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December 5, 2025
Younger Americans turn to riskier investments, spend more on nonessentials as homeownership dreams fade: study — foxbusiness.com
Younger generations are making riskier investments and spending more recklessly as they give up on the American dream of owning a home, a new study suggests. The research from Northwestern University's Seung Hyeong Lee and the University of Chicago's
Bitcoin Options Show Traders Hunkering Down for Crypto Winter — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin options are showing that traders are betting that the largest cryptocurrency will remain mired in its current trading range in the wake of the fourth-quarter downturn that has cut more than $1 trillion in value from the digital asset market.
BTC price: Bitcoin is seeing a trend that hasn’t happened since 2014. Here’s why crypto markets are so unusual right now — fastcompany.com
The stock market is experiencing record gains in 2025, but the crypto market has struggled—marking a relatively rare phenomenon for investors. It is a relatively rare phenomenon: While the stock market continues to experience record gains (the S&P 500 is
Abu Dhabi Finance Week has evolved into a marker of the city’s ascendancy — semafor.com
Mohammed’s view From a rather humble beginning as a fintech gathering, Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) — and the ballooning events happening around it — is becoming the can’t-miss finale in the global calendar of convenings: A celebration of finance, sports,
The Man Who Got Eric Trump Into American Bitcoin Before 70% Rout — bloomberg.com
Eric Trump rang the Nasdaq bell in September to celebrate a more than $500 million windfall from American Bitcoin Corp.’s trading debut. Three months later, the shares have cratered 70%.
Turkish digital asset platform Paribu buys Gulf’s top homegrown crypto exchange — semafor.com
One of Türkiye’s biggest digital asset platforms bought the Gulf’s top homegrown crypto exchange. Paribu acquired CoinMENA, the Bahrain-based and Dubai-licensed exchange, in a deal valued at $240 million. CoinMENA, founded in 2020, has raised almost $20
Bitcoin Is Breaking From Stock Rally for First Time in a Decade — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Is Breaking From Stock Rally for First Time in a Decade Bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Is Set for First Yearly Split From Stocks in a Decade — bloomberg.com
The S&P 500 has climbed more than 16% in 2025, while Bitcoin is down 3% — the first time since 2014 that stocks have rallied while the token is down, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Dambisa Moyo on Gold, Bitcoin, AI and the UK — bloomberg.com
Dambisa Moyo on Gold, Bitcoin, AI and the UK Bloomberg.com
Facing a vast wave of incoming liquidity, the S&P 500 prepares to surf to a new record high — fortune.com
The S&P 500 index ticked up 0.3% yesterday, its eighth straight upward trading session. It is now less than half a percentage point away from its record high, and futures were pointing marginally up again this morning. Nasdaq 100 futures were even more
How “Cozy Lit” Became the Latest and Most Shameless Form of Digital Escapism — thewalrus.ca
After reading that Selena Gomez looked ethereal in a custom Ralph Lauren wedding dress, that the Vitamix 5200 is a legend for a reason, and that scientists made a yogurt using ants, I feel sufficiently bad about myself because of how much time I have spent
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Sheds $2.7 Billion in Record Outflows Run — bloomberg.com
BlackRock Inc.’s iShares Bitcoin Trust recorded its longest streak of weekly withdrawals since debuting in January 2024, in a sign that institutional appetite for the world’s largest cryptocurrency remains subdued even as prices stabilize.
An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense — theregister.com
Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency Anthropic could have scored an easy $4.6 million by using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts.…
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