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Bitcoin broke above $80,000 on Friday, lifting shares of crypto-linked stocks. The largest cryptocurrency recently traded at $80,587 Friday morning, up more than 5% from its 4 p.m. ET level on Thursday. The move higher came despite the failure of a major crypto legislation and the Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate hike in three years earlier in the week.
Bitcoin jumped 5% to $80,000 per token on Friday as investors looked past a Fed rate hike and failed Clarity Act vote.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency has shown its resilience, rallying despite two potential setbacks.

Bitcoin and crypto stocks fell Wednesday as Fed rate news, Clarity Act failure sour week. Cipher Digital surges on Texas energy win.

Crypto volatility is likely to remain elevated as investors weigh the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decis...

A Senate cloture vote, a 200-day moving average breakdown, and a Federal Reserve rate decision converging on the same day have put XRP in a dangerous position, with traders now watching a handful of price levels that could determine whether the selloff stops here or accelerates toward a key support from August.

The Senate vote that XRP holders had been waiting years for collapsed in a single afternoon, and now the coin sits just cents above a critical support level with a Fed rate decision hours away.

Bitcoin, crypto stocks and digital assets slipped as Wall Street braced for two major Washington decisions.

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) shares fell 4. 4% in premarket trading on Tuesday as Bitcoin and Ether moved lower ahead of a procedural US Senate vote on digital-asset legislation and Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index drops Tuesday as the 10-year Treasury yield reaches its highest level since 2007. Nvidia stock rises.

Shares of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related companies fell in premarket trading on Tuesday as Bitcoin declined ahead of a congressional vote on the Clarity Act and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision on Wednesday. Bitcoin (COIN:BTCUSD) fell 2.

By establishing clear regulatory boundaries between federal oversight agencies, enforcing stronger consumer safeguards, and implementing ethics guidelines, the Clarity Act offers a path out of years of regulatory uncertainty.
Traders using CME FedWatch, the CME Group tool that tracks rate-hike probabilities implied by 30-Day Fed Funds futures prices, now put the FOMC September odds of a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike at next week’s FOMC meeting at over 60%. Kalshi traders assigned a 57% probability to the same outcome, ...

Payment and cryptocurrency firm Block (NYSE: $XYZ) has filed for a U.S. bank charter that would make it a federally...
Bitcoin's correlation with gold is at a six-year high, according to Bitwise, suggesting investors are using it as a hedge against U.S. fiscal threats.

Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) shares fell roughly 4% Friday, eroding part of Thursday’s 10.1% surge after a stronger-than-expected jobs report revived bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike and knocked Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) below $80,000. The stock closed at $192.70...

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is down by -0.16% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up by +0.28%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are down -0.138%, and September E-mini...

The Dow added more than 600 points after Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said he could support holding rates steady.

Robinhood and Coinbase rally as the price of Bitcoin surges to its highest level since May, fueled by easing Federal Reserve rate hike expectations.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.49% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.76%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up by +0.54%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.50%, and September E-mini...

Bitcoin has struggled to make a convincing break above $80,000 as choppy demand from US investors persists, raising doubts about the strength of the latest rally.

On Friday, a federal appeals court blocked Kalshi from avoiding Nevada gaming oversight, intensifying a nationwide fight over who regulates the fast-growing prediction markets industry. Kalshi Faces Regulatory Setback as Courts Clash The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled...
Investing.com -- A White House teleprompter operator has settled a federal probe into wagers made using advance knowledge of President Donald Trump’s speeches, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

It turns out that stubborn inflation and persistent geopolitical tensions create a difficult backdrop for crypto. In Q2, total crypto market capitalization declined 11% and global spot crypto trading volumes fell 25% from the previous quarter. Also, Bitcoin price also declined by double digits during the quarter. This happened as US inflation readings stayed above […]
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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.17% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down by -0.18%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.10%, and September E-mini...

