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Even more than usual, the path ahead isn’t clear.
Still, there was barely any reaction in market prices. -- Nor has anything else seriously disrupted major markets.
That’s noteworthy, when you consider the crises that are looming:
the highest tariffs in decades;
a contentious crackdown on immigration
and a swelling budget deficit in the United States;
and, in the Middle East, an escalating war between Israel and Iran that could sharply reduce global o…

The Markets Are Balancing on a Knife’s Edge
The world has been anything but peaceful, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the markets.

A New Middle Eastern War Ignites, Markets Swing On Early Bets That Trump Will Chicken Out Again - Dealbreaker
https://dealbreaker.com/2025/06/a-new-middle-eastern-war-ignites-markets-swing-on-early-bets-that-trump-will-chicken-out-again

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/01/markets/immigration-raids-california-farms/
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Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, farmers and field supervisors have said that ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up.

Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump
The United Kingdom is preparing to single out Apple and Google under its new Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 8956 nodes and 13905 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Richard Murphy provides an excellent characterisation of where western society was at its best (for most people, but not everyoe), and how it fell into the increasingly horrible situation it's in now... and how we could return to a 'better way' - what he refers to as 'mixed markets'. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lrQh0_B…

Upstream competition and exclusive content provision in media markets
Kiho Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15063 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Upstream competition and exclusive content provision in media markets
With a multilateral vertical contracting model of media markets, we examine upstream competition and contractual arrangements in content provision. We analyze the trade of content by the Nash bargaining solution and the downstream competition by the Hotelling location model. We characterize the equilibrium outcomes and the contractual arrangements for various vertical structures. We show that the possibility of exclusive contracts rises when the value of the premium content increases, the degre…

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/13/oil-markets-are-spooked-as-iran-israel-tensions-escalate?traffic_source=rss…

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate
Israel’s strike on Iran, and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation fuel fears of Strait of Hormuz trade disruptions.

Tegna adds 100 hours of new daily programming across 50 markets with dedicated 7am-9am streaming of local newscasts to meet increased demand on CTV platforms (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/tegna-anno…

Tegna Announces Major Local News Expansion
Tegna Inc. today announced that its stations will be “significantly expanding” their local news programming by launching live and on-demand, local newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. daily in 50-plus markets through streaming, connected TV apps and station websites.  Tegna said: “This unprecedented expansion of local news programming is designed to meet audiences’ growing demand for coverage of their communities wherever they want to watch and will deliver over 100 hours of daily breaking news,…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[1/5]:
- "Generate" the Future of Work through AI: Empirical Evidence from Online Labor Markets
Jin Liu, Xingchen Xu, Xi Nan, Yongjun Li, Yong Tan

»Apple is ruining the open web«
Their reputation among their fans has never been true and, in my opinion, is already partly a dull belief.
🍎 #apple

Apple is ruining the open web · Victor Wynne
Apple is defying the EU’s Digital Markets Act by blocking rival browser engines on iOS, protecting Safari’s immense profits. The result is the company ruining the open web.

Huge, untapped markets for things I KNOW people would buy:
*Decent vegetarian fast food
*Cars made like older cars, without all the computer crap

Crypto exchange BigONE confirms a $27M hack from a hot wallet exploit, plans to pay back users and is working with security firm SlowMist to trace stolen assets (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/1

Crypto Exchange BigONE Confirms $27M Hack, Vows Full User Compensation
BigONE is working with blockchain security firm SlowMist to track the stolen assets, with fund tracing already underway across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and BNB Chain.

A theory of Lending Protocols in DeFi
Massimo Bartoletti, Enrico Lipparini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15295 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A theory of Lending Protocols in DeFi
Lending protocols are one of the main applications of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), enabling crypto-assets loan markets with a total value estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. Unlike traditional lending systems, these protocols operate without relying on trusted authorities or off-chain enforcement mechanisms. To achieve key economic goals such as stability of the loan market, they devise instead trustless on-chain mechanisms, such as rewarding liquidators who repay the loans of under-…

Evaluation of Nuclear Microreactor Cost-competitiveness in Current Electricity Markets Considering Reactor Cost Uncertainties
Muhammad R. Abdusammi, Ikhwan Khaleb, Fei Gao, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13361

Evaluation of Nuclear Microreactor Cost-competitiveness in Current Electricity Markets Considering Reactor Cost Uncertainties
This paper evaluates the cost competitiveness of microreactors in today's electricity markets, with a focus on uncertainties in reactor costs. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to optimize key technical parameters, such as reactor capacity, fuel enrichment, tail enrichment, refueling interval, and discharge burnup, to minimize the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). Base case results are validated using Simulated Annealing (SA). By incorporating Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) for fuel cy…

