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The Stock Market’s Wild 2025 Roller-Coaster Ride in Six Charts

This was a year of extremes for the US stock market. The S&P 500 Index plunged to the verge of a tariff-induced bear market in April, only to quickly rebound after President Trump relented and by late June was hitting repeated records fueled by enthusiasm for all things artificial intelligence.

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Market upheavals drive biggest gains since 2008 for macro hedge funds

Swings in the dollar, gold and government debt have been fertile territory for funds such as Rokos and Caxton

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Dalio: Why Market Crises Keep Changing the Rules for Investors

The first 25 years of this century delivered one upheaval after another: the dot-com crash, the housing collapse, the Great Financial Crisis, unprecedented rounds of quantitative easing, a historic pandemic, an inflation surge, and a retail-trading revolution powered by meme stocks. Romaine Bostick …

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‘DeFi is dead’: Maple Finance’s CEO says onchain markets will swallow Wall Street

The Maple Finance CEO says institutions will stop distinguishing between DeFi and TradFi as private credit moves onchain, and stablecoins process $50 trillion in payments.

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Royal Mail’s new pension scheme falls 5% in first six months

Pioneering CDC product underperforms benchmark index by a percentage point

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Chinese stocks cool on weak economic data

Profit-taking has also brought this year’s steep rally to an end in the last quarter

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FOMO Versus Bubble Angst Signals More Stock Volatility in 2026

The US stock market is poised to be kept on edge next year as investors are caught between fear of missing out on the artificial-intelligence rally and concern that it’s a bubble just waiting to burst.

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Will markets stage a last-minute Santa rally?

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

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Tom Lee responds to controversy surrounding Fundstrat’s differing bitcoin outlooks

A debate on X over seemingly conflicting bitcoin forecasts from Fundstrat analysts drew a response from Tom Lee, highlighting differing mandates and time horizons.

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Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer: Expect lame 2026 as four-year bitcoin cycle appears intact

The director of global macro at the asset management giant remains a secular bull on bitcoin, but isn't optimistic about the next year.

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Gold wins the debasement trade in 2025, but it is not the full story

U.S. bitcoin ETF AUM fell less than 4% despite a 36% price correction from the October high.

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Adobe and these 9 fellow tech stocks are rarely this cheap. Are they great deals or value traps?

The AI threat has led storied software stocks like Salesforce and Adobe to trade near their cheapest levels in years. Analysts are divided on which names will re-emerge as winners.

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Why it may be better if your children don’t have to wait to inherit your money

Also, the case for another banner year for emerging-market stocks and how six young traders each made a killing

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Citi trims crypto stock price targets after bitcoin's disappointing Q4

Circle remains the bank's top pick in the sector, with Bullish and Coinbase following.

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Why This Bull Market Isn't All About Tech

Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, offers his analysis of the stock market's recent performance and explains why he disagrees with the notion that investors are overly focused on mega-cap tech stocks. Ryan joins Carol Massar, Tim Stenovec, and Bloomberg Chartered Market Technicia…

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