Wall Street is clearly dissatisfied with President Donald Trump’s decision to start a war against Iran. Four weeks of uninterrupted declines has put the technology index Nasdaq into correction mode, while most crypto stocks that are traded there are also facing sharp pullbacks. Sidelines Robinhood, the trading app that became well-known during the Covid pandemic […]
Even though the drop over the past week for Bitcoin may look negative, the month of March wasn’t too bad. At this moment, the tally stands at a very small negative for Bitcoin in the month of March, and with only a few days left before the end, it looks like a long period of […]
Swelling rumors of an impending ground offensive by the United States in Iran caused both stock markets and Bitcoin to plummet again yesterday. The well-known $70,000 support line, which had become increasingly strong for Bitcoin in recent days, was unfortunately broken. Further direction depends on what plays out geopolitically in the coming days. Investors on […]
Gold is losing the luster it had built up last year. While the price of Bitcoin remained above $70,000 for most of the now protracted conflict in Iran, precious metals in general have declined in value since the start of the bombings in the Middle East. The price of an ounce of gold saw the […]
Just before Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States would ‘pause’ attacks against Iran for five days as peace talks were underway, various traders, including via the crypto platform Polymarket, bet approximately 500 million dollars on a drop of the oil price. The U.S. judiciary will therefore launch an investigation into insider trading. […]
The White House won’t admit it, but by now it has become stock market science: TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out, means you can count on Donald Trump changing his plans if the markets force him to. By announcing a 5-day war pause (or the length of the trading week), President Donald Trump caused a […]
About two years into his prison sentence, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former founder and CEO of the defunct crypto platform FTX, believes it is time for a presidential pardon. He is therefore increasingly trying to appease Trump on social media. The White House granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road (the first […]
Risk aversion dominated the market in the second part of the week following Iran’s attack on Qatar’s massive gas field. Bitcoin gave up its gains from the first part of the week to close virtually unchanged. Since the start of the Iran-US war, Bitcoin is still showing gains, but it is becoming clear that if […]
Thanks to investors’ desire to trade 24 hours a day while geopolitics continues unabated, Hyperliquid’s crypto platform and its associated cryptocurrency are one of the big winners of the Iran war. Crypto investments in oil futures, in particular, give them an incredible edge over the competition. Privacy coins The big crypto winners in 2025 were […]
An attack by Israel and the United States on Iran led to a retaliatory action from Tehran, which shelled the major Ras Laffan’s gas installations in Qatar. This, in turn, caused an immediate spike in gas and oil prices, pushing just about everything down yesterday: stocks, gold, and crypto alike plummeted. Bitcoin was once again […]
