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Stocks climb while warnings grow over what's next

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a fresh record high on Monday, after topping 50,000 for the first time last week. The S&P 500 and teach-heavy Nasdaq also climbed, continuing to reverse major losses suffered days earlier.
The performance marked the latest move in topsy-turvy markets -- and that rollercoaster may very well continue, some **** ysts told ABC News.
Analysts attributed the volatility to a flurry of developments in artificial intelligence (AI), and a perception of looming geopolitical uncertainty. Mixed signals in economic d

Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail

Microsoft is taking a pounding in the stock market.
On Thursday, the Redmont giant’s share price collapsed by nearly 12 percent after it released its latest quarterly results, making it not only its biggest single day slide since March 2020, according to Bloomberg, but also one of the worst drops in the company’s history.
The Wile E. Coyote-worthy cliff-plunge, which wiped out over $400 billion in valuation, was despite Microsoft actually exceeding some key expectations, including its net income, whi

Trump says that 'Alex Pretti's stock has gone way down' after release of 2nd video

Donald Trump on Friday called Alex Pretti an "agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist," marking an increase in the intensity of his rhetoric toward the ICU nurse fatally shot by federal agents after the president recently said he wanted to "de-escalate a little bit" in Minnesota.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Pretti’s "stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and v

Precious metals plunge after months-long rally fueled by weak dollar

Gold (GC=F) futures fell as much as 11% on Friday to trade below $4,900 per troy ounce in a severe reversal of this year's massive rally in precious metals.
Spot gold saw its biggest daily drop since the early 80's while silver (SI=F) also tumbled more than 25%, its largest daily decline on record.
The volatility came alongside a wider stock market sell-off, with the major averages all lower after President Trump selected Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve Chair. The nomination appeared to eased concerns about the c

Both FBTC and ETHA charge the same 0.25% expense ratio, but FBTC is larger by ***** ets under management
ETHA posted a smaller one-year loss than FBTC, yet saw a much steeper maximum drawdown
Both funds track the price of a single crypto ***** et, with FBTC focused on bitcoin and ETHA on ether
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FIDELITY WISE ORIGIN BITCOIN FUND (NYSEMKT:FBTC) and iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (NASDAQ:ETHA) both offer pure-play crypto exposure at identical expense ratios, but differ in ***** et focus, risk profile, and scale.

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Ethereum remains the top platform for developing decentralized apps.
Polkadot provides developers more flexibility with its parachains.
The blue chip leader might have more upside potential than the tiny underdog.
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Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and Polkadot (CRYPTO: DOT) generally attract different types of cryptocurrency investors. Ether, the native token of the Ethereum blockchain, is the world's second-most-valuable cryptocurrency after Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). It's often considered a "blue chip" token, more stable than smaller altcoins or meme coins. A $1

The dollar probably won't buy as much in the near future as it does now.
Bitcoin and Zcash are both scarce ****** ets with real value.
Ethereum is valuable for its various uses, and its supply situation is decent, too.
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As if the bout of inflation over the last few years wasn't painful enough for everyday investors, there are, unfortunately, plenty of good reasons to believe that the U.S. dollar is going to get significantly weaker and weaker from here on out.

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Bureau of Land Management Says Bison Are Not Livestock, Obstructing Plans for a Huge Private Prairie Reserve

An ambitious and privately funded project to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve where buffalo may roam and antelope play in eastern Montana is being stymied by an obtuse new ruling by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The goal of the American Prairie nonprofit is to re-create a prairie ecosystem one-and-a-half times the size of Yellowstone National Park that can eventually support a free-ranging herd of 5,000 bison. Such a reserve would also greatly benefit other prairie s

Demand for Bitcoin is rising at a time when supply remains relatively fixed.
New financial products are reducing some of the risk and volatility of investing in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has a track record of posting triple-digit returns that dates all the way back to 2012.
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Right now, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is going nowhere fast. It currently trades for just $90,000 and is sitting nearly 30% below its all-time high of $126,000 from October.