Explain First, Trust Later: LLM-Augmented Explanations for Graph-Based Crypto Anomaly Detection
Adriana Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14933 https://

Explain First, Trust Later: LLM-Augmented Explanations for Graph-Based Crypto Anomaly Detection
The decentralized finance (DeFi) community has grown rapidly in recent years, pushed forward by cryptocurrency enthusiasts interested in the vast untapped potential of new markets. The surge in popularity of cryptocurrency has ushered in a new era of financial crime. Unfortunately, the novelty of the technology makes the task of catching and prosecuting offenders particularly challenging. Thus, it is necessary to implement automated detection tools related to policies to address the growing cri…

I've made a summer quiz for EU energy policy nerds 🤓
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_acers-country-sheets-summer-quiz-acti…

Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. | Jaap Burger
Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. What are they doing well and where can they improve? Have they learned from the curriculum and have they acted on previous recommendations? How are they doing compared to their peers? EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) does something similar for countries, their retail energy markets and the level of consumer participation. It's time for their annual …

Flips Reveal the Universal Impact of Memory on Random Explorations
Julien Br\'emont, L\'eo R\'egnier, Alex Barbier--Chebbah, Olivier B\'enichou, Rapha\"el Voituriez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15642

Flips Reveal the Universal Impact of Memory on Random Explorations
Quantifying space exploration is a central question in random walk theory, with direct applications ranging from animal foraging, diffusion-limited reactions, and intracellular transport to stock markets. In particular, the explored domain by one or many simple memoryless (or Markovian) random walks has received considerable attention . However, the physical systems mentioned above typically involve significant memory effects, and so far, no general framework exists to analyze such systems. We …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12683 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Information Flow in the FTX Bankruptcy: A Network Approach
This paper investigates the cryptocurrency network of the FTX exchange during the collapse of its native token, FTT, to understand how network structures adapt to significant financial disruptions, by exploiting vertex centrality measures. Using proprietary data on the transactional relationships between various cryptocurrencies, we construct the filtered correlation matrix to identify the most significant relations in the FTX and Binance markets. By using suitable centrality measures - closene…

Zohran Mamdani Is Right: We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires https://jacobin.com/2025/07/billionaires-wealth-inequality-zohran-mamdani/
This is true in every country in the world. There is simply no justification for any individual to be «worth» a …

Zohran Mamdani Is Right: We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires
The myths that billionaires earn, invent, or give their way to virtue don’t survive scrutiny. Billionaire wealth isn’t built on genius — it rests on public investment and ends with the power to shape law, labor, and markets.

Catching Bid-rigging Cartels with Graph Attention Neural Networks
David Imhof, Emanuel W Viklund, Martin Huber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12369 https://

Catching Bid-rigging Cartels with Graph Attention Neural Networks
We propose a novel application of graph attention networks (GATs), a type of graph neural network enhanced with attention mechanisms, to develop a deep learning algorithm for detecting collusive behavior, leveraging predictive features suggested in prior research. We test our approach on a large dataset covering 13 markets across seven countries. Our results show that predictive models based on GATs, trained on a subset of the markets, can be effectively transferred to other markets, achieving …

Highest-paid players at every NFL position: Steelers' T.J. Watt, Jets' Sauce Gardner latest to make history

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/highest…

To go back to my previous post, for a plant-based diet to be attractive, we need to help people choose plant based alternatives to meat for more or less all occasions. So meat is no longer the default
That's what we need good chefs for: to help turn traditional foods into vegetarian/vegan alternatives that are tasty and easy to prepare.
Most traditional dishes are surprisingly modern. Our tastes can easily be changed...
As an example, in France, the markets are laden with charcuterie and cheese, BUT ALSO, beautiful fresh fruits and vegetables - a nudge towards the latter would improve human health, animal welfare and reduce emissions...
#PlantBased food.
This site however is outstanding making french cuisine vegan
https://menu-vegetarien.com/

Digital Markets Act: Apple baut App Store in der EU erneut um
Auf Druck der EU-Kommission ändert Apple die Preise für App-Entwickler und erlaubt Dinge, die vorher nicht möglich waren. Das Konzept ist allerdings chaotisch.

IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/14/apple-gains-in-emer…

Apple gains in emerging markets while China demand slows
Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.

Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation
Olav Galteland, Jacob Hadler-Jacobsen, Hanne Kauko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14252

Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation
This study investigates the economic viability and optimal configuration of a hybrid industrial energy system combining an electrode boiler, steam accumulator, and battery energy storage system (BESS). This study optimizes system operation for a specific configuration to minimize net energy costs, defined as energy costs minus profits from price arbitrage and reserve markets. The optimization uses load shifting, peak shaving, and frequency containment reserve market participation with hourly 20…

Multi-Scale Network Dynamics and Systemic Risk: A Model Context Protocol Approach to Financial Markets
Avishek Bhandari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08065 ht…

Multi-Scale Network Dynamics and Systemic Risk: A Model Context Protocol Approach to Financial Markets
This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing systemic risk in financial markets through multi-scale network dynamics using Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agent communication. We develop an integrated approach that combines transfer entropy networks, agent-based modeling, and wavelet decomposition to capture information flows across temporal scales implemented in the MCPFM (Model Context Protocol Financial Markets) R package. Our methodology enables heterogeneous financial agents incl…

Multiscale spillovers between carbon, energy and financial markets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003676 @…

"France, Italy break daily solar production records"
#France #Italy #SolarPower #Energy

France, Italy break daily solar production records
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting’s latest analysis finds weekly electricity prices fell across most major European markets last week. In France and Italy, new records for daily solar production helped lower prices.

The markets are signalling a clear winner in the Middle East (Ruchir Sharma/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/78b2d760-f90a-4349-b9f7-aab8b19f7b6f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p44#a250714p44

Windows 10 und 11: Edge Browser nervt künftig weniger
Microsoft hat weitere Änderungen für Windows und System-Apps wie Edge angekündigt, um sich dem Digital Markets Act (DMA) zu fügen.
https://www.

DAIEM: Decolonizing Algorithm's Role as a Team-member in Informal E-market
ATM Mizanur Rahman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Md Romael Haque (Purdue University Fort Wayne), Sharifa Sultana (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12910

DAIEM: Decolonizing Algorithm's Role as a Team-member in Informal E-market
In Bangladesh's rapidly expanding informal e-market, small-scale sellers use social media platforms like Facebook to run businesses outside formal infrastructures. These sellers rely heavily on platform algorithms, not just for visibility, but as active collaborators in business operations. Drawing on 37 in-depth interviews with sellers, buyers, and stakeholders, this paper examines how people in informal e-markets perceive and interact with the algorithm as a "team member" that performs sales,…

BESS Participation Planning for Provision of Grid Services in Energy and Regulation Markets
Zeenat Hameed, Chresten Traeholt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08472

BESS Participation Planning for Provision of Grid Services in Energy and Regulation Markets
This paper presents a stochastic optimization model for planning the participation of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in energy and regulation markets. The proposed model quantifies and compares the business value of single and multi-market BESS services by accounting for their bid submission and acceptance procedures, pricing mechanisms and revenue streams, and penalty payments and degradation costs. By modelling the price uncertainties using market price scenarios (MPSs) and considerin…

On Wednesday,
the Washington Post
named the Economist’s Washington correspondent
Adam O’Neal as its next opinion editor.
In his announcement on Twitter, O’Neal parroted his new boss’ words from last February almost verbatim,
telling Post readers in a chummy front-facing camera announcement that:
[Washington Post opinion page writers and editors are] going to be stalwart advocates of free markets and personal liberties.
We’ll be unapologetically patri…

New Washington Post Opinion editor claims explicitly right-wing revamp isn’t ‘Ideological’
A breakdown of Bezos’ final coup and the bizarre pathology of right-wing ideologues really, really wanting you not to think they’re ideological.

📉 Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs
... although Bitcoin's price remains high, the evidence is the Bitcoin network is dying as transaction volume collapses and miners struggle
#bitcoin #crypto

BTC News: Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs. What Next?
Almost all of Bitcoin's actual users have gone away, one observer said, warning of a major crisis.

Contracting with a Mechanism Designer
Tian Bai, Yiding Feng, Yaohao Liu, Mengfan Ma, Mingyu Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12054 https://

Contracting with a Mechanism Designer
This paper explores the economic interactions within modern crowdsourcing markets. In these markets, employers issue requests for tasks, platforms facilitate the recruitment of crowd workers, and workers complete tasks for monetary rewards. Recognizing that these roles serve distinct functions within the ecosystem, we introduce a three-party model that distinguishes among the principal (the requester), the intermediary (the platform), and the pool of agents (the workers). The principal, unable …

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 4585 nodes and 4694 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

It's great to see car OEMs integrating smart charging solutions directly into their EVs. ev.energy’s platform allows users to automatically optimise for a range of smart and dynamic tariffs and on-site solar, while responding to local and (inter)national grid needs in flex markets.
https://t…

JLR collaborates with ev.energy
Luxury vehicle firm JLR is collaborating with ev.energy on piloting a smart charging solution.

Warner Bros Discovery plans to launch HBO Max in 12 countries in July, mostly in Europe and some in Asia, bringing it to around 90 territories in total (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

HBO Max to Launch in 12 Countries in July as WBD Streamer Closes in on 100 Markets (Exclusive)
Europe has been the fastest-growing international region for the streaming service, which is getting ready to accelerate its global growth strategy with the latest market debuts.

