• El Salvador will continue to buy Bitcoin, possibly at an accelerated pace, for its strategic reserve - [EI]

• US November existing home sales rise 4.8% month-over-month to 4.15M, surpassing estimates of 4.07M - [DB]

• SEC files for Franklin Templeton Bitcoin and Ethereum Crypto Index ETF - [PN]

• 21Shares Polkadot Trust registered in Delaware - [PN]

• Investors file complaint against HAWK Memecoin team, request jury trial in New York - [Zoomer]

• Mo Shaikh resigns as CEO of Aptos - [AGGR]

• Robinhood lists Bonk in the US - [AGGR]

• SEC approves Hashdex Nasdaq Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto index ETF - [PN]

• Grayscale (Mini) BTC daily flows: -$188.6M; Grayscale (GBTC) daily flows: -$87.8M - [EI]

• World Liberty Financial, a Trump-backed crypto project, continues to buy Ethereum, recently purchasing $2.5 million worth - [NN]

• House fails to pass stopgap funding and debt limit bill - [DB]

• ARK 21Shares (ARKB) reports daily BTC flows of -$108.7M - [EI]

• Fidelity (FBTC) reports daily BTC flows of -$208.6 million - [EI]

• Vivek's Twitter account compromised; claims of usual partnership are false - [AGGR]

• ETF flows on December 19, 2024: Bitcoin ETFs see $671.9M in net outflows; Ethereum ETFs see $60.5M in net outflows - [EI]

• US November PCE price index rises 0.1% m/m (est. +0.2%), 2.4% y/y (est. +2.5%); core PCE rises 0.1% m/m (est. +0.2%), 2.8% y/y (est. +2.9%) - [DB]

• U.S. November personal income rises 0.3% (est. +0.4%), personal spending rises 0.4% (est. +0.5%), and real personal spending rises 0.3% (est. +0.3%) - [DB]

• Treasury yields decline as PCE data comes in below estimates - [DB]

• S&P 500 opens down 0.5%, NASDAQ declines 1% - [DB]

• Michigan's final December consumer sentiment is 74, meeting estimates; one-year expected inflation at 2.8% vs. estimated 2.9% - [DB]

• NASDAQ 100 turns positive while S&P 500 rises 0.3% to session high - [DB]