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Covers Tuesday's US session and what to watch before Thursday's holiday. Figures from Yahoo Finance at the US close and from the wires, checked at 21:30 New York time on Tuesday.
Tuesday's US session in one page: consumer confidence at a 12-year low, the 30-year Treasury at its highest since 2002, another 40 million barrels from the US strategic reserve, FICO down 26%, and Micron's results due Thursday morning Hong Kong time.
Why secondary trading figures prove nothing more than the desperate energy of the churn
High trading volume in the token markets often resembles a shopkeeper paying boys to run through his doors kicking up dust. Strip away the wash trades and reward farming, and you find a ghost town painted to look like a boomtown.
Marcus Thornewood
September 19, 2026
4 min
When the data is noise and the oracles are rigged, the insight machine serves only the house.
Marcus Thornewood dissects the promise of AI-driven on-chain forecasting, arguing that these systems are more often tools of manipulation than engines of profit.
Marcus Thornewood
June 20, 2026
5 min
