma...The $510 Billion Half: Venture Capital's AI-Fuelled Record Run — Jul 15, 2026 — Global venture funding hit an all-time high in the first half of 2026, but a handful of frontier AI labs captured most of it, leaving a barbell market...Crypto's Cautious Comeback: Bitcoin and Ether Claw Back Ground — Jul 14, 2026 — After a brutal first half, Bitcoin is fighting to reclaim $65,000 and Ether is edging toward $2,000 as ETF flows turn positive again, but a decisive b...The Frozen Market: Why U.S. Housing Just Cannot Get Moving — Jul 12, 2026 — Mortgage rates stuck in the mid-6 percent range, builder sentiment at multi-year lows and a stubborn lock-in effect have left the U.S. housing market...Gold, Oil and the Dollar Trade in an Uneasy Truce — Jul 10, 2026 — A fragile Middle East calm, cooling U.S. inflation and record dollar-long positioning have left commodities and currencies range-bound in mid-2026, wa...OpenAI Secures Historic $122 Billion Investment Round at $852B Valuation — Apr 1, 2026 — OpenAI raises $122 billion in the largest funding round in tech history, reaching an $852 billion valuation with Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank leading...Lucid Bots Secures $20M Series B as Drone Network Reaches $75M Revenue — Mar 31, 2026 — Cleaning drone manufacturer Lucid Bots raised $20M Series B funding while its operator network achieved $75M in revenue, bringing total funding to $34...Unitree IPO Validates Hardware Business Model, But Humanoid Market Remains Nascent — Mar 31, 2026 — Unitree's IPO demonstrates a viable robotics hardware business, though experts caution that industrial humanoid applications are still in early stages...Unitree Files $610M Shanghai IPO as World's Top Humanoid Robot Seller — Mar 31, 2026 — China's Unitree Robotics, the world's largest humanoid robot seller in 2025, filed for a $610 million Shanghai IPO revealing rising profits and mass p...