After taking a quick look at the Polymarket odds for Bitcoin (BTC +6.37%), you'll probably be tempted to look elsewhere for upside in 2026. A clear majority of Polymarket traders think that Bitcoin will be rangebound between $55,000 and $75,000 for the rest of the year. But that doesn't mean you can't still make money on Bitcoin this year. Here are a few ideas for turning a profit in a down year f...
After taking a quick look at the Polymarket odds for Bitcoin (BTC +6.37%), you'll probably be tempted to look elsewhere for upside in 2026. A clear majority of Polymarket traders think that Bitcoin will be rangebound between $55,000 and $75,000 for the rest of the year. But that doesn't mean you can't still make money on Bitcoin this year. Here are a few ideas for turning a profit in a down year for Bitcoin. Bet against Bitcoin What's the old saying? "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." The same goes for Bitcoin. If you absolutely think Bitcoin is done for the year, then why not start predicting that Bitcoin will decline in price over the course of 2026? On Polymarket, traders are giving Bitcoin a 78% chance of hitting $55,000 this year, a 63% chance of hitting $50,000 this year, and a 51% chance of hitting $45,000 this year. You could easily buy event contracts at any one of those price points, and then cash in as soon as Bitcoin falls in price from its current level of $68,000. You can also predict that Bitcoin will go (almost) all the way to zero. Polymarket traders are giving Bitcoin a 4% chance of hitting rock bottom at a price of just $5,000. Just be forewarned: Those are roughly the same odds (5%) that Polymarket traders give Bitcoin to hit a price of $250,000 this year. Which one do you really think is more likely? Bitcoin-related stocks Another strategy for making money in a down crypto market is looking for different plays within the Bitcoin blockchain ecosystem. You can still get exposure to Bitcoin, but in a more indirect manner, by investing in Bitcoin-related stocks. For example, you could invest in Bitcoin mining stocks. The hottest players right now are Bitcoin miners that are transitioning some of their compute power to AI. These stocks give investors exposure to both Bitcoin and artificial intelligence. Expand NASDAQ : MSTR Strategy Today's Change ( 10.27 %) $ 13.62 Current Price $ 146.30 Key Data Points Market Cap $44B Day's Range $ 142.20 - $ 149.5...
The Daily Telegraph looks at which MPs were opposed to US military action in Iran and the use of British military bases, reporting that the "revolt" in the Commons was led by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. It says that Downing Street is strongly denying reports that the prime minister had initially been willing to let Donald Trump use the bases for preemptive strikes, but changed his mind after the...
The Daily Telegraph looks at which MPs were opposed to US military action in Iran and the use of British military bases, reporting that the "revolt" in the Commons was led by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. It says that Downing Street is strongly denying reports that the prime minister had initially been willing to let Donald Trump use the bases for preemptive strikes, but changed his mind after the opposition from his ministers.
Major U.S. indexes traded higher as investor concerns over the Iran conflict subsided. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.49% to 48,739.41, the S&P 500 advanced 0.78% to 6,869.50, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.29% to 22,807.48. These are the top stocks that gained the attention of retail traders and investors through the day: Broadcom’s shares rose by 1.18%, closing at $317.53. The stock reached ...
Major U.S. indexes traded higher as investor concerns over the Iran conflict subsided. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.49% to 48,739.41, the S&P 500 advanced 0.78% to 6,869.50, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.29% to 22,807.48. These are the top stocks that gained the attention of retail traders and investors through the day: Broadcom’s shares rose by 1.18%, closing at $317.53. The stock reached an intraday high of $322.64 and a low of $311.74, with a 52-week range of $138.10 to $414.61. The stock rose 5.27% to 334.25 in the after-hours trading. The company’s first-quarter revenue of $19.31 billion exceeded analyst expectations of $19.20 billion. Broadcom also reported adjusted earnings of $2.05 per share, surpassing estimates of $2.02 per share. The AI revenue more than doubled, contributing significantly to this performance. Rigetti Computing Inc. (NASDAQ:RGTI) Rigetti’s stock increased by 4.72%, closing at $17.76. It hit an intraday high of $17.96 and a low of $16.88, with a 52-week range of $6.86 to $58.15. The stock fell 4.3% to $16.99 in extended trading. Rigetti Computing reported fourth-quarter losses of three cents per share, in line with consensus estimates, while revenue of $1.87 million missed the $2.34 million analyst estimate. As of Dec. 31, 2025, the company had $589.8 million in cash, cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments. Following the report, shares fell in Wednesday's extended trading. Nebius Group NV (NASDAQ:NBIS) Nebius saw a 12.65% increase, closing at $97.78. The stock’s intraday high was $98.48, with a low of $90.15, and a 52-week range of $18.31 to $141.10. Nebius advanced its U.S. expansion after the Independence City Council approved plans for a 400-acre AI factory campus with up to 1.2 gigawatts of capacity. The project is expected to create about 1,200 construction jobs and 130 permanent roles, and generate more than $650 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes over 20 years. Okta’s shares fell by 1.08%, closing at $71.74. Th...
