Gold and Bitcoin become 2026’s worst major assets in historic first

For the first time ever, the world’s largest commodity – Gold – and the first and largest cryptocurrency – Bitcoin ( BTC ) – emerged as the two worst-performing major assets in 2026. Specifically, a table published on X on October 23 by Charlie Bilello, the Chief Market Strategist at Creative Planning, showed that, by that date, BTC declined 7.3% year-to-date (YTD), while the yellow metal dropped 7.5% YTD. This year is not the first in which both assets were in the red for the calendar year – the same occurred in 2014, 2018, and 2022 – but they were never at the very top of the chart. Still, Bitcoin suffered far larger drops in each of these three years – 58%, 73%, and 65%, respectively.

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