Dogecoin led the day’s risk appetite, up 4.43% to $0.0967, as crypto gainers swept the top of the board. Against them, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, down 2.27%, stood out as the session’s clear loser.
Crypto
Cardano followed Dogecoin at +3.41% to $0.2515, extending a 15.53% monthly gain, while Tezos rose 2.77% to $0.3045 β a move sitting atop the group’s steepest month at +43.16%. Stellar added 2.00% to $0.21998 and XRP 1.76% to $1.511.
Bitcoin firmed 1.32% to $85,847.82, up 7.56% on the month, and Solana gained 1.53% to $121.35. Ethereum lagged at +0.72% to $2,705.82. Bitcoin Cash was the lone notable decliner, off 1.11% to $315.87, though it still holds a 23.39% month.
Equities
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 2.27% to 23,879.76, deepening a 6.99% monthly slide and leaving it 11.97% lower on the year β the standout weak spot across indices. Europe ran the other way: the Euro Stoxx 50 rose 1.25% to 6,255.78 and the CAC 40 1.19% to 7,918.48, with the IBEX 35 up 0.57%.
Wall Street closed narrowly higher. The Nasdaq 100 added 0.30% to 30,889, stretching its year-to-date gain to 24.26%, while the S&P 500 edged up 0.14% to 7,732.75 and the Dow 0.08% to 51,228.95. The Nikkei 225 finished flat at 69,539.45 but retains a 46.09% yearly advance.
Currencies, Energy and Metals
The dollar softened at the margins. USD/NOK slipped 0.55% to 9.5519 and USD/SEK 0.47% to 9.9892, while USD/ZAR fell 0.48% to 16.561. EUR/USD held at 1.1257, still down 3.05% on the month, GBP/USD was flat at 1.32341, and USD/JPY was unchanged at 157.85.
Crude eased: Brent (UKOil) fell 0.68% to $101.10 and WTI (USOil) 0.60% to $89.83, though both carry outsized yearly gains of 55.05% and 46.26%. In metals, gold inched up 0.08% to $4,142.68 and silver 0.50% to $60.65, each still nursing monthly losses of 6.52% and 8.37%. Platinum and palladium rose 0.57% and 0.47%, though palladium remains 15.19% lower on the month.
The Hang Seng remains the session’s weak spot, sitting alone against a broadly firmer crypto and European tape.
