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According to the FT ▶️ 🔴 The group is looking into the practicalities of increasing its trading hours, according to people familiar with the situation, from the technology required to regulatory implications. 🔴LSEG is “absolutely looking at it, whether it means 24-hour trading or extended trading”, one of the people said, adding that the exchange group was “having important commercial, policy and regulatory discussions” about the “ongoing topic”. 🔴 Pioneered in the US, longer trading windows have become a hot topic among exchange groups as they seek to modernise, spurred by the rise of younger investors who trade on their smartphones. 🔴 The 24-hour nature of cryptocurrency markets, where volumes are booming, has also led bourses to consider extending hours.

If nothing changes, these together will generate $50 billion in new demand for BTC (without taking into account new bitcoin treasury companies being created, sovereign demand, new institutional demand, etc.) We now the supply variable in the equation. What we do NOT know is how much the whales will offload their bitcoin as the price keeps moving higher. But net net it looks like the supply-demand context remains rather favourable... Source chart: Fred Krueger

Marking a strategic shift as these firms wield growing influence over global markets, a source told Reuters on Friday. The bank's first note focuses on OpenAI, the ChatGPT creator that ignited Wall Street's AI frenzy with a valuation surpassing $27?billion. As IPO timelines stretch and private market valuations rival those of S&P 500 companies, institutional investors are seeking earlier insights into disruptors like SpaceX and TikTok parent ByteDance. In an internal memo, JPMorgan's head of global research, Hussein Malik, said the reports will provide structured analysis and market tracking but will exclude ratings and price targets. "Private companies are increasingly shaping industries, particularly in the new economy space," Malik wrote. The timing reflects explosive growth in private markets. North America alone hosts over 1,000 unicorn startups valued above $1?billion worth nearly $4 trillion collectively, according to PitchBook. Private capital markets, spanning venture and private equity, reached $18.7 trillion last year and are projected to hit $24 trillion by 2029. RTTNews, Bloomberg

▶️ Professional investors have remained UNDERWEIGHT US equities versus global stocks for the 5th consecutive month. 👉 Meanwhile, the MSCI World Ex. USA index is up 17% year-to-date, beating the S&P 500 gain of 7%. Source: Global Markets Investor, BofA

Is this bearish for bitcoin? No. It just means that we might be at the beginning of the so-called "altcoin season" where other cryptos start to outperform bitcoin. But it does NOT mean that bitcoin is heading south. The new all-time highs in Coinbase, Robinhood and other crypto-related stocks and assets like Galaxy Digital are additional evidence that the crypto bull market might actually gathering speed. Source. J-C Parets NB: this is not an investment recommendation. Do your own research

Source: Charlie Bilello

The governing coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is likely to lose a majority in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election Sunday, according to exit polls, worsening the country's political instability. Voters were deciding half of the 248 seats in the upper house, the less powerful of the two chambers in Japan's Diet. Ishiba has set the bar low, wanting a simple majority of 125 seats, which means his Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, and its Buddhist-backed junior coalition partner Komeito need to win 50 to add to the 75 seats they already have. That would mean a big retreat from the 141 seats they had before the election. The LDP alone is projected to win from 32 to 35 seats, the fewest won by the party, which still is the No. 1 party in the parliament. Source: www.zerohedge.com

Source: Charlie Bilello