Tag: Markets

2026 Market outlook: Key trends in stocks, bonds, and crypto for investors to watch

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Yahoo Finance anchor Josh Lipton breaks down key investing themes as we head into 2026. Some of the topics covered are the economic outlook, stocks, bonds, the Federal Reserve, crypto, tariffs, and more. #youtube #crypto #stocks #bondmarket About Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance provides free stock ticker data, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, comprehensive market data, advanced tools, and more information to help you manage your financial life. – Get the latest news and data at finance.yahoo.com – Download the Yahoo Finance app…

Why This Bitcoin Crash Proves Most Don’t Understand Bitcoin…

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io This Bitcoin crash is exposing a massive misunderstanding about what Bitcoin actually is. While most investors focus on price volatility, cycle theories, and short-term market structure, Bitcoin was created to solve a much deeper problem: inflation, fiat debasement, broken monetary incentives, and collapsing time preference. This episode explores Bitcoin’s origins through monetary history, the failure of the gold standard, the rise of fiat money, war-driven inflation, and why Bitcoin’s fixed supply and open settlement rails make it fundamentally different from every financial…

Crypto Prediction Markets Go Mainstream as Coinbase, Crypto.com Push In

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Prediction markets have emerged as one of the cryptocurrency sector’s most consequential, if not contested, frontiers. Once the domain of niche platforms, they are now attracting serious attention from major exchanges, venture capital and even traditional financial institutions.  As prediction markets move closer to the core of crypto’s business model, Crypto.com has sparked questions around fairness and market structure after seeking to hire a quantitative trader for an in-house market-making unit that would buy and sell contracts alongside other traders. Meanwhile, Coinbase has signaled a longer-term bet on regulated prediction…

Fed Q1 2026 Outlook and Its Potential Impact on Crypto Markets

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Key takeaways: Fed pauses could pressure crypto, but “stealth QE” may cushion downside risks. Liquidity matters more than cuts, shaping the direction of BTC and ETH in Q1 2026. The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates three times in 2025, largely in the final quarter, as unemployment ticked higher and inflation showed clearer signs of cooling. Yet crypto markets reacted counterintuitively. Rather than rallying on dovish policy, Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and major altcoins sold off, with total market capitalization shedding more than $1.45 trillion from its record high in…

Why is Bitcoin Dropping?

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Crypto.com Builds Internal Market Maker for Prediction Markets

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Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com is building an internal market-making team as part of its expansion into prediction markets, a move the company says is fully aligned with federal regulations and intended to improve liquidity, even as market-making in outcome-based trading continues to draw scrutiny. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the exchange is recruiting for a new role on its market-making desk, citing a job posting for a “quant trader” who would help buy and sell contracts tied to the outcomes of sporting events on Crypto.com’s prediction platform. Source: Bloomberg The report has…

Coinbase Acquires The Clearing Company, Expands Prediction Markets Strategy

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Coinbase has agreed to acquire The Clearing Company, an on-chain prediction markets startup that spans digital assets, politics, sports and culture, as it expands its push to become an “Everything Exchange” offering a broad range of investment products. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Coinbase said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Clearing Company, with the transaction expected to close in January. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition marks a rapid turnaround for The Clearing Company, which was founded earlier this year…

Prediction Markets Hurt Fintech User Churn: Inversion CEO

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Finance platforms racing to add prediction markets are doing so at the cost of accelerated “casino-like” user churn, says venture capital firm Inversion Capital founder and CEO, Santiago Roel Santos. Santos argued in a blog post on Saturday that while he is a “believer in the underlying idea” of prediction markets, he thinks offering them in mainstream finance apps like Robinhood threatens future value capture by increasing the risk of user account liquidation.  “The problem with casino-like products isn’t that users lose money. It’s that casinos accelerate churn,” he said. …

DraftKings Enters Prediction Markets, Eyes Crypto Contracts

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DraftKings is expanding beyond sports betting into the realm of prediction markets, laying the groundwork for future crypto-linked contracts as regulated event trading gains momentum in the United States. As Bloomberg reported, the company announced on Friday that it has launched the DraftKings Predictions app, which allows users to trade contracts on sports and financial outcomes. At launch, the app is available in 38 states, with sports-related trading permitted in 17 of them. DraftKings ultimately plans to expand its prediction market offerings beyond sports and finance to include contracts linked…

Coinbase To Launch Stock Trading, Prediction Markets

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Coinbase is launching stock trading and prediction markets as the crypto exchange looks beyond digital assets to chase its ambition of creating an “everything app.” Coinbase head of consumer and business products, Max Branzburg, announced at the company’s year-end conference that “stock trading is now available on Coinbase.” “This is a major milestone in our plan to enable 24/7 trading of stocks and ETFs from anywhere in the world, powered by crypto,” he said. Stock trading. Rolling out on Coinbase in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/tTcjpvVyXc — Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) December 17,…