🚨🚨🚨Today, Monday, December 29, 2025, the global markets are witnessing a classic year-end "Santa Rally," with stocks hitting record highs while crypto markets attempt a significant breakout after weeks of range-bound movement.
📈 Stock Market Overview
Global equities are largely ending the year on a high note, driven by easing inflation and a rotation into value sectors.
* US Markets: The S&P 500 is hovering near the historic 7,000 mark, and the Nasdaq Composite remains strong, buoyed by a three-year-old bull market in technology.
* Global Indices: The MSCI All Country World Index hit a new all-time high today, rising 0.1% as investors bet on continued rate cuts in 2026.
* Indian Markets: The Nifty 50 showed modest consolidation today after a sobering year (up roughly 9.4% in 2025). Large-caps are currently outperforming small-caps as investors seek stability amid a weakening Rupee.
* Key Driver: Market focus is on the Federal Reserve, which cut rates by 75 basis points in 2025 (current range 3.50%–3.75%), with traders looking for signals of more cuts in the coming year.
₿ Crypto Market Summary
After a period of consolidation, the crypto market is turning "cautiously bullish" today as Bitcoin attempts to reclaim key psychological levels.
* Bitcoin (BTC): BTC is trading near $90,000 (roughly $90,225 in some exchanges), up about 3% over the last 24 hours. Analysts are watching the $93,300 level as the next major resistance for a year-end "positive territory" finish.
* Ethereum (ETH): ETH has successfully reclaimed the $3,000 mark, trading around $3,047 today, reflecting a nearly 4% daily gain.
* Altcoins: Major gains were seen in BNB, XRP, and Solana, each rising over 3%. Uniswap (UNI) notably executed a massive 100 million token burn ($596M), significantly reducing supply.
* Market Sentiment: The Fear & Greed Index is curiously low at 24 (Extreme Fear), largely due to recent tax-loss harvesting and Bitcoin's 30% retrace from its October highs, though price action today suggests a "short squeeze" is underway.
🥈 Commodities & Macro
* Silver & Gold: Silver experienced a "generational bubble" peak earlier today, smashing through $80/oz for the first time before a sharp correction as traders locked in year-end profits. Gold followed suit, retreating to around $4,500/oz.
* Oil: WTI crude rose over 1% to $57.18, influenced by geopolitical developments, including recent Trump–Zelenskyy meetings regarding the Russia–Ukraine conflict.
> Note: Thin year-end liquidity can lead to higher-than-usual volatility. Today's gains in crypto are largely attributed to short-term short squeezing and capital rotation as the US Dollar heads toward its weakest annual performance in a decade.
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