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U.S. tech stocks hit new highs, but Bitcoin instead fell below 80k.
With Trump’s visit to China, what exactly are the funds buying?
On one side, the Big Three U.S. tech giants continue to be chased.
Apple surpasses $300, Nvidia jumps to $227, with a market cap exceeding $5.5 trillion, and Google also hits new highs.
Why?
Because tech stocks are now riding the most certain trend:
AI performance realization + cash flow support + China-U.S. easing expectations.
After Trump’s visit to China, the market’s first thoughts weren’t about crypto,
but whether chip stocks, supply chains, and AI capital expenditures will continue to loosen and expand.
So, money is rushing into U.S. tech stocks first.
But BTC doesn’t follow this logic.
BTC relies more on liquidity, interest rate expectations, and risk appetite.
And these days, U.S. inflation pressure remains, rate cut expectations retreat, and ETF funds are flowing out.
The result is, tech stocks are being added to as “safe assets,” while BTC is being reduced as a “high-volatility asset.”
In other words:
This cycle isn’t about risk appetite fully returning,
but about funds only willing to chase more certain AI assets, not wanting to lift high-volatility crypto along with them.
What really matters isn’t why BTC isn’t rising in tandem,
but that global funds are increasingly separating “performance-driven growth”
from “elasticity relying on liquidity.”
This divergence might just be the beginning. $ETH $BTC