{"id":63718,"date":"2025-12-16T05:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63718"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:31:31","slug":"tom-lee-predicts-10-15-downside-for-stocks-in-early-2026-here-is-why-the-ethereum-bull-sees-cryptos-best-years-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63718","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lee Predicts 10-15% Downside For Stocks In Early 2026: Here Is Why The Ethereum Bull Sees Crypto&#8217;s &#8216;Best Years&#8217; Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wall Street analyst <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong> predicted on Monday a bearish first half for financial markets in 2026, but expects it to \u201ccome back in force\u201d eventually.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lee Expects Market To \u2018Come Back In Force\u2019 In 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Lee, who chairs <strong>BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\">BMNR<\/a>), said that 2026 could mirror 2025, a year marked by an early bear market shifting to a bull run later on.<\/p>\n<p>This assessment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44641954\/nasdaq-dips-6-following-trumps-tariffs-investor-sentiment-plunges-fear-greed-index-remains-in-extreme-fear-zone\">rang true for equities<\/a>, with the <strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong> and the <strong>Nasdaq Composite<\/strong> bouncing sharply from the early April sell-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Lee stated that \u201cpro-business regulations,\u201d particularly those l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/tech\/25\/12\/49378882\/trumps-ai-order-under-fire-amy-klobuchar-says-its-likely-illegal-while-bernie-sanders-calls-it-extremely-dangerous\">inked to artificial intelligence<\/a>, the upcoming mid-term elections, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/economic-data\/25\/12\/49394045\/ai-bubble-or-boom-outlook-2026-donald-trump-fed-chair-pick-interest-rate-cuts\">new Federal Reserve leadership<\/a>, could prove \u201ckinda good\u201d for the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really going to come back in force, but it will take maybe the first half of the year to get through that because we don\u2019t have a new Fed in the first half,\u201d Lee said. \u201cSo, I think the first &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49411946\/tom-lee-predicts-10-15-downside-for-stocks-in-early-2026-here-is-why-the-ethereum-bull-sees?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Tom\" lee predicts downside for stocks in early here is why the ethereum bull sees crypto years ahead>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street analyst Tom Lee predicted on Monday a bearish first half for financial markets in 2026, but expects it to \u201ccome back in force\u201d eventually. Lee Expects Market To \u2018Come Back In Force\u2019 In 2026 Lee, who chairs BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc.\u00a0(NYSE:BMNR), said that 2026 could mirror 2025, a year marked by an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-63718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}