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Over the past three years, Costco has gained momentum, benefiting from trends such as increased home cooking, millennials moving into larger suburban homes, and inflation driving shoppers to seek value through memberships at warehouse clubs. Membership-based retail giant Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST) recently announced its quarterly earnings and the results were nothing short of impressive. Costco Earnings Surpasses Expectations Costco’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings have surprised...

Tron price started a fresh increase above the $0.035 level against the US Dollar. TRX price is now trading above $0.0835 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a connecting bullish trend line forming with support near $0.0840 on the 4-hour chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to move up if it settled above the $0.085 resistance zone. TRON price started a fresh increase above $0.0830 against the US Dollar, outpacing Bitcoin. TRX’s...

Sygnum granted capital markets services (CMS) licence for asset management in Singapore Sygnum Bank announces that its next-generation multi-custody platform has successfully received an ISAE 3402 Type 2 assurance report from PwC Switzerland. This is a formal confirmation that Sygnum’s multi-custody platform has again fulfilled the highest-security standards when it comes to the storage of clients’ assets. The design and operation of Sygnum’s...

Bitcoin price started a fresh decline from the $27,500 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $27,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $26,350 on the 4-hour chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $25,850 support zone. Bitcoin price is declining below $26,600 against the US Dollar. BTC might eye...

For the sixth straight week, digital asset investment products experienced outflows, amounting to $9 million in the previous week. While this is significantly lower than the previous week which was characterized by sour investor sentiment with extensive outflows, the weekly trading volumes remained sluggish at just $820 million, significantly below the year-to-date average of $1.3 billion. This essentially mirrored the broader trend of low trading volumes in the digital asset...

Earlier this summer, Binance was required to wind down operations in Belgium due to a warning from the FMSA, the country’s principal financial regulator. Previous Dispute With Regulator The FMSA’s warning was, according to the regulator, wholly unrelated to the legal dispute currently underway across the pond. Instead, the watchdog expressed concern over Binance’s practice of offering exchange services and hosting wallets in non-EEA countries – which opens the door to money...

A new crypto project has burst onto the scene during the first day of its presale, raising over $100,000 within minutes of its launch. This exciting newcomer – Bitcoin Minetrix (BTCMTX), is debuting an innovative Stake-to-Mine mechanism, allowing everyday crypto investors to participate in the Bitcoin (BTC) mining process easily. Given its impressive market entrance, many early backers are touting Bitcoin Minetrix as a potentially disruptive force in the BTC mining space....

John E. Deaton – a US attorney who represents thousands of XRP investors in the lawsuit between Ripple and the SEC – criticized the agency for one of its latest moves.  Specifically, the regulator opposed a reorganization plan presented by Coinbase, according to which customers of the now-bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network could be reimbursed for their losses. The SEC has Turned Into a ‘Threat to Retail Investors’ The leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase...

The platform’s usage is not limited to individual users but also extends to educational organizations. Global crypto exchange Binance’s open-access blockchain and crypto education platform Binance Academy has reported a 62% increase in the number of users.  According to platform data, from September 2022 to August 2023 there was a marked increase in individuals seeking crypto education. This brings the total number of individuals to use the platform to further their knowledge of blockchain...

This partnership is also a significant stride in the Japanese government’s endeavor to embrace blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, fostering their broader adoption within the country and beyond. Binance Japan is partnering with Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) Trust Bank, a move squarely aligned with the Japanese government’s new Web3 policy. This collaboration aims to birth a new stablecoin, and the chosen platform for its development is the Progmat coin platform, a proprietary asset of...