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Risk sentiment turned sour after US cloud firm Oracle’s profit and revenue outlook missed forecasts and executives flagged higher spending – a sign that AI infrastructure outlays are not turning profits as quickly as investors had hoped.
Bitcoin was last down 2.5 per cent at US$90,056.24, while ether tumbled 4.3 per cent to US$3,196.62, erasing the past two days of gains and extending the weakness that began in the US trading session on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates.
“What we saw last night was even though risk assets were doing well, crypto did not really want to know about it,” said Tony Sycamore, market analyst at IG in Sydney.
