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Bitcoin in for 'best ever' H2 🔮

Bitcoin gained nearly 3% and climbed past $109,000 on Wednesday—a high it's not seen since June 11.

Stacy Elliott
July 02, 2025

📝 What you need to know

Bitcoin saw plenty of upward momentum Wednesday as the price climbed past $109,000, up 3% over the past 24 hours.

BTC’s price hasn’t been this high since early June, when investors felt optimistic that trade talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping would result in easing global trade strife. Now, Trump is again approaching a deadline to settle trade deals with the U.S.’s largest trading partners. But he’s already said he’s not moving this one.

Early Wednesday afternoon, Trump had just announced a deal with Vietnam. And as has been the case in the past months, whatever quells global trade fears makes investors more comfortable about allocating funds to risk-on assets like stocks and Bitcoin.

What’s more: Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick thinks Bitcoin will reach a new all-time high between now and the end of the year.

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