Welcome back to Market on Close. I'm Marley Kaden here in Chicago alongside Sam Bodis at the New York Stock Exchange. We'll close out our show this Friday with some final thoughts on this week's performance as well as today's session.You know, for me, gold, of course, this rush to gold continued with prices touching record highs above 4,300 for the first time ever. Gold had its best week in 17 years, its best performance since September of 2008 this week with prices up almost 7%. Since the start of the year ...

Bitcoin DATs Enter Consolidation Phase, According to Standard Chartered. | Credit: John Keeble/Getty Images. Key Takeaways Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick predicts a wave of consolidation among Bitcoin-focused digital asset treasuries as values fall across the industry. Kendrick expects the U.S. stablecoin market to expand rapidly, potentially reaching $2 trillion by 2028. The next major growth wave in digital assets will come from tokenized real-world assets. A wave of consolidation is loo ...

Bitcoin dropped below $106,000 in early European hours Friday as leveraged traders once again faced heavy losses, with nearly $1.2 billion in crypto positions wiped out over the past 24 hours. Data shows that most of the damage came from long positions, reflecting how aggressively traders had positioned for a bounce earlier in the week. According to CoinGlass, almost 79% of total liquidations were long trades, affecting more than 307,000 accounts. The largest single hit was a $20.4 million ETH-USD long o ...

The U.S.-listed crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) bled money Thursday, snapping a two-week streak of consistent inflows. The 11 bitcoin (BTC) ETFs registered a net outflow of $536.4 million as investors pulled out $56.8 million from ether ETFs. Data curated by SoSoValue shows BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) saw $29 million in outflows on the day, while Fidelity’s FBTC lost $132 million. Grayscale’s converted GBTC product shed $67 million, with smaller issuers such as Bitwise and VanEck also rec ...

Bitcoin extended its decline on Friday, slipping below $109,000 as a fresh wave of risk aversion gripped global markets. The drop came as global markets turned defensive, with equities slipping, bonds gaining and gold reaching a fresh record. It last traded 2.4% lower on the day around $108,503, and is down over 10% in the last week. Asian stocks mirrored Wall Street’s overnight losses, with investors retreating from risk assets after signs of credit strain resurfaced among US regional banks. Sentiment i ...

Gold is up nearly 60% year-to-date, substantially outperforming bitcoin, which, in comparison, is up a paltry 13% – despite all the talk of a bull market. Analysts say that gold isn't overpriced, despite the epic rally, and traders on Kalshi are confident that 2025 will be the year that the yellow metal outperforms BTC. (Kalshi) Yet data from Hyperliquid suggests crypto traders remain offside. Only 34% of positions are long, with just 35% of traders profitable, and a majority caught in losing short posi ...

As stated, the growth potential of solana is massive. CoinDesk noted that solana's revenue generated in October 2024 through September 2025 was $2.85 billion. For comparison, CoinDesk noted the annual revenues of top tier companies Palantir ($2.8 billion) and Robinhood ($2.95 billion) in 2024. As investor adoption of crypto, retail and institutional, continues to grow exponentially, discussions are typically centered around bitcoin and ethereum. The former is lauded for its store of value while the latter c ...

A sharp crypto sell-off followed a policy jolt from Washington. Late Friday, President Trump threatened a 100% tariff on Chinese goods. With stock markets closed, the first reaction hit venues that never sleep. Price gaps grew, liquidity thinned, and leverage cracked. Another shock arrived when U.S. and UK authorities unveiled a sweep against a Cambodia-based fraud network, including custody of roughly $15 billion in Bitcoin. Concern rose over large off-exchange holdings, and risk appetite stayed weak. Wh ...

比特币价格表现 - 比特币价格近期表现不及10月惯例但稳定在111,000美元关口附近 分析师认为这显示其强度而非疲弱 [1] - 比特币在过去24小时内下跌1.2%至111,500美元 而黄金和白银则再次飙升至新纪录高点 美国股市亦上涨 [2] - 加密货币行业其他部分跌幅更为显著 以太坊和XRP下跌3% Solana和狗狗币下跌约2% [2] 分析师观点与预测 - Lekker Capital首席投资官Quinn Thompson认为比特币将很快追上黄金的涨幅 即将到来的走势将类似于2024年11月和2023年10月的行情 [3] - 21Shares分析师Matt Mena指出比特币在全球不确定性中的韧性凸显了其结构性需求 这由ETF资金流入和更鸽派的政策前景所支撑 [3] - Matt Mena预测在杠杆被清除和货币宽松政策临近的背景下 比特币可能在年底前攀升至150,000美元 [3] 宏观影响因素 - 比特币前景很大程度上取决于美联储以及市场对其将继续放松货币政策的预期 [4] - 美联储褐皮书报告显示劳动力市场出现疲软迹象 这强化了市场对其在今年剩余两次政策会议上降息的预期 [4] - 美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔承认劳动力市场存在"疲软" 进一步巩固了市场对更多政策宽松即将到来的信念 [5]

This weekly update tracks some of the largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin and ether. While both are considered to be high-risk when it comes to investing, the two have foundational differences that investors should know. We've also included XRP, as it was one of the largest cryptocurrencies when this series began. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is "a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of ad ...