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Gold held a decline as traders weighed conflicting signals from the US and Iran ahead of fresh talks to end the war that has fueled global inflationary pressures, according to Bloomberg.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $4.06 billion in net outflows in June — the largest monthly redemption since the products launched in January 2024, surpassing the prior record of $3.56 billion set in February 2025 by more than $500 million. Combined with May's $2.43 billion in redemptions, the two-month total approaches $6.5 billion — a figure comparable to the entire market capitalization of Zcash, currently among the world's 15 largest cryptocurrencies. The institutional demand collapse is visible in Bitcoin's price: down approximately 30% in the first half of 2026, underperforming nearly every major asset class except Strategy, whose shares fell 45%.
What the Numbers Actually Show
The $4.06 billion in June outflows — which could shift slightly based on the final two trading days of the month — represent a structural institutional exit rather than a temporary repositioning. Last week alone saw approximately $1.79 billion in redemptions, the second-highest weekly outflow since trading began, following the record week that preceded it. On a year-to-date basis, net outflows total roughly $5 billion in the first half of 2026 — meaning the products that attracted $35 billion in their first year of trading have now returned approximately $5 billion of that in six months.
The monthly record is particularly striking given the expectations that existed at the start of June. The SpaceX IPO on June 12 was widely anticipated to clear ETF selling pressure — the anecdotal theory that investors had been liquidating Bitcoin ETF positions to fund IPO participation. Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick had specifically cited SpaceX IPO-related selling as one of two catalysts for his "winter is over" bottom call, predicting that post-IPO flows would stabilize. Instead, June's outflows accelerated after the IPO, with the month on track to set a record despite SpaceX trading well above its IPO price by month's end.
Why the Institutional Exit Happened
The causal chain is specific and traceable. The April CPI report on May 12 — coming in at 3.8% year-over-year — triggered the initial institutional reassessment of Bitcoin allocation in a higher-for-longer rate environment. May's $2.43 billion in outflows followed. June's hawkish FOMC meeting under new Chair Kevin Warsh, which delivered a dot plot showing 9 of 18 officials projecting 2026 rate hikes and a completely rewritten policy statement, cemented the rate hike narrative and extended the institutional exit into record territory. The Reuters poll consensus of no Fed rate cuts through end of 2027 — published in the same week that June's outflows were accelerating — provided the definitive institutional framing for why Bitcoin ETF redemptions were the rational choice for yield-seeking allocators facing 4.5% Treasury alternatives.
The structural mechanism is straightforward: spot Bitcoin ETFs are held primarily by institutional allocators and financial advisors who make portfolio-level decisions based on macro risk-adjusted return expectations. When real yields rise and rate cuts disappear from the forward curve, non-yielding assets like Bitcoin become less attractive relative to the risk-free rate — and the ETF wrapper, which made institutional Bitcoin allocation easy to add, makes it equally easy to remove.
The Strategy Comparison: Bitcoin Outperformed Its Largest Corporate Holder
The H1 2026 performance context contains one specific data point that reframes Bitcoin's 30% decline. Strategy — the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder, whose entire thesis is leveraged Bitcoin exposure — fell 45% in the first half, materially worse than Bitcoin itself. The preferred stock STRC has fallen approximately 25% below par. MSTR common stock trades more than 85% below its November 2024 all-time high. Bitcoin's 30% decline, viewed against Strategy's 45% collapse, illustrates that the financial engineering layered on top of Bitcoin exposure has performed worse than the underlying asset — validating Brad Garlinghouse's "financial engineering does not drive long-term value" critique even as Bitcoin itself holds above its $58,100 June cycle low.
What a Recovery Requires
The record June outflows create a specific and high bar for recovery. Sustained net inflows — not the isolated days of $86 million and $10 million that appeared in mid-June — represent the demand-side confirmation that every analytical framework has identified as necessary for a confirmed bottom rather than a temporary floor. Three catalysts in the current week provide the most proximate opportunity for that confirmation to begin: Warsh at the ECB Forum Tuesday could shift the hawkish rate narrative; Wednesday's ADP and ISM Manufacturing data provide early labor market signals; and Thursday's nonfarm payrolls estimate of 114,000 — significantly below May's 172,000 blowout — could deliver the labor market deceleration that gives institutional allocators the macro permission to stop reducing Bitcoin exposure and begin rebuilding it.
Until sustained inflows materialize, the record $4.06 billion June outflow is both the most accurate description of where institutional sentiment sits and the clearest measure of how much needs to change before the structural recovery Bitcoin's on-chain accumulation signals have been pointing toward can actually begin.

According to Bloomberg, the yen slid to its weakest level against the dollar since 1986, breaching the 161.95 mark in New York trading overnight and extending its decline to 162.40 in Tokyo on Tuesday, despite jawboning from Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara and subsequent comments from Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama that had little immediate impact. The breach of 161.95 passes the nadir touched in July 2024 during an earlier intervention campaign and puts traders on high alert for authorities wading into the market. The yen's slump has persisted despite regime change at the Bank of Japan, which ended its negative interest-rate policy in 2024 and lifted its benchmark rate to 1% on June 16 — the highest since 1995 — yet the impact was minimal as traders expect the Federal Reserve to stay hawkish. As long as the gap between Japan's ultra-low rates and those in the US and other major economies remains wide, investors have an incentive to borrow cheaply in yen and invest in higher-yielding assets overseas, with resulting capital outflows keeping downward pressure on the currency. The persistent softness comes despite a record ¥11.73 trillion ($72.4 billion) intervention by the government from April 28 to May 27 after the yen first slid past 160 per dollar, with Japan likely drawing on holdings of foreign securities including US Treasuries to finance the defense. Finance Minister Katayama reiterated on June 19 that authorities were ready to take "bold action" and said the US and Japan are increasingly "aligned" on foreign exchange policy after speaking with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The US-Iran war added fresh pressure given Japan imports almost all of its energy, with the vast majority of oil coming from the Middle East. An aging and shrinking population has clouded growth prospects and fueled public debt that weighs on substantial rate-hike expectations. Nomura's chief FX strategist Yujiro Goto said the focus will be whether authorities move ahead with actual intervention or stronger verbal warnings. Bloomberg Markets Live strategist Mark Cranfield said the 164-to-165 area is where FX traders will now focus. Toyota Motor Corp. estimates every ¥1 depreciation boosts operating profit by ¥50 billion, with the weak yen potentially delivering a $5.8 billion profit windfall for Japanese carmakers this year.

