Ripple Ally SBI Holdings Chair Bullish On CLARITY Act Despite Crypto Bloodbath

The S&P 500 has experienced intraday fluctuations of less than 1% for 27 consecutive trading days, marking the longest period of low volatility since the pandemic. Goldman Sachs warns that this "calm" is the result of zero-day options strategies forcibly locking in the market, and once a catalyst emerges, the compressed volatility energy will be released all at once. Meanwhile, expectations for a rate hike in September are rising, market sentiment has dropped to its lowest point of the year, and fiscal sustainability risks loom large—is this pot of heating water going to boil for much longer?