Chile has made a onerous pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and chief of the Republican Party, gained the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara. It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift for the reason that return to democracy. Markets took it as…
Two months after Trump’s tariff headline detonated a historic liquidation cascade, Bitcoin continues to be caught in a distinct type of market, one with much less leverage, thinner liquidity, and a weaker bid from ETFs Bitcoin is sitting in the mid $80,000s once more, and the vibe feels nothing like early October, when everybody was…
On the day Bitcoin lastly punched by $100,000, lots of people did the identical factor. They screenshotted it. They despatched it to group chats, posted it with rocket emojis, and pulled up outdated tweets from 2021 to mud off the victory laps they’d been saving for years. It felt like closure, just like the market…
Ethereum (ETH) broke its 2021 all-time high in August, brushing $4,945 and a $600 billion market cap, whereas alternate balances hit file lows. Corporate treasuries and spot ETFs now management practically 11% of the circulating provide. By each structural metric, ETH ought to really feel like it’s having a second. It would not. No Bored…
US inflation got here in softer than anticipated, and the Fed delivered its third consecutive price minimize. The Bank of Japan raised charges for the primary time in three many years with out triggering a meltdown. On paper, the macro tape into year-end seems to be friendlier than it has in months. As of press…
Bitcoin’s 2025 was billed because the yr of the “supercycle,” powered by report institutional entry and a friendlier coverage backdrop out of Washington. However, it’s ending very in another way. Into December, the world’s largest digital asset will not be pricing in a new paradigm a lot as grinding by means of a efficiency downside….
Over the previous few months, oil costs have collapsed beneath $60 a barrel alongside Bitcoin’s slide from $126,000 in October to round $89,000 right now. So, does power’s slide replicate weaker demand or an inflation break that might affect threat belongings like Bitcoin going ahead? Brent closed at $58.92 and WTI at $55.27, the bottom…
If you’ve ever purchased a inventory and assumed you “owned it” the second you hit verify, you’ve already met the least glamorous a part of markets: settlement. Settlement is the back-end handoff the place the system ensures that the purchaser’s money and the vendor’s safety truly swap locations for good, with no take-backs and no…
Bitcoin’s “miners are dumping” story is reassuring in the means easy tales at all times are. Price slides, miners run out of oxygen, cash hit exchanges, and the worth is shoved round by a single, simple villain. But miners are not a single actor, and promoting stress is not simply a temper. It’s math, contracts,…
On Dec. 15, Elizabeth Warren put two names on the high of a letter that alerts the place she thinks US crypto coverage is truly written: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pamela Bondi. The ask is easy on paper however awkward in apply. Are their departments investigating what she calls “nationwide safety dangers”…