Thursday's stock market told two stories at once, and only one of them made the headline. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.38 percent to 26,184.72, dragged down by Alphabet's plunge of about 13 percent after its earnings disappointed. The S&P 500 slipped 0.30 percent to 7,720.39 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 0.25 percent to 52,342.56. Read only those numbers and you would think it...
Bitcoin is not crashing anymore. It is coiling. After falling to about $76,460 and recovering toward $78,500, bitcoin was trading near $78,639 on October 30, sitting just $97 above its lower Bollinger Band at $78,542. That is the statistical edge of its 20-day envelope: the middle band, the 20-day simple moving average, sits at $81,484, roughly $2,846 above spot, and the upper band at $84,426....
Thursday gave forex traders a textbook lesson in why the first move after a central bank decision is rarely the real one. The European Central Bank held rates, and on the same day announced that Christine Lagarde will step down on February 7, 2027. EUR/USD fell to 1.1105, its lowest since May 2025 — a 17-month low — and then did something the panicked first reaction did not predict:...
The most interesting stock market in crypto right now is not a stock exchange at all. It is a blockchain. OKX's Ethereum Layer-2 network, X Layer, added $32 million in tokenized stock market capitalisation in a single week in late October 2026. — the third-largest seven-day gain of any blockchain network over that period, according to CryptoBriefing's round-up of the data. That weekly...
PEPE has just lived through the two faces of memecoin markets in a single week — and both faces were whales. On one side, wallets linked to TRON founder Justin Sun accumulated about $51.25 million of PEPE, roughly 2.82 percent of the entire supply, mostly through two withdrawals from Poloniex on October 17 and October 26, according to Arkham Intelligence data reported on October 27. On...
Bitcoin is telling two different stories at the same time, and the gap between them is the trade. On price, it looks weak: bitcoin was trading near $78,629 on Friday, October 30, after bouncing from an intraday low of $76,301, still below the $80,000 level that has become the market's psychological dividing line. On-chain, it looks cheap: the market-value-to-realised-value ratio, MVRV, has...
The AI trade just got its first real cross-examination, and the witnesses did not all help the defence. On Thursday, October 29, US equities ended lower, with the S&P 500 falling 0.30 percent, the Nasdaq declining 1.40 percent and the Dow Jones losing 135 points. The proximate cause was earnings, but the deeper cause was a question investors had been postponing all year: how much cash can...
Ethereum is quietly rewriting its own scaling story, and the rewrite comes from the top. Co-founder Vitalik Buterin has told the ecosystem that the original rollup-centric roadmap no longer reflects reality: Ethereum's base layer is scaling directly, Layer-2 networks are no longer essential simply as capacity providers, and their future value has to come from somewhere else. The message landed...
The euro's recovery picked up a third straight session on Friday, October 30, pushing EUR/USD decisively above the 1.1200 handle after rebounding from the 1.1100 area — and the move is a study in how two central banks pulling in different directions can move one currency pair. On one side sits a European Central Bank that held rates on October 29 but talked openly about a December hike,...