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A Danish American Trump town struggles with his threats to take Greenland

In the tiny Iowa town of Elk Horn, Danish and American flags flap side by side above Main Street. A bakery sells kringles and other Danish pastries. Down the block, a working windmill towers over the prairie.
Kitchens here are stocked with family recipes for dishes most Americans can’t ******* ounce: frikadeller (Danish meatballs), æbleskiver (Danish pancake ******* ) and medisterpølse (Danish sausages).
This town of about 600 people and the nearby city of Kimballton are known as the “Danish Villages,” the largest r

Gold has been a widely recognized store of value for thousands of years, whereas Bitcoin only sprung into existence in 2009.
Many investors consider Bitcoin to be a digital version of gold because of its decentralized nature and capped supply.
However, in the face of heightened political and economic uncertainty last year, Bitcoin wasn't investors' ****** et of choice.
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Gold is a precious metal, and it has been considered a store of value for ages because of its scarcity. Even to this day, investors buy it hand over fist during times of heightened pol

FBTC holds only Bitcoin, while WGMI invests in 25 companies related to Bitcoin mining and/or crypto-infrastructure.
Both ETFs are fairly young in the market and carry the risks ***** ociated with cryptocurrencies.
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Both the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (NYSEMKT:FBTC) and CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF (NASDAQ:WGMI) offer exposure to Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC), but their approaches differ: FBTC tracks spot Bitcoin itself, while WGMI holds shares of companies tied to Bitcoin mining and infrastructure. This comparison unpacks their costs,

ETHA offers a higher indirect exposure to the crypto market, as it was designed to track the price of Ethereum.
WGMI holds a basket of Bitcoin mining-related stocks, offering an indirect exposure to Bitcoin and the entire crypto market.
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Both the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF (NASDAQ:WGMI) and iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (NASDAQ:ETHA) offer exposure to the crypto ecosystem, but they do so in fundamentally different ways: ETHA mirrors the price movement of Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) itself, while WGMI targets companies involved in Bitcoin m

BITQ comes with a higher expense ratio than HODL.
HODL tracks Bitcoin directly, whereas BITQ holds crypto-related stock.
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Both the VanEck Bitcoin ETF (NYSEMKT:HODL) and Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF (NYSEMKT:BITQ) offer access to the crypto economy, but they approach it in fundamentally different ways. HODL provides direct Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) price exposure, whereas BITQ invests in companies tied to the crypto ecosystem, from miners to exchanges. This comparison unpacks how their costs, returns, and risk features stack up f

Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) is included among the 20 Best Performing Dividend Stocks in 2025.
On December 19, Wells Fargo raised its price target on Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) to $125 from $115 and kept an Equal Weight rating. The firm sees a mixed setup for 2026 across the group, but not without opportunity. Wells is constructive on broadlines and food service, notes that fiscal and tariff-related trade activity is already underway, and believes earnings momentum can carry through the first half of EPS revisions. At the same time, it flags a more challenging backdrop for f

The trend that became the biggest boom of 2025 is starting the new year as a bust.
At least 37 of the top 100 Bitcoin treasury companies now trade at discounts to their net ******* et value, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.net. That means nearly 40% of major treasuries are worth less than the Bitcoin they hold.
“The initial hype is over,” Brian Huang, co-founder of investment platform Glider, told DL News.
Indeed, the premium era has ended. For the first three-quarters of 2025, treasury companies enjoyed significant premiums on their holdings. That allowed them to issue new stock a

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-focused company Strategy is once again edging toward a key valuation threshold, as its market-to-net-asset-value multiple, or mNAV, hovers just above levels that could undermine the logic of holding its stock as a proxy for Bitcoin exposure.
In early trading on January 2, Strategy shares rose modestly, offering brief relief after months of pressure.
Even with the bounce, the stock remains down roughly 66% from its July peak.
The company’s mNAV, a measure comparing its market valuation to the value of its Bitcoin holdings, stood near 1.02, leaving little margin befor

US stocks mostly edged higher on Friday as Wall Street kicked off trading in 2026 after its third consecutive year of double-digit percentage gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) gained about 0.6%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) increased 0.2%.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell below the flat line, despite gains in semiconductor giants Nvidia (NVDA), AMD (AMD), and Micron (MU).
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) fell after the EV maker's deliveries missed expectations.
Markets are coming off a sputtering end to a roller-coaster 2025 that nevertheless ended with sizable gains for the ma

The U.S. market has been dominated by tech and growth stocks for the past three years.
As parts of the economy show signs of slowing, a rotation from growth to value stocks may be in the cards.
Investing in value now means capturing attractive opportunities in financials, healthcare, and industrials.
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It's no secret that the market has been dominated by tech, growth, and the "Magnificent Seven" stocks over the past few years. The earnings and GDP growth backdrops are certainly there that could help propel this

Institutional adoption continues to be the No. 1 factor pushing Bitcoin higher.
If both Wall Street and the White House continue with their pro-crypto initiatives, the price of Bitcoin is likely to rise.
A splashy new move, such as the adoption of Bitcoin by a major Silicon Valley tech company, could propel Bitcoin higher.
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At the beginning of 2025, ***** ody could have predicted this: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell about 7% last year and is still trading well below the psychologically important $100,000 level.

