Huoxing Finance News — Key market and policy updates: 1) Fed's Musalem said interest rates may need to move higher to contain inflation driven by both demand and supply, adding that hikes should ideally be "early and gradual." 2) Donald Trump said the U.S. will stay cautious on artificial intelligence and impose restrictions when necessary, while maintaining an overall stance of "encouraging" AI development. 3) EU member states agreed to extend sanctions on Russia, prolonging the measures for another three years. 4) Bank of Canada Governor said updated inflation forecasts will shape the October policy decision, as officials assess whether further rate increases are needed to return CPI to 2%. 5) U.S. equities opened higher and extended gains into the close: Nasdaq +2.26%, S&P 500 +1.49%, Dow +0.71%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged 4.29%, its best one-day advance since Aug. 4. Several chip names including ARM and Intel jumped more than 10%. AMD rose about 10% to a fresh high; its market cap topped $1 trillion for the first time, making it the world's 16th-largest publicly traded company and the fourth U.S. chipmaker in the "trillion-dollar club." Major European benchmarks also ended higher, with Germany's DAX 30 up 1.07%. 6) Crude oil futures settled sharply lower: October WTI -4.51%, November Brent -3.4%. 7) Metals fell: COMEX gold -0.99% to $4,381/oz; COMEX silver -0.92% to $66.53/oz. 8) SpaceX AI officially launched the Grok 4.7 model, pricing input tokens at $2 per million and output tokens at $6 per million. 9) OpenAI is reportedly developing new features to compete with xAI's Grok and weighing how to respond to Meta's newly launched Muse. 10) Paramount Sky reached settlements with 12 U.S. states over its acquisition of Warner Bros. 11) NVIDIA plans to add $1.5 billion to its investment in SB Energy, lifting total committed funding to $3 billion. 12) Meta said the Petal subsea cable linking France and the U.S. is expected to come online by 2029, with capacity doubling to the petabit level. 13) Amazon said it will deploy 5,000 smart-glasses devices this year and aims to exceed 20,000 units by end-2027. 14) Qualcomm announced a partnership with Google to bring the Snapdragon X Elite platform to the first Google Book laptops. 15) Optical communications player Coherent said it is expanding its pluggable optical line system portfolio, introducing a compact QSFP-packaged system featuring full C-band high-power variable-gain amplification. 16) Novo Nordisk's CEO said that by 2030 the company's production capacity will meet demand for 5 million patients using oral Wegovy. 17) U.S. telecom giant T-Mobile said customers can now use standalone 5G roaming internationally. 18) Trump said he will hold a meeting on Iran today. 19) Israeli forces said they came under attack near the "Yellow Line" and carried out retaliatory strikes against Hamas targets. 20) UK Prime Minister Burnham said the UK agreed to Saudi Arabia's request for limited-duration defensive aerial refueling to help stabilize the region. 21) Reports said the Trump administration proposed allocating $5 billion to launch an investment fund aimed at rebuilding energy infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. 22) Russia will extend its diesel export ban beyond the end of September. (Caixin Global)

X has introduced live stock and cryptocurrency tickers featuring a dedicated "Trade" button. The trading link connects users to Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, Moomoo and Interactive Brokers.

X said it has partnered with major crypto and stock trading venues to let users place trades directly from the timeline. The participating platforms include Gemini, Kraken, Moomoo, Coinbase and Interactive Brokers.