Even if the stock is still under pressure from wider worries about large-cap chipmakers, Broadcom’s most recent earnings announcement caused an after-hours rally. Stock Performance and Market Reaction Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO) has been in retreat since early December, reflecting investor caution toward mega-cap semiconductor names. However, sentiment shifted following the company’s first-quarte...
Even if the stock is still under pressure from wider worries about large-cap chipmakers, Broadcom’s most recent earnings announcement caused an after-hours rally. Stock Performance and Market Reaction Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO) has been in retreat since early December, reflecting investor caution toward mega-cap semiconductor names. However, sentiment shifted following the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2026 results, with shares jumping in after-hours trading as investors responded positively to stronger-than-expected performance and upbeat guidance. Strong First-Quarter Financial Results For the quarter ended February 1, 2026, Broadcom reported revenue growth of 29% year-over-year and significant expansion in earnings and cash flow. It also continued operating leverage supported by high EBITDA margins. Semiconductor solutions led the way, surging 52% year-over-year and increasing their contribution to total revenue. Free cash flow remained robust, reinforcing the company’s strong capital generation profile. Record Revenue Broadcom achieved record first-quarter revenue, fueled by continued strength in AI semiconductor solutions. AI revenue reached $8.4 billion, up 106% year-over-year, while growth was driven by strong demand for custom AI accelerators and AI networking Management expects AI semiconductor revenue to rise further to $10.7 billion in Q2. CEO Hock Tan highlighted accelerating AI momentum as a key growth engine.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited is consolidating its AI efforts under a single brand while expanding its tools and infrastructure to strengthen its position in the fast-growing artificial intelligence market. Alibaba Unifies AI Models Under “Qwen” Brand The Chinese e-commerce juggernaut unified its large model brand under the name “Qwen.” The company will use “千问大模型” as the Chinese brand name and “Q...
Alibaba Group Holding Limited is consolidating its AI efforts under a single brand while expanding its tools and infrastructure to strengthen its position in the fast-growing artificial intelligence market. Alibaba Unifies AI Models Under “Qwen” Brand The Chinese e-commerce juggernaut unified its large model brand under the name “Qwen.” The company will use “千问大模型” as the Chinese brand name and “Qwen” in English, while Tongyi Lab will remain the organizational name of its AI research unit. Alibaba said the Qwen portfolio includes foundation models and domain-specific models, and the Qwen app serves as its flagship consumer-facing AI application, Technode reported on Monday. Don't Miss: Earlier this year, Alibaba open-sourced Qwen 3.5 and later released several smaller Qwen 3.5 models. During the Lunar New Year period, users placed nearly 200 million “one-sentence” orders through the Qwen app, according to Alibaba. Cloud Unit Launches Low-Cost AI Coding Tool Alibaba is stepping up its AI push as it works to unlock more value from the fast-growing sector. The company’s cloud unit introduced a new AI-powered coding platform that gives developers low-cost access to several leading Chinese AI models. The platform runs on open-source systems, including Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 and models from Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, and lets users switch between models under one subscription. Alibaba priced the lite version at 7.9 yuan ($1.15) for the first month and 40 yuan after that. The pro version costs 39.9 yuan for the first month and 200 yuan thereafter, according to Bloomberg. Trending: Disney Was Built on Character IP — This Pre-IPO Company Is Using the Same Playbook Alibaba Unveils In-House AI Chip Alibaba also rolled out a high-end, self-developed AI chip as U.S. export restrictions limit China’s access to advanced Nvidia Corp semiconductors. Its chip unit, T-Head, introduced the Zhenwu 810E, an application-specific chip built for AI training and inference. Alibaba said ...
