The Trading Post | 12.01.25

Good morning,

Bitcoin cracked below $87K and triggered a broad crypto flush, Trump says he’s picked the next Fed chair with Kevin Hassett in the pole position, the BOJ is suddenly flirting with a December rate hike, silver ripped to fresh all-time highs, and Airbus faceplanted on a massive A320 software recall.

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Pre-Market Performance

As of 11.28.25 market close.

Market News

• Bitcoin flushes below $87K as forced liquidations and a fresh China warning smash crypto, with MSTR finally hinting a BTC sale isn’t totally off the table. Forbes

• Crypto proxies MSTR, COIN, and MARA trade heavy premarket as MicroStrategy cuts its year-end BTC target to $85K–$110K and mNAV flirts with the danger zone. Yahoo Finance

• Trump says he’s picked Powell’s successor, betting markets shove Kevin Hassett up to ~76% odds, and the street prices in an even more dovish post-Powell Fed. Reuters

• Fed December 9–10 meeting still carries ~88% odds of a 25 bp cut as traders brace for Powell’s speech tonight to see if he blesses or kills the Santa rally narrative. Reuters

• BOJ Governor Ueda openly floats a December hike, yen rips, JGBs sell off, and the Nikkei pukes nearly 2% as carry trades start to sweat. Reuters

• Silver spikes to a record near $58/oz and gold hits a six-week high as structural deficits, solar demand, and rate-cut dreams collide. Saxo

• Airbus sinks ~9% after recalling ~6,000 A320-family jets for an emergency software fix linked to a solar-radiation glitch that briefly turned “autopilot” into “roller coaster.” Reuters

• Despite the A320 mess, U.S. airline stocks mostly shrug off disruptions as AAL, DAL, and JBLU prove that as long as planes eventually move, passengers will still overpay for snacks. ABC News

• ISM Manufacturing PMI is expected to print another sub-50 reading, keeping the “slow bleed, not crash” narrative alive for industrials. Trading Economics

• Cyber Monday is on track for record online spending north of $14B, reminding markets that U.S. consumers will stop at nothing…except maybe their credit limits. Gulf News

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Daily Moment of Zen

Why It Matters:

If today’s tape teaches anything, it’s that markets don’t politely spread out the chaos. They give you weeks of chop where you’re bored enough to sabotage yourself, and then, in one morning, Bitcoin falls down an elevator shaft, the BOJ wakes up from a decade-long nap, metals go parabolic, and Airbus discovers the sun is bad for planes. The edge isn’t in predicting which headline hits next—it’s in not torching your account during the in-between. Let everyone else chase every wiggle and overtrade every fake breakout; your job is to survive the quiet days so you’re actually funded, focused, and unemotional when the real moves show up. In other words: respect boredom, trade the outliers, and stop trying to manufacture drama—the market’s got that covered.