The January bursting of a massive speculative bubble in memecoins by itself seemed good enough reason for the general crypto market selloff of the past several weeks.
The declines sped up in a big way this week, though, in part thanks to growing risk-off sentiment in the previously perky stock market.
Down more than 2% about 45 minutes before the close of trade on Thursday, the Nasdaq is now lower by roughly 7% over the past handful of sessions. Today’s losses are being led by the chipmakers following Nvidia’s (NVDA) fourth quarter earnings report last night. NVDA is lower by 5%.
The selloff in stocks came as many of the leading names were selling at lofty valuations after what seemed like months worth of unchecked gains. Toss into the mix President Trump’s continual tariff threats — the latest being punitive levies against Mexico, Canada, and China to begin on Tuesday — and the stage was set for the current correction.
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