Happy Saturday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- Gold hits $4.9K per ounce for the first time in history.
- Spot silver hits $100 per ounce for the first time in history.
- Palladium hits 3-year high of $2K.
- World Bank projects UAE GDP growth at 5% in 2026 and 5.1% in 2027, driven by resilience despite global trade tensions.
- Bitcoin currently forecasted to go as low as $66,000 this year, per traders on Kalshi.
- Binance looking to reintroduce stock trading on its exchange after removing it in 2021.
- Saudi Arabia launches foreign property ownership under Vision 2030.
- U.S and EU seeking $800,000,000,000 of public and private funds to help rebuild Ukraine once Russia war ends.
- China tells tech firms they can resume Nvidia H200 chip orders.
- US Senate Agriculture Committee files amendments to its Bitcoin and crypto market structure legislation leading into its markup on Tuesday.
- BlackRock Chief Investment Officer Rick Rieder surges 46% in odds to be picked by President Trump as new Fed Chair; says Bitcoin belongs in the "ideal portfolio."
- Oklahoma introduces bill to allow state employees, businesses, and individuals to accept Bitcoin payments.
- US Congressman French Hill hopes President Trump will sign Bitcoin and crypto market structure legislation "soon."
- Michael Saylor on Bitcoin: "If it's not going to zero, it's going to a million."
- UBS plans to make Bitcoin and crypto investing available for some private banking clients.
- Nasdaq files to remove trading restrictions on Bitcoin and crypto ETFs.
- SEC and CFTC to hold joint event to discuss making the US the "crypto capital of the world."
- Intel crashed -17% yesterday.
- Binance Founder CZ predicts Bitcoin will enter a supercycle this year.
- President Trump says mortgage rates just hit a three year low despite Fed Chair Jerome Powell being "wrong all along."
- In every single FOMC meeting since 2009 the Fed has done exactly what the market was expecting; Market pricing less than 3% chance of Fed rate cut next week.
- SpaceX's valuation hit a record high of $800 billion.
- The Final US Real GDP number for Q3 2025 came in at 4.4% annualized; Atlanta Fed projecting 5.4% for Q4.
📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊
- LSD launches its beta platform as demand for Solana liquid staking continues to grow.
- SEC dismisses lawsuit against Gemini over Earn product.
- Coinbase announces now you can trade millions of Solana tokens on Coinbase.
- Certik eyes IPO at $2 billion valuation as it targets first public Web3 cybersecurity listing.
- French crypto tax reporting and portfolio management tool Waltio targeted in extortion and data breach; nearly 50K users potentially affected.
- Ledger said to seek $4 billion IPO in New York, tripling 2023 valuation.
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Credit to the following X accounts for key insights & updates: @whaleinsider @bitcoinmagazine @watcherguru
@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time
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