Frances Yue

Millions of crypto investors around the world are sitting on losses as a painful bear market erases trillions of dollars in paper profits.

Crypto investors had hoped that increased institutional adoption and a crypto-friendly administration could help the largest cryptocurrency avoid the painful cycles it once experienced.

Shares of some AI-infrastructure companies were under pressure Wednesday morning, after Bloomberg reported that Meta is developing a cloud-computing business to sell excess artificial-intelligence capacity. Investors were concerned that the major buyer of AI infrastructure could become a competitor

This new chapter started when the early AI stalwarts began serving as the next kingmakers of the market.

Higher interest rates could make the AI growth story that’s been powering the bull market harder to justify.

Traders who once bet on crypto have not stopped gambling on the next big market story — they just are not finding that story in crypto itself.

“The AI trade is sucking the blood out of crypto,” one analyst notes.

While U.S. stocks have kept notching record highs, bitcoin is sliding to its weakest level in months.

Strategy’s stock slid Monday after the company disclosed a rare bitcoin sale, rattling investors who have long treated the company as a one-way bet on the cryptocurrency.

During midterm years, summer tends to coincide with a weak stock market.

The small-cap Russell 2000 led U.S. stocks lower on Friday — yet it has outperformed all major indexes except the Nasdaq in 2026.

Semiconductor stocks have become an unusually large force in the U.S. stock market, underscoring how much of the latest rally in indexes like the S&P 500 has been powered by the artificial-intelligence trade.

Strategy has sold more common stock to buy bitcoin, and Executive Chair Michael Saylor has posted a video on X in which he raps about using the “equity ATM” in an effort to hurt those who bet against the company and bitcoin.

Paul Tudor Jones said the AI boom could have another one or two years to run and 40% more upside.

J.P. Morgan’s blockchain unit, Kinexys, in collaboration with Mastercard, Ripple and Ondo Finance, said it has completed the first near-real-time, cross-border and cross-bank redemption of a tokenized U.S. Treasury fund.

Progress on the long-stalled Clarity Act is helping to put some spring back in crypto’s step

Gold prices cemented the worst two-month decline in history on Thursday, based on the price of heavily-traded futures contracts.

Robinhood and other retail trading platforms have seen bitcoin trading volumes tumble.

Artificial intelligence may be one of the most crowded trades in financial markets right now — but bitcoin, which is currently mired in a bear market, could be a cheaper way to play the AI boom.

Bitcoin on Tuesday tested a key level that has blocked gains for months, as technical analysts watched for signs that the cryptocurrency may finally be ready to break out.