It's kind of a big deal because Greg Zuckermanman's one of the best writers out there. He's author of six books, two of which were co-written with his sons. So, let's talk more about the story in crypto and more with Greg Zuckermanman, special writer at the Wall Street Journal.Greg, whenever you do something, it's a big deal. Why are you turning your laser focus to Bitcoin. So Brian, to me, this kind of trade is the most interesting one other than AI out there, meaning the companies, the stocks that sold sh ...

Let's talk about that and more. Joining us now, Mark Newton, Funst Strats, global head of technical strategy, and as by the tie, you can see a fellow VTEC hokey. Great to have you on set, Mark.Thank you. We actually overlap for a couple of years there. Uh, quickly, uh, oil, are you looking at it as a benefit to the equity market or just kind of its own thing.>> It's its own thing. It's completely a supply demand story. Uh, OPEC plus flipped the flipped the script.They went from, you know, deficit to surplus ...

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Today, cryptocurrencies are back in the red. The Senate Agriculture Committee released a draft of the long-awaited crypto market structure bill, and Visa's Mark Nelson breaks down the payment giant's latest step forward in stable coin adoption. Welcome to CNBC's Crypto World.I'm Talia Kaplan. Cryptocurrencies are back in the red this morning with Bitcoin falling to the $11,000 level by noon Eastern. Ether's also headed lower, falling below $3,400 and XRP dropped to $2.34%.And taking a look at stablecoin iss ...

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Tech underperforming broader markets today as AI bubble fears persist. Dear Dbosa is live at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco getting a gut check on the industry's epicenter for today's tech check. Hi D.Hey. And it's just about to kick off. So it's filling up in here.But even here where you have the true believers, these are AI startup founders, top model foundation companies, there's still bubble talk and AI anxieties. They're the elephant in the room. Now a year ago it was all about how fast ...

All right, we got some breaking news out of Washington DC. Let's find out what it is with a jabers at the White House. >> Yeah, Brian, this coming from the Supreme Court just in the Supreme Court saying they're going to hear oral arguments on the president's effort to fire Fed board uh member Lisa Cook. They're going to do those oral arguments on January 21st.Remember, the issue here is the president is allowed to fire somebody for cause, so to speak. And the question is, what does for cause actually mean i ...

What is the market currently getting wrong about commercial real estate. >> I think the market is we're this is the largest industry in the world, right. It's three times bigger than the stock market, the real estate markets globally.And I think people uh as they always do tend to look in the rearview mirror and they look at a suboptimal performance of the whole asset class across the last three or four years. And look, Nvidia goes up a trillion dollars in four months. Like the hot kids on the block are eve ...