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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is drawing fresh scrutiny today, with at least one prominent economist arguing his real mandate isn't taming inflation — it's managing the cost of U.S. debt. With interest rates threatening to outpace GDP growth, Warsh's mixed signals have left Wall Street struggling to read him as either hawk or dove, and the stakes are getting harder to ignore.
Shifting to crypto, Binance is reporting net outflows of five point eight billion dollars following the resumption of withdrawals after what the exchange described as a record hack. The platform is moving to reassure users that those withdrawals represent a small fraction of its roughly one hundred seventy-one billion dollars in total customer assets, and says the pace of outflows has since slowed considerably.
And in the solar sector, Daqo New Energy is absorbing a meaningful analyst downgrade, with the consensus one-year price target on its depositary receipt cut by more than fifteen percent to twenty dollars and ninety-one cents per share. That revision, down from twenty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents set back in October of two thousand twenty-six, reflects continued pressure on polysilicon producers navigating a difficult pricing environment.
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