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MicroStrategy's Nasdaq-100 entry attracts nearly $11 million of retail inflows

Retail investors poured nearly $11 million into MicroStrategy's shares on Monday, almost three times their average daily inflows this year, after the biggest corporate holder of bitcoin secured a spot in the Nasdaq-100 index. The data, compiled by Vanda Research on Tuesday, highlights the bitcoin bull's growing popularity among individual investors after its stock notched an eye-popping return of nearly 550%, outpacing Wall Street favorite Nvidia's roughly 160% surge so far in 2024. Promoted as a financial tool free of government intermediaries, bitcoin often earns its corporate champions a devoted following.

Market Breadth Worsens As Tech Giants Break Free From S&P 500 Reality: Is This Bullish Or Bearish For 2025?

The performance gap between the cap-weighted S&P 500 — tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) — and its equal-weighted sibling, the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (NYSE:RSP), has blown out to over 4 percentage points in December. This marks the widest monthly gap since May 2023, reflecting how a narrow group of stocks is shouldering the market's returns in the last month of the year. As of Dec. 17, only 90 out of 500 stocks in the S&P 500 are in positive territory month-to-date, a sh

UK Bonds Left Reeling as Market Shreds Bets on BOE Rate Cuts

(Bloomberg) -- UK government borrowing costs rose to the highest level in decades relative to Germany’s, as traders grew increasingly skeptical over how much more easing the Bank of England will manage to deliver next year.Most Read from BloombergHow California Sees the World, and ItselfHong Kong's Expat Party Hub Reshaped by Chinese InfluxLondon’s Tube Fares Are Set to Rise by 4.6% Next YearThe spread between UK and German 10-year bond yields widened to 229 basis points, the highest on a closin