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Nike Q4 Profit Beat Was Powered by a $986 Million Tariff Refund. China Fell 17%.

BEAVERTON, July 1 -- Nike reported a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter that beat Wall Street's expectations by a wide enough margin to move the stock after hours. Most of the beat came from a single... Read More


SEC Mulls New ETF Rules as a $16 Trillion Boom Outgrows the Regulatory Playbook

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The rules the Securities and Exchange Commission uses to govern exchange-traded funds were written in 2019. The industry they were meant to oversee now holds more than $16 trilli... Read More


Bitcoin Hits 21-Month Low as Strategy's First Sale Shatters the Market's Last Guarantee and Fed Rate Fears Drain ETFs

New Delhi, July 1 -- NEW YORK - For more than two years, the single most important fact in the Bitcoin market was that Strategy Inc. would never sell. On Tuesday, it did. Strategy Inc. MSTR disclosed... Read More


Iran's Weekend Strikes Put India's First Rupee Gain Since February on the Line

New Delhi, June 29 -- The Indian rupee had done something it had not managed in four months: it was winning. Through most of June, the currency held at 84.3950 against the dollar - a first monthly gai... Read More


Gold Is Falling Because the US-Iran War Is Making the Fed More Likely to Raise Rates

New Delhi, June 29 -- a flight to safety, a bid for the haven. On Sunday, as fresh US-Iran strikes rippled across the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian missiles hit American military facilities in Kuwait a... Read More


Michael Saylor Is Signaling Another Bitcoin Buy While Strategy Sits $13 Billion Underwater

New Delhi, June 29 -- "We're gonna need more charts." CoinDesk reported that Strategy's unrealized loss alone exceeds the market capitalization of hundreds of individual cryptocurrency tokens. It sit... Read More


China's Central Bank Cut Rates Without Saying So. The PBOC's Silence Was the Point.

BEIJING, June 29 -- China's central bank injected 300 billion yuan into the financial system on Monday and deliberately said nothing about what it charged to do so. That silence was not an omission. I... Read More


Bessent Says Social Security Doesn't Need a Tax Fix. A Bipartisan Senate Pair Disagrees.

New Delhi, June 28 -- The Social Security payroll tax stops at $176,100. A nurse or factory worker pays 6.2 percent on every dollar of wages through December; a portfolio manager whose salary clears t... Read More


Michael Burry Bought Microsoft Calls That Pay Off Only If the Stock Nearly Doubles by 2028

New Delhi, June 28 -- NEW YORK - Microsoft sits 31% below the peak it reached last October. Michael Burry, whose 2008 mortgage short made him the defining contrarian trade of that era, just bought cal... Read More


Greenspan Is Dead. Now Warsh Has to Decide If the Trick Still Works.

New Delhi, June 28 -- WASHINGTON - The man who taught Kevin Warsh what it means to run the Federal Reserve died last week, and the timing was almost too pointed to be accidental. Alan Greenspan, who s... Read More