Risk-Off Is Back: Tech Nukes, Bitcoin Purges, and Gold Is Quietly Leaving the Building
From a historic tech selloff to oil at $93 and gold flowing to China, the macro picture just got a lot more interesting
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Let's call it what it is: the market had a rough week and the vibes are not recovering. The Nasdaq and S&P posted their worst single-day drops of the year, chip stocks led the carnage, and Bitcoin cratered below $60,000 — what Bloomberg's Mike McGlone is calling the start of a full-on 'purge' in speculative assets. McGlone's still calling for BTC at $10,000 long-term, and with Michael Saylor reportedly breaking his sacred 'never sell' vow, the crypto faithful are having a very bad time.
Meanwhile, geopolitics is doing geopolitics things: Brent crude closed at $93 a barrel after the U.S. intercepted Iranian missiles targeting Bahrain and Kuwait, and OPEC output hit its lowest level in 37 years — down 1.22 million barrels per day. Add in a strong jobs report stoking Fed rate-hike fears and you've got a cocktail that nobody ordered. On the quieter but arguably scarier front, physical gold is flowing out of the U.S. to China via Switzerland — a pattern that historically signals a shift in who's actually winning the global financial power game.
The one bright spot in all this noise? $DAL's president says premium travel demand is bulletproof, absorbing 10-15% ticket price hikes with zero consumer drama. Rich people, man — they never got the memo about a recession.