An advanced reliability reserve incentivizes flexibility investments while safeguarding the electricity market
Franziska Klaucke, Karsten Neuhoff, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill, Leon Stolle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14664

An advanced reliability reserve incentivizes flexibility investments while safeguarding the electricity market
To ensure security of supply in the power sector, many countries are already using or discussing the introduction of capacity mechanisms. Two main types of such mechanisms include capacity markets and capacity reserves. Simultaneously, the expansion of variable renewable energy sources increases the need for power sector flexibility, for which there are promising yet often under-utilized options on the demand side. In this paper, we analyze how a centralized capacity market and an advanced reli…

Pricing options on the cryptocurrency futures contracts
Julia Ko\'nczal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Pricing options on the cryptocurrency futures contracts
The cryptocurrency options market is notable for its high volatility and lower liquidity compared to traditional markets. These characteristics introduce significant challenges to traditional option pricing methodologies. Addressing these complexities requires advanced models that can effectively capture the dynamics of the market. We explore which option pricing models are most effective in valuing cryptocurrency options. Specifically, we calibrate and evaluate the performance of the Black-Sch…

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q1 2025
"As was the case during 2024, the top rent growth markets to start 2025 represented several regions, all with varying strengths and characteristics."

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets Q1 2025 - Arbor Realty
The U.S. multifamily sector finished 2024 with the wind at its sails, as the market settled into a more normalized cycle with emerging opportunities. The sector’s resilience stood out during the year, amid a shifting economic landscape and volatile interest rate environment.

»Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt:
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto-scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.«
Is anyone of you surprised? But the real question is, how do I convince people to stop using Telegram?
🤷

Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

Stock Futures Dip as Trump Steps Up Tariff Threats: Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-13/us-futures-drop-as-trump-steps-up-tariff-threats-markets-wrap

Advancing Exchange Rate Forecasting: Leveraging Machine Learning and AI for Enhanced Accuracy in Global Financial Markets
Md. Yeasin Rahat, Rajan Das Gupta, Nur Raisa Rahman, Sudipto Roy Pritom, Samiur Rahman Shakir, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09851

Advancing Exchange Rate Forecasting: Leveraging Machine Learning and AI for Enhanced Accuracy in Global Financial Markets
The prediction of foreign exchange rates, such as the US Dollar (USD) to Bangladeshi Taka (BDT), plays a pivotal role in global financial markets, influencing trade, investments, and economic stability. This study leverages historical USD/BDT exchange rate data from 2018 to 2023, sourced from Yahoo Finance, to develop advanced machine learning models for accurate forecasting. A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network is employed, achieving an exceptional accuracy of 99.449%, a Root Mean Sq…

Cybersecurity Issues in Local Energy Markets
Al Hussein Dabashi, Sajjad Maleki, Biswarup Mukherjee, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple, Charalambos Konstantinou, Subhash Lakshminarayana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01536

Cybersecurity Issues in Local Energy Markets
Local Energy Markets (LEMs), though pivotal to the energy transition, face growing cybersecurity threats due to their reliance on smart grid communication standards and vulnerable Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled devices. This is a critical issue because such vulnerabilities can be exploited to manipulate market operations, compromise participants' privacy, and destabilize power distribution networks. This work maps LEM communication flows to existing standards, highlights potential impacts of …

To What Extent Can Public Equity Indices Statistically Hedge Real Purchasing Power Loss in Compounded Structural Emerging-Market Crises? An Explainable ML-Based Assessment
Artem Alkhamov, Boris Kriuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13055

To What Extent Can Public Equity Indices Statistically Hedge Real Purchasing Power Loss in Compounded Structural Emerging-Market Crises? An Explainable ML-Based Assessment
This study investigates the extent to which local public equity indices can statistically hedge real purchasing power loss during compounded structural macro-financial collapses in emerging markets. We employ a non-linear multiplicative real return calculations consistent with Fisher-parity logics for both domestic and foreign investors with a principled quantile regression, tail dependence copula analysis, and Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) to assess the explanatory power of macro variab…

Price Discovery in Cryptocurrency Markets
Juan Plazuelo Pascual, Carlos Tardon Rubio, Juan Toro Cebada, Angel Hernando Veciana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08718

Price Discovery in Cryptocurrency Markets
This document analyzes price discovery in cryptocurrency markets by comparing centralized and decentralized exchanges, as well as spot and futures markets. The study focuses first on Ethereum (ETH) and then applies a similar approach to Bitcoin (BTC). Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical framework, emphasizing the structural differences between centralized exchanges and decentralized finance mechanisms, especially Automated Market Makers (AMMs). It also explains how to construct an order book fro…

AT&T to Acquire Lumen’s Mass Markets Fiber Business
https://about.att.com/story/2025/lumen-mass-markets-fiber-business.html

For some reason, this does not strike as a rational act by ICE. Who do they think are responsible for getting food from the farm to the markets? (Critiquing on woke values is pointless, so I'm appealing to the self interest of those who think food comes from the supermarket)

ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County | abc7.com
Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20(ICE)%20targeted%20workers%20on%20produce%20farms%20in%20Ventura%20County%20Tuesday%20morning%20in%20one%20of%20the%20latest%20raids.