Every few months, another headline announces that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to “disrupt” the legal profession. Lawyers, we are told, will soon be replaced by algorithms. Judges, apparently, are next, with some recent research suggesting that machines are more “accurate” in following established legal principles than human judges. While disruption will surely come, suggesting total rep...
Every few months, another headline announces that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to “disrupt” the legal profession. Lawyers, we are told, will soon be replaced by algorithms. Judges, apparently, are next, with some recent research suggesting that machines are more “accurate” in following established legal principles than human judges. While disruption will surely come, suggesting total replacement is imminent misconstrues what AI systems do and what our legal system and courts exist to achieve. Advertisement The starting point is this: insofar as we humans who designed AI can understand them, the large language models behind tools like ChatGPT are, at heart, pattern-completion machines. They ingest vast quantities of internet text and learn to predict, statistically, what word comes next. Much has already been said about “hallucination”: the tendency of these models to fabricate cases and conjure things out of thin air – a product of the predictive, pattern-completing nature of AI reasoning. Advertisement That problem is by now well documented and need not be rehashed at length here. It suffices to say that the issue remains unsolved. But the deeper difficulties are structural, and these deserve closer attention.
The bombs falling on Iran have extinguished any remaining doubt. The US-Israeli military campaign has ignited a major regional war. This explosion of violence is the ultimate rebuke to a central promise of US President Donald Trump’s second term: that America could disengage from distant quagmires to focus on confronting China. Over a year into this administration, the strategic picture affirms th...
The bombs falling on Iran have extinguished any remaining doubt. The US-Israeli military campaign has ignited a major regional war. This explosion of violence is the ultimate rebuke to a central promise of US President Donald Trump’s second term: that America could disengage from distant quagmires to focus on confronting China. Over a year into this administration, the strategic picture affirms the conclusion I reached last summer: America’s hoped-for single-minded containment of China lies in tatters. The president, who once envisioned a grand disengagement to confront Beijing, now finds himself forced to orchestrate a high-stakes visit . This is not born of strength, but of stark necessity – a tacit admission that the United States is overextended and requires a pause on its most formidable front. The war with Iran is the fiercest new “tiger” in a menagerie of conflicts that has inverted the administration’s fundamental premise, having restarted a major war that threatens to draw in proxies from Lebanon to Yemen and destabilise the entire region. In Europe, the Ukraine war grinds into its fifth year . Trump’s boasts of a swift resolution have dissolved into the grim reality of a prolonged, costly commitment he now presides over. The intervention in Venezuela simmers, threats against Cuba have resurfaced and the Gaza conflict persists. Rather than freeing resources, his presidency is ensnared in a web of multi-front crises, each sapping strength. Advertisement Even the trade war has backfired; the Supreme Court ruling that his tariffs overstepped his authority has clipped his wings, exposing the limits of unilateralism. The goal of rallying traditional allies into a cohesive front against China has been undermined by the “America first” impulse. Now, as Washington needs them most, these nations are engaging in “ calculated hypocrisy ”. Advertisement
Get up to speed with key market intelligence, news and insight before trading starts each day in this fast-growing economy with the Markets Daily India newsletter. Sign up here . India is moving to ease pressure from a heavy pipeline of debt liabilities coming due in the years ahead. The government has switched a record 2.7 trillion rupees ($29.5 billion) of short-term bonds into long-term securit...
Get up to speed with key market intelligence, news and insight before trading starts each day in this fast-growing economy with the Markets Daily India newsletter. Sign up here . India is moving to ease pressure from a heavy pipeline of debt liabilities coming due in the years ahead. The government has switched a record 2.7 trillion rupees ($29.5 billion) of short-term bonds into long-term securities in the fiscal year ending March, pushing repayments further into the future and likely reducing the need for heavy borrowing later. The urgency picked up after the Feb. 1 federal budget revealed a bigger-than-expected borrowing plan, driving the need to manage a looming repayment load. Bonds sold during the pandemic are now starting to mature, and average annual redemptions are set to double to 6.6 trillion rupees by March 2031, according to central bank data. New Delhi carried out a 755-billion rupee swap with the Reserve Bank of India last month and has conducted two rounds of switches with investors since last week. The government plans to swap another 200 billion rupees worth of debt held by investors next week, the RBI said late Wednesday. By extending maturities, the government is giving itself more breathing room and easing the strain on next year’s borrowing plans. As a result of the swaps, gross borrowing for the fiscal year starting April 1 is expected to be about 1 trillion rupees lower than the budgeted 17.2 trillion rupees. The lower borrowing number for next year is likely to reassure investors, said Rajeev Pawar , head of treasury at Ujjivan Small Finance Bank. “The yields will start coming down, as the headline borrowing number for next year will be lower.” Read More: Modi Banks on Households to Rein In a $346 Billion Debt Pile Still, the strategy comes with trade-offs. When the government swaps debt with investors — rather than the RBI — it increases the supply of long-term bonds in the market. That additional duration can push yields higher in the near...