According to Decrypt, the US Supreme Court on Monday overturned a 91-year precedent, ruling in a 6-3 decision that presidents can fire federal agency commissioners — including at the SEC and CFTC — at will and for almost any reason, with the exception of Federal Reserve governors.
The case, Trump v. Slaughter, affirmed President Trump's right to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic FTC commissioner, whose husband is VP of policy at crypto venture firm Paradigm and helped fund the lawsuit. The ruling overturns a precedent set during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration that limited presidential removal of agency commissioners to cases of neglect of duty or malfeasance.
"Today's historic Slaughter decision by the Supreme Court is the greatest increase in presidential power in the last 100 years," Trump said in a social media post.
The ruling has direct implications for crypto regulation: the SEC currently has three Republican commissioners and zero Democrats, while the CFTC has a lone Republican chairman, with Trump having refused to appoint Democrats to either agency despite telling Decrypt in December he was "open" to the idea.
The decision further complicates negotiations over the Clarity Act, as Senate Democrats had previously demanded Trump commit to appointing Democratic commissioners as a condition for supporting the crypto market structure bill. The ruling means Trump could theoretically appoint Democrats and fire them at any time thereafter. Senate Democrats have also staked out ethics language restricting Trump's crypto ventures as a red line. GOP Senate leadership signaled an intention to force a floor vote on the Clarity Act next month regardless of Democratic readiness.

According to The Block, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority on Tuesday finalized a broad crypto regulatory framework introducing prudential requirements, market abuse controls and stablecoin standards, with the regime taking effect on Oct. 25, 2027.
The framework applies to crypto trading platforms, custodians, stablecoin issuers, lending and borrowing providers, staking firms and certain DeFi entities where a controlling party is identifiable.
The FCA removed an exception that previously allowed fungible cryptoassets to be listed without a disclosure document, and replaced a two-tier classification with a single 40% net risk position requirement and a 40% counterparty default volatility adjustment. For stablecoin issuers, the rules cover reserve backing, safeguarding, redemptions and customer disclosures, with the K-SII capital coefficient reduced to 1% from 2%. The authorization window opens Sept. 30, 2026 and closes Feb. 28, 2027.
FCA Executive Director of Payments and Digital Finance David Geale called the framework a significant milestone providing regulatory certainty while preserving scope for innovation.

Bitcoin remains stuck near $60,000 with every headline pointing the wrong way — record ETF outflows, a hawkish Fed, Middle East airstrikes, and the first weekly close below the 200-week SMA since early 2023. But beneath the bearish surface, one specific dynamic carries a genuine contrarian signal: dollar and rate market positioning has become so one-sided that the setup itself is fragile. When crowded trades unwind, they unwind fast.
What the Positioning Data Actually Shows
The CFTC and ICE Europe data are unambiguous. Aggregate net long dollar positions rose 18% to $34.5 billion in the week ended June 22 — the highest level in seven years — a sharp reversal from the net short position that existed before the Iran conflict began in February. In rates markets, leveraged funds' short bets in Secured Overnight Financing Rate futures hit a record 2.97 million contracts, representing over $700 billion in notional bets on rising interest rates, according to Saxo Bank.
Both readings tell the same story: the market has positioned heavily and uniformly for a strong dollar and elevated yields — the precise macro conditions that have driven $4 billion in Bitcoin ETF outflows this month and six consecutive weeks of net redemptions. When positioning reaches these extremes, the risk is not that the thesis is wrong in the long run but that the trade becomes self-defeating in the short run as the crowding itself creates the conditions for a sharp counter-trend move.
Why Crowded Positioning Creates Contrarian Risk
The dynamic is precisely described: it is the market equivalent of a packed subway car lurching to a stop — everyone leaning the same way only needs one jolt to send the crowd stumbling in the opposite direction. With $34.5 billion in net long dollar bets and $700 billion in notional rate-hike positioning, the market has very little room to add to these trades. Any catalyst that challenges the strong-dollar, high-yields thesis does not need to be large to trigger a disproportionate response — because the unwinding of crowded positions creates its own momentum.
The two most likely catalysts for that jolt are both arriving this week. Oil prices continuing to fall as Brent trades below $70 on resumed US-Iran Qatar talks would directly undermine the inflation narrative that justified the rate-hike positioning. And Friday's June jobs report, with nonfarm payrolls estimated at 114,000 versus May's 172,000 blowout, could provide the labor market deceleration that shifts the narrative from "too strong to cut" to "beginning to cool" — the first data permission for the hawkish positioning to start unwinding.
What a Positioning Unwind Would Mean for Bitcoin
A sudden drop in the dollar and Treasury yields — the natural result of a crowded long-dollar, short-rates trade unwinding — is precisely the macro combination that tends to support risk assets including Bitcoin. The mechanism is direct: a weaker dollar reduces the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding Bitcoin relative to dollar cash, while falling yields reduce the competition from Treasury bonds offering 4.5% returns. Both changes simultaneously would remove the two most concrete arguments institutional ETF sellers have used to justify their $4 billion in June redemptions.
The potential impact would not be permanent — it would represent a sentiment and positioning correction rather than a fundamental change in the macro environment. But Bitcoin's current positioning, with on-chain accumulation signals at maximum readings and the 200-week SMA providing a historically significant floor reference, means even a temporary dollar and yield reversal could produce a meaningful price response as short positions are covered and the crowded macro trade partially unwinds into a market where structural buyers are already active.
What the Technical Picture Adds
Bitcoin's weekly candle for the week ended June 28 closed below the 200-week SMA for the first time since early 2023 — a signal that Ali Charts and CF Benchmarks have both identified as a historically significant accumulation zone. Every prior sustained break below the 200-week SMA has ultimately proven to be an attractive long-term entry point in hindsight, though the 2022 break preceded six months of further weakness before recovery.
The convergence of this technical signal with the most crowded dollar and rate positioning in seven years creates a specific setup: the fundamental accumulation case is intact, the macro trade that has been suppressing it is stretched to near-breaking point, and two specific catalysts — oil and Friday's jobs data — arrive this week with the potential to provide the jolt that starts the unwind.
What to Watch: Oil, Jobs, and Warsh at the ECB Forum
Three events define the week's direction. Brent staying below $70 and continuing to fall validates the Iran deal's disinflationary channel and undermines the rate-hike inflation thesis that underlies $700 billion in SOFR shorts. Friday's 114,000 nonfarm payrolls estimate — materially below May's 172,000 — provides the jobs deceleration signal that would give institutional positioning a reason to reduce dollar longs. And Fed Chair Warsh speaking at the ECB Forum on Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. ET provides the communication moment where any shift in tone from the June dot plot's hawkishness would be immediately priced — potentially ahead of either the oil or jobs catalyst.

