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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. About the author: Brian Schreiner is the founder and chief investment officer of Alpha Rock Investments, a boutique investment management firm. Since the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in early 2024, investors have been haunted by a persistent narrative: “Bitcoin is just a tech stock on steroids." The common view is that when the stock market sneezes, Bitcoin catches a cold.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bitcoin and other digital assets are staging a recovery. Some crypto industry companies tied to President Donald Trump and his family aren’t keeping up.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Things aren’t looking good for Harvard’s big bet on bitcoin. The nation’s oldest and richest university supersize its wager on the cryptocurrency last quarter, ramping up its holdings in iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF to nearly half a billion dollars.

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, is launching a Bitcoin exchanged-traded product in Europe, following the success of its $48 billion US fund tracking the cryptocurrency. The iShares Bitcoin ETP will list on Xetra and Euronext Paris under the ticker IB1T and on Euronext Amsterdam under BTCN on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. The product will debut with a temporary fee waiver of 10 basis points — reducing its expense ratio to 0.15% until the end of the year.

Bitcoin entered the public view in 2009 and has remained a central part of the crypto conversation, for the past decade and a half. It has become a key crypto asset, closely tracked and widely regarded as a bellwether of industry health.

Bitcoin prices ticked up Friday, reversing a slide that began when new tariffs were unveiled earlier this week.

Bitcoin (BTC) staged a strong recovery on Tuesday, briefly hitting a high of $88,758 before pulling back. The rebound followed US President Donald Trump’s comments hinting at potential tariff exemptions, easing market concerns. Market sentiment also improved after MicroStrategy’s $584 million Bitcoin purchase, reinforcing institutional confidence. «Bitcoin briefly reclaimed $88,000 following MicroStrategy’s purchase, signaling renewed institutional interest and ETF inflows. The asset remains strong above the $86,000 support level, while Trump Media has partnered with Crypto.com to launch ETFs featuring digital assets and securities,» said Vikram Subburaj, CEO of Giottus.

Bitcoin extended its recent retreat Thursday, with the price of the leading cryptocurrency falling in the wake of President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement.

crypto stocks declined in premarket trading on Thursday after President Donald Trump's latest round of sweeping tariffs rattled investor confidence due to rising global trade tensions, sparking a sell-off in riskier assets. Crypto exchange Coinbase Global fell about 4%, while major bitcoin holder Strategy dropped 3%. Among miners, MARA Holdings, Riot Platforms and Bitfarms slipped about 4%, 5% and 6%, respectively. The broad losses underscore the widespread fallout of the tariffs on multiple asset classes. Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency, dropped 2.3%, while ether dived 3.3%.

Bharti Airtel shares will be in focus on Thursday after the telecom operator expanded its core network collaboration with Nokia to accelerate 5G service delivery. Nokia already has a significant presence in Airtel’s core network, providing key technologies such as VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and HSS (Home Subscriber Server).

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies dipped after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on US trading partners worldwide, triggering a slump in risk assets. The largest digital asset fell as much as 4% to about $82,000 on Thursday morning in Singapore before paring losses, while other tokens including Ether and XRP also declined. Solana had at one point shed more than 9% of its value.

Mahindra Lifespace Developers shares will be in focus on Thursday after the company secured two housing redevelopment projects in Mumbai, expecting a revenue of Rs 1,200 crore. In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, Mahindra Lifespace informed that the company has been «appointed as the preferred partner for the redevelopment of two residential societies in the Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West, Mumbai, with a project value of approximately Rs 1,200 crore.

Maruti Suzuki shares will be in focus on Thursday after the country’s largest carmaker announced a price hike of up to Rs 62,000 across its vehicle range, effective April 8, 2025. Last month, the company had notified the exchanges that it will raise vehicle prices from April by up to 4% to offset rising input costs and operational expenses.

Bitcoin fell late Wednesday after President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement roiled markets. 

silver prices would double this year, calling the metal the «hottest investment today» due to strong demand and limited supply. In a post on microblogging site, X (formerly Twitter), Kiyosaki pointed to silver's current price of $34 an ounce, noting that it remains 60% below its all-time high. «I predict silver will rise 2X this year to at least $70 an ounce,» he wrote, adding that he recently bought more silver from the Republic Monetary Exchange.

Quant Mutual Fund informs that their overall portfolio remains tilted toward large and mega-large caps, and the overall liquidity of the portfolio is good. The high cash levels in most of the fund house's schemes will be used to selectively deploy small caps in falling markets. The fund believes that the market is currently waiting for clarity from Trump. The fund house is participating in both large and mega-large caps, while selectively increasing small-cap exposures in most of their equity schemes. The fund house's 'predictive analytics' endorsed that a trading bottom was around the corner by the end of February. Since then, the benchmark index—Nifty 50—has rallied around 8%.

Markets are bracing for details of new reciprocal tariffs set to be unveiled at 1:30 a.m. IST, which could take effect immediately. Trump has already imposed tariffs on aluminum, steel, and autos, alongside increased duties on Chinese imports—moves that have rattled financial markets amid fears of an economic slowdown.

Real estate, high-yield bonds, and cryptocurrency don’t always live up to their reputation as portfolio diversifiers

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launchd a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before. Maltese investor Chun Wang, a Chinese-born magnate who founded a bitcoin mining company, is the bankroller and commander of the SpaceX mission, named Fram2, a reference to the Norwegian «Fram» ship that pioneered Arctic exploration at the turn of the 20th century. The four crew members on Monday afternoon were driven to the launchpad in a caravan of Teslas — the electric cars of Musk's other company — winding through the roads of Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a police escort, as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched overhead in an unrelated Starlink mission. «We're gonna watch a rocket launch while on our way to a rocket launch,» Wang wrote on X, the social media site owned by Musk, alongside a video of a Falcon 9 climbing the skies to space during their drive. The mission, SpaceX's sixth private astronaut flight, is the company's latest novel effort that expands its dominance in the global human spaceflight arena. It comes as Musk's power as SpaceX CEO and the world's richest man soars as he works as a close adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, a role that has given him extraordinary influence for a businessman over an array of U.S. policy matters.