In a shift at the top of the South Korean box office, the high-fashion sequel “The Devil Wears Prada 2” claimed the No. 1 spot during the weekend of May 8–10. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film earned $1.3 million from 195,513 admissions, narrowly surpassing […]
Bitcoin (BTC) has climbed roughly 40% from its February lows, bringing the price back to a critical resistance zone that could determine whether the bear market continues or finally ends.
Key takeaways:
As of Monday, BTC/USD was down 2.25% near $80,500, erasing its overnight gains as buyers once again failed to clear the 200-day exponential moving average (200-day EMA, blue line).
The level has capped Bitcoin’s rebound attempts since November 2025. Each rejection from the 200-day EMA has preceded steep drawdowns of 25% and 36%, respectively, putting the average decline near 30%.
BTC/USD daily chart. Source: TradingView
In his Monday post, analyst Brett said breaking above the 200-day EMA, currently near $82,580, could be “the end of the bears.” But given Bitcoin’s ongoing pullback, the prospects of BTC falling further in the coming sessions appear higher.
BTC’s price could fall toward $56,600 from current levels if it repeats its average 30% drawdown from the 200-day EMA rejection zone.
The $56,600 level aligns closely with Bitcoin’s broader macro support range.
A new Bitcoin Lifetime Support Model, highlighted by analyst PlanC, places BTC’s long-term upper support band near $57,110. The lower support was roughly around the $46,760 level.
Bitcoin lifetime support model. Source: Coin Metrics/PlanC
The model averages Bitcoin’s lifetime simple moving average with its single-, double-, triple- and quadruple-EMAs, then plots a 10% band around the result.
Historically, similar lifetime support zones have acted as macro bear-market floors. That means Bitcoin’s immediate setup remains bearish, but a decline toward the mid-$50,000s would still place BTC near a major long-term support area.
Bitcoin’s still unresolved bear flag pattern also hints at a potential drop below $60,000 in the coming weeks, as shown below.
BTC/USD daily chart. Source: TradingView
Despite the near-term bearish setup, Bitcoin’s latest rebound from the 200-week simple moving average (200-week SMA, blue line) is flashing a historically bullish signal.
BTC bounced by over 38% after testing the 200-week SMA near $61,000. This blue level closely aligns with major cycle bottoms seen in 2018 and during the March 2020 crash.
BTC/USD weekly chart. Source: TradingView
In both prior instances, Bitcoin briefly dipped toward or below the 200-week SMA before staging a sustained recovery toward the 50-week SMA (red).
Related: Analyst says Bitcoin’s $60K bottom signals weaken bear-market forecast
Bitcoin’s next upside target could be near $94,700, up roughly 17% from current price levels, if the fractal continues to play out. A move that high could support Brett’s view that the bear market is nearing its end.
The bullish outlook is also backed by strong fundamentals, including aggressive whale accumulation that recently absorbed nearly 500% of Bitcoin’s newly issued supply.
A cast of George Gregan, Jonny Wilkinson, a frilled-neck lizard and Mad Max-style vehicles advancing through the Australian desert representing the different competing nations feature in the first official ad for the upcoming version of rugby’s biggest tournament.
A momentous occasion where, for six weeks, 24 teams will collide chasing the game’s biggest prize, and a proper leap of faith that will test rugby’s depth and real global spread with four more teams that we are used to seeing at the tournament.
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After the draw was conducted recently, skeptics were aplenty.
Are there actually 24 teams that are “worthy” of playing in a World Cup?
Is rugby stretching its resources too thin?
Will this dilute the quality of the product?
To answer these questions, let’s first look at how other major sports handle their own World Cups.
Before Infantino’s unquenchable thirst for dollars meant that the FIFA World Cup will mutate into a hydra with 48 nations divided into 12 groups and three countries for 2026, football’s biggest tournament had 32 countries competing, out of 211 member associations, same as basketball and handball (this means that only 15% of the member nations can effectively qualify, meaning that just taking part is a proper achievement for many countries and something to be celebrated in its own right).
By comparison, World Rugby has 134 members, meaning that the same percentage of teams (15%) could qualify for 20-team RWCs, which has risen to 18% with a 24-team format.