Bitcoin is trading below $60,000 in what analysts are calling "no man's land" — a zone where price sits between major on-chain support and resistance levels with no meaningful technical anchors nearby in either direction. Every key valuation metric that would signal recovery sits well above current prices. Every key support level that would signal a final bottom sits well below. The path of least resistance, based on both technical and on-chain data, remains to the downside.
What the Resistance Levels Above $60,000 Are Saying
Four major valuation metrics now sit above Bitcoin's current price — each representing a level that Bitcoin has failed to reclaim and that historically acts as resistance during bear markets. The True Mean Price at approximately $76,300 estimates the average acquisition cost of coins after adjusting for lost or inactive supply, providing what analysts consider the most accurate measure of the network's true economic cost basis. The 200-Day Moving Average at $75,500 is the most widely followed long-term trend indicator in traditional and crypto markets — its position well above current prices confirms Bitcoin remains in a structural downtrend by the most conventional measure. The 128-Day Moving Average at $70,900 tracks the intermediate trend, while the Short Term Holder Cost Basis at $69,600 represents the average purchase price of investors who have held Bitcoin for less than approximately 155 days. Every one of these metrics sits between $9,600 and $16,300 above current prices — a cluster of overhead resistance that defines the ceiling of the no man's land Bitcoin currently occupies.
Why the On-Chain Support Levels Below Are the More Important Data Points
The more consequential data for cycle bottom analysis sits below current prices rather than above it. Three major on-chain support levels define the floor zone. The Long Term Holder Cost Basis at $49,900 reflects the average cost basis of investors who have held Bitcoin for more than 155 days — the cohort whose behavior has historically determined whether bear markets end in orderly bottoms or capitulation events. The Coin Time Price at $51,700 measures Bitcoin's value after adjusting for the age and economic significance of coins. The Realized Price at $53,200 represents the average price at which all circulating Bitcoin last moved on-chain — the level at which the average holder transitions from profit to loss, and a metric that has historically marked the deepest phase of Bitcoin bear markets.
These three levels — $49,900, $51,700, and $53,200 — are clustered approximately $7,000-$10,000 below current prices, defining the support zone that Bitcoin has not yet reached in the current cycle.
The Historical Pattern That Points to $45,000
The most specific and uncomfortable element of the current analysis is what history says happens when Bitcoin enters no man's land between major resistance above and major support below. During previous major bear market lows, Bitcoin has traded approximately 5-10% below these key on-chain valuation metrics at the actual cycle bottom — meaning the floor has historically not been the realized price or the long-term holder cost basis itself, but a level 5-10% below those metrics.
Applying that historical relationship to the current on-chain support cluster of $49,900-$53,200 produces an implied cycle bottom in the region of approximately $45,000. That figure is approximately 25% below current prices and would represent a new cycle low significantly below the $58,100 low touched on June 26 — the level that multiple analysts including Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick had previously identified as the confirmed cycle bottom.
Why This Conflicts With the Accumulation Signals
The $45,000 implied bottom sits in direct tension with the accumulation signals that have been building throughout June. Glassnode's Accumulation Trend Score has been at its maximum reading of 1.0 for weeks. Long-term holders control a record 79% of circulating supply. CryptoQuant's cycle momentum indicator touched -30 — the historical bottom zone. Ali Charts' 200-week SMA analysis identified the current zone as a decade-level accumulation opportunity.
The resolution of this tension is the same distinction that has appeared in every bottom analysis this month: structural conditions for a bottom forming are not the same as a confirmed bottom. The accumulation signals identify where the floor is developing. The technical no man's land analysis identifies where the price needs to go before the floor is confirmed. Both can be simultaneously true — and the implied $45,000 target would represent the kind of final capitulation event that CryptoQuant's selling pressure indicator has been absent for 1,256 days and that every prior cycle bottom has required before a durable recovery began.
What to Watch: The $49,900-$53,200 Support Zone
Whether Bitcoin reaches $45,000 or finds its bottom at current levels depends on whether the $49,900-$53,200 on-chain support zone holds when tested or breaks. A test of that zone — combined with the selling pressure indicator finally firing its first signal in over three years — would produce the capitulation conditions that historical cycle data identifies as the final clearing event before recovery. A hold above $58,000 with sustained ETF inflow recovery and Fed dovish signals would validate the existing bottom-signal cluster without requiring the full historical pattern to play out. Both scenarios remain live. The technical no man's land framework says the former is more likely than the latter until Bitcoin reclaims the $63,500 200-week SMA and confirms it as support.

AAVE traded around $94.32 on June 27, up 13.16% over 24 hours, as attention focused on Aave’s lending economics and how value accrues to the token.
According to NS3.AI, Aave founder Stani Kulechov said revenue from the Aave protocol, the GHO stablecoin, and product activity flows to AAVE rather than to Aave Labs.
Separately, an update on VanEck’s VBILL noted that Horizon recorded more than $450 million in net deposits and about $135 million in borrowing after the fund was added.

According to CoinDesk, JPMorgan said the US needs a durable regulatory framework for digital assets that closes existing gaps rather than creating new ones, arguing that the industry's growth should be matched by safeguards protecting consumers, financial markets, and the broader economy.In a Monday blog post by Umar Farooq, global co-head of JP Morgan Payments, and Peter Muriungi, CEO of Digital Assets and Blockchain Solutions, the bank argued that pending market structure legislation could help the crypto industry mature — but only if it closes regulatory gaps. The bank repeatedly warned that digital assets should not be allowed to sidestep safeguards governing traditional finance, arguing that innovation without proper oversight could create new risks. Farooq and Muriungi acknowledged that tokenization and programmable money could make payments faster and improve cross-border money movement, but said those benefits will only materialize if lawmakers pair regulatory clarity with strong protections. The blog comes as the Senate races to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess, with negotiators still resolving ethics rules for officials with crypto ties, liability protections for DeFi developers, stablecoin yield provisions, and concerns from Senate Agriculture Committee Democrats. JPMorgan argued that assets functioning like securities should follow securities laws regardless of blockchain issuance, and decentralized trading platforms serving as exchanges or brokers should meet the same standards for market integrity, disclosure, and customer protection. On stablecoins, the executives warned against allowing products resembling bank deposits to operate outside capital, liquidity, and consumer protection rules. CEO Jamie Dimon, described as one of the banking industry's most vocal critics of stablecoin yield, said earlier this month: "The banks will not accept it that way," pledging to fight the issue "down to the wire." The bank also argued that digital asset legislation should preserve anti-money laundering and law enforcement tools, warning that broad exemptions could create blind spots for illicit finance and market manipulation.

