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United States CFTC Gold NC Net Positions: $225.9K vs previous $230.3K
Confirmed
In Short: More than $750 million in crypto positions were liquidated over the previous 24 hours, with Bitcoin positions accounting for $360.7 million of the liquidations, including an $11.3 million single liquidation on Binance's BTCUSDT market.
Gold prices advanced marginally at the end of the week, partially retracing the weekly decline, but remained below the $4,300 per troy ounce mark, according to FXStreet.
Gibson, who has over 35 years of legal experience, previously worked as a litigation partner at DLA Piper.
In the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin saw a recovery as renewed buying and forced covering of bearish positions pushed the cryptocurrency back toward levels last seen at the start of the year.
The 2026 NWSL regular season is nearing its conclusion, with teams competing for playoff positions.
The NWSL team of the week was announced, with previous honors available for review.
Tuchel, the England national team manager, stated that Trent Alexander-Arnold will be considered as a right-back for England, despite his versatility in different positions for Real Madrid.
In a political move, Ed Sheeran committed $2 million to a political cause, a departure from his previous stance of avoiding political positions.
Matt Frankel, an investor, has positions in Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and Simon Property Group.
Cost basis and return are based on the previous market day's close.
What this adds
The recovery in Bitcoin prices comes despite the cryptocurrency remaining well below its record high.
The liquidations in the cryptocurrency market indicate that most of the forced closures came from traders positioned for prices to rise.
Background
More than $223 million in long positions were liquidated during the hour, compared with $7.35 million in short positions, indicating that most of the forced closures came from traders positioned for prices to rise.
What's confirmed
- Gold prices advanced marginally at the end of the week, partially retracing the weekly decline, but remained below the $4,300 per troy ounce mark, according to FXStreet.
- Gibson, who has over 35 years of legal experience, previously worked as a litigation partner at DLA Piper.
- In the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin saw a recovery as renewed buying and forced covering of bearish positions pushed the cryptocurrency back toward levels last seen at the start of the year.
- The 2026 NWSL regular season is nearing its conclusion, with teams competing for playoff positions.
- The NWSL team of the week was announced, with previous honors available for review.
- Tuchel, the England national team manager, stated that Trent Alexander-Arnold will be considered as a right-back for England, despite his versatility in different positions for Real Madrid.
- In a political move, Ed Sheeran committed $2 million to a political cause, a departure from his previous stance of avoiding political positions.
- Matt Frankel, an investor, has positions in Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and Simon Property Group.
- Cost basis and return are based on the previous market day's close.
What's still developing
- He previously served as Mongolia's Prime Minister from 2017 to 2021 and has held several senior government positions.
- A further fall in USD/JPY would support the Yen recovery; a rebound towards the previous Tuesday's 160.17 would undermine it.
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday that the “non-compliant oil tankers … were struck and brought to a halt, while four other oil tankers quickly changed course and returned to their previous positions”.
- He had previously served in senior management positions at UOB and DBS Bank.
- The NBA approved Gibson as the team’s interim governor and CEO after Ballmer nominated him for the positions, ESPN reported.
- If you're keeping track of who earned past honors, check out our previous team of the week.
- More than $750 million in crypto positions were liquidated over the previous 24 hours with short positions accounting for $648.3 million, CoinGlass data showed.
- Bitcoin positions represented $360.7 million of the liquidations, including an $11.3 million single liquidation on Binance's BTCUSDT market.
- “We have a long camp and I am sure he will show up.” Tuchel insisted neither Alexander-Arnold nor Palmer had previously done anything wrong, explaining that other players had simply been preferred.
- “He had a good start in two positions for Real Madrid and he comes as a right-back for us.” Welcome to our Live Comments section, where new comments will appear automatically Your email address will not be published.