Four of the five largest cryptocurrencies traded Monday above every level seen over the prior 90 days, based on CoinGecko pricing at 17:13 UTC: Bitcoin at $86,042, Ethereum at $2,754.71, Solana at $117.79 and BNB at $797.82 (September 21, 2026). XRP rose the most in the group over 24 hours, up 6.54%, but at $1.50 it still sat nearly 10% below its August 22 peak. The broad advance has a clear catalyst—and a common measurement pitfall. Many dashboards flagged "three-month highs" using daily closes, but intraday peaks that failed to hold do not show up in a daily series. On an hourly basis, four of the big five made genuine new 90-day highs; by daily closes, all five would appear to. How the highs were measured The comparison here uses CoinGecko's hourly series, not sentiment or daily candles: 2,161 hourly observations per coin, pulled on September 21, 2026 at 17:24 UTC. A coin qualifies as a three-month high only if its live price exceeds every hourly print from the prior 89 days. Results for the 12 largest non-stablecoin assets (price at 17:13 UTC): - Bitcoin: $86,042 vs prior hourly high $81,817 (Sep 19), +5.2% - Ethereum: $2,754.71 vs $2,649.26 (Sep 19), +4.0% - Solana: $117.79 vs $114.02 (Sep 18), +3.3% - BNB: $797.82 vs $776.80 (Sep 5), +2.7% - Dogecoin: $0.0977 vs $0.0986 (Aug 22), -0.9% - Tron: $0.3445 vs $0.3496 (Aug 22), -1.4% - Monero: $571.09 vs $588.66 (Sep 19), -3.0% - Chainlink: $13.00 vs $13.44 (Sep 7), -3.3% - Uniswap: $8.94 vs $9.27 (Sep 19), -3.6% - Cardano: $0.2444 vs $0.2543 (Aug 22), -3.9% - Stellar: $0.2085 vs $0.2194 (Aug 22), -5.0% - XRP: $1.50 vs $1.6625 (Aug 22), -9.8% Four assets are above their prior 90-day hourly highs; eight remain below. The dates are notable: Dogecoin, Tron, Cardano, Stellar and XRP all set their prior highs on August 22 and have not reclaimed those levels. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana set previous highs only in recent days, BNB in early September, and all four broke higher on Monday. Why daily closes can "invent" a high If the same exercise is run on daily closes, nine of the 12 assets look like they are at three-month highs, including Dogecoin, Cardano, Stellar, Monero and Uniswap. On hourly data, those five do not qualify. The reason is straightforward: a daily close captures one print per day. A midday spike that is fully retraced by the end of the session disappears from the daily series. XRP highlights how large the gap can be. By daily closes, it sits only 1.5% below its high; by hourly values, it is 9.8% below. The $1.66 peak on August 22 at 05:00 UTC did not last for a full day, so it is absent from daily data. Monero offers another example. Over the past 24 hours it briefly hit a fresh 90-day high at $614.80, then fell back to $571.09, about 7% below that intraday peak. A breakout that fails quickly is often more damaging than no breakout at all, because late buyers tend to enter near the top. The driver: $648 million in short liquidations The breadth of Monday's move had a mechanical underpinning. CoinGlass data, summarized by CoinDesk, showed $746.6 million in positions were forcibly closed over 24 hours, including $647.9 million on the short side. In a single hour, liquidations totaled $159.9 million, with shorts making up 95%. Bitcoin represented $277.5 million of liquidated bearish bets, Ether $122.8 million. The mechanism helps explain why multiple coins surged together: traders who cannot maintain collateral are automatically bought back by exchanges, pushing prices higher and triggering additional layers of short covering. As this played out, open interest across futures markets rose 7.59% to $156 billion, and trading volume increased 39% to $224 billion. Rising prices alongside rising open interest suggests the market was not only closing positions; it was also adding new exposure. Whether that new exposure is mainly fresh longs or newly opened shorts will become clearer on the first meaningful pullback. Bitcoin and the 50-week average: recalculated, not repeated Some market reports said Bitcoin's Sunday weekly close moved above its 50-week average for the first time in 45 weeks. Using CoinGecko daily data, the week ending September 20 closed at $81,169, while the average of the last 50 weekly closes was $78,740. The prior week closed at $76,819, below the then-50-week average of $79,586. The cross from below to above is supported by the numbers. The "45 weeks" claim cannot be verified from a single year of data, so it remains an assertion from those reports. In market commentary, the 50-week average is often treated as a dividing line between bear-market conditions and a more durable uptrend. One weekly close above it is a signal, not confirmation. Confirmation would require the current week (beginning Monday) to also close above the line. XRP: the major laggard among the top five XRP led the top five on the day with a 6.54% gain, yet it remained the only one without a three-month high. Over one month, XRP was up 3.60%, compared with Solana up 26.37%, BNB up 15.96%, Ethereum up 14.34% and Bitcoin up 11.74%. XRP participated least in the summer run and is now rebounding from a weaker base. The key reference point for any breakout argument is still the 9.8% gap to the August high. What this means for you 1) A move that lifts four of the five largest assets above their quarterly highs is a breadth signal. The trigger, though, was short covering rather than sustained inflows. US Bitcoin ETFs took in only $6.1 million in the week to September 18, their quietest week since October 2024. Ethereum ETFs most recently saw $140 million in outflows. 2) Avoid buying a "high" that exists only on a daily chart. Hourly data is widely available, and the test is simple: is the price above every hourly print from the last 90 days? For Dogecoin, Cardano, Stellar, Monero and Uniswap on Monday, the answer was no, regardless of what daily candles suggested. 3) After a squeeze, waiting for a pullback can be more informative than chasing momentum. If price holds while open interest declines, the move likely had real spot demand behind it. If both price and open interest fall together, the rally was more dependent on forced positioning and may unwind faster. How to spot a real high before buying Ask three questions in order: Is the high defined using daily closes or hourly values? How recent was the previous high—days ago or a month ago? Does the new level hold for more than 24 hours, or does it vanish the same day, as with Monero? Applied on Monday, those checks point to four genuine three-month highs rather than nine—and to a rally driven by liquidations that still needs confirmation. (As of September 21, 2026. This article is not investment advice. 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Crypto market sentiment has shifted into "extreme greed." CoinMarketCap's Fear & Greed Index rose to 80 today from 72 yesterday, just two points below this year's peak of 82 set on Aug. 27, and far above February's trough of 5. Total crypto market capitalization climbed 6% over the past 24 hours to $2.94T. bitcoin:native gained more than 7% to about $86,700, while ethereum:native advanced 5.6% to roughly $2,765.

