Gold, XRP extend losses on Presidents’ Day

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Anand Sinha

Mon, February 16, 2026 astatine 10:54 AM CST 1 min read

The U.S. banal market will stay closed for trading connected Feb. 16 successful observance of Presidents' Day. Both exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, volition stay suspended connected the day.

Celebrated connected the third Monday of February, it is a holiday successful the United States and is an juncture to grant the legacy of the presidents of the country.

The trading enactment volition resume connected Feb. 17.

However, trading connected the cryptocurrency marketplace continues arsenic the integer assets commercialized 24/7.

Bitcoin (BTC), which began to descend successful October past year, continues to drop. It extended the diminution connected Feb. 16, losing 0.3% implicit the past 24 hours to commercialized at $69,190.68 astatine property time.

Ethereum (ETH) fell 1% over the past 24 hours to commercialized astatine $1,997.23 astatine property time.

XRP fell astir 2% over the past 24 hours to speech hands astatine $1.5. Solana (SOL) besides dropped 2% during the aforesaid play to commercialized at $86.04.

The full crypto marketplace capitalization stood astatine $2.44 trillion astatine the clip of writing.

Precious metals besides fell connected the charts connected President's Day.

Gold fell 0.93% successful a time to $4,994.51 per ounce and metallic 0.68% to $76.88 per ounce.

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