Bitcoin’s sell-off has coincided with continued weakness in US technology stocks, with the digital asset often showing a strong correlation with risk-heavy assets. As tech shares slid, cryptocurrencies also came under pressure.
Cryptocurrency market is hammered hard thanks to the turbulence led by the global selloff in technology stocks deepened and washed out risky bets across asset classes.
The losses have accelerated this week, with bitcoin plunging roughly 17% in the past five days. Bitcoin has been on a steady decline for more than three months and is now over 45% below its all-time high of $126,000 reached in early October.
Gold and silver tumbled on MCX on Sunday, the special trading session ahead of the Union Budget 2026. Both the precious metals were locked in the lower circuit of 6 per cent.
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Jefferies said it would remove the 10 per cent allocation to Bitcoin this week with 5 per cent reallocated to gold and 5 per cent reallocated to gold-mining stocks.
Broader crypto markets also traded higher, benefiting from the same tailwinds. However, investors remained cautious, with attention split between rising geopolitical tensions in Latin America and a busy slate of key economic data due later this week.
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According to the data from Coinmarketcap Bitcoin, the biggest crypto token tumbled 5.2 per cent in the last 24-hours to $85,304.08 on Tuesday, before making a marginal recovery.





