TREE NEWS reports: European natural gas and carbon prices declined on Thursday. ICE UK gas futures fell 3.31%, TTF benchmark Dutch gas dropped 3.51%, and ICE EU carbon emission allowances slipped 0.74%.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin surpassed $81,000 on September 3, trading at $81,020.60 per coin, up 4.82% intraday. The move marks a fresh high for the cryptocurrency.
TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain token launchpad Pons generated $6.33 million in protocol fees over the past 24 hours, surpassing Pump.fun. Among all protocols, Pons ranked fourth in 24-hour fees, trailing only Tether, Uniswap and Circle.
TREE NEWS update: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that its agreement with Oracle will allow Oracle to build gigawatt-scale infrastructure. HPE noted significant growth in enterprise AI applications, underscoring the demand for massive compute capacity to support AI workloads.
TREE NEWS reports: CME Group said the yen’s rally is accelerating as dollar-selling options are triggered, with a break above 155 potentially sparking further dollar selling. Demand for options at the 155 yen level has been increasing throughout the day.
TREE NEWS update: Kraken will list SoFiUSD and gain access to SoFi’s round-the-clock dollar settlement network, while Kraken Prime will execute trades for SoFi’s crypto customers. The deal integrates SoFi’s banking infrastructure with the crypto exchange, expanding stablecoin availability and institutional trading services.
TREE NEWS reports: On September 3, blockchain data showed that Mach Big Brother (Huang Licheng) closed his HYPE long and increased his Bitcoin long as prices rose. His overall position shows an unrealized profit of about $3.755 million, a return of 79.03%. Positions include a 25x ETH long of 38,600 ETH (profit $2.584M) and a 40x BTC long of 455 BTC (profit $1.171M).
TREE NEWS reports: MSCI Nordic Countries Index gained 0.8% to close at 403.13 points. The industrial sector led gains among the ten sectors, while real estate firm Sagax AB rose 3.6%, the top performer among Nordic stocks.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic reported that several of its models have returned to baseline performance levels. However, Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 continue to be affected by the ongoing outage.
TREE NEWS reports: James Wynn, after being liquidated, has opened another 40x leveraged long position on Bitcoin, with a position value of $49,500 and a liquidation price of $79,536.29. He also opened a small long position in CASHCAT.
TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury auctioned 4-week bills at a high yield of 3.7%, with a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.97. Separately, 8-week bills were sold at 3.750% yield, with a bid-to-cover ratio of 3.02.
TREE NEWS reports: SharpLink (SBET) shares jumped 10.19% intraday to $8.93 on September 3. The move reflects a notable gain for the stock during the trading session.
TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 index provisionally closed up 0.52% at 25,973.57 points. France’s CAC ended down 0.09%, while Italy’s FTSE MIB rose 0.62%, with its banking index up 0.93%. The UK’s FTSE 100 gained 0.60%.
TREE NEWS reports: CleanSpark (CLSK) shares surged 10.43% during trading on September 3, reaching $12.43 per share. The move reflects increased investor interest in the bitcoin miner amid a broader rally in crypto-related stocks.
TREE NEWS reports: European stocks rose, with the STOXX 600 preliminary close up 0.40% at 648.51 points. The eurozone STOXX 50 gained 0.15% to 6371.55, and the FTSEurofirst 300 added 0.39% to 2591.05.
TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 rose 1% on the day, marking its largest intraday gain since August 4. Consumer discretionary and telecom sectors each gained about 1.8%, while financials, technology, and real estate advanced at least 1%. The Dow added 682 points (1.3%), Nasdaq gained 1.4%, and the Nasdaq 100 climbed 1.2%. The semiconductor index narrowed losses to a 0.3% gain.
TREE NEWS reports: Crypto liquidations totaled $454 million across exchanges in the past 24 hours, with short positions accounting for $366 million of that. Long liquidations reached $87.78 million. Bitcoin saw $175 million in liquidations, while Ethereum had $82.36 million. The largest single liquidation order was $5.27 million on Binance’s BTCUSDT pair.
TREE NEWS reports: US stocks advanced in afternoon trading, with the Nasdaq 100 index expanding gains to 1%. The Nasdaq rose 1.2%, the S&P 500 gained 0.9%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.1%.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI released a video on X teasing its upcoming Astra model, with visuals switching between ‘ASTRA’ and ‘A6TRA’. The model is likely named GPT-6-Astra. No release date or further details were provided.
TREE NEWS update: Saudi Arabia set the October official selling price for Arab Light crude to Asian buyers at a discount of $2 per barrel to the Oman/Dubai average. The pricing reflects ongoing market conditions as the kingdom adjusts its monthly allocations.
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