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JPMorgan's James Sullivan is raising a pointed warning about Washington's Treasury market interventions, arguing the strategy amounts to paying your mortgage with your credit card. His concern is structural: short-term relief measures aren't resolving underlying debt pressures, they're simply deferring them, and the bill will eventually come due.
Shifting to crypto, bitcoin crossed seventy thousand dollars overnight, and the market took notice fast. Prediction platform Polymarket saw odds of bitcoin reaching eighty thousand before year-end double in a single session, jumping from thirty percent to sixty percent. That's a sharp repricing of sentiment, driven by momentum rather than any single macro catalyst.
Meanwhile the dollar staged a quiet recovery after touching a three-month low earlier in the session. The dollar index finished just above flat, lifted by stronger-than-expected jobless claims, a solid Philadelphia Fed business outlook reading, and a two percent rally in crude oil prices. Taken together, those data points were enough to shake out some of the short positions that had been building against the greenback.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
