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Digital assets and traditional finance: Can two parallel lanes converge?

The TRADE

As the introduction of digital assets become increasingly common, their influence on traditional finance is becoming more notable, blurring the line between two seemingly separate, and arguably parallel, financial instruments. In traditional finance, we’ve moved to shorter and shorter settlement times.

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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Mergers and Inquisitions

If you want to work in the most cyclical role in the finance industry, it’s hard to beat commodity hedge funds. But a few related areas, such as commodity desks at banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and physical commodity trading shops could put up a good fight for that “most cyclical” title.

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Buyers of this retail stock look exhausted. How to trade a downturn in the shares

CNBC: Investing

How to trade a downturn in the shares Published Wed, Jun 11 2025 11:01 AM EDT Tony Zhang @OptionsPlay WATCH LIVE Walmart (WMT) is facing headwinds with looming tariffs likely to erode profit margins amid an already overstretched valuation. This rejection, combined with negative divergence with momentum suggests buyer exhaustion.

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This retail stock is expected to move more than 13% on earnings this week. How to trade it

CNBC: Investing

How to trade it Published Mon, Jun 9 2025 10:46 AM EDT Michael Khouw @Michael_Khouw WATCH LIVE RH's unique position, with a high-end assortment, relative scale, and a small share of the home furnishings market, leaves room for long-term growth. RH is trading at ~ 18.7x If anything, the $1 billion buyback in 2023 and $1.25

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Cryptocurrency Comes of Age as a Mainstream Financial Asset

Global Banking & Finance

Despite the high ROI of many alternative assets in the crypto space, the conservative criticism of cryptocurrency persists in many financial circles. Cryptocurrency is enjoying another bumper year, with Bitcoin more than doubling in value over the past four quarters and several other cryptos including Solana exceeding this performance.

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Bitcoin is primed for a surge to fresh all-time highs above $130,000, according to the charts

CNBC: Investing

bond yields are steady, paving the way for risk-associated assets (I believe bitcoin is still positively correlated to the growth trade) to move higher. The Fed's next move is still expected to be a decrease in fed funds rates, further fueling the growth trade. dollar, also a positive for the growth trade.

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This industrial giant could be about to break out, charts show

CNBC: Investing

For the past three weeks, the price has remained in a tight trading range between the 200-day moving average around $355 and the upper end of the price gap from early May. Another buy signal occurred in October 2022, confirming a bullish phase as Caterpillar traded back above its 150-week moving average.