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According to Odaily, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in a routine video address that Ukraine is prepared to implement a 30-day ceasefire along the entire frontline. He highlighted that a significant topic in the recent U.S.-Ukraine talks was the United States' willingness to resume defense support for Ukraine, including intelligence assistance. Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine is ready for peace, while it remains to be seen whether Russia intends to end or continue the conflict. #USStocksPlunge #BBVABitcoinGreenlight #TheBitcoinAct #UkraineCrisis #Geopolitics #CryptoImpact #USUkraineDeal #GlobalPowerMoves #DonaldTrump

Strategy (MSTR) has spent over $21 billion since Nov. 10 to buy bitcoin whose value has fallen to around $17.5 billion as of Monday afternoon, an Investor's Business Daily analysis of company filings indicate. MSTR stock dived Monday as the bitcoin price tumbled and Strategy announced plans to reload its arsenal for buying the cryptocurrency, albeit on less favorable terms.
Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, said Monday that it hasn't bought any bitcoin since Feb. 23.
The cryptocurrency market is already under pressure after the White House crypto summit came and went without any commitment by the Trump administration to add to the government's existing holdings of bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
The current bitcoin price is around $79,500, briefly setting fresh 2025 low.
The bitcoin price could retreat further without the hoped-for rocket fuel of government purchases, though such buys could still happen. President Donald Trump's order will pave the way for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve comprising current cryptocurrency holdings due to law enforcement activity. He also tasked the secretaries of treasury and commerce with developing "budget-neutral strategies" to acquire additional bitcoin, as long as they impose no costs on taxpayers. There's speculation that Trump could exchange some of the nation's gold reserves for bitcoin.
However, any government buying of bitcoin, even if it's just a shift from one financial asset to another, might be politically problematic at a time that Trump and the Republicans are trying to slash federal spending and Medicaid cuts are on the table.
Strategy spent $23.2 billion on bitcoin purchases from Oct. 30 to Feb. 23, funded by $16.8 billion worth of stock offerings and $6.4 billion in debt proceeds.
Strategy has blown through 80% of $21 billion in planned sales. Now that MSTR stock and the bitcoin price are in retreat, a key question is whether creditors will continue to offer Strategy the exceedingly generous 0% interest terms it received last month, while borrowing $2 billion via notes that are convertible into stock.
As Strategy's 10-K warned, if market conditions change, "we may not be able to obtain equity or debt financing in a timely manner, on favorable terms, or at all."
On Monday, Strategy said it would offer $21 billion worth of preferred stock with an 8% interest rate. That follows a similar $584 million offering in February that established the preferred stock which trades under the ticker STRK. Monday's announcement suggests this will be the main financing mechanism going forward, assuming there is demand. The preferred stock tumbled 9% to 84.07 on Monday. As a result, the effective interest rate on newly issued preferred shares would be 9.5%. That could continue to rise if the preferred stock falls further.
Both Strategy and its creditors had acted as though bitcoin was virtually guaranteed a one-way ticket to much higher highs under Trump. Strategy spent $21.2 billion buying bitcoin at an average price of $96,458 per bitcoin from Nov. 10 to Feb. 23. At the moment, Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor's investment approach looks questionable.
Before the recent spending binge, Strategy held 279,420 bitcoin purchased at an average price of $42,692. The recent purchases of 219,676 bitcoin raised the average price to $66,357.
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Strategy stock faces two big risks: that the price of bitcoin will continue to decline and that the premium investors have given Strategy over the value of its bitcoin holdings will contract.
Strategy tumbled 12.7% to 250.81 in Monday afternoon stock market action. At that price, Strategy has a market value of $73.75 billion, based on 294 million shares, which includes shares after conversion of all its convertible notes. That valuation approach makes sense, given that Strategy intends to hold all its bitcoin, rather than pay cash when the notes mature.
That means investors are giving Strategy an 86% premium to the $39.7 billion value of its bitcoin holdings. The premium has already shrunk from 164% on Nov. 10 before the latest buying binge. Still, that premium allows Strategy to buy $1.86 worth of bitcoin for each $1 of stock it issues.
But if investors decided that Strategy doesn't merit the premium, cheap financing would go away, and so would the rationale for investing in MSTR as opposed to bitcoin or a bitcoin-related ETF.#BBVABitcoinGreenlight #CryptoMarketWatch #WhaleAccumulation #StablecoinGoldRush #WhiteHouseCryptoSummit $BTC $ETH

The Texas Senate has passed Senate Bill 21 (SB 21) with a 25-5 vote, aiming to establish a Texas Bitcoin Reserve. This initiative seeks to diversify the state's assets by allowing the Texas Comptroller to invest state funds in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with a market capitalization exceeding $500 billion.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick expressed strong support for the bill, stating that creating the Texas Bitcoin Reserve positions the state as a leader in the digital financial economy and serves as a hedge against inflation.
The bill now advances to the Texas House of Representatives for consideration. If approved and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott, Texas would become one of the first U.S. states to hold Bitcoin as part of its financial strategy, reflecting a broader national interest in cryptocurrency reserves.
This legislative move aligns with President Donald Trump's recent announcement of plans to establish a federal Bitcoin reserve, signaling a growing acceptance of digital assets at both state and national levels. #TexasBTCReserveBill #WhiteHouseCryptoSummit #MarketPullback #MexicoEndsTariff

A U.S. economy praised for its surprising resilience to a pandemic, high inflation, and rapid interest rate hikes faces a new challenge from President Donald Trump's self-declared trade war, seen by economists as a recipe for fewer jobs, slower growth, and higher prices.
The fallout, assuming Trump does not backtrack in the face of falling stock markets and cracks to consumer and business sentiment, is expected to be broad, deep and time-consuming as the world's largest economy adjusts to the overnight shock of a 25% tariff on most goods coming from Mexico and Canada, both close trading partners and geographic neighbors, and an additional 10% duty on imports from China. Canada and China have announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, while Mexico is expected to do so this coming weekend.
A price shock on its face, the tariffs could also begin to kill demand, said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, particularly if consumers retreat and firms facing heightened uncertainty curb investment and hiring. The move also risks unintended consequences - if, for example, banks tighten credit on small businesses instead of extending suddenly expensive customs bonds.
A recession by the start of next year is not out of the question, Swonk said, with some analysts expecting a downturn could sweep the continent given the dependence of Canada and Mexico on exports to the U.S. market. Retaliation could further deepen the impact.
"We've got now multiple trade wars on multiple fronts," Swonk said. Her analysis shows the effective tariff rate spread across roughly $3 trillion in U.S. imports might rocket to 16% by early 2026 from a current baseline of about 3% if Trump follows through on all his threats. "That would be the highest rate since 1936," during the Great Depression, and "gets you flirting with stagflation" - the toxic mix of weak growth, high joblessness and persistent inflation that epitomized the 1970s.
While the U.S. economy is ordered differently now than in the 1930s or 1970s, the sweep of Trump's actions and the uncertainty about what comes next still unnerved markets that had hoped he was only bluffing about tariffs to gain leverage in negotiations with trading partners.
The S&P 500 index (.SPX), opens new tab has suffered sharp losses since Trump on Monday dashed expectations for a last-minute reprieve on the tariffs, and is now down about 5.5% from its February 19 all-time high. Yields on U.S. Treasury bonds have fallen to the lowest levels since October.#USJobsSlump #BBWDocuSeries #TrumpCongressSpeech #WhiteHouseCryptoSummit #MarketRebound $BTC
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