Bitcoin reclaims the $113,000 level despite tech pullback on Wall Street

Bitcoin has seemed stalled around $112,000, but is finally breaking past the $113,000 mark on Wednesday as whales have led a rush to sell. The token’s price is still down nearly 2% over the past week. David Siemer, CEO of Wave Digital Assets, told Sherwood News that the wave of liquidations is due to a combination of factors hitting at once, including the ...

Ryan Watkins, co-founder of thesis-driven hedge fund Syncracy Capital, is making the case that Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) — which collectively control more than $105 billion in assets and represent a sizable portion of supply on major blockchains — present both risk and opportunity. Watkins wrote: "The speed at which they’ve scaled has caused whiplash, ...

The Swiss National Bank is leaving the SNB policy rate unchanged at 0%. Banks' sight deposits held at the SNB will be remunerated at the SNB policy rate up to a certain threshold. The discount for sight deposits above this threshold still stands at 0.25 percentage points. The SNB remains willing to be active in the foreign exchange market as necessary. Inflationary pressure is virtually unchanged compared to the previous quarter. Monetary policy helps to keep inflation within the range consistent with price stability and supports economic development. The SNB will continue to monitor the situation and adjust its monetary policy if necessary, in order to ensure price stability. Inflation has increased slightly since the last monetary policy assessment. It rose from -0.1% in May to 0.2% in August. This increase was mainly attributable to higher inflation in tourism and on imported goods. Inflationary pressure has barely changed compared to June. While inflation is likely to be slightly higher in the short term, in the medium term the conditional inflation forecast remains unchanged. The forecast is within the range of price stability over the entire forecast horizon (cf. chart). As in the previous quarter, it puts average annual inflation at 0.2% for 2025, 0.5% for 2026 and 0.7% for 2027 (cf. table). The forecast is based on the assumption that the SNB policy rate is 0% over the entire forecast horizon. Global economic grow SWISS NATIONAL BANK: GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOWED SOMEWHAT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2025 GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS ARE BEING DAMPENED BY US TARIFFS AND ONGOING HIGH UNCERTAINTY SNB ANTICIPATES THAT GROWTH IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WILL BE SUBDUED OVER THE COMING QUARTERS…