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Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of the hedge fund SkyBridge Capital, says that all the hand-wringing about the massive Bitcoin purchases and debt being taken on by Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy Inc. is overblown.

The $10.4 trillion US exchange-traded fund industry’s blockbuster year comes with an asterisk: even amid record inflows and launches, funds are shuttering at a nearly unprecedented clip.

The hawkish pivot by the Federal Reserve combined with uber-bullish sentiment among stock investors has caused risk appetite to be “suddenly twitchy,” according to Bank of America Corp. strategist Michael Hartnett.

The election of Donald Trump will usher in a wave of private-company purchases that had previously been slowed by red tape, investor Cathie Wood said in an interview in which she also reiterated her ultra-bullish view on Bitcoin.

Asian stocks are set to open lower after another downbeat day on Wall Street left stocks and bonds lower and the dollar stronger after the Federal Reserve’s hawkish pivot.

It’s been a challenging couple of years for real estate stocks since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates in 2022, as borrowing costs soared and the property market collapsed. And despite a healthy rebound in the middle of 2024, the outlook for 2025 isn’t particularly encouraging.

Heavy selling in US stocks and bonds spread to Asia Thursday after the Federal Reserve trimmed expectations for rate cuts next year.

A BlackRock Inc. fund has bought municipal debt issued earlier this year in a first-of-its-kind deal that relies exclusively on blockchain technology.

First it was a collapse in the currency. Now the rest of Brazil’s financial markets are in the cross-hairs as investors lose faith in the government’s ability to contain a deepening fiscal crisis.

Stocks in Asia are set to diverge after Wall Street edged lower, as traders brace for the Federal Reserve’s final policy decision of the year.

Only a year after having their size clipped in the Nasdaq 100 because they got too big, the world’s largest technology companies may face another pruning when the marquee benchmark rebalances this week.

In what’s been a record-breaking year for Bitcoin, the originators of the world’s first exchange-traded funds to hold the cryptocurrency appear to be at risk of being left behind.

Home builders’ outlook for the next six months rose to the highest in more than 2 1/2 years on optimism that the upcoming Trump administration will help remove construction regulatory hurdles and boost sales.

MicroStrategy Inc.’s entry into the Nasdaq 100 opens up the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin to a new — and untapped – investor: the index-tracking juggernauts.

New exchange-traded funds riding buzzy investment themes are helping fuel record industry growth this year. Yet, it’s also shaping up to be a banner era for money managers revamping their tried-and-tested mutual funds into the tax-efficient product.