Crypto Traders Hit Hard; Bitcoin Down Around 30% From Oct. High

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Retail investors who piled into Michael Saylor’s grand Bitcoin experiment are paying a heavy price. Strategy Inc. — the company once hailed for wrapping crypto exposure into a public stock — is scrambling to calm markets after its shares plunged more than 60% from recent highs, amid a sweeping digital-currency rout. On Monday, Strategy said it had created a $1.4 billion reserve to fund dividend and interest payments, hoping to calm fears that it may be forced to sell Bitcoin if prices fall further. Today's guests: Grace Peters, JPM Private Bank, Co-Head of Global Investment Strategy; Dan Wang, Author "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future" --- "The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops. Chapters: 00:00:00 - The Pulse with Francine Lacqua 12/2/2025 00:00:36 - Crypto downturn wipes out almost $1 billion in levered bets 00:02:55 - Grace Peters. JPMorgan Private Bank 00:05:37 - Peters: US unemployment rate May rise to 4.5% 00:09:31 - Japanese Bond Slide Spills Over to US, Global Debt 00:13:34 - Witcoff to meet Putin in Moscow today 00:16:26 - Third Russia-linked tanker explodes at sea 00:18:16 - UK OBR head quits after early UK budget release 00:24:16 - Exclusive: Lin Chia-Iung, Taiwanese Foreign Affairs minister 00:28:45 - Dan Wang, “Breakneck: China’s Quest To Engineer the Future” author & Hoover Institution Research Fellow 00:35:27 - Global AI sector locked in two-horse race 00:40:36 - AirAsia CEO on Airbus Software glitch 00:45:06 - Airbus to inspect hundreds of A320 jets -