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Investing.com -- European Central Bank policymaker Peter Kazimir said on Monday that a significant shift in economic and inflation trends would be necessary for the ECB to consider altering its monetary policy stance.

Last week, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) experienced a significant drop, plummeting to a low of $60,000, marking a 19% decline. The downturn is attributed to multiple factors, including massive deleveraging and miners being forced to sell, rather than a single catastrophic event. According to reports, futures open interest has dropped from $61 billion to $49 billion within a week, indicating a more than 20% decline in borrowed bets against Bitcoin. This drop in leverage parallels the decline in Bitcoin’

Google’s parent company is selling bonds in as many as seven parts, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Canada and Wells Fargo & Co. are also managing the deal.

GraniteShares 2x Long COIN Daily ETF (NYSEARCA:CONL) has become a flashpoint for crypto volatility, collapsing 31.8% in just one week as Bitcoin’s brutal selloff rippled through crypto-linked equities. The cascade effect stems from CONL’s structure,i t amplifies every Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) move by two, transforming market turbulence into portfolio destruction for leveraged ETF holders. ... CONL Collapses 31.8% as Bitcoin Selloff Accelerates

New U.S. crypto policies could reshape bitcoin, stablecoins and market volatility as Washington takes a bigger role in digital‑asset regulation.

GameStop appears to be moving away from Bitcoin and exploring another Hail Mary to bolster its valuation rapidly. GameStop is plotting a "very, very, very big" acquisition, CEO Ryan Cohen told CNBC on Jan. 30, adding that it could send the company’s valuation to "several hundreds of billions of dollars." Cohen declined to identify the target of the acquisition, according to CNBC, but said GameStop is seeking a "high quality, durable, scalable with growth prospects" public consumer company with a

Bitcoin recently traded at about $69,250, a touch below late-Friday levels. Shares in Strategy (MSTR) traded lower, after a big bounce to end last week. The cryptocurrency suffered its largest weekly decline in more than three years.

Now crypto VCs are being pulled toward a more traditional startup playbook: product-market fit, monetization, and long-term user retention. Altcoins have fared worse: one guage tracking smaller tokens is down as much as 70% year over year. Despite a crypto-friendly White House and permissive regulation, retail demand — once the flywheel for token-driven VC logic — has cratered.

Investing.com -- Stocks rallied on Friday as technology shares rebounded after several sessions of sharp losses, while Bitcoin recovered from a steep selloff that had at one stage erased more than half its value.

Investing.com -- Last week’s volatility in U.S. equities is unlikely to mark the start of a deeper downturn, according to RBC Capital, which argues the latest weakness “has played out for now.”

Strategy, previously MicroStrategy, has announced another weekly Bitcoin purchase despite its current unrealized loss of around $5 billion on its BTC holdings. Meanwhile, the MSTR stock has lost some of its gains from last week’s close amid Bitcoin’s drop below $70,000 today. Strategy Acquires 1,142 BTC For $90 Million An SEC filing shows that the

The move was still relatively tame compared with last week’s wild swings, when Bitcoin on Thursday plunged to $60,033, its lowest since October 2024, before rallying back above $70,000 on Friday. “While cryptocurrency prices have managed to bounce from last week’s lows, there still seems no rush to pick up coins on the cheap,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at investing and trading platform IG. Extreme volatility is nothing new to cryptocurrencies, but Bitcoin’s slump from a peak of $126,000 in October last year comes despite the backdrop of a crypto-friendly White House and surging institutional adoption.

The market’s been choppy, but the world’s largest exchange is stacking Bitcoin for its reserves. Binance just scooped up another $300 million in BTC (4,225 coins) for its SAFU fund, pushing total holdings to 10,455 BTC ($734M at current prices). This acquisition marks a major step in their plan, announced ...

What if your $24 bet exploded into $850,000 in only four years? Well, that’s exactly what early Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) adopter Kristoffer Koch pulled off. A $24 Bet That Changed Everything The year is 2009. Koch, a Norwegian student, was writing his master’s thesis on encryption when he stumbled upon Bitcoin, an unknown online currency at the time. Kosh said he tossed $24, about 150 Norwegian kroner, on it for “fun,” according to NRK News, a Norwegian news organization. But then his master’s degr

Investing.com -- The pound fell against the euro and dollar on Monday as traders responded to the political crisis facing UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and anticipated further interest rate cuts.

Bitcoin price rebounds nearly 20%, but a technical metric, US demand data, and chart patterns suggest rising downside risk.

Crypto market stabilizes as Bitcoin holds $70,000, total cap firms above $2.37 trillion, while STABLE seeks recovery after recent volatility.

U.S. stock index futures rose Sunday, ahead of key employment and inflation data coming later this week.

The LDP secured a two-thirds super majority in the 465-seat lower house by itself, according to public broadcaster NHK. The LDP’s haul of seats gives it the highest proportion of representatives in the lower house of any party in post-war elections in Japan. “The LDP’s larger than expected victory prompted yen weakness in early trading, but profit-taking is leading to some yen strength,” said Motonari Sakai, chief manager of forex and financial products trading at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking.

New research says today’s quantum computers are far too weak to threaten Bitcoin’s cryptography, leaving the network years to prepare.