Financial Insights That Matter The stateside demand for regulated crypto products is real. The U.S. SEC-approved options tied to BlackRock’s spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (IBIT), which debuted on Nov. 19, are already almost half the size of Deribit’s eight-year-old bitcoin options market. On Monday, there were 2.16 million open or active IBIT options contracts, […]
Financial Insights That Matter The excitement surrounding Ripple and XRP has been growing since Donald Trump became President-elect in November, signaling a potentially favorable administration for crypto assets. That excitement crescendoed last week as XRP came within pennies of breaking its all-time high price record from 2018, pushing Rippleâs stash of the asset to a […]
Financial Insights That Matter Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Exchange traded funds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global asset managers are gearing up to sell active exchange traded funds in the UK and Europe as the market is expected to reach $1tn by 2030, just as many […]
Financial Insights That Matter âETFs are going gangbusters,â said Syl Flood, senior product manager at Morningstar. âInflation-adjusted returns on short-term bond products, especially for US investors, are back to where they were before rates started rising, so itâs back to Tina [there is no alternative] to equities.â âETFs seem to have a bit of a […]
Financial Insights That Matter This article was written by Follow Juan de la Hoz has worked as a fixed income trader, financial analyst, operations analyst, and as an economics professor. He has experience analyzing, trading, and negotiating fixed-income securities, including bonds, money markets, and interbank trade financing, across markets and currencies. He focuses on dividend, […]
Financial Insights That Matter This article was written by Follow I’m Rob Isbitts, founder of Sungarden Investment Publishing. I run the new investing group Sungarden YARP Portfolio, a community dedicated to navigating the modern investment climate with humility, discipline, and a non-traditional approach to income investing. I’ve been charting investments since the 1980s, and I […]
Financial Insights That Matter Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The odds on the approval of an XRP ETF surged to 70% on Polymarket after the Ripple token surge 44% over the past week. XRP has been rising steadily since Donald Trumpâs win in the US elections. The […]
Financial Insights That Matter The technology sector has crushed the S&P 500 over the past three, five, and 10 years as leading tech stocks like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoftand Broadcom have grown in value. Investors gravitate mainly toward these stocks because of their growth potential, not their dividend yields. But what if there were an exchange-traded […]
Financial Insights That Matter The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) is an exchange-traded fund that tracks a market-cap weighted index composed of 25 of the largest U.S.-listed semiconductor companies. The top holdings of SMH include companies like NVIDIA, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Broadcom Inc., Texas Instruments, QUALCOMM, ASML Holding N.V., Applied Materials, Inc., Lam Research Corporation, Micron Technology, Inc., and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. SMH four-hour chart September 11th Last September […]
Financial Insights That Matter Ever since its launch, Dogecoin has been grabbing investorsâ attention. A big reason behind that is its impressive performance on multiple occasions. Just today, the Dogecoin price surged 11% and is on a massive recovery trail, achieving a month-high target. Although this happened during the broader market recovery, the Dogecoin ETF […]