Happy Wednesday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- Bitcoin briefly hits $96,000.
- BlackRock transfers 3,290 Bitcoin to Coinbase.
- Bitcoin forecasted to hit $98,000 this month.
- Odds of Bitcoin hitting $100,000 in January spike to over 50% on Polymarket.
- El Salvador giving Bitcoin passports to tourists.
- Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive acquires Bitcoin company Semler Scientific in an all-stock transaction.
- Over $429,000,000 worth of short positions liquidated from the crypto market in the past hours.
- Silver reaches new all-time high of $90.
- China marks record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025 despite U.S. tariffs.
- President Trump says Jerome Powell will be replaced soon.
- U.S official says action on Greenland could come within weeks or months.
- YZi Labs makes multi-8-figure investment in Genius Trading, and CZ joins startup as advisor.
- Bank of America says DOJ probe into Jerome Powell could strengthen Fed hawks, slow rate cuts.
- China says there’s no winners in a tariff war.
- Beijing rejects illicit sanctions following President Trump’s 25% Iran trade threat.
- Elon Musk’s Starlink activates free internet in Iran.
- President Trump says the economic boom has officially begun.
- President Trump says if you’re anti-tariff, you’re pro-Chinese.
- President Trump says he will get oil prices down even further.
- 73% chance the Supreme Court rules President Trump’s tariffs are illegal tomorrow.
- US inflation remains at 2.7%.
- $2.2 trillion BNY Mellon CEO warns pressure on the Federal Reserve could push interest rates higher.
- US Senate unveils crypto market structure draft bill.
- Senator Lummis calls for Congress to pass crypto market structure legislation.
- SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the top priority is bringing crypto markets out of the regulatory gray zone.
- US collected a record $267 billion in customs duties in 2025.
- 2026 YTD Total Returns: Small Caps +6.2%, S&P Equal Weight +3.3%, S&P 500 +1.8%.
- Japan’s 30-year bond yield has spiked to 3.46%, the highest level on record.
- In the first 3 months of the 2026 Fiscal Year the Federal Government took in $1.2 trillion and spent $1.8 trillion.
- The Interest Expense on US National Debt rose to a record $1.27 trillion in the last 12 months.
- JPMorgan Chase Q4 FY25: Net revenue +7% Y/Y to $45.8 billion, Non-GAAP EPS $5.23.
📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊
- Ethereum hits $3,350.
- BlackRock transfers 5,692 Ethereum to Coinbase.
- Ghost partners with leading payments project Zebec to build Solana-native privacy payments infrastructure.
- BlackWhale is currently trending in the top 10 on CoinMarketCap.
- Monero price hits new all-time high of $672.
- Binance Founder CZ says if you are going to ape into every meme coin people create based on my random tweets, you are almost guaranteed to lose money.
- Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams launched a crypto token claiming it would fight antisemitism and anti-Americanism; the coin has since crashed over 81% from its peak.
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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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