Artificial intelligence (AI) tokens-the crypto world’s attempt to marry blockchain with sentient machines-are currently performing like a breakup playlist at a wedding. 🤖💔 Every major project’s numbers look like my bank account after Black Friday: down, down, and down some more. Sure, bitcoin crawled back to $91K like a cocky ex who thinks they’re still welcome, but the AI crew? Still licking their wounds in the red zone.
Consider the First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (RDVY). It’s not flashy. It doesn’t wear a cape or scream “I’m the future!” Instead, it hums along like a well-oiled dividend machine. At twelve years old, this ETF has aged like a fine wine-assuming the wine was a bit more conservative and less prone to corking disasters. Still, the numbers don’t lie. $18.21 billion under management. A track record that outpaces many of its peers. Not bad for a fund that refuses to play dress-up in the AI ballroom.
On November 14, Newtyn bled out its 3.5% position in MRP, 807,135 shares. The math said $23 million. The silence after the trade was louder than a forgotten tomb.
Buffett, the enigmatic figure at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway, has engaged in a systematic, unrelenting sale of equities for twelve consecutive quarters, a maneuver that defies precedent and signals an unsettling undercurrent in the financial cosmos. This is not a mere fluctuation but a calculated withdrawal, a retreat into the unknown, as if the very act of selling were a ritual to ward off some indistinct, encroaching malady.
Now, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that grand keeper of ledgers, scribbled this tale into its books on November 14. Tensile, with $800.4 million in U.S. equity chips stacked on the table, plunked down a fresh wager on Champion Homes-a company that builds houses faster than a barn-raiser’s hammer flies. Their 2.9% stake, valued at $23.5 million as of September’s end, sits nestled among heavier hitters like Verisk Analytics and Dick’s Sporting Goods. A curious bedfellow for a retailer of shotguns and fishing gear, don’t you think?
Not surprisingly, the company’s social media team is now in the hot seat, trying to explain that they’re just mindlessly typing away and not secretly orchestrating a meme coin empire. Because that would be so like a big, kind-hearted crypto giant to just randomly inspire a bunch of small-time scammers.
Imagine the scene: a modest office, papers strewn about as the world’s wealth accumulates on invisible digital sheets. Tensile Capital has made its move-an addition to its portfolio that constitutes a mere 2.2% of its reported U.S. equity AUM as of September 30. A trifling amount, perhaps, but in the world of finance, every detail counts. They now hold this share in the company with all the gravity of a minor bureaucratic victory. And yet, one cannot ignore the deeper implications of this action.
And, oh, what a chart it is. Ansem’s analysis presents this move as a “natural checkpoint,” which, in layman’s terms, means, “Don’t panic, folks, we’ve been here before.” After all, Bitcoin’s been wobbling like a drunken uncle at a wedding since it got rejected at $93,000 earlier this week. 🥴
Adobe once danced like Fred Astaire, pirouetting from boxed software to cloud subscriptions. Photoshop, Illustrator, the whole troupe bundled into Creative Cloud-suddenly every art director and college kid with a Mac had a front-row seat. Recurring revenue? That’s the jazz age of finance, honey.
Let us dissect this financial sorcery with the precision of a surgeon general’s scalpel. Indivior’s shares, once languishing in the shadow of pharmaceutical giants, have rocketed 212% skyward-a trajectory that shames the S&P 500’s timid 13% crawl. Newtyn, ever the opportunist, now holds 1.6 million more shares than a quarter prior, their 12.4% portfolio bet screaming “This way to the money!” louder than a Wall Street crier hawking penny stocks.