Wall Street’s $150K Bitcoin Calls for 2026 Are Subtly Falling Apart

With 66 days left in 2026 and bitcoin near $80,000, most of the big bank targets set at the start of the year now need a rally of 50% or more to land. A post shared by prominent analyst Shah lined up a number of year-end forecasts side by side. It ran from $126,000 for Citigroup through $150,000 for Standard Chartered and $170,000 for JPMorgan, all the way up to $500,000 calls credited to Chamath Palihapitiya and Mike Novogratz. However, the jokes wrote themselves as bitcoin’s price is currently hovering around $80,000, roughly 37% below its all-time high of about $126,223 from October last year. But the list hides the more interesting story, i.e.

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