These charts show how leverage-happy investors are transforming the stock market
A rush of retail investors and quant funds has caused a shift toward more borrowed money and more shortterm trading. Source:MarketWatch
Crypto market makers are cashing in on bitcoin's rally - without betting on direction
As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet. Source:CoinDesk
The S&P 500 keeps climbing on days when stocks broadly struggle. Here’s what’s going on.
Investors’ intense focus on AI is at times adding to the might of a small club of Big Tech stocks with mega market values to potentially make or break a single…
BitGo to buy NYDIG trading arm for $42.5M in cash and stock plus $15M earnout
The deal to buy NYDIG IF Holdings comprises $7 million in cash and around $35.5 million, as well as the $15 earnout. Source:CoinDesk
Is Anthropic worth $2 trillion? Here’s how the company is trading in a new tokenized market.
Not all fund managers are convinced by the valuation but perpetual futures are already pricing Anthropic Source:MarketWatch
BitGo buys NYDIG trading arm to deepen institutional crypto push
BitGo completed its acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business, adding about 30 employees and expanding its derivatives and financing capabilities.…
Salesforce stock is jumping. What Wall Street is saying about its earnings and its Anthropic relationship.
Shares in the software company climbed in premarket trading. Citigroup and Jefferies both lifted their price targets for the stock. Source:MarketWatch
Nvidia stock is climbing after another set of blockbuster results. Here’s what Wall Street is saying.
Shares of Nvidia rose in premarket trading on Thursday. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup raised their price targets for the stock. Source:MarketWatch
Bitfinex Securities raises $50 million in push to offer tokenized nickel trading
Bitfinex Securities is preparing to list a new security linked to a Luxembourgbased industrial metals platform built around a $1.6 billion stockpile of…
XRP’s 44% rally brings leverage back, raising risk of sharper pullback
CryptoQuant data show XRP’s estimated leverage ratio on Binance at its highest since January, with long accounts outnumbering shorts as futures volume runs…
South Korea trade giant POSCO brings trade receivables to Avalanche in latest tokenization move
The $22 billion trading company worked with Olea and Intain on the transaction, following an Injective pilot with LG CNS last month. Source:CoinDesk
LayerZero unveils trading infrastructure for crypto and tokenized markets, ZRO surges
The trading infrastructure runs on LayerZero's Zero blockchain, backed by Citadel Securities with DTCC and ICE exploring institutional market applications.…