Kaynat Chainwala
August 24, 2025 / 08:14 IST
Fading rate cut bets coupled with concerns over the Fed’s independence soured investor mood this week. However, a surprisingly dovish final address by the Fed Chair on Friday lifted market sentiment.
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James Gabriel Weisberg is the chief growth officer of Cresci Labs, where he blends entrepreneurial vision with deep expertise in business development, commodities trading and financial strategy. Since founding Cresci Labs, he has helped clients across sectors scale their operations through data-driven B2B lead generation,
Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia with a focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.
Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, SUSHI, CRV, NEAR, YFI, YFII, SHIB, DOGE, USDT, USDC, BNB, MANA, MLN, LINK, XMR, ALGO, VET, CAKE,
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There are plenty of ways to generate passive income across market sectors.
Investing in companies with very little overlap can help reduce correlation.
The Global Industry Classification Standard assigns each stock into a market sector to make it easier for investors to compare companies to their peers and track broader market movements.
A commodity ETF is an exchange-traded fund that invests in physical commodities such as agricultural products, energy sources and metals. Commodity ETFs often grow in popularity during global conflict or high inflation,
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Wall Street rallied to its best day in months on Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted that cuts to interest rates may be on the way, along with the kick they can give the economy and investment prices.
The S&P 500 leaped 1.5% for its first gain in six days and finished just shy of its all-time high set last week.
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Tidal Trust II has taken a bold step toward expanding institutional and retail access to altcoins by filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to start two new leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The funds, if approved, would track XRP and Solana (SOL), offering daily returns of 150% to 200% of their underlying assets.
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The IPO market was once heavily guarded by Wall Street, but some brokerage firms like Moomoo have made this market more accessible. That all came to a head when Bullish (NYSE:BLSH) had a blowout debut on Aug. 13. It turns out that institutional investors weren’t the only ones celebrating the stock’s 83% gain in its debut.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of the oldest and most widely recognized stock market indices in the world.
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Mutual fund net sales came in at $4.7 billion for the month.
Bond mutual funds accounted for the bulk of the net sales, at $3.5 billion. Specialty mutual funds took in $846 million, money market mutual funds received $399 million and balanced mutual funds gathered a meagre $49 million.
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