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Bitcoin’s brief rally above $73,000 during the past day has the feel of a price performance that could still fade, fast, noisy, and familiar to anyone who has watched bear-market rebounds fail.
What is different this time is not the price print, but the growing alignment of signals pointing to a possible transition out of peak negative momentum.
For context, Swissblock’s momentum framework showed...
President Donald Trump projected four to five weeks for the conflict with Iran to come to an end. The market priced its playbook: headline shock, brief spike, diplomatic theater, then normalization.
That script worked in 2019 when drones hit Saudi Aramco facilities, and Brent jumped 15% only to surrender the entire gain within weeks. Traders bought the panic, sold the resolution, and moved on....
Blue Owl Capital's OBDC II fund permanently halted redemptions in February. The firm replaced quarterly tenders with return-of-capital distributions funded by loan repayments and asset sales, committing to return roughly 30% of net asset value within 45 days.
Blue Owl also announced plans to sell $1.4 billion of assets across three credit funds to generate cash and pay down debt.
This isn't a...
On Apr. 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission will host a public roundtable on listed options market structure covering quote-driven competition, customer experience, and growth.
This is standard regulatory fare, except that Bitcoin exposure is migrating into regulated, centrally cleared products just as the SEC is reconsidering how the machinery works.
Small changes to spreads, routing, and...
Wall Street is pouring billions into public Bitcoin mining companies, but the investment thesis has little to do with the emerging industry's future.
Instead, the financial institutions are treating these crypto firms as critical power-and-permitting infrastructure, a scarce asset in an artificial intelligence boom that is increasingly constrained not by a lack of advanced semiconductors, but by...
Bitcoin has again failed to hold $71,500, reinforcing the level as a long-term ceiling while global markets shift into a risk-off environment driven by rising oil prices and higher bond yields.
The latest rejection came after Bitcoin briefly rose past $73,000, then lost momentum and fell back below $71,500.
Bitcoin price chart showing BTC rejection near $73,000 and a drop below the $71,500...
Israel’s Finance Ministry has put a weekly price tag on the country’s widening war with Iran, estimating that the economy could take a hit of more than 9 billion shekels (equivalent to $2.93 billion) a week if emergency limits on activity remain in place.
The estimate links the economic toll to the Home Front Command’s current “red” restrictions, which include school closures, travel restrictions...
Ripple is sharpening its argument that it can help institutions move value across traditional rails, stablecoins, and blockchain networks.
On March 2, DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation updated its MPID directory to add Ripple-owned “Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC” for its first trade. The entry appears under the OTC column.
A day later, Ripple said its payments business is now “end...
Crypto promised diversification beyond Bitcoin. For years, the pitch was simple: spread risk across blockchains, decentralized applications, and layer-1 protocols.
In practice, that diversification often collapsed when Bitcoin stumbled. Ethereum, Solana, and other major altcoins routinely fell harder than BTC during drawdowns, leaving portfolios concentrated on the same directional bet, just with...
Most people only see IPOs after the price resets at the open. Institutional investors and select clients receive allocations at the offering price, while everyone else waits for the exchange to start trading and buys at the market price.
The gap between those two prices, the “IPO pop,” can be substantial.
Circle's IPO last year was priced at $31 and opened at $69, then closed at $83.23,...