Happy Thursday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- S&P 500 hits $7k for the first time in history.
- Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged.
- Gold surpasses $5,500 for the first time in history.
- Gold up 27.73%, silver up 61.44%, copper up 9.14% so far this year as they hit new all-time highs - Bitcoin down -0.82%.
- Tesla to invest $2,000,000,000 in xAI.
- Tesla reveals none of their $1,000,000,000 Bitcoin was sold in Q4 2025.
- Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong announces Coinbase is joining President Trump's investment initiative for children and wants to pay it in Bitcoin.
- White House to gather crypto and banking industry executives to discuss crypto market structure legislation on Monday.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says President Trump may pick a new Fed Chair 'in a week or so'. Pro-Bitcoin Rick Reider is leading.
- Michael Saylor addresses skeptics, saying "We buy real bitcoin. We don’t rehypothecate."
- The longest BTC/Gold bear market ever was 14 months. We are currently 14 months in.
- US launches investigation into alleged $90 million crypto theft by son of contractor who helped secure government wallets.
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the US economy is doing well despite geopolitical tensions & tariffs.
- Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve should not be controlled by elected officials.
- The US Dollar Index is at its lowest level in 4 years, down 16% from its peak.
- Microsoft Q2 FY26: Revenue +17% to $81.3B, Azure +38%.
- Meta Q4 FY25: Revenue +24% to $59.9B.
- Tesla Q4 FY25: Revenue -3% to $24.9B.
- Silver price is currently above $134/oz in Shanghai.
- India to immediately slash tariffs on 100,000 European cars a year to 30%–35% from as high as 110%.
- Iran says they will target the center of Tel Aviv if they are subjected to any attack.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he will raise taxes on high earners & corporations because NYC is facing a financial crisis.
📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊
- Gold flips $SOL in 24h perp volume on Hyperliquid.
- Hyperliquid HIP-3 daily volume surpasses $2B.
- Leveraged tokens hit Hyperliquid via Bounce Tech private beta.
- Markets lists $SILVER & $GOLD, bringing commodities onchain. Silver is now available to trade 24/7/365 with up to 20x leverage and gold with up to 25x leverage.
- $LSD becomes the first staking app to go live on Solana Mobile, advancing Solana DeFi.
- Kraken lists $HYPE.
- Solana-based asset gateway Sunrise DeFi says “something liquid is coming to Solana”.
- Mizuho upgrades Circle shares outlook citing Polymarket’s use of USDC for settlement.
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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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Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro.
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