For some reason, this does not strike as a rational act by ICE. Who do they think are responsible for getting food from the farm to the markets? (Critiquing on woke values is pointless, so I'm appealing to the self interest of those who think food comes from the supermarket)

ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County | abc7.com
Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20(ICE)%20targeted%20workers%20on%20produce%20farms%20in%20Ventura%20County%20Tuesday%20morning%20in%20one%20of%20the%20latest%20raids.

In three of the four weeks since WWDC, the conversion rate for OmniFocus on visionOS has been above 71%. (In the other week it was still above 62%, so the overall conversion rate for the full period is above 70%.)
I'm not suggesting everyone run out and make visionOS apps today: the total market size is still small. But it's a good sign for customer enthusiasm on the platform.
(As a company who specialized in building NeXT apps, we're no strangers to tiny markets with…

And the most recent jobs report has many hints that ICE is indeed having that desired effect: in an otherwise stagnant or contracting labor market, there was job group in leisure and hospitality, private health care, and (somewhat less) construction — all job markets with a concentration of immigrant labor.
I am not an economist and this is not a proper analysis — grain of salt, please! — but a quick skim of these stats is at least superficially consistent with a good chunk of current job growth coming from decreased immigrant participation in the labor force.
https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/highlights/2025/current-employment-statistics-highlights-06-2025.pdf
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Cognitive Load and Information Processing in Financial Markets: Theory and Evidence from Disclosure Complexity
Yimin Du, Guolin Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07037

Cognitive Load and Information Processing in Financial Markets: Theory and Evidence from Disclosure Complexity
We develop a theoretical framework for understanding how cognitive load affects information processing in financial markets and test it using exogenous variation in disclosure complexity. Our model distinguishes between attention allocation and cognitive processing capacity, showing that complex information creates differential effects across investor types. Using a comprehensive dataset of corporate disclosures and a novel identification strategy based on regulatory changes, we find that cogni…

Value of History in Social Learning: Applications to Markets for History
Hiroto Sato, Konan Shimizu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11029 https://

Value of History in Social Learning: Applications to Markets for History
In social learning environments, agents acquire information from both private signals and the observed actions of predecessors, referred to as history. We define the value of history as the gain in expected payoff from accessing both the private signal and history, compared to relying on the signal alone. We first characterize the information structures that maximize this value, showing that it is highest under a mixture of full information and no information. We then apply these insights to a …

🤦🏻‍♀️ Lingerie Fighting Championships to Add $2M in Bitcoin to Treasury Ahead of Expansion to UK
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/26/lingerie-fighting-championships-to-add-2m-in-bitcoin-to-treasury-…

Bitcoin (BTC) Treasury News: Lingerie Fighting Championships Joins
The Las Vegas-based MMA league is embracing BTC ahead of its first events in England and Wales this July.

Replaced article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[1/1]:
- Embracing Fairness in Consumer Electricity Markets using an Automatic Market Maker
Shaun Sweeney, Chris King, Mark O'Malley, Robert Shorten

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Bipartisan Open App Markets Act revived to challenge Apple's App Store control
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan "Open App Markets Act" aimed at breaking Apple and Google's app store dominance.

Highest-paid players at every NFL position: Jets' Sauce Gardner, Chiefs' Trey Smith latest to make history

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/highest

Data Synchronization at High Frequencies
Xinbing Kong, Cheng Liu, Bin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

Data Synchronization at High Frequencies
Asynchronous trading in high-frequency financial markets introduces significant biases into econometric analysis, distorting risk estimates and leading to suboptimal portfolio decisions. Existing synchronization methods, such as the previous-tick approach, suffer from information loss and create artificial price staleness. We introduce a novel framework that recasts the data synchronization challenge as a constrained matrix completion problem. Our approach recovers the potential matrix of high-…

Aussetzung des DMA? – Sorge vor Kuhhandel der EU mit den USA
Viele Beobachter verunsichern Berichte, wonach die EU-Kommission auf die Durchsetzung des Digital Markets Acts (DMA) für US-Konzerne zeitweise verzichten will.

