Bitcoin has had a dismal year, but its underperformance has been less severe than in previous crypto winters, Bernstein analysts pointed out. In part, that's thanks to digital asset treasury company Strategy (MSTR), which "continues to be a net buyer in the market," analyst Gautam Chhugani wrote in a note on Monday. The token traded near $62,000, down ...

Andreas Steno Larsen and Mikkel Rosenvold are back to tackle one of the biggest questions in markets right now: have central banks misread the macro backdrop? The duo breaks down why inflation may be falling faster than policymakers expect, whether investors are once again wrong on oil, and what the latest developments in the Middle East mean for energy ...

Bitcoin (BTC) saw flash volatility into Monday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to tech company Strategy’s new BTC sales. Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD dropping to near $61,000, sparking daily losses of more than 4%. A rebound at the start of the US session pushed the price higher before settling around the $62,000 mark at the time of writing. ...

FED'S WALLER: FED POLICYMAKERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COMMITTED TO INFLATION TARGET, IT IS A ‘CREDIBLE PLEDGE’ Fed's Waller: The risks have flipped around, the labor market seems stabilized, and inflation has been taking off, which changes how you think about policy. Fed's Waller when asked about Warsh recommitting to the inflation target: He has never been anything but committed.

Senator Cynthia Lummis continues pressing colleagues for swift action on the CLARITY Act, legislation designed to establish comprehensive regulatory standards for digital currencies across America. Describing it as a defining moment for financial modernization, she emphasized the urgency for Congress to complete this legislative effort. The legislation ...

Thank you, Isabel, and thank you to the organizers for the invitation to be part of this discussion.1 As we get closer to the dinner hour, I will give you two thoughts to chew on about how monetary policy transmission has worked in the recent past and how that affects my view of appropriate actions when facing current challenges. The first of these is that initial conditions are crucial. To decide where policy should go, you need a clear sense of where you are starting from. By "initial conditions," I mean what is currently happening—not some average of experience in the past. This lesson was brought home to me during the rapid escalation of inflation in the United States following the pandemic. Based on past experience, a considerable share of the economic profession believed that the rapid tightening of financial conditions needed to bring down inflation would unavoidably cause a sharp increase in unemployment. And while this expectation was a good summary of what had happened in the past, in 2022, it was a poor predictor of what would happen from tightening policy because initial conditions at that time were so different. In particular, the combination of a negative labor supply shock along with a booming economy fueled by fiscal and monetary stimulus led to a situation in early 2022 where the ratio of job vacancies to unemployed workers was 2—a level never seen before. This initial condition for job vacancies was critical to understanding how tightening monetary policy would affect the labor market. Historically, changes in labor demand had minor Fed's Waller: Forward guidance can be a hindrance if it is too strong or rigid. Fed's Waller: Forward guidance also problematic when policymakers confront different economic outcomes all with a significant probability of occurring. Fed's Waller: When it works, forward guidance can speed the impact of monetary policy, as in late 2021. Fed's Waller does not comment on current economic policy outlook.

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American spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have established an unwanted milestone: eight consecutive weeks of net capital withdrawals, representing the longest sustained decline since these investment vehicles debuted. The products experienced approximately $527 million in redemptions during the four-session period concluding July 2, based on analysis from ...

Economic activity in the services sector continued to expand in June, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest ISM® Services PMI® Report. The Services PMI® registered 54 percent, the 24th consecutive month in expansion territory. The report was issued today by Steve Miller, CPSM, CSCP, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management® ...

Strategy is using a newly outlined capital framework to sell part of its Bitcoin holdings while continuing to support payments on its preferred stock. The company says the latest sale raises $216 million, leaves its U.S. dollar reserve at $2.55 billion and reduces its total Bitcoin holdings to 843,775. As reported by Cointelegraph, citing a Monday 8-K ...

Michael Saylor, executive chairman at Strategy, contends that Bitcoin has transitioned into a fundamentally different market phase — one driven predominantly by institutional capital allocation rather than the four-year halving pattern that characterized its early history. In a detailed post shared on X on July 5, 2026, Saylor presented his thesis that ...

STRATEGY BTC HOLDINGS DECREASES BY 3,588 BTC (~$225.606M) TO 843,775 BTC: WEBSITE Strategy sold $80.8 millions BTC during June 29 to June 30. Strategy had $8.32b loss on digital assets for 2Q