According to Bloomberg, Super Micro Computer Inc.'s offices in Taiwan were raided by government authorities on Monday, widening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia Corp. chips into China using the company's servers. Local investigators raided the residences of six individuals and the sites of three affiliated companies, including Super Micro's Taiwan office, Taiwanese data center operator Chief Telecom Inc., and Super Micro distributor Albatron Technology Co., according to Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office and a person familiar with the situation. Super Micro shares fell as much as 9.2% and were down 8% to $28.17 at about 3 p.m. in New York. Super Micro said in a statement it is "working closely with Taiwanese authorities" and "committed to protecting our advanced technologies and intellectual property." The move marks an expansion of Taiwan's first public crackdown on AI chip diversion after years of US pressure to curb China's tech access. Taiwan doesn't currently treat AI chip exports to China as a crime, but Taipei is considering criminalizing such exports to give prosecutors more tools. Authorities made their first known detentions in May, charging three individuals with falsifying documents related to exports of Super Micro servers containing Nvidia AI chips — they were suspected of sending at least one batch to China via Japan and attempting to export around 50 servers that were seized. The Keelung District Prosecutors Office said it has also summoned the individuals searched on Monday for interviews.

US storage and optical communications stocks posted broad pre-market gains on June 29, according to market data, adding to the constructive AI infrastructure signal from South Korea's 800 trillion won semiconductor investment pledge announced earlier in the session.
Storage stocks — broad gains across the sector
Micron Technology rose 2.16%, Western Digital gained 2.48%, SanDisk climbed 1.59%, and Seagate Technology added 1.55%. The uniform strength across all four major storage names suggests sector-level demand rather than company-specific news — consistent with the narrative that South Korea's DRAM production doubling commitment from Samsung and SK Hynix is being read as positive for the entire memory and storage supply chain.
Micron's pre-market gain is particularly notable given the stock had surged 15% the prior Thursday on strong earnings before giving back approximately 5% on Friday as the broader semiconductor selloff resumed. Monday's 2.16% pre-market recovery suggests the earnings-driven thesis — strong AI memory demand — is reasserting after the volatility.
Optical communications — mixed but Corning outperforms
The optical communications sector showed a more mixed picture. Corning led with a 3.77% gain — the standout move of the session — while AAOI rose 1.48%, Marvell gained 1.96%, and Lumentum added 0.78%. Nokia edged down 0.08%, the only decliner in the group.
Corning's 3.77% move is the most significant single-stock data point in Monday's pre-market. The company's optical fiber business is a direct beneficiary of AI data center buildout — hyperscaler facilities require extensive fiber infrastructure for internal connectivity — making Corning a less volatile but highly correlated AI infrastructure play compared to the semiconductor names that have been whipsawing markets throughout the past two weeks.
The broader context
Monday's pre-market strength in storage and optical communications arrives alongside QQQ gaining approximately 1.2% on renewed US-Iran peace talk optimism and Brent crude trading below $70 — a combination that, if sustained into regular trading hours, would represent the most constructive equity market opening for AI-adjacent infrastructure names since before the semiconductor crash that sent the KOSPI down 10% last Tuesday.

Bloomberg reported that Susquehanna Investment Group has sued 100 John Doe defendants in Manhattan federal court, seeking to unmask individuals it claims made at least $100 million trading on inside information about a Chinese government crackdown on cross-border brokerages.The Pennsylvania-based market-making firm, which says it was the counterparty on most of the alleged trades, is seeking to recover more than $70 million it lost in what it believes is one of the largest insider-trading schemes in recent memory. The allegations focus on 200,000 short-dated put option bets placed in the two weeks before China's May 22 announcement punishing brokers for flouting capital controls, with Futu Holdings and Up Fintech's Tiger Brokers singled out for soliciting business without an onshore license. Many trades were made through accounts at Interactive Brokers, Futu, and Tiger Brokers, and Susquehanna is seeking an order freezing certain accounts and authorizing subpoenas. The traders collectively spent $12 million on options, yielding more than $100 million in profit — a return exceeding 900%. Susquehanna alleges "powerful evidence" of material non-public information use, saying tips could have come from Chinese securities regulators or personnel at Futu or Tiger's TradeUP unit. "By way of comparison, Raj Rajaratnam's infamous insider trading scheme at Galleon Management yielded only approximately $53 million in profits," Susquehanna said in its complaint, referring to the hedge fund manager convicted in 2011.

The US and Iran agreed to fully halt strikes and resume talks in Qatar this week, according to Axios. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.5% on the news. Bitcoin traded near $59,700 — down 0.3% on the day and 6.8% on the week — and did not follow. The non-reaction is not a surprise. Traders have been burned by enough geopolitical relief rallies over the past two months that the Qatar meeting registers as a possibility rather than a catalyst. What the on-chain data is showing beneath the surface is more concerning than the price action alone.
Why Long-Term Holders Moving Old Coins to Exchanges Is the Warning Sign
A divergence in two on-chain metrics is flashing a specific warning for Bitcoin. The Spot Exchange Inflow CDD — which tracks how many old, dormant coins are being moved into spot exchanges, weighted by how long they sat still — has posted a sustained series of elevated spikes since late May, according to CryptoQuant. CDD stands for coin days destroyed: a high reading means coins that had not moved in a long time are suddenly being sent to exchanges, typically to be sold.
At the same time, the Derivative Exchange Inflow CDD — the same metric for leverage trading platforms rather than spot markets — has trended steadily lower. The divergence is the key signal: the selling pressure is coming from long-term holders moving into spot venues, not from short-term traders using leverage. That distinction matters because long-term holder distribution is historically a more sustained and deliberate form of selling than leveraged position unwinds, which tend to be forced and fast rather than patient and systematic.
Elevated spot CDD readings have preceded meaningful price declines in prior cycles, including moves in early 2025 and mid-2024 — though they have also resolved without follow-through in some cases. The current sustained series since late May, running concurrently with six consecutive weeks of Bitcoin ETF outflows and the largest 30-day ETF outflow on record, makes this reading harder to dismiss than isolated CDD spikes.
Why June 2026 Is Bitcoin's Worst Month Since June 2022
Bitcoin is down 19% in June with just two US trading sessions remaining — putting it on track for its worst monthly performance since June 2022, when it declined 37%. The comparison to June 2022 is sobering: that month saw the collapse of Three Arrows Capital and the broader crypto credit contagion that ultimately drove Bitcoin to its $15,500 FTX-era low in November 2022. The current June decline has different drivers — a hawkish Fed, AI trade rotation, and geopolitical oil-driven inflation — but the magnitude now sits in the same historical category.
Bitcoin is also set to finish Q2 2026 in the red, down approximately 12%, marking a third consecutive quarterly decline — a sequence not seen since 2022. That said, the pace of the decline is measurably slowing. Bitcoin fell 23% in Q4 2025, followed by 22.2% in Q1 2026. Q2's 12% decline suggests the selloff's intensity is easing even as momentum remains negative — a deceleration pattern that has historically preceded base formation in prior cycles.
The Golden Ratio Level That Nearly Broke Over the Weekend
Bitcoin nearly tested a critical technical level over the weekend: the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement of its entire 2023-2025 bull market — the so-called golden ratio. The 61.8% Fibonacci level appears across financial markets and is one of the most widely watched support zones in technical analysis, often attracting buying interest precisely because its widespread use makes it self-reinforcing. The level held, with prices bouncing to trade near $60,000. But a clean break below it would embolden sellers and could trigger the capitulation event that CryptoQuant's selling pressure indicator has been absent for 1,256 days — the longest silence in Bitcoin's history.
What the Pre-Market Session and Saylor's Hint Are Signaling
US equity pre-market opened higher with QQQ up approximately 1.2% on the Iran peace talk resumption. Gold held above $4,000. Brent crude continued trading below $70 per barrel — its lowest level since before the February conflict began, validating the disinflationary oil channel that Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick identified as a key Bitcoin recovery mechanism. The DXY remained firm above 101.
Among crypto-adjacent equities, AI Bitcoin miners IREN and Cipher Mining each gained approximately 3%. Strategy rose about 1% and STRC advanced 2% as investors anticipate the company's next Bitcoin purchase announcement. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor fueled that speculation on Sunday with an X post: "We're gonna need more charts" — his characteristic signal that a new Bitcoin purchase disclosure is imminent. A Strategy purchase announcement this week would confirm the first of Kendrick's three bottom-confirmation signals for a second consecutive week, adding structural support to the recovery case even as price action remains muted.
What This Week Actually Needs to Move Bitcoin
The test for crypto this week is precise and binary. Iran talks in Qatar need to produce something durable enough to sustain the oil price decline below $70 Brent — not just headlines that reverse within 48 hours as every prior ceasefire development has. And Thursday's core PCE print needs to soften enough to shift the Fed narrative that the Reuters poll consensus has now hardened into: no rate cuts through end of 2027. Both need to land for Bitcoin to have a macro reason to move. South Korea's announcement of plans to double DRAM production capacity — with Samsung and SK Hynix committing 800 trillion won ($518 billion) for four new fabrication plants — adds a positive AI infrastructure signal, but Asian tech hardware shares slid on the rotation even as broader Asian markets gained.
Until the Qatar talks produce a verified outcome and Thursday's PCE data arrives, Bitcoin remains in the technical no man's land that analysts identified over the weekend: below every key resistance level above and with major on-chain support still $7,000-$10,000 lower at $49,900-$53,200.

