U.S. CPI: +2.9% YEAR-OVER-YEAR (EST. +2.9%); U.S. CORE CPI: +3.2% YEAR-OVER-YEAR (EST. +3.3%)

According to TradingBeats monitoring, from last night to the present, six whale addresses (each holding over $1 million) on Hyperliquid have been liquidated for a total of roughly $25.911 million, including $18.5024 million in short positions and $7.4086 million in long positions. Both long and short sides saw consecutive liquidations. Trader Aguila Trades was partially liquidated four times today, while another multi-million-dollar short whale retained a large position after multiple rounds of liquidations. Over the past half hour, trader Aguila Trades (0x1f25) has been partially liquidated four times in a row on its BTC long positions, with a total of 21.12 BTC (worth around $1.7612 million) liquidated, resulting in a loss of approximately $25,900. The account currently holds 14.65 BTC long positions, valued at around $1.2144 million, with a liquidation price of $82,695. The largest liquidation in this round stemmed from an account starting with 0x4b62. Last night, this whale’s BTC and ETH short positions were partially liquidated multiple times, with a total of 203.60 BTC and 565.16 ETH liquidated, amounting to around $18.5024 million. The account has continued trading since, and currently holds roughly $29.1877 million in BTC short positions. The remaining four addresses also faced million-dollar-level liquidations one after another. Among them, the account starting with 0x89f had its entire BTC long position of around $2.2222 million liquidated, with no perpetual positions left; the account starting with 0x3f5f had its BTC and ZEC long positions liquidated for around $1.1842 million and $116,900 respectively, while still holding remaining positions. Additionally, the account starting with 0x7c1 had around $1.117 million in BTC long positions liquidated over the past half hour; the account starting with 0x9bb had around $1.0072 million in BTC long positions liquidated over the past hour.

According to Bitget's market data, Hong Kong's stock market saw a clear downward trend today. The Hang Seng Index fell over 2%, and the Hang Seng Tech Index dropped 4%, with all constituent stocks declining. Tianshu Zhixin fell more than 8%, Zhipu dropped 7.7%, MINIMAX-W, NetEase-S, Lenovo Group, and Horizon Robotics all fell over 6%, while Alibaba declined 5.9%.

According to Lookonchain's monitoring, four new wallets have received a total of 1,127 BTC from crypto market maker Wintermute, valued at approximately $93.45 million. Calculated based on the transfer amount, the average price of the BTC is around $82,900.

According to anonymous security analyst Spreek, the admin keys for swETH and rswETH under Swell DAO are suspected to have been compromised. The attacker inflated the tokens' net asset value (NAV) by up to 1% per hour without any underlying asset backing. The attacker also deployed four malicious upgrade contracts that, if executed, could steal approximately 2500 ETH; these contracts have not yet been added to the execution queue via multi-signature. Spreek suspects the incident may be linked to cloud deployment platform Railway, but states this is only due to a timing coincidence and there is no conclusive evidence.

IBM’s third quarter of fiscal 2026 generated $17.1 billion in revenue, up around 5% year-over-year, with adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.95—both metrics surpassed analyst forecasts. The company raised its full-year software revenue growth guidance to roughly 7-8%, and increased its full-year free cash flow growth target to over $10 billion. Software and mainframe deals that were delayed earlier as clients redirected spending to data center infrastructure have now started to be signed, alleviating market worries that IBM’s growth would be hit by AI. IBM’s cumulative free cash flow for the first nine months of the fiscal year reached $8 billion, a record high for the period, leading the company to revise up its full-year software growth and free cash flow outlook. However, IBM’s stock has not been boosted by the better-than-expected earnings; it dropped 4.95% in after-hours trading, currently trading at $239.02.

Whales continue to accumulate $BTC! Another 4 newly created wallets received 1,127 $BTC ($93.45M) from #Wintermute.