"2025: A landmark year for solar energy"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

2025: A landmark year for solar energy
The IEA-PVPS 2025 Snapshot of Global PV Markets reveals a pivotal moment for solar power: global PV capacity surpassed 2.2 TW, with more than 600 GW installed in 2024 alone. As module prices fell due to oversupply, installation volumes continued to grow, highlighting both the strength and volatility of the global PV industry.

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

Trump is sowing confusion in the markets (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d09c9b3e-2ccc-473d-8c3e-feb933e231b7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p38#a250711p38

Export proceeds repatriation policies: A shield against exchange rate volatility in emerging markets?
Sondang Marsinta Uli Panggabean, Mahjus Ekananda, Beta Yulianita Gitaharie, Leslie Djuranovik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09168

Export proceeds repatriation policies: A shield against exchange rate volatility in emerging markets?
We examine the impact of mandatory export proceeds repatriation on exchange rate stability in three emerging markets, Iran, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, using the Generalized Synthetic Control framework. By modeling exchange rate stochastic volatility as our outcome of interest and controlling for interest rate differentials, exchange rate regime shifts, and inflation rate gaps, we address both unobserved time-varying confounders and heterogeneous treatment effects. Our estimates reveal no statistica…

China’s exports growth beats expectations in June as shipments to non-U.S. markets grow
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/china-exports-imports-trade-data-june.html

Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets and price constraints determined by maximum entropy in the mean
Argimiro Arratia, Henryk Gzyl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07053

Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets and price constraints determined by maximum entropy in the mean
A solution to a portfolio optimization problem is always conditioned by constraints on the initial capital and the price of the available market assets. If a risk neutral measure is known, then the price of each asset is the discounted expected value of the asset's price under this measure. But if the market is incomplete, the risk neutral measure is not unique, and there is a range of possible prices for each asset, which can be identified with bid-ask ranges. We present in this paper an effec…

Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China, starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

iOS und macOS 26: Welche Funktionen Apple vorerst in der EU blockiert
Drei Funktionen in den neuen Betriebssystemen bleiben für Nutzer im EWR offenbar deaktiviert. Apple zeigt mit dem Finger auf den Digital Markets Act.

Power in Sharing Networks with a priori Unions
Michele Aleandri, Francesco Ciardiello, Andrea Di Liddo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13272 https://

Power in Sharing Networks with a priori Unions
We introduce and analyze a novel family of power indices tailored for sharing networks in technological markets, where firms operate competitively within, but not across, distinct industrial sectors. In these settings, inter-firm collaboration structures emerge from formal technology licensing agreements. The proposed indices are defined over graphs with a priori unions and combine two key centrality measures - degree-based and rescaled eigenvector centrality - modulated by positive market coef…

Converting permits between markets https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325005237 @…

Designing funding rates for perpetual futures in cryptocurrency markets
Jaehyun Kim, Hyungbin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08573 https://

Designing funding rates for perpetual futures in cryptocurrency markets
In cryptocurrency markets, a key challenge for perpetual future issuers is maintaining alignment between the perpetual future price and target value. This study addresses this challenge by exploring the relationship between funding rates and perpetual future prices. Our results demonstrate that by appropriately designing funding rates, the perpetual future price can remain aligned with the target value. We develop replicating portfolios for perpetual futures, offering issuers an effective metho…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
Online Learning for Equilibrium Pricing in Markets under Incomplete Information

Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria in Large Reinsurance Markets
Maria Andraos, Mario Ghossoub, Michael B. Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07291 https://…

Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria in Large Reinsurance Markets
We consider a model of a reinsurance market consisting of multiple insurers on the demand side and multiple reinsurers on the supply side, thereby providing a unifying framework and extension of the recent literature on optimality and equilibria in reinsurance markets. Each insurer has preferences represented by a general Choquet risk measure and can purchase coverage from any or all reinsurers. Each reinsurer has preferences represented by a general Choquet risk measure and can provide coverag…

Oh, the arguments we had! There was a marketing person — quite a good one, and a good person too — who just couldn’t see it, who fought the dev team tooth and nail on this. She finally relented when @… wrote a brief positive plug for our app, and made her realize that the landscape had changed and her J2ME-world design instincts just didn’t work in this new iPhone market.
(I’m not sure that company ever really made the shift. They struggled with and eventually dropped their general consumer app, and concentrated quite successfully on some pro markets where features ruled all.)
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Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Jesse Thibodeau, Hadi Nekoei, Afaf Ta\"ik, Janarthanan Rajendran, Golnoosh Farnadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00140

Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Dynamic, risk-based pricing can systematically exclude vulnerable consumer groups from essential resources such as health insurance and consumer credit. We show that a regulator can realign private incentives with social objectives through a learned, interpretable tax schedule. First, we provide a formal proposition that bounding each firm's \emph{local} demographic gap implicitly bounds the \emph{global} opt-out disparity, motivating firm-level penalties. Building on this insight we introduce …

Two dormant Bitcoin wallets, each holding 10,000 "Satoshi era" BTC since 2011, transferred the coins to new wallets using a modern, lower-fee address format (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/0…

Eight Bitcoin Wallets Move 80,000 BTC in Largest Ever ‘Satoshi Era’ Transfers
All of these moved coins are among the rarest class of BTC: mined or transacted during the “Satoshi era,” a loosely defined period from bitcoin’s launch in 2009 through 2011, when its pseudonymous creator was still active online.

