The takeaway is that even as oil prices retreat from their second-quarter highs, oil products are getting more expensive. The broader market, including BTC, may not have fully priced that in yet. A second detail is that oil itself may be due for a bounce. Crude has emerged from a four-month-long bearish trend (check the […]

Bitcoin BTC$64,309.55 scored a rare achievement on Monday by outperforming the S&P 500. The largest cryptocurrency rose 2.6% to over $64,000, registering its best daily performance in over a month, according to CoinDesk data. Wall Street’s benchmark equity index, S&P 500, fell by 0.52%. Bitcoin, therefore, not only outpaced equities but moved in the totally […]

“$57,000 is a key region to watch. If Bitcoin trades down into that area, we could see a massive wave of long liquidations,” Joao Wedson, CEO of crypto analytics platform Alphractal, said. The risk is amplified by thin trading volumes. As CoinDesk reported Monday, the number of active contracts is unusually large relative to trading […]

Bitcoin BTC$64,341.13 continues to trade in a narrow price band, and two of its biggest corporate believers aren’t blinking. Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet, and Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, two of the cryptocurrency’s biggest corporate holders, have doubled down on their argument that BTC’s maximum issuance of 21 million coins beats infinite money […]

“Very unlikely.” That’s how Goldman Sachs described the chances of a September Federal Reserve interest-rate increase, which provides a potential major tailwind for bitcoin BTC$64,282.99, which has traded in a narrow range since early July. The cryptocurrency is currently priced around $63,500, a 1% gain since midnight UTC. The price has remained firmly locked within […]

Volume, meanwhile, is dead simple as it measures the number of contracts that changed hands during a given period. Think of it as measuring how many times the front door of that exclusive club opened and closed over a given period, regardless of who stayed. It thus represents the degree of churn or liquidity available […]

The breach has impacted 39,798 customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026. SafePal stressed that the core security of its wallets remains intact, adding that users’ seed phrases, private keys, bank passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers, and government-issued IDs were not affected. However, SafePal said users who have […]

Scan the news and there are plenty of reasons for worry: continued U.S.-Iran escalation risks, mounting sovereign debt and rising bond yields among them. Crypto carries its own set of concerns, including regulatory disappointments, weak demand and hack risks. Yet crypto, stocks, bonds and even commodity markets remain sanguine. That is clear from implied-volatility readings […]

Fund flows aren’t helping either. Spot bitcoin ETFs are bleeding again, with U.S.-listed funds shedding $333 million in net outflows so far this week. That reverses course from last week’s $853 million of inflows, which had hinted at returning institutional demand. On a year-to-date basis, investors have yanked over $4 billion from these funds. Meanwhile, […]

If it fails that, it moves to an exclusion screen that uses five ratios – operating asset intensity, expense intensity, cash flow, fair value intensity, and capital dependence – to make the final call. A company becomes ineligible for index inclusion if it fails four out of the five test ratios. MSCI’s description of the […]