In other words, rugby’s World Cup aligns with other major sports in regard to the proportion of member unions that take part out of the total number that actually play the sport.
All these numbers sound fine, but what do they translate to on the pitch? Is rugby a global enough sport to ensure that all 24 teams can realistically fight for the top prize?
Well, obviously not, but that is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it unique to rugby union. In football, easily the world’s biggest sport by far, only eight nations have won the World Cup, while 13 have made it to the final since 1930.
Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh poses with the Webb Ellis Cup. (Photo by Brendon Thorne – World Rugby/World Rugby via Getty Images)
In basketball, it’s seven and 10 respectively (since 1950), while in handball it’s nine and 11 (since 1938).
Winning a World Cup in any sport is a hard thing to do, hence its appeal and feeling of exclusivity.
In rugby, only four teams have lifted the trophy, while five have reached the final (France is the only finalist to never have won the whole thing). With a considerably shorter World Cup history as the first only took place in 1987, it is not a bad record.
So, all these things considered, how do the teams competing in 2027 stack up? For the sake of this article, I have separated the 24 competing teams into four groups according to their strengths and realistic aspirations for the competition, which roughly align with the seeding bands used to establish the pools.
The first group includes six nations with legitimate aspirations of lifting the Webb Ellis trophy. Three of them have tasted success at the tournament: South Africa have won it four times, New Zealand has three, and England has one. France have reached the final twice, Argentina have been semi-finalists in three tournaments, and Ireland … well, Ireland will be looking to break their seemingly unbreakable quarter-final hoodoo.
These six teams are expected to breeze past their pool-play opposition and will likely use the first three matches to test their depth and build combinations with an eye on the knockout stages.
The second band is made up of teams that are just below the leading pack and will be confident of reaching the knockout stages at the very least as well as looking for an upset that can allow them to make a run for the semifinals.
Chief among them is twice-champions and hosts Australia, the formerly unpredictable and growingly consistent Fijians, the perennial almost-giant-slaying Scotland, a plucky yet still frustratingly inconsistent Italy (who have never made it out of the pool stages in the 20-team format), the struggling Welsh, and a Japanese side showing some topsy-turvy form of late.
It is with the third group that things begin to get interesting, as it hosts six teams in different stages of development which will provide excitement for the race to qualify for the knockout stages as one of the four best-third ranked teams.
Leading the pack is Georgia, long entrenched as the best European nation outside of the Six Nations but with no chance to join the big table, and a Uruguayan team that consistently punches above its weight and is ready to play in their sixth RWC.
They are joined by an enigmatic Spanish team that will finally return for the World Cup after qualifying in 2019 and 2023 but being disqualified for fielding ineligible players, a stagnated and crisis-ridden United States that failed to qualify for the 2023 RWC but made the most of the easier qualification process for 2027 (and face the daunting task of hosting the 2031 RWC), arguably the biggest rugby fairy tale story of recent years in Chile (playing in their second successive RWC after convincingly beating Samoa) and perennial participants and always physical Tongans, boosted by recently eligible former Wallabies and All Blacks.
Tempers flare between England and Samoa at the 2023 World Cup. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Lastly, band four includes a fascinating mix of have-beens, up-and-comers, and proper dark horses, offering a sense of intrigue and mystery to the competition.
There’s Samoa, a former heavyweight of the game that has played in all but the first RWC (getting to the knockout stages in 1991, 1995 and 1999) but that had to fight off a tough Belgium side to qualify for 2027, a Portugal side which lighted up the 2023 RWC and will be hoping to entertain the crowds, a Romanian side that has fell off its standing as the second-best non-6N European team and only qualified in 2023 as a consequence of Spain’s disqualification, an ageing Hong Kong side that will experience the ride of a lifetime by going to the RWC and facing the All Blacks and Wallabies, a Zimbabwe team that agonizingly beat Namibia to qualify for their first-ever RWC (and returning after 34 long years), and a Canadian side on a steady downward trajectory even before losing its only fully professional side in the Toronto Arrows.
So, what can we expect from this tournament? In the first few weeks we will see the inevitable blowouts, particularly as Band 1 teams face those in Band 4.
