Strategy builds cash reserve and pauses Bitcoin purchases

Strategy (MSTR) and other corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasuries remain under pressure as 2025’s volatile BTC performance – marked by sharp rallies and deep corrections – left annual returns flat to slightly negative. MSTR stock prices are down more than 60% from their year-highs, while peers that raised capital through Private Investment in Public Equity ...

On today's episode of CNBC Crypto World, Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise Asset Management, and Sebastian Bea, CIO of ReserveOne, discuss bitcoin's recent performance and whether a wave of adoption in 2025 has broken the cryptocurrency's normal four-year cycle.

In Washington and on Wall Street, the biggest question as we head into 2026 is whom President Donald Trump will choose to succeed Jerome H. Powell as the chair of the Federal Reserve. Far more is at stake than the usual scramble for power and prestige. Trump has been clear that he wants the Fed to be another tool in the White House’s arsenal, or, as he said ...