🚀 Altcoin Party: Chiliz & Canton Mooning While You Were Napping! 🌕

Chiliz spent most of the year trapped in a resistance zone so tight, it made a pair of skinny jeans look like a tent. 🧘‍♂️ Every time it tried to break free, it face-planted harder than a newbie at a yoga class. But lo and behold, the selling pressure got bored and wandered off, leaving CHZ to finally stretch its legs. The price is now hovering around $0.044-$0.045, which is basically the crypto equivalent of winning a participation trophy. 🎉 Trading volume? Up. On-balance volume? Also up. It’s like the coin finally remembered it had a purpose in life. As long as it stays above its old highs, it’s technically still at the party. Technically.

Buffett’s $184B Warning & Market’s 2026 Outlook

But now, the oracle of Omaha is passing the baton. His retirement at year-end 2025 leaves a void-not just in boardrooms, but in the collective psyche of investors everywhere. And yet, his parting gift? A $184 billion warning. Not a cryptic tweet, not a vague sigh, but a seismic shift in Berkshire’s stock-buying habits. Since Q4 2022, they’ve been net sellers, liquidating stakes even as their cash pile hit $382 billion. Why? Because the stock market, dear reader, is trading like it’s 2000 again-except this time, we’re all holding the tech bros’ old smartphones.

🤑 XRP’s Mysterious Waltz: Ripple’s Hand or Binance’s Shuffle? 🕵️‍♀️

At the current rate of $1.87 per XRP, this transfer occupies that most awkward of social positions-neither a fortune nor a trifle. It is, as they say, enough to raise eyebrows but not to shatter teacups. The immediate assumption, of course, was that of a sale, for large outbound movements often precede the sort of market tumult that sends investors scurrying like mice at a cat’s approach. Yet, as is so often the case, the tale took a most unexpected turn. 🌀

Universal Technical Institute Stock Surges as Needham Buys In amid Market’s Absurdities

This stake, a humble 1.2% of Needham’s sprawling empire of assets, whispers of a chess game played in the darkness. The giants of the portfolio-SMCI, TDUP, LASR, PDFS, VRT-stand like gothic gargoyles and angels, guardians of the investment crypt. The shares, priced at $29.38 as of last twilight-up 44.5% in a year-outperforming the S&P 500 by 33.3 percentage points, as if mocking the very idea of average achievement. In a universe where success is often an illusion, UTI’s ascent is a rare anomaly-a soaring specter within the mundane gloom of the market.

🤑 Crypto’s $3B Vanish Act: Fewer Heists, Bigger Hauls! 🎭

On a Tuesday, no less-the most mundane of days-blockchain security firm SlowMist unveiled its 2025 Blockchain Security & AML Annual Report. Oh, the drama! It seems the crypto industry has been more of a sitting duck than a soaring eagle this year, with security challenges that would make even the most seasoned detective blush. 🕵️♂️

Real Estate Roads Diverged

Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year weekly returns. The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months.

Bitcoin’s 2026 Comeback: A Financial Soap Opera 🎭💸

But wait! Not everyone’s crying into their crypto. Enter Axel Adler, the Sherlock Holmes of crypto, who insists Bitcoin’s just “transitioning,” not tanking. 🕵️♂️ His evidence? The “Supply in Profit” metric – a fancy term for “how many coins are happy campers?” Spoiler: It’s down from 19 million BTC to 13.5 million. Bitcoin’s Supply in Profit went on a diet! 🥗

Investing in Workiva: A $320 Million Bet Amidst Market Whispers

On a fine November day, the Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled Eminence Capital’s latest filings, revealing a strategic augmentation of their holdings in Workiva (WK 0.48%). This act of financial bravado has elevated their ownership to a princely total of 3.72 million shares, valued at a remarkable $320.52 million as of September 30-a date on which the market held its breath.

Everus’ Labyrinthine Ascent and the Vanishing Shareholder

On November 14, the SEC’s filings revealed Mountaineer’s pruning of its position in Everus by 36,374 shares, reducing its holdings to 169,844 shares valued at $14.56 million. This act, though seemingly minor, echoes the gestures of scholars in the Library of Babel, who, upon discovering a volume of gold, might hesitate before adding it to their shelves. The fund’s $264.03 million in U.S. equity assets now rests across 36 positions, with Everus comprising 5.5% of its reportable AUM-a figure that suggests neither abandonment nor adoration, but a calculus of balance.

UiPath Shares and the Devil’s Bargain: A Value Investor’s Tale

Let us parse this diabolical arithmetic:

  • The conjured sum: ~$1.5 million (at $16.49 per share, a figure whispered to be the weighted average of market murmurs)
  • Direct holdings post-ritual: 28,703,585 shares (valued at ~$473.3 million, though gold has a habit of evaporating in these times)
  • Indirect holdings (concealed within the mists of Ice Vulcan Holding Limited): 9,615,297 shares, untouched by mortal hands