The strong debut suggests significant investor appetite for regulated XRP exposure, with the ETF moving 2.26 million shares and experiencing 11% intraday volatility as markets discovered the price-like a drunkard fumbling for a key. 🔑😅
On November 13, 2025, the SEC filed a report revealing Appaloosa LP had added 5,233,908 shares of Whirlpool Corporation (WHR) during Q3. The total position now clocks in at $432.30 million, making Whirlpool the fund’s third-largest holding. For context, that’s roughly the amount I spent on my last vacation-minus the part where I actually went anywhere.
Lower network fees and declining blockchain usage continue to drag down ETH’s performance, even though Ethereum is king in institutional dominance.
VOO’s expense ratio is so low, it’s basically a coupon for 10% off at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Meanwhile, QQQ charges more than your gym membership-but promises returns that’ll make your head spin faster than a NASDAQ ticker board.
The sale reduced BOND’s presence in the fund’s portfolio from 7.5% of reportable assets under management to a mere 0.4%, a diminution as stark as the fading light of a waning star. The top holdings that followed bore the weight of their own histories, each a testament to the capriciousness of markets: DCOR, DFIC, UDFEM, FAS, and SPIB, their values etched in percentages that spoke of both triumph and trepidation.
What sorcery, you ask, has wrought this calamity? And could the fall deepen, like a character in a Bulgakov novel spiraling into the absurd? 🌀
Mark Fairless, that paragon of financial foresight, declares that stablecoins are “a logical extension to reduce friction in international global payments.” One might ask, is this logic or merely a desperate attempt to keep up with the digital age? 🤔
In a missive on the platform of X, Paul Barron, with the gravitas of a soothsayer, proclaimed that Canary Capital’s XRP ETF shall debut today, bearing a modest management fee of 0.50%, having secured the benediction of Nasdaq. Franklin Templeton, ever the patient suitor, awaits its turn between November 14 and 18. Bitwise, with frugality as its mantle, shall follow on November 19 or 20, boasting the humblest fee of 0.34%. 🧮💰
On a chilly November 13th, amidst the gilded halls of the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025 conference, Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Gilles Roth proclaimed his nation’s descent into the crypto maelstrom. With a flourish worthy of a tragic hero, he announced that 1% of the country’s sovereign wealth fund-a paltry €7 million-had been sacrificed to the Bitcoin gods. “We must be first!” he cried, his voice echoing through the halls of financial hubris. “For what is life without a dash of recklessness?” 🌪️
