TREE NEWS reports: The dollar rose 0.57% against the yen to 158.80 in late New York trading on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with the pair moving in a 157.87-158.85 range during the session. The euro gained 0.03% versus the yen and sterling slipped 0.15%. The yen also fell 0.45% against the offshore yuan.
TREE NEWS reports: The ICE US Dollar Index rose 0.6% to 102.258 at the close of New York trading on Tuesday, Nov. 10, moving within a session range of 101.488 to 102.410. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index gained 0.48% to 1,227.30 points, trading between 1,219.37 and 1,229.17.
TREE NEWS reports: A 21-firm banking group including Goldman Sachs and Citi has reportedly funded Project Faro, a $270 million stablecoin initiative, to build a planned U.S. issuer. The backers are still searching for a chief executive and aim to go to market in 2027. The project’s participants span major banks backing a new dollar-token issuer.
TREE NEWS update: A flaw in SGLang allowed an attacker to reach internal systems and potentially view confidential AI requests, exposing user details and data from 18 AI agents. The breach highlights the limits of hardware-backed privacy protections. The exposure affected multiple agents and raised questions about the security of AI infrastructure.
TREE NEWS reports: CBOT soybean futures rose 3.24% to $12.2675 a bushel on Tuesday, pulling up from below $11.90 to a session high of $12.3075 around 01:00 Beijing time as the USDA released its monthly agricultural stocks report. Corn gained 1.99% to $4.48 a bushel and wheat added 0.6% to $5.9150, while New York cocoa fell 5.23% to $4,852 a tonne.
TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia shares extended their decline to 7%, deepening a sharp selloff in the chipmaker’s stock. No further details on the move were immediately available.
TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has postponed approval of AI compute futures, extending its review period for the contracts by at least 60 days. The derivatives regulator’s delay keeps the proposed AI-linked contracts from moving forward for now. No new decision date was given.
TREE NEWS reports: Fitch Ratings said a Democratic victory would have a mixed impact on the US artificial intelligence ecosystem, energy, healthcare and defense sectors. The ratings agency’s assessment covers how a change in political control could affect those industries, without specifying the direction of the effects. The note was published as an outlook on sector implications of the election outcome.
TREE NEWS reports: President Donald Trump is leaning toward appointing a man as the next White House press secretary, a move that would end the tradition of seven consecutive women holding the role. The decision, reported without a specific date, would mark the first male press secretary in the position since the streak began. No name or timeline for the appointment was given.
TREE NEWS update: The Monad Foundation said Monad is now a settlement option within Visa’s stablecoin program, though Visa has not announced the addition itself. The foundation’s release did not specify which stablecoins will settle on the network. The disclosure positions the network as an eligible settlement venue in the payments giant’s stablecoin initiative, with details on supported tokens and timing left unstated.
TREE NEWS update: LlamaRisk has proposed withdrawing $1.33 billion in collateral from Aave’s core market. Affected reserves would be frozen first, leaving existing loans open while borrowers either switch collateral or migrate to Aave V4. The proposal sets out a phased exit rather than an immediate liquidation of the positions.
TREE NEWS update: House Republicans voted 106-73 on Wednesday to elect Ohio Representative Jim Jordan as the next House Republican leader, defeating current Majority Leader Steve Scalise. The internal party vote marks Jordan’s third bid for a congressional Republican leadership post. The outcome sets the direction of the House Republican conference heading into the next Congress.
TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said the incoming Grok 4.8 will trail Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, calling the rival model a “masterpiece.” The xAI chief acknowledged the gap while predicting that Grok 5 could surpass Claude Opus 5.5 within two or three months. The remarks set expectations for xAI’s next model release against Anthropic’s current flagship.
TREE NEWS update: A fire broke out on a platform at Iran’s South Pars gas field in the south of the country, prompting the evacuation of personnel, Shana reported. No further details on the cause, damage or casualty toll were immediately available. South Pars is the world’s largest natural gas field, shared between Iran and Qatar.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin slipped below $74,000 after October CPI came in above forecasts. Analysts flag $73,000 as support and warn of a possible drop toward $69,000.
TREE NEWS update: A fire broke out on a platform at Iran’s South Pars gas field, with two possible causes under investigation: a natural gas leak or an operational accident. The incident occurred at the offshore field, which Iran shares with Qatar in the Persian Gulf. Further details on damage or casualties were not immediately available.
TREE NEWS update: A member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee, Kousari, said Iran targets enemy ships with mines or other means, while they occasionally fire shells at Qeshm Island. He said the strikes Iran has delivered are comparable to, or even greater than, those it has received.
TREE NEWS update: A fire broke out at a platform in Iran’s South Pars gas field and has since been brought under control. No further details on the cause, damage or casualties were given. South Pars, which Iran shares with Qatar, is the country’s largest gas field.
TREE NEWS reports: WTI December crude futures settled $0.81 lower, a drop of more than 0.93%, at $86.04 a barrel, moving toward the Sept. 4 close of $85.46, its 100-day moving average at $83.99 and the Aug. 28 close of $80. NYMEX December natural gas settled at $3.2960 per million British thermal units, December gasoline at $2.6088 a gallon and December heating oil at $4.1309 a gallon.
TREE NEWS update: Across Protocol urged users to avoid its app due to a domain-related issue, the bridge said in an alert. The warning does not establish whether the protocol’s smart contracts or bridging operations are affected. No further details on the nature of the domain problem were provided.