Intel's Foundry division is near to sealing a deal for its advanced packaging technology that would contribute billions of dollars a year to the struggling chipmaker, CFO David Zinsner said on Wednesday. "We've gotten really good engagement from customers on this business," he said during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference on Wednesday. "We're close to closing some deals t...
Intel's Foundry division is near to sealing a deal for its advanced packaging technology that would contribute billions of dollars a year to the struggling chipmaker, CFO David Zinsner said on Wednesday. "We've gotten really good engagement from customers on this business," he said during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference on Wednesday. "We're close to closing some deals that are in the billions of dollars per year in terms of revenue." Advanced packaging has become a focal point of semiconductor manufacturing amid the AI boom as accelerators have grown more complex, meaning many GPUs are composed of multiple compute and memory dies that must be fused together. Intel has invested heavily in its EMIB and Foveros 2.5D and 3D packaging tech to support multi-die processors like its Xeon CPUs and (now discontinued) Ponte Vecchio family of GPU Max accelerators. Perhaps more importantly, that tech isn't limited to chips Intel makes in its own fabs – the company has already used it to meld silicon manufactured in-house with chips made by TSMC. This is likely welcome news for shareholders, who've watched in dismay as Intel's Foundry Division has cost the company billions each quarter. Of course, there's no guarantee those deals will materialize, and even if they do, Intel will need to deliver on time. The company doesn't have the greatest reputation on that front, we'll note. 18A still A-OK Alongside advanced packaging demand, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan appears to have changed his tune regarding the external adoption of its 18A process tech. The chief executive, who celebrates his first year in the role later this month, had previously considered 18A for Intel’s own use only. Intel’s foundry biz planned to offer its next-gen manufacturing process, 14A, as its first mainstream commercial offering. But according to Zinsner, Tan's opinion of 18A changed over the past year. "While Lip-Bu was thinking that we probably should focus on 14A as a foundry node and m...
Some of Medline Inc. ’s biggest shareholders raised $3.1 billion in a share sale, capitalizing on the medical supplier’s strong trading since its initial public offering in December. Shareholders including affiliates of Blackstone Inc. , Carlyle Group Inc. , Hellman & Friedman and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority sold 75 million shares in the offering for $41 each, according to a statement Wednesday...
Some of Medline Inc. ’s biggest shareholders raised $3.1 billion in a share sale, capitalizing on the medical supplier’s strong trading since its initial public offering in December. Shareholders including affiliates of Blackstone Inc. , Carlyle Group Inc. , Hellman & Friedman and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority sold 75 million shares in the offering for $41 each, according to a statement Wednesday. The banks working on Medline’s IPO had agreed to lift the standard six-month lockup agreement that otherwise would have restricted any sales until June. Ahead of the start of marketing early Tuesday, Medline stock had rallied 58% since the IPO to $45.85. The offering priced at an 11% discount to the Monday close. The latest offering was multiple times oversubscribed, people familiar with the matter said earlier . Medline shares closed at $42.88 each on Wednesday ahead of the pricing. Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman offered 23.3 million shares each, and ADIA offered 5.1 million shares, an earlier filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed. For the latest news on equity capital markets activity in the US, Canada and Latin America, follow the channel or visit NI BFWECMUS . To subscribe to ECM Watch , Bloomberg’s daily roundup of news from around the region, click here . Medline’s $7.2 billion IPO, 2025’s largest, gave its private equity backers a rare win amid growing pressure to return cash to their investors. Distributions as a percentage of net asset value remained at 14% last year — the second-lowest level since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report last month from Bain & Co. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. , Morgan Stanley , Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. led the recent offering, as well as Medline’s IPO.