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Sonos (NASDAQ:SONO) Reports Bullish Q4

Audio technology Sonos company (NASDAQ:SONO) announced better-than-expected revenue in Q4 CY2024, but sales fell by 10.1% year on year to $550.9 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.64 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Oil Dips as Trump’s Iran Plans, Vow to Lift Output Swing Market

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Brazil's Galipolo sees surge in crypto use, says 90% of flow tied to stablecoins

Stablecoins are pegged to real-world assets, such as the U.S. dollar, and therefore fluctuate much less than other crypto assets like bitcoin. Speaking at a Bank for International Settlements event in Mexico City, Galipolo said policymakers see this trend as primarily driven by the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, posing challenges for oversight and regulation. He also argued that Brazil's Drex is not fundamentally a central bank digital currency but rather an infrastructure aimed at improving credit with collateralized assets, in a context where local financing costs are high due to the limited use of guarantees.

Bessent's focus on 10-year US Treasury yield may let Fed off the hook

The Trump administration's emerging focus on long-term Treasury bond yields may show growing sensitivity to market constraints that could impede President Donald Trump's economic plans, while also getting the Federal Reserve out of his direct line of fire. Yields on 10-year Treasury notes, influential in determining borrowing costs for everything from the $12.6 trillion U.S. mortgage market to $5.8 trillion in bank lending to businesses as well as the government's own interest bill, are up more than three-quarters of a percentage point even as the Fed has cut its short-term interest rate by a full percentage point since September. Fed officials, noting the anomaly and saying it's not something they have much control over, have offered a number of reasons for that divergence: From concerns about high U.S. government deficits, to lingering above-target inflation, to a global reset of post-pandemic financial conditions.