#财经早报
The AI giants’ myth has crumbled: U.S. stocks and crypto are both getting hammered, and capital is starting to do the math!


Morning, everyone. We woke up to three clues all pointing to the same thing: liquidity is drying up.

1. Trillion-dollar AI giant cuts fundraising
OpenAI has slashed its fundraising target by $10 billion, and its valuation has shrunk. Anthropic may have hundreds of billions in cash, but it still can’t borrow cheaply; Blackstone has warned about its credit rating. The signal is brutally clear: investors will no longer bankroll AI spending unconditionally. Now they want to see profits and the ability to repay debt.

2. Hidden holdings of a billion-dollar fund revealed
A closer look at filings during earnings season has exposed big players quietly repositioning their portfolios. They’re not chasing highs in plain sight—they’re secretly accumulating assets and hedging. Retail investors watch from the sidelines while the big players reshuffle their cards behind the scenes. That’s why sometimes the index barely falls, yet your portfolio is bleeding out.

3. U.S. stocks and crypto plunge one after another
The Nasdaq plunged nearly 3%, while the probability of a December rate hike surged to 86.3%. Bitcoin (BTC) hit a new low of 76,260, and Ether fell below 2,300. Add the black-swan hack at Binance, and market sentiment is extremely fragile.

💡In a nutshell:
This is fundamentally a liquidity squeeze amid high interest rates. At this stage, don’t bet big on market direction or blindly buy the dip. Keep a close eye on the nonfarm payrolls data and Binance’s proof of reserves. Ride out the liquidity vacuum, protect your capital, and wait for a genuine turning point!$BTC