Bitcoin remained under pressure on Friday as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and weakening institutional demand combined to keep the world’s largest cryptocurrency below key technical resistance. While the broader crypto market has shown resilience in recent months, the latest price action suggests traders are becoming increasingly cautious as macroeconomic uncertainty grows. At the
For investors seeking to pare exposure to the artificial intelligence (AI) trade amid boom-induced volatility, shifting capital toward overlooked equities offers a compelling strategic alternative. Market participants are increasingly adopting a “defensive posture” against a possible downturn – pivoting to segments where high-quality operators with solid fundamentals have fallen out of favor leading to unwarranted
Top neocloud stocks are in a freefall, erasing billions of dollars in value as concerns about AI spending emerge. IREN stock dropped to $33.61, its lowest level since April 7, and 52% below its highest point this year. Its valuation has fallen from $24 billion to $12.4 billion. CoreWeave, the biggest player in the industry,
Cardano is heading into one of its most closely watched network events in years. The Van Rossem hard fork is scheduled to go live tomorrow, putting ADA in the spotlight as traders assess whether the upgrade can provide enough momentum to reverse the token’s recent weakness. https://twitter.com/IntersectMBO/status/2077336130471485686?s=20 While the technical picture for Cardano’s token remains
Gold prices remained below the $4,000-an-ounce mark on Friday, with the precious metal struggling to attract meaningful safe-haven demand despite persistent uncertainty in the US housing sector. Although construction activity rebounded sharply in June after a weak performance in May, the broader housing market continued to show signs of weakness that could weigh on economic
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Friday as investors continued to pull back from semiconductor stocks, extending a broader reassessment of the artificial intelligence-driven rally that had powered markets to record highs earlier this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 486 points, or 0.9%, while the S&P 500 lost 1.1%. The Nasdaq
Bloom Energy stock is moving from bad to worse as it crashed to $206, its lowest level since April last year. BE has slumped by over 40% from its all-time high as concerns about its valuation and the data center industry remained. This retreat has seen its market capitalization fall from $98.7 billion to $58
Stellar (XLM) is trying to stabilize after a volatile week that saw the token come under pressure alongside the broader cryptocurrency market. XLM was trading at $0.1834, down 3% over the past 24 hours, while extending its weekly decline to 4.3%. Despite the recent weakness, traders are watching a developing golden cross and an upcoming
Apple (AAPL) reclaimed its position as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company on Friday after its market capitalization surpassed Nvidia’s. Apple shares climbed to an all-time high of $334.99, lifting the company’s market value to approximately $4.88 trillion. Nvidia shares fell more than 3% in early trading, reducing the AI chipmaker’s market capitalization to
Artificial intelligence models developed by leading companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, are significantly less likely to generate politically critical content about governments known for restricting free speech, according to a new study released by Meta’s Oversight Board on Thursday. The board said the findings suggest that large language models may be reflecting the speech restrictions