Freight shipments fell in June amid tight capacity and elevated rates (IYT:BATS)

Jul 17, 2026, 2:47 PM ETiShares US Transportation ETF (IYT)FDX, UPS, CHRW, KNX, HTLD, WERN, LSTR, JBHT, ARCB, ODFL, XPO, MRTN, HUBG, SAIA, ULH, SNDR, TFII, RXO, FDXFBy: Clark Schultz, SA News Editor Martin Barraud The Cass Freight Index report for June showed a 4.1% year-over-year decline and a 3.1%…

Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on

The lack of an ethics provision remains one of the biggest sticking points. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), one of two Democrats who voted to advance the bill out of the Senate Banking Committee, has repeatedly said he will not support the legislation on the Senate floor without a bipartisan ethics…

Travelers expects fixed income net investment income of ~$840M in Q3 and ~$870M in Q4 as it maintains ~28.5% full-year expense ratio outlook (NYSE:TRV)

Earnings Call Insights: The Travelers Companies, Inc. (TRV) Q2 2026 Management View Seeking Alpha’s Disclaimer: This article was automatically generated by an AI tool based on content available on the Seeking Alpha website, and has not been curated or reviewed by humans. Due to inherent limitations in using AI-based tools,…

The payment war shifts to distribution as stablecoins reach mainstream status

“Both Stripe and PayPal do approximately the same amount of payment volume, but Stripe has about one-fifth the net revenue,” Hadick said. “From a financial perspective, this is obviously accretive, and it helps them connect their merchant processing business, which is at risk of being commoditized, with a broad subset…

Cardano hands core software over to outside developers to achieve full decentralization

Cardano developer Input Output is handing control of core blockchain infrastructure to outside teams, reducing the network’s dependence on the company that built it, Input Output announced Friday. Input Output said the handover is the next phase of Cardano’s decentralization. It covers Cardano’s Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, Daedalus wallet,…

How to Force the Market to Chase You

The executive job market is structurally divided into two distinct operational modes: Push Dynamics and Pull Dynamics. Most professionals spend their entire careers stuck in Push Dynamics. When they need a new role, they update their resume as though it were a history book, buy a premium subscription to LinkedIn…

Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to ‘democratizing’ its 10 million casual users onto blockchain finance

Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) account for just $12.66 million in active market capitalization despite the recent spike in trading activity. Much of that larger activity, instead, came from memecoin traders piling into a new token, CASHCAT, named after Robinhood’s former company mascot. The token rallied by more than 2,100% in…

Arbor upgraded, AGNC and KREF downgraded at J.P. Morgan ahead of Q2 earnings (ABR:NYSE)

In its mortgage REIT preview on Friday, J.P. Morgan upgraded Arbor Realty Trust (ABR) to Neutral and downgraded AGNC Investment to Neutral and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF) to Underweight. The market’s pivot to expecting elevated interest rates for Source link

SBI’s Coinhako deal advances plan for Asia’s first digital asset empire

“The real prize is the yen side of onchain settlement, one of the most strategic positions in Asian finance over the coming decade, and that is exactly what SBI is building toward,” he added. One technical limitation remains. JPYSC does not yet support withdrawals to external wallets. “Regarding JPYSC, its…