However, there will be tight matches and likely an upset or two, just as Uruguay beat Fiji in 2019, South Africa was dismantled by Japan in 2015, Tonga ambushed the French in 2011, and Argentina stunned France in 2007. It is important to consider that all teams that managed to qualify for this tournament did so by beating their direct competition and thus earned their place fair and square.
And although they may not be realistically looking to progress deep into the knockout stages, the goal of a World Cup is not just to decide which of the top six national teams is the best during the course of a few weeks, but to celebrate the progress that rugby has made around the world, and the fact that despite its many well-publicised troubles, it is still a game enjoyed by people around the world.
This means that beyond the top dogs there’s many, many fascinating sub plots at play. Australia will likely kick off the tournament against the All Blacks, while Chile and Hong Kong will both be looking to score some key points in order to attempt and qualify for the knockout stages.
All Blacks star Cam Roigard in action against the Wallabies. Photo: Getty Images
Italy and Georgia will clash in a mouth-watering game that the Georgians will be desperate to win, both to qualify for the next ground and to remind everyone that they are banging on the European elite’s doors. Argentina will face Fiji for group C’s top spot, in what will be their first game in 24 years.
In pool D, both Uruguay and Portugal will look to play the game of their lives to knock off Scotland and claim a spot in the last 16. Pool E sees a tight three-way fight for second place between Japan, the USA and Samoa, all teams that know each other well from the Pacific Nations Cup.
Lastly, pool F will see Tonga and Wales lock horns in a game that will probably decide who goes through as the second-placed team in their group.
So, what’s the takeaway? This World Cup will have something for everybody. Whether the team you support is looking to lift the Webb Ellis trophy, whether it goes in looking for an upset that helps them get a shot at the knockout stages, or whether they are counting the days to achieve a life-long dream of playing at the game’s biggest stage, you can sit back, open the beverage of your choice and enjoy what will likely be the best RWC to date.
5 Proven Ways to Cultivate Passive Income with Cryptocurrency in 2026
In the dynamic world of digital assets, the allure of passive income has never been stronger. As 2026 unfolds, the cryptocurrency landscape offers increasingly sophisticated avenues for individuals to generate earnings without constant active trading. Moving beyond the speculative frenzy of early crypto adoption, today’s opportunities are more grounded in real economic functions across the blockchain ecosystem. This article explores five proven strategies to build a passive income stream with cryptocurrency, focusing on methods that balance potential returns with manageable risk.
Staking: Earning by Securing the Network
Staking has emerged as a cornerstone of passive income generation in the cryptocurrency space, particularly with the rise of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains. Instead of relying on energy-intensive mining, PoS networks incentivize users to lock up their digital assets to help validate transactions and secure the network. In return for this contribution, stakers receive rewards, often in the form of newly minted tokens and transaction fees.
Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano are prominent examples of networks that support staking, offering varying annual percentage yields (APYs). For instance, Ethereum staking yields can range from approximately 2.9% to 3.3% APY, while Solana offers around 6.8% APY, and Cardano between 2.4% to 5%. Platforms like Kraken, Coinbase, and Binance facilitate staking, often with user-friendly interfaces that require no complex setup. Some protocols also offer “liquid staking,” where users receive a tradable token representing their staked assets, providing liquidity while still earning rewards. This method is particularly attractive for those who believe in the long-term potential of a project and wish to earn returns without needing immediate access to their capital. However, it’s crucial to be aware of potential “slashing” risks, where validators can lose a portion of their staked assets for malicious behavior or prolonged downtime.
Yield Farming: Maximizing Returns Through Liquidity Provision
Yield farming, often referred to as liquidity mining, is a more advanced strategy that involves providing liquidity to decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. In essence, yield farmers deposit their crypto assets into liquidity pools on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) or lending platforms. These assets are then used by traders for swaps or borrowed by other users, generating fees and interest that are distributed to the liquidity providers.
Protocols like Aave, Compound, and Uniswap are popular destinations for yield farming. The income generated can come from trading fees, lending interest, or newly issued governance tokens from the protocol itself. Expected APYs can vary widely, with stablecoin lending potentially offering 3-7% APY, while providing liquidity to Automated Market Maker (AMM) pairs might range from 8-20% depending on pool activity. For those seeking to automate the process, “vault strategies” offered by platforms like Yearn Finance or Beefy Finance can rebalance positions and compound yields automatically. However, yield farming carries higher risks, including impermanent loss (where the value of your deposited assets decreases due to price volatility) and smart contract vulnerabilities. It’s generally recommended to start with smaller amounts on testnets before committing significant capital.