Trading Under Uncertainty: A Distribution-Based Strategy for Futures Markets Using FutureQuant Transformer
Wenhao Guo, Yuda Wang, Zeqiao Huang, Changjiang Zhang, Shumin ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05595

Trading Under Uncertainty: A Distribution-Based Strategy for Futures Markets Using FutureQuant Transformer
In the complex landscape of traditional futures trading, where vast data and variables like real-time Limit Order Books (LOB) complicate price predictions, we introduce the FutureQuant Transformer model, leveraging attention mechanisms to navigate these challenges. Unlike conventional models focused on point predictions, the FutureQuant model excels in forecasting the range and volatility of future prices, thus offering richer insights for trading strategies. Its ability to parse and learn from…

🍫 High cocoa prices drive smuggling surge, alarming traders
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/17/markets/cocoa-prices-smuggling-traders/
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Optimal Coordination of Flexible DERs in Local Energy and Flexibility Markets to Ensure Social Equity
Niloofar Pourghaderi, Milad Kabirifar, Payman Dehghanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02179

Optimal Coordination of Flexible DERs in Local Energy and Flexibility Markets to Ensure Social Equity
Local electricity markets offer a promising solution for integrating renewable energy sources and other distributed energy resources (DERs) into distribution networks. These markets enable the effective utilization of flexible resources by facilitating coordination among various agents. Beyond technical and economic considerations, addressing social equity within these local communities is critical and requires dedicated attention in market-clearing frameworks. This paper proposes a social equi…

Apple supplier Lens Technology, one of the top smartphone part makers, raised ~$608M in its Hong Kong IPO, as the Chinese company looks to expand overseas (Peggy Ye/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Ap…

Apple supplier Lens Tech opens 4% up on first Hong Kong trading day
Chinese company raises $608mn to fund overseas expansion amid US tariff pressure

Iran's Promise of Payback Keeps World Powers, Markets on Edge (Ramsey Al-Rikabi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/iran-s-promise-of-payback-keeps-world-powers-markets-on-edge
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p7#a250623p7

Rethinking Pricing in Energy Markets: Pay-as-Bid vs Pay-as-Clear
Ioannis Caragiannis, Zhile Jiang, Stratis Skoulakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06035 https…

Rethinking Pricing in Energy Markets: Pay-as-Bid vs Pay-as-Clear
The design of energy markets is a subject of ongoing debate, particularly concerning the choice between the widely adopted Pay-as-Clear (PC) pricing mechanism and the alternative Pay-as-Bid (PB). These mechanisms determine how energy producers are compensated: under PC, all selected producers are paid the market-clearing price (i.e., the highest accepted bid), while under PB, each selected producer is paid their own submitted bid. The overarching objective is to meet the total demand for energy…

Limits of Disclosure in Search Markets
Raphael Boleslavsky, Silvana Krasteva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06319 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Limits of Disclosure in Search Markets
This paper examines competitive information disclosure in search markets with a mix of savvy consumers, who search costlessly, and inexperienced consumers, who face positive search costs. Savvy consumers incentivize truthful disclosure; inexperienced consumers, concealment. With both types, equilibrium features partial disclosure, which persists despite intense competition: in large markets, firms always conceal low valuations. Inexperienced consumers may search actively, but only in small mark…

💸 Under shadow of Trump warning, Africa pioneers non-dollar payment systems
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/markets/trump-africa-non-dollar-payments/
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Under shadow of Trump warning, Africa pioneers non-dollar payment systems
The move by Africa to create payments systems that do not rely on the greenback mirrors a push by China to develop financial systems independent of Western institutions.