Crypto trading has picked up sharply as prices rise. Bitcoin and major altcoins are on track for their strongest combined weekly volume since the first week of March, reflecting a renewed wave of market participation. A sudden jump in volume often signals a shift from caution to conviction. Traders appear to be chasing breakouts, rotating into altcoins, and rebuilding leveraged exposure as risk appetite improves. The move was also fueled by a short squeeze. About $648M in bearish crypto positions were liquidated on Monday as $BTC neared $85K. Broader sentiment was supported by falling oil prices and easing Treasury yields, which helped lift risk appetite across markets. Higher volume can help confirm a breakout, but extreme readings warrant caution. Strong participation can sustain momentum as long as buyers continue to step in, while another near-vertical surge in volume may indicate increasingly crowded FOMO rather than new demand. Live Chart:

Telus cut its quarterly dividend 55% to US$0.1875 per share from US$0.4184, bringing the annual dividend to US$0.75. The company also lowered its free cash flow outlook to about US$1.8 billion and reduced its targeted payout ratio range to 45%–60% from 60%–75%. Management expects the reset to conserve roughly US$2.7 billion in cash through 2028, with debt reduction as the top priority. In the second quarter, Telus recorded a non-cash impairment charge of US$2.1 billion.

Sept. 22 (UTC+8) — 23pds, chief information security officer at blockchain security firm SlowMist, said attackers are exploiting the "Darksword" vulnerability to bypass iOS security protections through Safari, take control of devices, and extract private keys and other data from self-custodied crypto wallets, according to ME News. SlowMist said the flaw has previously been linked to campaigns targeting users in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia and Ukraine. Google's Threat Intelligence Group had earlier disclosed that "Darksword" initially affected only iOS versions 18.4 to 18.7. 23pds added that the exploit has been adapted to iOS 26.5, though the claim has not been confirmed by official sources. The reported attack chain typically starts with social engineering, prompting victims to click malicious links delivered via social media or messaging apps. If successful, attackers may obtain root access and exfiltrate wallet data. SlowMist urged users to update mobile operating systems promptly and avoid clicking website links sent by unknown contacts. Separately, three investors have sued Apple after losing nearly $1.8 million in Bitcoin allegedly tied to fake wallet apps downloaded from Apple's official App Store. (Source: ChainCatcher)

Gold sales in India during Ganesh Chaturthi fell about 15% year on year in volume, as buyers scaled back purchases after prices surged roughly 60% from a year earlier. Consumers shifted toward lighter jewellery or opted to exchange old gold for new items. In Mumbai, the spot price has climbed to 157,000 rupees per 10 grams. Sales of coins and bars held up, while demand linked to weddings and younger self-buyers also showed resilience.