Alpha Binwani Capital: “Heading into Japan’s first five-day Silver Week since 2015 (Sept 21-23 holiday), the yen looks vulnerable: thin Tokyo-session liquidity across three straight days leaves USD/JPY exposed to outsized, gappy moves from any US dollar strength, oil spike, or Treasury yield shift, and the new 1.25% policy rate doesn’t even take effect until September 24 — the day after the holiday ends — so markets will be trading the announcement through a policy void; a Friday New York-session rate check already signals the MOF is on alert, and while officials are more likely to lean on verbal warnings than fresh intervention unless USD/JPY re-tests 160+, the August intervention’s Saturday, New York-session execution proves a holiday is no automatic shield if the slide turns disorderly — the key level to watch is whether USD/JPY holds the 158-160 band, since a decisive break above 160 with Tokyo desks absent is the most likely trigger for either a fresh operation or sharply escalated warnings from Katayama when Japan reopens September 24, the same day the new rate formally bites”
Alpha Binwani Capital: “On September 17, 2026, the SEC granted Tokenized Securities Venues a temporary, conditional exemption from the “exchange” definition under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, letting them trade tokenized NMS-listed stocks via permissioned AMMs and liquidity pools without registering as a national exchange — a shift that lets crypto exchanges offer a genuine equity product rather than a CFD-like proxy, allows market makers to deploy capital immediately for tight spreads and real volume instead of a thin novelty market, and opens the door to 24/7, borderless trading beyond NYSE/Nasdaq hours”
‼️ 🛢️ 🇻🇪 Venezuela and TotalEnergies SE signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday, setting up the French company for a return to operations in the South American country.
‼️ 🧠 🇺🇸 Trump said he will create an “AI Force” and appoint an AI “Czar” to accelerate the industry’s buildout while protecting it from bad actors. In a Saturday Truth Social post, he said his administration would not “hinder or stifle” AI growth, arguing that existing criminal and civil justice systems can address misuse.