Markets
60 stories
Crypto Sentiment Flips to 'Extreme Greed' for the First Time Since Late 2024
The Fear and Greed Index printed 81 after sitting at 36 a month ago — a 45-point sprint between extremes that has no precedent in the gauge's history.
Mistral and Saudi-Backed HUMAIN Strike Hundreds-of-Millions Deal for 'Sovereign AI'
The Paris lab will localize its open-weights models on Saudi infrastructure — the latest sign that states now want AI they control, not AI they rent.
StablecoinX Pushes $6.9M of Defaulted SPAC Debt Into Future Equity Instead of Cash
The Ethena-linked treasury company will settle old notes with about $344,000 in cash and warrants for roughly 7.6 million shares — dilution deferred, not avoided.
Bitcoin Has Entered the 'Initial Phase' of a New Bull Market, CryptoQuant Says — With $83K the Line That Matters
The firm's Bull Score jumped from 30 to 80 in a week as spot and futures demand grow together for the first time since October.
Gold Hits a Three-Month High as Bitcoin Tests $80,000 — the Hard-Asset Bid Is Back
Spot gold touched $4,696 and Bitcoin $81,237 in the same session, both feeding on a weaker dollar and falling Treasury yields.
Druckenmiller Leads the Doubters on Bessent's Bond Interventions
Yields have come off their highs. Wall Street questions whether Treasury has the firepower to hold them there against $40tn of debt.
Strategy's $66B Bitcoin Machine Runs on Capital Markets, Not Bitcoin's Price
A stress test finds BTC would need to fall 96% to threaten the convertible notes — but $1.76 billion a year in interest and dividends has to be paid regardless.
Bitcoin Is Outrunning the Market It's Supposed to Lead
BTC is up 24% in a week while the ex-BTC, ex-ETH market shrank — and Bitcoin dominance near 61% says the money is staying at the top.
China Needs Dollars, and Is Building a Hedge Against Losing Them
Washington threatens to cut off anyone helping Iran evade sanctions. Beijing's largest banks have strong reasons not to test it.
Bitcoin ETF Inflow Streak Hits $2.26 Billion Over Six Days as August Becomes the Year's Best Month
Monday added $337.6 million, IBIT is swallowing most of it, and weekly turnover more than tripled to $22.1 billion.
Bitcoin Slips Back Under $80K as Gold Cools and Stocks Shrug Off a US-Canada Tariff Spat
BTC touched 14-week highs at $81,265 before US trading hours pulled both crypto and gold lower — while equities quietly went the other way.
Bitcoin Tops $81,000 for the First Time Since January — and the Debasement Trade Is Talking Again
A Treasury buyback expansion hurt the dollar and lit up everything that can't be printed. The 2025 playbook is suddenly current affairs.