He’s observed a rather alarming drop in the buy/sell pressure delta. Which, put simply, means far more people are shouting “SELL!” than “BUY!”. Which, shockingly, is what happens when people want to sell. It’s all very scientific, you know. Apparently, market orders are the ones actually doing anything, not those passive-aggressive limit orders just sitting there silently judging everyone.
This is no alchemy. Annaly’s mandate to surrender 90% of taxable income to shareholders is not charity-it is survival. The IRS, that unyielding overseer, demands it. And so, the REIT scours the earth for Agency mortgage-backed securities, non-agency mortgages, and servicing rights, leveraging its capital like a gambler in a storm. Fixed-rate returns, low-risk, but the dice are loaded. Still, it rolls them.
The grumblers on social media are having a field day, spewing more negativity than a sourpuss at a candy factory. 🍬😠 Santiment, the wise old owl of analytics, chirps that this grumbling is “far more” than usual. But hold your horses, dear readers! Could this be the universe’s way of saying, “Brace yourselves for a rocket launch!”? 🚀
The Hong Kong Insurance Authority, ever the architect of a new financial purgatory, has unveiled regulations that permit insurers to dabble in digital assets. Yet, the price of entry? A 100% risk premium, a cruel jest for those who dare to gamble with the unknown. 🧠💸
Trump Media & Technology Group, bless their ambitious little hearts, has decided that cryptocurrency is, well, possibly worth a look. Forty million dollars’ worth of a look, to be precise. Which, let’s be honest, is enough to buy a small country’s supply of tea and biscuits.☕
Representatives Max Miller and Steven Horsford, two stars in the bipartisan constellation, unveil a proposal so bold it could make a camel blush. They aim to tie cryptocurrencies to traditional securities, a move as daring as trying to herd cats with a net. 🐱🚫
After briefly emerging from the financial equivalent of a dumpster behind a 7-Eleven, Dogecoin rallied enough to make day traders forget it’s literally named after a Shiba Inu meme. It climbed past $0.130, which in traditional finance would be embarrassing, but in crypto counts as a “historic breakout.”
Kaspersky, the vigilant guardian of the digital realm, has raised the alarm on a new foe named Stealka, a parasite that feeds on the data of crypto enthusiasts. 🛡️
Both funds, like twin rivers, carve paths through the same terrain of developed and emerging markets. Yet their currents differ. IXUS, with its modest 0.07% fee, flows with a yield that glimmers like a distant fire. VXUS, the broader stream, bears a lighter toll of 0.05%, its waters teeming with more stocks, more breadth, more promise of coverage. But what is coverage, if not a mirage in the desert of uncertainty?
Imagine, if you will, a world where the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) shares the limelight with T-bills and the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and the ever-so-superior Meta. What a masquerade ball of modern finance! 🎭