Crypto Lending: Earning Interest on Your Holdings
Crypto lending offers a relatively straightforward way to earn passive income by lending out your digital assets to borrowers through centralized or decentralized platforms. Lenders earn regular interest payments on their deposited cryptocurrency, similar to earning interest in a traditional savings account, but often at significantly higher rates.
Platforms like Nexo, BlockFi, and Celsius Network (though caution is advised due to past bankruptcies) have offered competitive interest rates, with some platforms providing APYs upwards of 10%. Stablecoin lending, in particular, offers predictable returns with minimal price volatility, with yields typically ranging from 5% to 10% annually on assets like USDC, USDT, and DAI. Borrowers can access liquidity without selling their crypto by using it as collateral, while lenders earn passive income on their otherwise dormant assets. When considering crypto lending, it’s crucial to research platforms thoroughly, understand their custody models, and assess the risks of platform insolvency and smart contract vulnerabilities.
Cryptocurrency Mining: Contributing to Network Security for Rewards
While the energy-intensive nature of Bitcoin mining remains a significant barrier, other forms of cryptocurrency mining continue to offer a path to passive income in 2026. This involves using specialized hardware to solve complex cryptographic puzzles, thereby validating transactions and securing the blockchain network. In return, miners are rewarded with newly minted coins and transaction fees.
Bitcoin (BTC) remains a primary target for ASIC mining, though the halving events have significantly impacted block rewards, with the post-2024 halving subsidy at 3.125 BTC per block. For those using more accessible hardware like GPUs, coins such as Kaspa (KAS), Ravencoin (RVN), and Monero (XMR) are often cited as profitable options. Profitability in mining is heavily influenced by electricity costs, hardware efficiency, and network difficulty. It’s essential to conduct thorough research on hardware costs, electricity consumption, and long-term profitability before investing in mining operations. Mining is not a passive income shortcut and requires significant upfront investment and ongoing management.
Airdrops and Presales: Early Access to Potential Gains
While not strictly “passive” in the same sense as staking or lending, participating in cryptocurrency airdrops and early-stage presales can be a lucrative strategy for generating passive income or significant capital gains in 2026. Airdrops are distributions of free tokens by new blockchain projects to early adopters, community members, or users who engage with their platforms. These often reward on-chain activity like trading, liquidity provision, or simply holding specific tokens.
Notable upcoming airdrops in 2026 include those from projects like OpenSea, LayerZero, and Base. To maximize chances of receiving valuable airdrops, users are encouraged to actively participate in promising ecosystems, engage with project social media, and test new decentralized applications (dApps). Presales, such as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs), involve investing in new tokens before they are widely available, offering the potential for high returns if the project succeeds, but also carrying substantial risk. Tracking reliable airdrop websites and project announcements is key to identifying these opportunities.
Conclusion
The cryptocurrency landscape in 2026 offers a diverse array of opportunities for generating passive income. Staking provides a relatively stable income by supporting network security, while yield farming and crypto lending offer potentially higher returns through liquidity provision and asset lending, albeit with increased risk. Cryptocurrency mining remains a viable option for those with the necessary hardware and favorable electricity costs. Furthermore, active participation in airdrops and presales can unlock early access to potentially high-growth projects. As with any investment, thorough research, understanding the associated risks, and strategic diversification are paramount to successfully navigating the world of crypto passive income.
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Anthony Scaramucci warned the news that the Clarity Act may not clear the Senate until 2029, citing bank lobbying and political gridlock as the primary kill mechanisms. With the current mechanism, institutional compliance teams cannot approve allocations to asset classes that lack statutory legal classification.
Fiduciaries operating under ERISA or similar mandates cannot benchmark to an unregulated asset class without triggering liability exposure. Without the Clarity Act establishing jurisdictional lines between the SEC and CFTC, layer-1 tokens – Solana, Avalanche, TON- remain in a legal classification limbo that keeps them off the approved-asset lists of most major allocators.
