Bitcoin deepened its losses on Sunday morning after President Donald Trump stated that the US would move to impose a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after diplomacy talks with Iran... Read more »
Bitcoin slid 2% on Saturday evening, dropping from above $73,000 to around $71,310, after US and Iran failed to agree on terms during high-stakes negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan. Vice President JD Vance,... Read more »
Here’s a sentence you don’t read every day: a potential military flashpoint in the Persian Gulf is somehow making markets go up. Iran claims it controls the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow... Read more »
Technology stocks fell Friday as a broader market selloff intensified, with geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran, rising Treasury yields, and mounting concerns over AI spending all weighing on sentiment. The... Read more »
Oil markets continued to rally on Friday morning amid renewed strain in the Middle East. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a key instrument of Iran’s military and regional strategy, declared that... Read more »
Bitcoin jumped after President Donald Trump said he had instructed the Department of War to postpone planned military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. The order was... Read more »
Two things that markets absolutely hate showed up at the same time this week: sticky inflation and military conflict near the world’s most important oil chokepoint. The result has been predictably ugly... Read more »
Japan will begin releasing crude oil from its strategic reserves as early as next Monday to curb potential spikes in gasoline and petroleum prices caused by Middle East conflicts and disruptions to... Read more »
Here’s the thing about oil: when tankers start disappearing from tracking systems in one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, it tends to make investors nervous about everything — including crypto.... Read more »
For nearly a decade, the prevailing wisdom has been that crypto trades in lockstep with risk assets. Stocks go down, Bitcoin goes down. Simple enough. Monday’s session just threw a wrench into... Read more »