Asian stocks were poised to rise after a rally in technology shares lifted gauges on Wall Street, according to Bloomberg.
The yen weakened to a four-decade low against the dollar.

Bitcoin's UTXO block profit/loss ratio has fallen into a range that has historically appeared during market bottoming phases — the first clear sign of deeper market clearing in the current cycle, according to crypto analyst Moreno. The signal is real and historically significant. It is also insufficient on its own. For a structural bottom to be confirmed rather than a temporary oversold condition, the 365-day moving average of this ratio needs to decline significantly further — a process that implies more time and potentially more price pressure before the current bear market phase genuinely ends.
What the UTXO Profit/Loss Ratio Is Actually Measuring
The Bitcoin UTXO block profit/loss ratio measures what proportion of unspent transaction outputs — the individual coin units that make up Bitcoin's blockchain — are currently sitting at a profit versus a loss relative to when they last moved. A high ratio means most UTXOs are profitable, which typically reflects large accumulated unrealized gains in the market and signals high distribution pressure: holders who are in profit have the incentive and ability to sell.
When the ratio falls to a lower range, it indicates that overall profitability across the network is being compressed — losses are widening, unrealized gains are shrinking, and the market is entering what Moreno describes as a deeper clearing and reset phase. Holders who would sell to take profit have increasingly already done so. Those remaining are increasingly holding at a loss, which historically reduces sell pressure as loss-averse holders become reluctant to crystallize losses.
The current readings have now fallen into this lower range — the range that has historically appeared multiple times during market bottoming phases in prior cycles.
Why This Is the First Clear Bottoming Signal — And Why It Is Not Yet Confirmation
The distinction Moreno draws between a bottoming signal and a confirmed bottom is precise and important. The UTXO ratio entering the historical bottoming range is a necessary condition for a bottom — it confirms the market is in the kind of deep clearing phase that has preceded prior recoveries. It is not a sufficient condition because the 365-day moving average of that ratio has not yet declined significantly enough to confirm that the long-term profit structure is being fully reset rather than simply experiencing a temporary oversold condition.
The 365-day moving average is the key metric because it smooths out the short-term oscillations that can produce false bottoming signals during extended bear markets. For the moving average to decline significantly further, the ratio needs to stay compressed for a sustained period — implying that the market's long-term profit structure undergoes a full reset rather than a quick bounce and recovery. That process takes time and typically requires more downward price pressure to complete.
What This Means for Short Squeezes and Periodic Rallies
Moreno's framework does not rule out rallies during this phase — it specifically contextualizes them. Short squeezes and periodic price recoveries remain possible, particularly given the overcrowding of short positions that derivatives data has been flagging throughout June. Bitcoin's one-week put skew on Deribit approaching 30%, the $38 million single bet on Hyperliquid that was the largest liquidation of the recent crash, and the sustained negative funding rates across most major tokens all confirm that short positioning has become crowded enough to support short-covering bounces.
However, Moreno's assessment is explicit: unless the overall profit/loss ratio re-establishes a sustainable upward trend, these rallies should not be interpreted as a structural market reversal. A short squeeze-driven bounce from $58,000 to $63,000 that fades back to $60,000 is consistent with the current bottoming-signal framework without contradicting the bear market thesis. A genuine structural reversal requires the ratio to turn durably higher — signaling that the long-term profit structure has been fully reset and a new accumulation phase is genuinely underway.
How This Fits the Broader June Bottom Signal Cluster
Moreno's UTXO analysis adds a nuanced and specific layer to the dense cluster of bottom signals that have accumulated throughout June. Glassnode's Accumulation Trend Score has been at its maximum reading of 1.0 for weeks. CryptoQuant's cycle momentum indicator touched -30 — the historical bottom zone. The Sharpe ratio hit -20, matching every prior cycle low. Long-term holders control a record 79% of supply. Ali Charts identified the 200-week SMA interaction as a decade-level accumulation opportunity.
But Moreno's framework also aligns with the more cautious elements of that cluster: CryptoQuant's selling pressure indicator has not fired in 1,256 days — the longest silence in Bitcoin's history — and the capitulation signal that every prior confirmed bottom required has not yet materialized. The UTXO ratio entering its historical bottoming range is consistent with both the "floor is forming" optimism of the accumulation signals and the "capitulation has not yet confirmed the bottom" caution of the selling pressure analysis. The market is in the right zone. The clearing process is not yet complete.

