Another crypto equity getting zapped: in this case, Circle (CRCL) which is worth one-third its peak, even though it presently is more than double its low price.

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The Iran War and the US equity markets have reached an interesting stage and I am watching with great interest to see what happens next. I’ll be reviewing the setup on equities here mainly but first I’ll review where we seem to be on the Iran war.
I was saying in my last post on Thursday 12 March that Trump had a problem in this crisis in that if he wanted to TACO here, likely by declaring victory, withdrawing US forces and moving on to something else, then the problem was that this would necessarily require some kind of agreement with Iran, and Iran, under new, younger and much angrier management, was showing no interest in talking.
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