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Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, did not frame this as a temporary setback. He identified three specific political fractures that have made Senate passage structurally difficult: Trump’s pre-inauguration meme coin launches that alienated pro-crypto Democrats, the Greenland annexation threats that burned NATO ally goodwill, and an unannounced Iran military campaign accompanied by a $200 billion defense request that consumed Senate bandwidth entirely.
The result from above, in Scaramucci’s assessment, is that opposition to the President has calcified into opposition to any bill he could claim as a win, including Bitcoin regulation.
He stated the dynamic plainly:
“I don’t see anybody that is against the President that’s going to allow him to have a win in cryptocurrency policy right now.”
Historical comparisons make the delay look even more structurally entrenched. Dodd-Frank moved from crisis to signature in 14 months. The JOBS Act cleared in under 12. The Clarity Act has been in active legislative motion since 2023, passed the House in July 2025 with a 294-134 bipartisan vote, and still cannot get Senate traction.
The verdict is straightforward: without the Clarity Act, institutional adoption concentrates into Bitcoin, the one asset class that has already achieved de facto commodity status through ETF approval, while everything below it in the cap table stays frozen out of serious institutional portfolios.
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The specific problem with prolonged regulation by enforcement is not that it stops capital from entering the market. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have already demonstrated that it does not. The problem is that it makes enforcement actions unpredictable, and unpredictable enforcement is structurally incompatible with institutional position sizing.
When the SEC moves against an exchange or a token issuer without a statutory framework defining what constitutes a security, the headline risk is unforeseeable. Institutions modeling risk cannot establish a regulatory floor, which means they cannot size positions with confidence, which means allocations stay smaller and more liquid than they would under a defined legal regime.
Arthur Hayes has argued separately that Bitcoin’s value proposition exists precisely outside the regulatory system. However, that framing does not help compliance officers at pension funds or sovereign wealth vehicles who need a legal classification, not a philosophical argument.
“I don’t see anybody that is against the President that’s going to allow him to have a win in cryptocurrency policy right now.” – Anthony Scaramucci, SkyBridge Capital, Solana Policy Summit
Scaramucci flagged “extended chop” as the likely price regime through the remainder of Trump’s term without passage, a ceiling defined not by Bitcoin’s fundamentals but by the absence of a regulatory floor beneath everything else. As long as enforcement remains the primary tool for market structure, the ETF inflow ceiling stays lower than the asset’s underlying cycle would otherwise support.
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Cannes is ready to welcome some scream-worthy titles to the Fantastic Pavilion Gala Screenings, which are set to take place over May 12-18 at Cannes’ Marché du Film. The section, spotlighting international genre filmmaking, will feature an abundance of “horror, elevated thrillers and dystopian narratives,” promised the organizers. It will open with “El Convento” and […]
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It was Stuart Thomas who rose to the occasion last round, tipping three matches correctly and he is now slowly creeping into contention in the 2025/26 race for Roar tipping glory.
Frankly, he looks the one to beat, especially considering the predictable fadeouts that Andrew Prentice and Texi Smith will suffer in the coming weeks. Round 14 sees the Jets with another chance to claim semi-final credibility against Wellington on Friday night.
Auckland hosts the mariners on Saturday before Brisbane Roar does the same against Adelaide United in what could be a feisty affair. The prime time features Macarthur at home to Melbourne City, whilst Sunday sees the ‘sack yet another coach to take pressure off the board’ Wanderers up against a dangerous Perth unit on the road.
Australia Day ends with a beauty between the Victory and the Sky Blues. Be sure to enter your tips in the sheet below to have a say in the faltering voice of the people. Here is the way the panel sees all the action unfolding over the next four days.
Newcastle, Auckland, Adelaide, Macarthur, Perth, Victory
Go the Jets I say and Mark Milligan is showing just what a clever fella he is. Surely they are too good for a Wellington side that beat a disappointing Sydney last time out? Auckland rarely lose two in a row and won’t when they beat the Mariners in New Zealand.
Brisbane and Adelaide looks a beauty, with the Reds buzzing after last week and likely winners. Macarthur will beat Melbourne City by three clear goals on Saturday and Western Sydney will not get the bounce back from the coach sacking they are looking for. Perth to win on the road.
