Bitcoin’s sharp correction during a flat year
Bitcoin has suffered its fastest and steepest correction in three years, with prices plunging 36% from the $126,000 October all-time-high to around $80,000 in just six weeks.
Liquidity rebuilds in mid-market SMEs and real assets
Financing conditions in the UK mid-market have gradually stabilised since April, as banks and alternative lenders re-engage with lower to mid-sized SMEs and real estate borrowers on the strength of fundamentals.
Bitcoin’s Trump rally gives way to risk asset capitulation on heightened trade war fears
Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” – the culmination of his efforts to restructure the US economy and global trade – sparked a sharp global market sell-off that engulfed global equity markets and Bitcoin, as bonds rallied, in a fast-escalating trade war crisis. Blanket tariffs were imposed on nearly all US imports, on top of higher “reciprocal tariffs” on around 60 countries amounting to the most sweeping US trade action in a century.