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The post Solflare Launches Secure USDC Spending Card with Mastercard in UK and EEA appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Solflare Card is a new debit card launched by Solflare in partnership with Mastercard, enabling users to spend USDC stablecoins directly from their Solana wallets at over 150 million merchants worldwide. It prioritizes self-custody and advanced security, starting with availability in the UK and EEA, where it integrates with Google Pay and will soon […] Source: https://en.coinotag.com/solflare-launches-secure-usdc-spending-card-with-mastercard-in-uk-and-eea

The post Stocks hold firm as crypto sells off—Why the two markets have suddenly diverged appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways How did stocks perform compared to crypto this week? The S&P 500 and Nasdaq maintained their uptrend with controlled pullbacks, while the crypto market crashed to $3.01 trillion. What explains the divergence? Crypto reacts faster to tightening liquidity conditions, while stocks benefit from strong earnings and continued institutional flows into large-cap tech. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite maintained their uptrend this week, even as the crypto market extended its sharp decline, creating one of the clearest divergences between traditional equities and digital assets in months. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq charts show controlled pullbacks inside broader bullish structures. By contrast, the total crypto market cap has broken down aggressively, falling to $3.01 trillion after a steep multi-week sell-off. Stocks remain in uptrend despite volatility The S&P 500 remains above key support levels despite last week’s sell-off. The index pulled back from its early-November highs but has not broken its broader ascending structure. Source: TradingView Buyers stepped in near the 6,600 zone, signaling that institutional appetite remains intact. The index currently trades at 6,627.66, up 0.16% on the day. The Nasdaq Composite shows a similar pattern. The index corrected from its recent highs but maintains a higher-lows formation at 22,476.83, up 0.20%.  Source: TradingView Tech stocks have absorbed volatility better than expected, which suggests investors still favor large-cap growth as macro conditions stabilize. Both charts point to a market that corrects rather than reverses. Risk appetite in equities remains stronger than recent headlines suggest. Crypto market loses $700B+ as trend shifts bearish The total crypto market cap chart paints a very different picture. The market has broken below several support levels and continues to register lower lows. At $3.01 trillion, the space now sits firmly in a corrective trend. Crypto has declined steadily since early November, with…

The post American Manufacturing Has A Private Equity Problem appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Private equity would seem to be a natural fit for SME manufacturers’ increasing needs for growth and buyout capital. But there’s a problem. getty Baby Boom owners of small- and medium-sized enterprise manufacturing companies, which comprise about 98% of American industry, are reaching retirement age in droves, with Generation X not far behind. Those without relatives or partners to take over the businesses need to find buyers so they can exit. Private equity investors would seem to be the natural answer. Unfortunately, there exists a critical distrust of PE among industrial owners. Matt Guse is president of MRS Machining in Augusta, Wisconsin, a family-owned machine shop established by his dad in 1986. Author of the new book MRS Machining: A Manufacturing Story, Guse published an article on LinkedIn last week giving one reason for that great level of distrust among owners looking to sell. There’s a gap right now in manufacturing that mostly gets swept under the rug—a real disconnect between buyers and sellers that goes way deeper than price. Almost every week, I hear from private equity firms or buyers circling manufacturing businesses, coming in with their own playbooks. But let’s be honest: most buyers still approach business owners like they’re handing them a favor, tossing out the same tired 2x–4x multiples, assuming owners are desperate to cash out. That attitude misses the point entirely. Manufacturing business owners aren’t just selling off machines and real estate. They’re putting decades of hard work, community, and identity on the line. These are their legacies, not just another transaction to check off a spreadsheet. Treating these deals as cold, purely financial moves ignores everything that actually makes these businesses valuable in the first place. There’s a much deeper level of distrust that dates back about as long as MRS Machining has been…