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US stock futures rose early Friday as Wall Street kicked off trading in 2026 after its third consecutive year of double-digit percentage gains.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) climbed 0.3%. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (ES=F) were up 0.6%, while those on the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NQ=F) gained 1%.
Nasdaq 100 futures gained following news out of Asia that lifted a regional tech gauge to an all-time high.
Markets are coming off a sputtering end to a roller-coaster 2025 that nevertheless ended with sizable gains for the major indexes. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose over 16%, while t

The S&P 500 advanced 16% in 2025, notching double-digit gains for the third straight year.
Federal Reserve research suggests President Trump's tariffs will slow economic growth.
The S&P 500 trades at the most expensive valuation since the dot-com crash in 2000.
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The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) added 16% in 2025, marking the third consecutive year in which the benchmark index has recorded double-digit gains. Unfortunately, investors have reason to think 2026 will more challenging. Evidence suggests President Trump's tariffs are hurting the economy,

Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect the market to rise 9% on average next year.
Economic fundamentals are solid going into the new year, which should support higher stock prices.
Corporate profits are expected to rise by double-digits year over year.
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It's almost an understatement to say that it has been a fantastic three-year stretch for U.S. stocks.

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Bitcoin mining equities are selling off again to start off 2026. If you’re one of those people searching “is bitcoin mining still profitable?”, you might want to think again.
Even as miners lock in massive Bitcoin mining infrastructure expansions, financing agreements, and AI-adjacent partnerships, stock prices continue to drift lower alongside Bitcoin’s sluggish price action.
hovered near $88,900 on Tuesday, up modestly on the day but still down roughly 2.8% month-over-month. That lack of momentum is bleeding directly into publicly traded miners, where equity investors remain far less forgi

Strategy (MSTR) shares have declined for six consecutive months for the first time since the firm adopted bitcoin as a treasury ******* et in August 2020, according to a performance table shared Thursday by crypto ******* yst Chris Millas.
In a Jan. 1 post on X, Millas highlighted the rare streak and attached a chart showing Strategy’s monthly returns since 2020. The data show the stock posted uninterrupted losses from July through December 2025, including declines of 16.78% in August, 16.36% in October, 34.26% in November and a further 14.24% drop in December.
While Strategy has experienced

Peter Schiff has once again criticized Strategy’s Bitcoin-heavy corporate approach, raising fresh questions about whether the company’s performance would even qualify it for inclusion in the S&P 500.
In a post on X, the economist argued that if Strategy were part of the benchmark index, its 47.5% decline in 2025 would place it among the worst performers of the year.
Schiff said the company’s aggressive Bitcoin accumulation has come at the expense of shareholders, adding that Strategy’s stock collapse undercuts claims that buying Bitcoin is the best possible corporate strategy.
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These 6 stocks will lead the $1 trillion chip surge in 2026, BofA says

The artificial intelligence boom isn't cooling off — it's getting bigger, Bank of America ******* yst Vivek Arya contends.
While AI skeptics have pointed to eye-popping valuations as a reason to run, Arya said the industry is only at the "midpoint" of a decade-long transformation, and it's being led by Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO).
In a report ******* led "2026 Year Ahead: choppy, still cheerful," Arya forecast a 30% year-over-year surge in global semiconductor sales that will finally push the sector past a histor

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Gifting cryptocurrency to a family member has likely grown in popularity thanks to easier ways to buy and sell major cryptos like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH).
Here's a look back at how much a gift of cryptocurrency for Christmas in 2024 would be worth today and whether your family members are hoping to find gifts like Bitcoin in their stocking or under the Christmas tree instead of traditional gifts like toys, clothes, gift cards and money.
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Looser monetary policy, with lower interest rates and quantitative easing, can drive demand for Bitcoin as investors seek higher returns.
There is a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about quantum computing's impact on Bitcoin, worries that appear to be overblown.
Bitcoin has historically bounced back after down years.
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According to data from ***** et manager BlackRock, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has produced a higher return compared to every other ***** et class in eight of 11 years from the start of 2013 through 2023. Bitcoin was then up 119% in 2024.

Bitcoin held near $89,127 in thin Boxing Day trade as Asian stocks edged higher and silver stayed in the spotlight after notching fresh record highs this week, with investors still leaning into the year-end risk bid.
With several Asia Pacific exchanges shut for the holiday, investors took cues from the last full session, when MSCI’s broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside ***** an rose 0.35%.
Crypto traders framed the quieter tape as a liquidity story as much as a macro one. Gabriel Selby, head of research at CF Benchmarks, said Bitcoin remained pinned under a key level as markets drif