Brian Deese, Director of the White House National Economic Council, stated that lowering interest rates is currently appropriate.

 Citibank expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by another 25 basis points in September 2026; meanwhile, it maintains the previous forecast of cutting rates by 25 basis points each in January and March.

Bank of England has lowered the benchmark interest rate from 4.00% to 3.75%, in line with market expectations. Previously, the bank had paused its quarterly rate cuts since August 2024.

market news: Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O) will merge with TAE Technologies in an all-stock transaction.

 Binance Alpha will list TradeTide (TTD) on December 20. Eligible users can go to the Alpha event page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after Alpha trading opens.

 according to market news: Crypto punk legend @adam3us Adam Back has just supported all proposals of the Bitcoin treasury company MetaPlanet at the upcoming shareholders' meeting.

according to the official page, Binance Alpha has launched VOOI.

Japanese government stated that Japan's Minister of Economy and Finance, Jounai Minoru, will attend the Bank of Japan's monetary policy meeting on Friday. 

JPMorgan has deployed its digital deposit token JPM Coin to Coinbase's Base blockchain, marking the Wall Street giant's first large-scale access to the public chain ecosystem. JPM Coin differs from stablecoins as a digital representation of bank deposits with interest, limited to transfers between whitelisted users. This move responds to institutional clients' demand for using bank deposit products on-chain, currently mainly used for collateral and margin payments in crypto trading. JPM emphasizes that its deployment method has full permission control and risk isolation, reflecting the convergence of traditional finance towards DeFi.

Analysts estimated that crypto treasury firms face up to $11.6 billion in outflows if MSCI excluded them from its indexes.