Crypto markets enter July with a regulatory transformation in Europe, a packed US macro calendar that could reshape the Fed narrative, and a Robinhood product reveal that may redefine how retail investors access digital assets. The week of June 29 carries more simultaneous catalysts than any single week since the June 17 FOMC meeting — and unlike that week, this one arrives with Bitcoin already in technical no man's land below $60,000 and every bottom-confirmation signal still waiting for macro permission to activate.
Tuesday July 1: MiCA's Transitional Period Expires — Binance's 450 Million EU Users Are In Play
The most structurally significant crypto-specific event of the week is the expiry of the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets framework transitional period on July 1. MiCA now moves from transition to full enforcement — and Binance, which failed to secure a MiCA license, faces the prospect of losing access to its estimated 450 million EU users.
Coinbase and OKX have already begun competing aggressively to capture those users, according to CoinDesk reporting. The competitive dynamics MiCA creates among licensed exchanges — including the potential for Binance to eventually secure a license under a restructured EU entity — will define European crypto market structure through H2 2026 and beyond. For Bitcoin and broader crypto markets, MiCA's full enforcement removes regulatory uncertainty for licensed operators but introduces near-term user migration friction that could affect EU trading volumes and sentiment.
Tuesday July 1: Robinhood's "The World Is Flat" Product Reveal
Robinhood holds a product reveal event titled "The World Is Flat" on July 1, with CEO Vlad Tenev speaking alongside General Manager for Crypto Johann Kerbrat. The title's reference to global financial access — echoing Thomas Friedman's globalization thesis — suggests the announcement may center on international expansion, cross-border crypto or equity products, or tokenized assets available globally through Robinhood's platform.
Given Robinhood's recent trajectory — adding perpetual-style equity index futures in June, expanding its crypto offering, and cutting 10% of its workforce in the same week — this event could represent a significant product pivot. Whether it involves tokenized stocks, stablecoin integration, or a new international market structure will be closely watched given Robinhood's large retail user base and its potential to channel mainstream retail capital toward crypto infrastructure.
Tuesday July 1: Warsh Speaks at ECB Forum — The First Major Communication Since the Hawkish Dot Plot
The macro event with the highest potential to move markets is Fed Chair Kevin Warsh speaking at the European Central Bank Forum at 9:00 a.m. ET on July 1. This will be Warsh's first major public appearance since the June 17 FOMC meeting delivered a hawkish dot plot showing 9 of 18 officials projecting 2026 rate hikes and a completely rewritten policy statement.
Markets are looking for any signal that the improved macro backdrop — Brent crude below $70 per barrel, the Iran ceasefire resuming in Qatar, and May's core CPI beating at 0.2% — has shifted Warsh's tone from the hawkish committee positioning the dot plot reflected. The Reuters poll consensus of no rate cuts through end of 2027 is the most hawkish economist outlook in years. Even a modest dovish adjustment in Warsh's language could meaningfully shift that consensus and provide the macro permission Bitcoin's accumulation signals have been waiting for.
Wednesday July 2: Securitize Lists on NYSE After SPAC Merger
Tokenization firm Securitize begins trading on the NYSE on July 2 following its SPAC merger — the first pure-play tokenization infrastructure company to achieve a public market listing. Securitize has been at the center of the RWA tokenization boom that Binance Research identified as growing 589% since early 2025, providing the backend infrastructure for BlackRock's tokenized money market fund and multiple other institutional tokenized asset products. Its NYSE listing as a standalone public company provides the tokenization sector with a direct equity market reference point and a mechanism for institutional capital to access the RWA theme through traditional equity markets.
Wednesday July 2: June Jobs Report — The Week's Most Important Macro Number
US nonfarm payrolls for June release at 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday — the same data series whose May blowout of 172,000 versus an 85,000 forecast sparked the rate hike repricing that drove six consecutive weeks of Bitcoin ETF outflows. The June consensus estimate of 114,000 — down from May's 172,000 — reflects a meaningful expected deceleration. The unemployment rate is forecast steady at 4.3%.
A print at or below 114,000 would confirm that May's blowout was partially World Cup-driven seasonal noise, as Vanguard's Schickling had argued, and would reduce the labor market pressure behind rate hike expectations. A second consecutive blowout above 150,000 would do the opposite — cementing the hawkish dot plot's rate hike projections and extending the macro headwind that has driven Bitcoin's worst monthly performance since June 2022.
The Full Calendar: What Else to Watch
June 30 brings the US House Price Index year-over-year for April (prior 1.7%) and JOLTs Job Openings for May estimated at 7.28 million versus a prior 7.618 million — a modest expected decline that would suggest some cooling in labor demand without signaling weakness. July 1 brings the Eurozone Inflation Rate flash estimate for June at 3% versus a prior 3.2% — a further expected deceleration that would be relevant context for the ECB's own policy trajectory alongside Warsh's appearance at the ECB Forum. US ADP Employment Change for June is estimated at 118,000 versus a prior 122,000 — the Wednesday private payrolls preview that will set expectations for the official nonfarm figure. US ISM Manufacturing PMI for June is estimated at 53.7 versus a prior 54 — a slight expected softening but still in expansion territory, consistent with the economy-performing-better-than-expected framing Standard Chartered's H2 outlook had noted. July 2 also brings US initial jobless claims for the week ending June 27, estimated at 220,000 versus a prior 215,000 — a slight expected increase consistent with gradual labor market normalization. The Fed Balance Sheet for July 1 (prior $6.736 trillion) closes the week's data releases.
The Setup: What Bitcoin Needs From This Week
Bitcoin enters the week at $59,700 — down 6.8% on the week, 19% in June, and 50% from its October 2025 all-time high. The technical no man's land analysis places major on-chain support at $49,900-$53,200 below and every key resistance level above $63,500. The accumulation signals — Glassnode at maximum, 79% LTH supply, 259,000 BTC accumulated near the floor — are all intact. What has not arrived is the macro permission those signals need to translate into sustained price recovery.
This week provides two specific opportunities for that permission to arrive: a dovish signal from Warsh at the ECB Forum Tuesday, and a jobs deceleration in Wednesday's nonfarm payrolls. Either alone would be incrementally constructive. Both together would represent the kind of macro shift that could finally align the accumulation picture with the price action — and potentially validate the $59,000-$60,000 zone as the floor that historical pattern analysis and structural on-chain data have been pointing to throughout June.

Bank of America Corp. agreed to pay $7.5 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle allegations tied to reporting lapses at its Merrill Lynch brokerage, according to Bloomberg.
The SEC alleged Merrill Lynch failed to properly file all required suspicious activity reports, according to an administrative action filed Monday.

