FOMC minutes and a higher 3.8% 2026 rate path meet a 14.9% Q2 S&P 500 surge. Stocks still need patient cuts, not rushed pivots, to hold gains into H2 as jobs cool.
The post Crypto’s Q2: 82% of Top Coins Fell as Bitcoin Held Firm appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Second quarter of the crypto market tells one story from opposite ends: prices held at the top while everything underneath, market breadth, exchange volumes, on-chain revenue, and new listings, fell to multi-year lows, with June offering the first tentative sign the worst may be passing. Summary 82.1% of top 100 coins fell in June. Spot volume hit $3.0T, weakest since 2024. Bitcoin dominance held near 56% all quarter. New token listings dropped to a two-year low. The Same Story, Measured Two Ways Headline prices in Q2 looked stable enough to suggest calm. The data beneath them showed the opposite: a market where capital concentrated into Bitcoin while participation drained out of everything else. One CryptoRank dataset captures this through prices and breadth; a second captures it through exchange activity. Read together, they reinforce each other, the collapse in trading volume is the
The post Coinbase Wins UK License to Offer Stocks and Derivatives Alongside Crypto appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
In brief Coinbase has secured UK authorization to offer regulated investment services, letting it provide traditional financial instruments beyond crypto. UK users will be able to trade equities on the platform for the first time, while institutional and advanced traders gain access to crypto, equity, and commodity derivatives. The license adds to Coinbase’s existing UK e-money and crypto registrations and advances its push to become an “everything exchange.” Crypto exchange Coinbase has won regulatory approval to offer stocks and derivatives to UK customers, the biggest expansion of its product line-up in one of its largest international markets and its latest move toward what it calls the “everything exchange.” The exchange said Tuesday it had been granted a UK investment services authorization, sometimes called a MiFID license, from the Financial Conduct Authority,
The post Samsung’s Q2 Profit Soars 19x as AI Memory Chip Demand Hits New High appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Samsung expects a 19-fold jump in Q2 operating profit to 89.4 trillion won. Revenue is projected to reach 171 trillion won, beating most market estimates. Despite record earnings, Samsung shares fell as investors questioned the AI boom. Samsung Electronics expects one of the strongest quarters in its history after demand for AI memory chips sent both sales and profits significantly higher. The South Korean chipmaker forecast second-quarter operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion) for the April-June period, up nearly 19 times from the same quarter last year. The figure also exceeded market expectations, with analysts forecasting between 84.2 trillion won and 87.3 trillion won. Revenue is expected to reach 171 trillion won, a 129% increase from a year ago and above the consensus estimate of 169.2 trillion won, although slightly below some forecasts of 173.3 tril
Second quarter of the crypto market tells one story from opposite ends: prices held where they started while everything underneath, market breadth, exchange volumes, on-chain revenue, and new listings, fell to multi-year lows, with June offering the first tentative sign the worst may be passing. Summary 82.1% of top 100 coins fell in June. Spot [...]
The post Why Japan’s Bond Market Could Kill the Easy-Money Rally in Stocks and Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Japan’s bond market stress deepened Monday as the 10-year yield touched 2.825%, its highest level since October 1996. The surge threatens the easy money that funded multi-year rallies in stocks and Bitcoin (BTC). The yen trades near 162 per dollar, its weakest since 1986, even after Tokyo spent a record sum defending it this spring. Japan 10-Year Treasury Yields. Source: TradingView Japan Bond Market Faces More Supply and a Shrinking Buyer Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government plans to mobilize over ¥370 trillion ($2.28 billion) in public and private investment across 17 strategic sectors through fiscal 2040. The roughly $2.3 trillion program implies heavier bond issuance ahead. Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan keeps trimming its bond purchases. Reuters reported that policymakers may pause the taper only from fiscal 2027. Until then, the market’s largest buyer ke
The post Earnings preview: Can Europe narrow the gap with the US? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Europe is poised for another strong quarter of earnings growth. After posting its strongest quarter of earnings growth for 3 years in Q1, analysts are expecting big things for Q2. Earnings growth is poised to grow by 12% year-on-year, suggesting that upward momentum for earnings will be maintained. Some analysts also think that there is the potential for an upside surprise, since earnings expectations have been revised higher in recent weeks. European earnings boost from energy sector Expectations are also high as we move into this reporting season. Digging a bit deeper, growth is expected to be dominated by monster revenues and profits for the oil and gas majors where earnings growth is expected to rise by 84% YoY. If you exclude this sector, then earnings growth in Europe is a much more modest 3%. Energy is Europe’s version of tech, and it is likely to dominate this reporting seas