The Big Blue will erupt, Sydney will implode and the steadily building Victory begin to move into finals contention before anyone had actually realised.
Newcastle, Auckland, Brisbane, Macarthur, Perth, Sydney
The Jets are third. If they win, they will go top (and depending on other results, could stay there). The Phoenix are 8th. If they win, they could jump as high as third (and stay there as the rest of the round pans out). Yeah, go on, YOU work it out. I’m going for the Jets.
Auckland did a very un-Auckland thing and let a game slip in the last 10 minutes. They’ll have been caned for that at training this week. The Mariners were as gutsy as we know them to be last week at the end of a tumultous seven days.
We’re hoping the financial situation hasn’t meant Matty Simon has borrowed the Terrigal Surf Club boat and is rowing the team to New Zealand. It would be a good bonding experience. Auckland by the odd goal.
Former Mariner Matt Simon. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)
Brisbane did the unthinkable last week and scored twice in the one game. That’s only the third time this season they’ve scored more than once in a game and were the first goals they’ve scored in 2026. They must be back!
Adelaide have been on a mini-run and that’s all any team can manage this season which is why my infallible logic says they’ll lose here. And probably get kicked a bit too.
Macarthur huffed and puffed in Gosford last week without gaining the win. City left it late against Auckland. Neither team puts forward a convincing case for favouritism. Aurelio Vidmar has caught Pep-swap from his illustrious CFG colleague in England and can’t seem to decide on a settled line-up.
Is Max Caputo a starter this week or not? (Seriously, Aurelio let me know, it’s playing havoc with my fantasy team). Macarthur to win in prime time and at home.
We come to the dead cat bounce debate at Western Sydney, who parted ways with Alen Stajcic midweek. Does this mean they are a shoo-in to win with new coach Garry Van Egmond at the helm? Neutrals will be yearning for a Perth win so we can all watch “Cantona” Griffiths bamboozle at the post-match presser.
I feel like that will happen and people will realise that “Staj” wasn’t the real problem at the Wanderers. 10 goals in 13 games is the real problem.
Alen Stajcic. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)
Rarely has a team put in a more moribund performance than Sydney last week. Simply awful, especially considering it was touted as the big return to Allianz Stadium, and more than 13,000 turned out for the party.
Victory were denied a share of the points by VAR against Adelaide and now must roll into their other great rivalry on the back of successive losses. Sydney have a solid Oz Day Big Blue record and may be welcoming Joe Lolley back to the collective relief of the Cove and coach Talay. Even the murmur of a Lolley return might be enough to swing this one, the game of the round.
Newcastle, Auckland, Brisbane, City, Western Sydney, Victory
The in-form Newcastle Jets have a chance to flex their muscles on home soil after a splendid win in Western Sydney last weekend. In their way is Wellington Phoenix, who gave Sydney FC a shock at Allianz Stadium; both of these teams are hitting form at the right time and have closed the gap on the top of the ladder.
The functional Phoenix will defend for their lives in the first half here, and the master plan is working as the score remains goalless at half time. A moment of magic from Max Burgess is enough to change the game on the hour, and when Clayton Taylor adds a second with ten to go, the game is over as a contest and the Jets’ assault on the premiership gains further momentum.
This is a tall order for the visitors, but a glorious opportunity for the home team to get back to winning ways. Given the way Mariners had to ride a storm last weekend and Auckland were only pipped at the death, normal service will resume at Mount Smart today, Logan Rogerson breaking his duck with two goals before half time, and Auckland running away with it at the end.
Both Brisbane Roar and Adelaide United are coming off the back of a much-needed win in difficult games, but Henry Hore and Justin Vidic have the Roar in a two-goal lead after only fifteen minutes.
Without their talisman Jay O’Shea though, they go astray in the second half and Adelaide pull back to level the scores, but a late solo effort from Chris Long gives the home team a well-deserved victory to keep the dream alive.
Great tine to play Melbourne City right now, as they are blowing hot and cold, and Macarthur FC will be looking to get back to winning ways after a tricky run of games. They were much better in Gosford last weekend, and tonight their midfield maestros Antony Caceres and Luke Brattan will roll back the years in a vintage display of precision passing and exciting ideas.
