📉🔥 MARKETS ON FIRE! STOCKS PLUNGE, GOLD NEARS RECORDS AND CRYPTO FALLS AFTER NEW RESTRICTIONS ON CHINA
Global financial alert! Trade tensions between the U.S. and China unleash a storm in the markets:
📌 KEY POINTS
- Nvidia and AMD in free fall: Nvidia shares fell 5.5% after new restrictions on the sale of AI chips to China, with estimated losses of $5.5 billion.
- 📉 Tech under pressure: Nasdaq crashes 1.8%, dragged down by semiconductors, while the Dow Jones and S&P 500 also retreat.
- 💰 Gold at historic highs: Trading at $3,304/ounce (+2.4%) and ANZ bank projects $3,600 by year-end due to safe-haven demand.
- 🌍 Global crisis: WTO cuts its global trade forecast due to tariffs, warning of the worst decline since the pandemic.
- 💵 Dollar at lows: The dollar index touches its lowest level since April 2022, while the yen and Swiss franc strengthen.
- ⛽️ Oil and Bitcoin: Crude rises 1% on hopes of trade dialogue, but BTC falls to $83,676 (-11% in 2025).
🚨 WHAT'S NEXT?
- More volatility: Markets will react to Jerome Powell's (Fed) speech and possible new tariffs from Trump on critical minerals.
- China strikes back: Orders airlines to suspend Boeing aircraft orders and maintains its hardline stance. $BTC
👇 OPPORTUNITY OR RISK?
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