Nasdaq has filed a proposal to expand trading hours to 23 hours a day, five days a week, responding to growing investor demand for near round-the-clock market access.
The move reflects changing expectations shaped by the 24/7 nature of cryptocurrency markets and the increasingly global behaviour of investors.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) is trading near the $90,000 level as traders prepare for a heavy week of US macroeconomic releases.
Market participants are closely watching how upcoming data may influence Federal Reserve rate expectations.
Analysts say bitcoin remains highly sensitive to shifts in liquidity and monetary policy signals.
Adventure White Mountain Pvt. Ltd. has announced an expanded range of adventure trekking packages across Nepal’s Himalayan regions.
The Nepal-based adventure travel company said the new offerings are aimed at trekkers and outdoor enthusiasts of all experience levels.
YouTube has begun allowing eligible US-based creators to receive earnings in PayPal’s US dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), marking a notable step towards mainstream adoption of regulated digital currencies in creator monetisation.
The new payout option was reported by Fortune on 11 December and reflects growing interest among major technology firms in using stablecoins as practical payment tools rather than speculative assets.
Memecoins are not dead despite the collapse in prices and fading hype, according to MoonPay president Keith A. Grossman, who believes the sector is undergoing a structural reset rather than a permanent decline.
Grossman argued that memecoins were never solely about jokes or financial nihilism, but about the technological ability to tokenise attention cheaply and at scale using blockchain infrastructure.
A senior executive at Itaú Asset Management has recommended that investors allocate between 1% and 3% of their portfolios to Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) as part of a diversified strategy.
Itaú Unibanco is the largest private bank in Latin America and a key player in Brazil's traditional financial system.
Bitcoin's (CRYPTO:BTC) long-discussed four-year market cycle remains intact but is now shaped by political events and liquidity conditions rather than the asset’s halving mechanism, according to new analysis from 10x Research.
Markus Thielen, head of research at 10x Research, said the belief that the cycle has broken down misunderstands how Bitcoin's market dynamics have evolved in recent years.
Norwood Financial Corp (NASDAQ:NWFL), the holding company for Wayne Bank, has announced that it has received the final regulatory approvals necessary to complete its acquisition of PB Bankshare and its subsidiary, Presence Bank.
This final approval follows the merger's green light from PB Bankshare shareholders on December 11, 2025.
BeyondSpring (NASDAQ:BYSI) presented encouraging results from the Asian subset of its global Phase 3 DUBLIN-3 trial at ESMO Asia 2025, evaluating the combination of plinabulin and docetaxel versus docetaxel alone in second-line and third-line EGFR wild-type non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
