We have been talking about the clarity act for quite some time basically being the key that unlocks the floodgates and yeah when we think about the big banks all the institutional players and pretty much all of the you know bullish news that we have been talking about you know pretty much all of that gets exaggerated in a huge way once we have the clarity act fully passed through. And what I really mean by that is everything starts to come true regarding all the speculation, all of the ideas around Ripple X ...

Per CNBC reporting, the strategy favoring gold and Bitcoin now has a name. JP Morgan analysts are calling it the debasement trade. >> People starting to normalize that exactly the things that Bitcoin maxis have been talking about for years.The the level of nation state adoption is is way more than what we had imagined. that there's now 56 countries, this is at nation state level, that have some sort of exposure to Bitcoin, which is incredible. ...

Earnings SnapshotNet sales rose 10.9% to $20.584 billion from $18.553 billion and exceeded the $20.334 billion analyst estimate.During the quarter, the company recognized $149 million in pre-tax expenses associated with the acquisitions of Foundation Building Materials (FBM) and Artisan Design Group (ADG), which impacted reported results.Excluding these expenses, adjusted diluted EPS increased 2.6% to $1.98 from $1.93 a year earlier and beat the $1.94 analyst estimate.The company has issued its fiscal 2026 ...

For Europe's oil ang gas firms geopolitics is in the driving seat - analyst Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock JP Morgan sees geopolitics reclaiming the driver’s seat for European oil and gas equities, arguing that a higher risk premium has helped push oil prices up, and dragged energy shares higher year-to-date in the process. The bank's analysts, in a note, said the sector’s recent performance has “re-coupled to rallying oil prices” after a stretch of “positive decoupling” in the second ha ...

G Treasury is probably one of the biggest acquisitions that Ripple has announced ever. And I do think that this is probably going to be one that kind of holds up over time as well. I think that this is just one of the largest acquisitions in the space from any blockchain based company. And the reason why I say that is just the overall reach of this company.Now, it got announced back in October that Ripple was acquiring G Treasury for $1 billion, as you guys can see on my screen. Now, everyone was talking ab ...

I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOON, THEY WILL ALSO DISCOVER THAT THE AGENCY THAT PROTECTS THE SAFETY OF KIDS TOYS, THE AGENCY, MY FORMER AGENCY, THE FTC THAT BANS MARTIN THE FEDERAL RESERVE, THEY DON'T INDEPENDENT. THOSE DON'T NEED TO BE INDEPENDENT. THE ONE AGENCY THAT DOES NEED TO BE INDEPENDENT IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE.THEY DON'T BELIEVE BELIEVE IN CHECKS AND BALANCES. THEY BELIEVE IN THEIR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS. AND, ROHIT, I DO HAVE TO SAY I SHARE IN THE PRESIDENT'S GRIEVANCE A LITTLE BIT THAT THERE WAS ...

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Commercial real estate leaders gathered in San Diego for the annual mortgage bankers association's finance conference where I sat down with key players to talk debt, equity, and risk across all sectors. Starting with JP Morgan's head of commercial real estate. As we start 2026, it's nice to see a continuation of the trends that we were happy to be a part of during 2025. Increased um equity to the space, increased debt capital, just general liquidity all around. Coupling that with strong fundamentals across ...

The DeFi market right now is valued at $28 billion. What if I told you that this is just a drop of water in the bucket to where we are actually headed for DeFi TVL. One of the biggest conversations happening around crypto right now is institutional DeFi and how to scale institutional DeFi itself.Now we barely have institutional capital on on on chain. It's a very small amount which is why the scaling of institutional DeFi is such a big deal. Now when we think about this, yeah, it's easy to talk about it.Can ...

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