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The market shows stability on this Boxing Day, with major assets maintaining positions amid low holiday volume. A massive $27 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire today on Deribit, marking one of the largest events on record. This settlement could clear hedging pressures that have constrained Bitcoin within $85,000 ...

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The People’s Bank of China said while it will maintain the exchange rate’s flexibility, it will strengthen efforts to guide expectations and guard against  “overshooting risks” for the currency, according to its 2025 financial stability report released on Friday. The relatively strong language followed the PBOC’s move earlier in the day to place the yuan’s daily reference rate at a level that was below market estimates by a record margin. It set the yuan’s so-called fixing at 7.0358 per dollar, 301 pips weaker than the average estimate of traders and analysts in a Bloomberg survey.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has printed ‘Extreme Fear’ for 14 straight days. On December 26, it stands at 20. This means a longer stretch of deep pessimism than during the November 2022 FTX collapse, even as BTC $87 243 24h volatility: 1.1% Market cap: $1.74 T Vol. 24h: ...

Bitcoin developers debate “The Cat” BIP, proposing to freeze inscription-related UTXOs, sparking concerns over property rights and precedent.

What’s good today? Well, nothing besides it’s Christmas. Trust Wallet users drained following a big Chrome browser hack as Bitcoin struggles in price despite Gold and Silver hitting all-time highs. This Christmas Day, Trust Wallet users have faced a big hit as their wallets have been drained in a phishing ...

Strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co., BNP Paribas SA and other firms see the yen weakening to 160 per dollar or beyond by the end of 2026, driven by still-wide US-Japan yield gaps, negative real rates and persistent capital outflows. The trend will likely persist as long as the BOJ tightens only gradually and fiscal-driven inflation risks linger, they say. This year the yen eked out a small gain of less than 1% against the greenback after four straight years of declines, as a hoped-for turnaround on the back of BOJ rate hikes and Federal Reserve cuts proved underwhelming.

Kraken reportedly aims to list its shares on a US stock exchange as early as Q1 2026, joining Coinbase, Gemini, and Bullish on public markets. While Bitcoin and major altcoins trade sideways, money continues to flow into crypto equities and mergers, with $8.6 billion in crypto M&A deals recorded in ...

Bitcoin has clearly endured a challenging 2025. It fell short of the bullish expectations that dominated the market sentiment at the same time last year. However, the world’s leading asset management firm, VanEck, issued a rather optimistic forecast for 2026. Is there a case for a 2026 comeback? According to ...

Nikhil Kamath, a renowned Indian billionaire, recently told CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta that he does not have a single Bitcoin BTC $87 243 24h volatility: 1.1% Market cap: $1.74 T Vol. 24h: $47.35 B to his name nor has he ever invested in other crypto. He clarified that he was ...

The cryptocurrency market continues to surprise investors with mixed price movements, strong Ethereum ETH $2 921 24h volatility: 1.1% Market cap: $352.30 B Vol. 24h: $21.19 B accumulation, and consecutive outflows from crypto-related exchange-traded funds. The global crypto market cap rose by 0.9% in the past 24 hours to $2.96 ...

The auction comes less than a week after the BOJ lifted its policy rate to a three-decade high. In comments afterward, Governor Kazuo Ueda offered little guidance on the central bank’s future rate path, weakening the yen and sending yields sharply higher. “There are lingering concerns about the BOJ being behind the curve,” said Katsutoshi Inadome, a senior strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co. “This likely prompted investors to shy away from two-year bonds, which are impacted most by such risks.”

Asian shares were mixed Thursday in thin holiday trading, with most markets in the region and elsewhere closed for Christmas. Investors were encouraged by a statement by the People’s Bank of China, China’s central bank, promising to ensure adequate money supply to support financing, economic growth and inflation targets. U.S. markets will reopen for a full day of trading on Friday, though volumes will likely remain light this week with most investors having closed out their positions for the year.

The move came after the People’s Bank of China strengthened its daily reference rate to the the strongest level since September 2024. The yuan is headed for its best year in half a decade against the dollar, thanks to a slump in the US currency, inflows chasing China’s stock-market rebound and easing geopolitical tensions. “The yuan has been bolstered by weakness in the dollar and seasonal foreign-exchange conversion by exporters,” said Wang Qing, chief macro analyst at Golden Credit Rating.

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