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UK spinout investor Northern Gritstone to open San Francisco office
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Strategy says MSCI should measure markets, not dictate corporate assets
The bitcoin treasury company said index providers should measure markets rather than determine which assets public companies are allowed to own.
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Israel’s largest bank to offer crypto trading with Galaxy
Bank Leumi customers will be able to trade bitcoin, ether and solana through the bank’s investment app from early 2027.
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How a niche copper trade became a real-time gauge of Trump’s next tariff move
The widening price of copper between two metals exchanges is offering investors a gauge of U.S. tariff risk.
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ASML, Amadeus and others commit to backing Mistral’s data centre buildout
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Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation Of Iran “Like The World Has Never Seen Before”
Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation Of Iran “Like The World Has Never Seen Before” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax Thursday night that the Trump administration will announce unprecedented economic measures against Iran next week, signaling that a sharp escalation in economic warfare is just ahead as negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain…
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Farage Crushes Clacton By-Election With 63% As Comedy Candidates Dominate Longest Ballot In British History
Farage Crushes Clacton By-Election With 63% As Comedy Candidates Dominate Longest Ballot In British History Nigel Farage has romped to victory in the Clacton by-election with 63.3% of the vote, seeing off 33 rivals including Count Binface, who won a quarter of the votes cast, on the longest ballot paper in British electoral history. The…
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Regulated Markets Are Slow to Handle Change
Gowrisankaran, Langer and Reguant have an excellent paper, Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets (WP), in the latest AER. The basic idea is that regulation designed to prevent utilities from building useless power plants can induce them to keep obsolete power plants. Some background. We regulated electric utilities under the theory that they were natural monopolies…
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10 Friday AM Reads
My end-of-week morning reads: • The New Wild West: Texas Experiments With Raw Capitalism: The state’s light regulation and low taxes are luring dozens of big companies. It’s also setting up a water crisis and a “race to the bottom” in shareholder protections. (Barron’s) • Is Artificial Intelligence Making Us More Productive? What the UK Industry Data……
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Wall Street’s riskiest trades are suddenly back on top: Chart of the Day