Bitcoin added 0.6% since midnight UTC to $59,800 on Monday, hovering just below the psychological $60,000 level that has defined June's lower boundary. The marginal gain arrives against a market structure and chart formation that remain skewed bearish — with $1 billion in put open interest at the $60,000 strike on Deribit, negative cumulative volume delta across nearly every major token, and the largest cryptocurrency now down more than 50% from its October all-time high. The week's potential catalysts — Warsh at the ECB Forum Tuesday, jobs data Wednesday and Thursday, and Iran Qatar talks — may provide the jolt that either confirms the floor or removes it.
What the Derivatives Data Is Saying About Monday's Bounce
Over $200 million in futures positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with longs accounting for the bulk — continuing the pattern that has defined June's selloffs. But the past four hours offered a small constructive signal: nearly $20 million in liquidations included $13 million in shorts, showing that Bitcoin's bounce to $60,000 caught some bears off guard and forced short covering rather than purely long liquidation. It is not a trend reversal — it is a tactical squeeze — but it confirms that $60,000 still has buyers willing to defend it against crowded short positioning.
Bitcoin futures open interest has retreated to ranges seen earlier this month, erasing the minor pop to 775,000 BTC seen on Friday. Traders appear less willing to take on risk at current levels — neither aggressively buying nor aggressively shorting, but waiting. The OI-adjusted 24-hour cumulative volume delta remains bearish across most of the top 25 tokens, with TRX, XMR, and ZEC the only exceptions. Bears are leading price action by selling via market orders rather than limit orders — a pattern that has persisted since Tuesday of last week.
The $60,000 Options Cluster: $1 Billion in Puts vs $1.11 Billion in Calls at $80,000
The Deribit options picture is the most structurally important derivatives data point of Monday's session. The $60,000 put now carries notional open interest of nearly $1 billion — almost rivaling the $1.11 billion sitting in the $80,000 call, which has been the dominant upside target in options markets for at least two months. These two levels — $60,000 and $80,000 — have anchored Bitcoin's options market all month, defining the range that professional traders have been structuring around.
The implication is direct: if Bitcoin slides below $60,000 with any sustained conviction, the next meaningful options cluster sits at $50,000 with $712 million in notional open interest. That level aligns with the on-chain support analysis that identifies the $49,900-$53,200 zone as the realized price and long-term holder cost basis cluster — and with the historical bear market pattern analysis that suggests a potential cycle bottom near $45,000 if the 5-10% below realized price historical relationship holds.
The Constructive Signal: BVIV Drops 5% to 47%
The one genuinely positive derivatives reading on Monday is Bitcoin's 30-day implied volatility index, which dropped 5% to 47% — pausing its two-week upswing that had taken BVIV from a June 16 low of 39% to nearly 60%. A declining implied volatility index suggests a renewed bet on market calm, which is typically a feature of grinding upswings in spot prices rather than sharp downside moves. The BVIV's 5% drop does not override the bearish CVD, the put-heavy options skew, or the $1 billion in $60,000 puts — but it moderates the panic reading and suggests the acute fear phase may be easing even as the structural bear trend remains intact.
Solana's 13% Recovery and the Sustainability Question
SOL has advanced more than 13% since Thursday and 2% since midnight — the standout performer in an otherwise flat altcoin market. But open interest in Solana futures sits at 72.70 million SOL, just short of the record high of over 76 million SOL set on June 24. Elevated OI near record highs in a token that has just bounced 13% from multi-year lows creates conditions for amplified volatility in either direction — the leverage that supported the bounce could accelerate any reversal.
AVAX rose over 5% last week, decoupling from Bitcoin's weakness, but open interest continues to decline to 38.07 million tokens — its lowest since April 1. Disconnected price gains without derivatives participation raises sustainability questions: without leveraged conviction behind the move, relief rallies in individual altcoins tend to fade when Bitcoin reasserts its directional dominance.
What to Watch: The Three Catalysts That Define the Week
The altcoin market is broadly unchanged, with CoinMarketCap's Altcoin Season indicator sitting at 49/100 — a level it has held for most of June as investors wait for Bitcoin to confirm its next move before rotating into more speculative assets. Privacy coins DASH and ZEC are up more than 2% on Monday after losing 18-30% in the past two weeks, suggesting relief bounces rather than meaningful recoveries. PUMP lost 1.5% since midnight alongside AI token FET.
The week's direction will be determined by three specific events. Warsh at the ECB Forum on Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. ET — the first major communication opportunity since the hawkish dot plot, arriving as net long dollar positions sit at a seven-year high of $34.5 billion and SOFR shorts represent $700 billion in notional rate-hike bets. Wednesday's June ADP employment change estimated at 118,000. And Thursday's June nonfarm payrolls estimated at 114,000 — the labor market deceleration that, if confirmed, could trigger the crowded dollar and yield positioning unwind that represents Bitcoin's most concrete near-term contrarian catalyst.

Bitcoin (BTC) is sliding toward a make-or-break trendline as July opens, with chart signals pointing to deeper downside after a roughly 19% June drop and BTC trading near $59,500. According to BeInCrypto, a three-day head-and-shoulders pattern implies about 26% downside if the neckline breaks, while the exchange whale ratio hit a local high near 0.69 and US spot Bitcoin ETF outflows reached about $4.06 billion in June, a record since launch.
BeInCrypto said a close under $55,298 would confirm the breakdown, with $52,458 and $48,413 below and a measured target near $42,000; reclaiming $61,654 and $67,335 would invalidate the setup.

Gold market positioning showed clear short-term divergence, while longer-dated bullish bets increased.
According to Jin10, two-way position reductions around the 40XX level may repeat, but if prices break through smoothly, the market may enter a zone dominated by increased holdings of bullish call options, with 41XX identified as the primary target.

Middle East producers have continued loading oil and liquefied natural gas despite recent vessel attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and a new round of conflict between the United States and Iran.
According to Jin10, shipping data showed that a container ship attack on Thursday and a tanker attack on Saturday triggered retaliatory strikes, threatening a temporary peace arrangement between Washington and Iran and briefly slowing energy shipments through the strait.
A U.S. official said on Sunday that the two countries had agreed to halt recent hostilities and restart talks over the strategically important waterway.
LSEG data showed that on Monday, a fourth very large crude carrier (VLCC) with capacity of up to 2 million barrels was loading at Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura terminal. The data also showed that three other VLCCs loaded crude after leaving the terminal over the weekend and then went “dark,” switching off transponders to reduce the risk of attack while sailing in the Gulf.
The data indicated that one of the supertankers reappeared on Monday after exiting the strait and was heading to Japan.
LSEG data also showed that two additional VLCCs entered the strait on Sunday and had berthed at terminals in the United Arab Emirates to load crude.

Oil traded near its lowest level since the end of February after the US and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to Bloomberg.
The move followed weekend flare-ups that saw a supertanker hit near the Strait of Hormuz.