Financial institutions reduce energy poverty, financial markets do not https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003871 @…@…

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets
Shenzhe Zhu, Jiao Sun, Yi Nian, Tobin South, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00073

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets
AI agents are increasingly used in consumer-facing applications to assist with tasks such as product search, negotiation, and transaction execution. In this paper, we explore a future scenario where both consumers and merchants authorize AI agents to fully automate negotiations and transactions. We aim to answer two key questions: (1) Do different LLM agents vary in their ability to secure favorable deals for users? (2) What risks arise from fully automating deal-making with AI agents in consum…

Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (Kyle Baird/DL News)
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/meta-bitcoi…

Meta’s Bitcoin treasury play flops as 99% of shareholders say no
Meta shareholders rejected the Bitcoin plan with less than 1% in favour. The proposal called Bitcoin a hedge against inflation and weak bonds. GameStop and Metaplanet are among firms copying Saylor’s Bitcoin play.

📉 Token That’s Literally USELESS Is Crypto’s Latest Meme Cult
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/18/token-that-s-literally-useless-is-crypto-s-latest-meme-cult

Looking for the Next Dogecoin (DOGE), SHIB, PEPE? Useless Might Just be The Bet
In a flat market, where most tokens promise the moon and deliver a tweet, USELESS has found its niche: no promises, no pretenses — just a meme that’s worth tens of millions.

Proportional Response Dynamics in Gross Substitutes Markets
Yun Kuen Cheung, Richard Cole, Yixin Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02852 https://

Proportional Response Dynamics in Gross Substitutes Markets
Proportional response is a well-established distributed algorithm which has been shown to converge to competitive equilibria in both Fisher and Arrow-Debreu markets, for various sub-families of homogeneous utilities, including linear and constant elasticity of substitution utilities. We propose a natural generalization of proportional response for gross substitutes utilities, and prove that it converges to competitive equilibria in Fisher markets. This is the first convergence result of a propo…

Elliptic: Tudou Guarantee and other Telegram-based crypto scam marketplaces have grown rapidly since Telegram banned the two most popular ones a month ago (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-purged-chinese-cryp…

Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

Two-Sided Manipulation Games in Stable Matching Markets
Hadi Hosseini, Grzegorz Lisowski, Shraddha Pathak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00554 https://

Two-Sided Manipulation Games in Stable Matching Markets
The Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm is an elegant procedure for finding a stable matching in two-sided matching markets. It ensures that no pair of agents prefers each other to their matched partners. In this work, we initiate the study of two-sided manipulations in matching markets as non-cooperative games. We introduce the accomplice manipulation game, where a man misreports to help a specific woman obtain a better partner, whenever possible. We provide a polynomial time algorithm for find…

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[1/1]:
- Assignment Markets with Budget Constraints
Eleni Batziou, Martin Bichler, Maximilian Fichtl

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

Agentic Markets: Game Dynamics and Equilibrium in Markets with Learning Agents
Martin Bichler, Julius Durmann, Matthias Oberlechner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18571

Agentic Markets: Game Dynamics and Equilibrium in Markets with Learning Agents
Autonomous and learning agents increasingly participate in markets - setting prices, placing bids, ordering inventory. Such agents are not just aiming to optimize in an uncertain environment; they are making decisions in a game-theoretical environment where the decision of one agent influences the profit of other agents. While game theory usually predicts outcomes of strategic interaction as an equilibrium, it does not capture how repeated interaction of learning agents arrives at a certain out…

Chinese automaker Geely's ride-hailing arm CaoCao raised $236M in a Hong Kong IPO, listing 19% below its offer price; its market cap was $2.42B as of Wednesday (Kensaku Ihara/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Marke

China ride-hail app CaoCao raises $236m in Hong Kong debut
Geely-backed service seeks to challenge market leader Didi

Near-feasible Fair Allocations in Two-sided Markets
Javier Cembrano, Andr\'es Moraga, Victor Verdugo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01178 https://

Near-feasible Fair Allocations in Two-sided Markets
We study resource allocation in two-sided markets from a fundamental perspective and introduce a general modeling and algorithmic framework to effectively incorporate the complex and multidimensional aspects of fairness. Our main technical contribution is to show the existence of a range of near-feasible resource allocations parameterized in different model primitives to give flexibility when balancing the different policymaking requirements, allowing policy designers to fix these values accord…

Apple says it is appealing the EU's €500M DMA fine, levied in April 2025 over App Store steering rules, and claims it goes "far beyond what the law requires" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/07/apple-appeals-eu-500m-euro…

Apple Challenges 'Unprecedented' €500M EU Fine Over App Store Steering Rules
Apple is appealing the 500 million euro ($570 million) fine that it is facing in the European Union for allegedly violating the Digital Markets...

A look at DeepSeek's impact on the AI model race and market share landscape, roughly 150 days after DeepSeek R1 shook stock markets and the Western AI world (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/03/deepseek-debrief-128-days-later/

DeepSeek Debrief: >128 Days Later 
SemiAnalysis is hiring an analyst in New York City for Core Research, our world class research product for the finance industry. Please apply here It’s been a bit over 150 days since the launc…

CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equi…