Andrew Nabbout’s goal on the half hour is against the run of play, Macarthur equalise through Mitch Duke not long after half time as they turn the screw, and the game is on a knife edge as the Bulls throw everything at their illustrious visitors. It’s left to Ryan Teague to smash home a totally undeserved winner for City in the dying stages.l
Andrew Nabbout of Melbourne City. (Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images)
Two teams in a bit of a mess meet at CommBank Stadium on Sunday afternoon, the Wanderers fans staying away in a pitiful showing from the home support – it’s no surprise given the low-quality fare being served up on the field from this vastly talented group of Western Sydney Wanderers players.
Perth Glory see their opportunity to get back on track, and take the game to the beleaguered home team, the scores level at the break despite Perth having the lion’s share of possession.
Hiroshi Ibusuki’s introduction changes everything as the Wanderers go on the attack, and they finally get their reward when Kosta Barbarouses finds Brandon Borrello unmarked in the area to fire home for the only goal of the game.
Sydney FC were undone by their own stupidity at home to the Phoenix on Sunday, while Victory were a whisker away from a famous win in Adelaide.
This has home win written all over it, Clarismario Santos in devastating form for Victory, and with Juan Mata pulling the strings, as he should have done at Wanderers, Sydney’s attempts to stem the flow as they did in their last visit to Melbourne are finally broken. Reno Piscopo slides home at the far post before Keegan Jelacic finishes the job in a one-sided match.
| Round 14 | Stuart | Andrew | Texi | Crowd | |
| NEW v WEL | NEW | NEW | NEW | ? | |
| AUK v CCM | AUK | AUK | AUK | ? | |
| BRI v ADL | ADL | BRI | BRI | ? | |
| MAC v MCY | MAC | MAC | MCY | ? | |
| WSW v PER | PER | PER | WSW | ? | |
| MVC v SYD | MVC | SYD | MVC | ? | |
| Last week | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 28 | 27 | 33 | 34 |
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Ripple’s cross-border token went on an impressive run Sunday evening, outperforming all other larger-cap alts and bitcoin.
However, it faced the same fate as it did during its previous several breakout attempts as the bears stepped up. Nevertheless, analysts remain optimistic about its future price performance despite the most recent rejection.
The asset had fallen to $1.38 in the hours leading up to the major breakout attempt, before it jumped to $1.42 and then to over $1.50. This substantial increase came amid many analysts predicting such a move from XRP, given its prolonged consolidation.
However, its momentum quickly faded, nowhere near the targets set by those analysts of up to $1.80. The most likely reason for this failed attempt was the developments on the US-Iran front, which have continuously impacted the entire crypto market.
Iran had sent another peace proposal to the US, which the latter’s President, Donald Trump, deemed “totally unacceptable.” XRP’s price rejection came shortly after Trump’s response went viral, and it was mimicked by many other digital assets. BTC, for example, had risen to $82,300 before it dropped almost immediately to under $81,000.
However, XRP’s situation is rather different as its more macro momentum is mostly downhill. It closed six consecutive months in the red, five of which were by double-digit losses, before it finally broke that streak in April with a minor increase. In addition, all of its breakout attempts in 2026 have been halted, and have marked lower highs since then.
Despite facing yet another rejection in its tracks, many analysts still believe XRP is on the right path to a more profound breakout. CW noted that the upward momentum in the futures market is “being maintained,” while the downward pressure is “small.” As such, they predicted that “the rise will resume” over time.
Although $XRP has fallen after a rise, the upward momentum in the futures market is being maintained.
Downward pressure during the decline is small.
Over time, the rise will resume. pic.twitter.com/AwJBofQTMj
— CW (@CW8900) May 11, 2026
CRYPTOWZRD said XRP had closed “a bit bullish” but expects validation in the next 12-24 hours. XRP has to hold above $1.445, which is currently being tested, to offer more upside potential.
ERGAG CRYPTO, who focuses mostly on the long-term charts, also noted that the asset’s bull structure is still intact as it remains above the 2-Month 21 EMA. They explained that the actual bull confirmation would come only after XRP reclaims $2.40-$3.36, which would open the door for their massive prediction of up to $13.
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The Albanese government’s budget plans to replace the 50% capital gains tax discount on assets held over 12 months with a model taxing full real gains adjusted for inflation.