Bank of America’s head of technical research Paul Ziana said investors should keep hedges in place against further gains in the S&P 500 and prepare for a potential “third-wave” correction in the coming months.
According to ChainCatcher, citing a report from Jin10, Ziana said the S&P 500 has risen nearly 17% from its March low, but momentum has shown signs of fatigue after the index hit a recent peak on June 2.
Ziana said the index could fall to 6,850, which he described as about a 7.6% decline from current levels. He added that as correction risks build, price action appears “overextended” and momentum is deteriorating.
He recommended taking a defensive stance during July to September.

Some Charter Communications Inc. debt securities saw record improvement Monday as traders bet that Comcast Corp.’s pending breakup could lead to a combination of the two broadband companies, according to Bloomberg.

Resurgent technology shares helped push the Dow to a fresh record on Monday, while oil prices advanced and the yen fell to a 40-year low against the US dollar, according to RTHK.
The Dow rose 0.6% to 52,182, the S&P 500 gained 1.2% to 7,440, and the Nasdaq climbed 2.1% to 25,820. Angelo Kourkafas of Edward Jones said gains reflected a rotation back into tech, with software and semiconductors participating.
AI leader Nvidia added 1.3%, while chipmakers AMD, Broadcom and Intel rose more than 2%. Art Hogan of B Riley Wealth Management said technology had been the worst-performing sector over the past two weeks, prompting bargain hunting.
Oil prices rose modestly after a return of military strikes between Iran and the United States, with disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend. Washington said it had agreed with Iran to halt attacks and continue talks. Swissquote analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya said the impact on oil prices remained relatively contained.
Investors are looking ahead to US jobs data this week, which could influence the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy outlook. The yen weakened to 161.96 per dollar, a level last seen in December 1986. Europe’s main markets ended lower.

A whale has taken long positions in crude oil and gold, according to analyst Yu Jin.
According to Odaily, the whale went long crude oil at $100.4 and went long gold at $4,345.
Yu Jin said the whale currently has a total unrealized loss of about $5.7 million, citing a recent crude oil pullback of about 27% and a gold pullback of about 9%.

The Nasdaq rose more than 1%. According to Jin10, the index gained over 1%.

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE A) shares rose more than 7% today, with turnover exceeding 14 billion yuan, and the stock price reached its highest level since 2009. According to Odaily, since the current rally began in late May, the company’s shares have gained about 60% in total.
One factor cited for the rise was a memorandum of cooperation signed by BOE and Corning on May 20. The two companies plan to cooperate in areas including glass-based packaging substrates, foldable glass, perovskite glass substrates, and optical interconnects.
Odaily also reported that BOE’s 8.6-generation AMOLED production line, built with an investment of 63 billion yuan, achieved mass production in mid-2026. The line is mainly aimed at the mid-size OLED market, and it is expected to begin contributing significant profits in 2027.

SpaceX is set to join the Nasdaq-100 on July 7, 2026, after it entered the Russell 1000 on June 26 under fast-entry rules.
According to NS3.AI, Nasdaq said SpaceX should have a weighting of under 1% in the Nasdaq-100.
The report said funds that track both benchmarks could generate close to $7.3 billion in combined passive buying tied to the additions.

China’s factory activity improved more than expected in June, returning to growth as booming exports helped offset cooling momentum in the domestic economy, according to Bloomberg.

U.S. memory-related stocks weakened after the market open, with Micron Technology and SanDisk falling sharply.
According to NS3.AI, analysts attributed the pullback to plans by Samsung and SK Hynix to invest about 800 trillion Korean won in new chip manufacturing hubs.
Industry insiders said the reported plans do not alter supply-and-demand dynamics for the second half of 2026.

China’s government is discouraging companies from raising funds overseas at higher interest rates as it seeks to curb risks among local borrowers carrying more than $100 billion in offshore debt, according to Ming Pao, citing a Bloomberg report.

Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo Eurobonds are among the top-performing African debt markets this month as tumbling crude prices draw investors back to securities issued by oil importers, according to Bloomberg.

China’s A-share market closed higher after a volatile session, with the Shanghai Composite Index gaining 1.16%.
According to Jin10, the three major A-share benchmarks opened flat, swung throughout the day, and strengthened in afternoon trading to finish in positive territory.
The Shanghai Composite briefly fell below 4,000 in the morning before rebounding. The Shenzhen Component Index ended up 0.19%, and the ChiNext Index rose 0.54% after at one point dropping more than 2%.
Turnover across the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges exceeded 3 trillion yuan, and more than 2,000 stocks declined.
Sector performance was mixed. Innovative drug stocks surged broadly, with several names including Wanbang Pharma and Shutaishen hitting the 20% daily limit. Liquor and livestock-related shares also performed strongly. Semiconductor stocks remained intermittently active, while industrial gas concept stocks strengthened in the afternoon, with Guanggang Gas among multiple stocks that hit their daily limit.
Medical services and precious metals were among the top gainers.
Meanwhile, computing power hardware concept stocks saw a sharp pullback. Glass and fiberglass, energy equipment, shipping, and copper-clad laminate-related concept stocks were among the biggest decliners.
The report also said more than 2,400 stocks rose across the market, with total turnover exceeding 3.5 trillion yuan.

Japan’s factory output rose in May as manufacturers were able to cope with the fallout from the war in Iran, according to Bloomberg.

GameStop said last Friday it will continue pursuing a cash-and-stock acquisition offer for eBay, even after eBay’s board previously rejected the proposal.
According to Odaily, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen proposed the deal in May and said the combined company would be better positioned to challenge Amazon, adding that he intends to operate the new entity.
GameStop said last Tuesday it would release a detailed strategic presentation, and on Friday reiterated that additional materials related to the proposed transaction would be published soon.

Mexico’s central bank said it may purchase Mexican federal treasury bills and floating-rate government bonds starting from the third quarter as part of its monetary adjustment operations.
According to Jin10, the central bank said the potential purchases would be aimed at implementing monetary regulation.

Mukesh Ambani told shareholders last August that Jio Platforms Ltd. would seek a stock market listing in the first half of 2026, according to Bloomberg.

The maximum illustrated rate used in sales materials for dividend-paying life insurance products in China will be lowered to 3.5% from 3.9% starting July 1, according to 36Kr. Insurers must complete filing changes for products showing rates above 3.5% by June 30, or submit them for delisting.
As the deadline approaches, marketing copy on social platforms has promoted “imminent rate cuts” and “last chance” messages. 36Kr said research found the adjustment does not change the interest rate stipulated in policy contracts for dividend insurance, meaning it may not necessarily reduce consumers’ actual returns, but is more likely to curb overly aggressive sales illustrations.

Bank of America Corp.’s head of technical research said investors should hedge any further rallies in the S&P 500 Index and brace for a potential “three-wave correction” in the next few months, according to Bloomberg.