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14 hours agoStrategy and Bitmine Jump 6% as Crypto Treasury Plays Catch Fire
Strategy and Bitmine stocks surged 6% due to a crypto market rebound, driven by Bitcoin's rise to nearly $70,000.
"The specific barrier is capital," says Lisa George, global head of the Macquarie Group Foundation. "Without access to capital, it's very hard to get social mobility and educational mobility in life."
U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer stated that the proposed rule aims to fulfill President Trump's promise for a new golden age by fostering a retirement system that allows more Americans to retire with dignity.
We're on a rollercoaster of AI disruption with geopolitical risks adding to the uneasy ride. Sell-offs have rocked markets as artificial intelligence tools and services threaten to disrupt sectors. High geopolitical tensions have also been the theme so far this year, with the ongoing US military build‑up in the Middle East, while the assault on Venezuela and January's stand‑off over Greenland are still front of mind.
For decades, the United States stock market has been a juggernaut on the international stage. The US dollar has been - and still is - the de facto currency globally. But for how much longer that will be the case is now looking uncertain. As the New York Times reports, investors are starting to look elsewhere as the Trump administration continues to threaten the independence of its central bank, start a trade war with Europe, and implement self-conflicting monetary policies.
At lower portfolio sizes, income investing feels like something of a compromise. A 4% yield on $200,000 gives you $8,000 a year, which is barely $667 a month, so it's supplemental income at best. However, jump up to $500,000, even a moderate 5% blended yield can produce $25,000 a year, or right around $2,080 monthly.
The announcement of a "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership" between Brussels and Hanoi last week places the EU side by side with China, the United States, and Russia as one of Vietnam's top-tier diplomatic relationships. Vietnamese President Luong Cuong described it as a "historical milestone underlining the great achievements that the two sides have made," during a meeting with the head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, in Hanoi.
DBC holds futures contracts across energy, metals, and agricultural commodities rather than physical assets. What makes it distinct is its optimum yield roll methodology, which selects futures contract expiration dates designed to minimize contango drag. Contango is the condition where futures prices exceed spot prices, eroding returns when a fund rolls contracts. This is the fund's core structural advantage over simpler commodity benchmarks.
One of the key factors that I continue to harp on as intrinsic to my bullish thesis on TMC is the company's control of what it claims is the world's largest undeveloped battery metals resource in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). The company estimates that it has access to around 274 million metric tons (Mt) of wet nodules, including 51 Mt of probable reserves. These are the first, and largest-ever declared reserves for deep-sea mining, with key battery minerals included in these nodules that are surging in value.
The stock market hates inflation. There are not many stocks that are little affected today, if any. However, safe-haven stocks may even rise due to demand. At the top of this list is Altria (NYSE: MO), the cigarette and tobacco king. People who smoke do not stop smoking, even during periods of conflict.
While over-diversification is not a term you hear often, the financial industry has spent decades telling investors that more is better. More funds, more sectors, more geographic exposure, and more asset classes, galore. The thing is, when a retiree holds 15 or 20 ETFs across overlapping strategies, the result isn't going to be safety, more like dilution.
He said that while many people set target retirement ages, people in the FIRE movement set target portfolio numbers. Unfortunately, he believes this is "inherently riskier" because you're biased towards being exposed to risk as long as possible to help your wealth grow quickly - unlike people who usually rebalance their portfolios and shift to safer assets as their retirement age nears.
Step away from those individual stocks. Forget I bonds and laddered portfolios of individual Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. If you're a satisficer, they're not for you. Reduce your number of accounts and the holdings within them.A portfolio with fewer moving parts is easier to oversee and simpler to document in case your loved ones or a financial advisor needs to take the wheel.
Dividend investing and total return investing are often presented as competing philosophies, each with its own set of loyal advocates who dismiss the other as missing the point. Dividend investors are going to argue that cash flow matters more than any kind of paper gains. Separately, total return investors will counter that focusing on yield ignores the bigger picture of wealth compounding.