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Fidelity Investments is a major U.S. financial services firm offering brokerage, asset management, retirement services, and digital asset products.
Russell 2000 is up about 15.1% this year, but Furey Research found an average 0.5% gain across 11 midterm years, with gains in only 45% of them. The post-election record bulls cite looks very different once the last four midterms are included.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed about $485 million in a single session, enough to push October's flows below zero. Because that exit is small against the funds' asset base, oil prices and Treasury yields look like the stronger force behind the wider crypto sell-off.
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Glassnode's Rafael Schultze-Kraft counts 31.2% of circulating Bitcoin behind exposed public keys, up 222,000 BTC since May while supply grew 64,000 BTC. Exchanges supplied most of that rise, and a venue can cut its share by moving reserves to fresh addresses.
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Cerulli Associates and Morningstar found 53.4% of advisors who don't prioritize wealth growth rank help converting 401(k) participants a top-three need. Recordkeepers are courting the same savers, so an advisor who turns away small accounts risks the sponsor and the eventual rollover.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cuts a transfer's default checks from two networks to one and lets institutions add their own verifiers back. Paying for the second check now falls to the bank or issuer, five months after a single-verifier bridge setup cost Kelp DAO $292 million.
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One month erased more than a third of the firm's year-to-date trading revenue, according to a single report. The financing response narrows who gets to see the numbers.
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Bitwise's BSOL drew $55.7 million of US spot Solana ETFs' record $80 million to $87 million day, a smaller share than its 76% to 80% of all inflows. Grayscale and the smaller funds took a bigger slice of the new money than of the old.
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Wealth-management M&A is holding its volume while the bid narrows to firms that can prove organic growth. The evidence is in offers per seller, down three or four names from a year ago, according to one sell-side adviser.
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Existing holders are selling 36.5 million of the 50 million shares on offer. Oura's own 13.5 million would net about $532.6 million at the $42 midpoint, ahead of pricing on September 29 at up to $14.1 billion.
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Fidelity's survey found confidence rises with how much detail older clients share with their children. Just 27% have explained their plan's details to their kids, and 35% keep them posted on changes.
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Fidelity and BlackRock supplied about 97% of the $433 million that US spot bitcoin ETFs took in on September 18, and the week they rescued still finished at plus $6.2 million, worth about 77 bitcoin.
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Solana's spot ETFs have taken net inflows for twelve straight weeks, an average of at least $117m a week, and the latest week came in at $60.7m. Bitcoin's spot funds took $6.1m on their quietest volume since October 2024.
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Ai Funds' new ETF hands stock selection to a proprietary model for 0.87% a year, against a 0.74% average for active ETFs, and it joins a category where all seven surviving funds have had outflows.
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Cloture on H.R. 3633 failed 49-50 on Sept. 15 with every yes vote Republican. Add the four Republican noes back to the yes column and the count reaches 53, still seven short of the 60 the Senate requires.
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IBIT took in about $1.08bn over 20 days while GBTC lost $254.7m. But 1.5% on $10bn still collects roughly $150m a year, the same as 0.25% on $60bn, so a cut would cost Grayscale more than the outflows do.
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H.R. 9175 would move the tax on mining and staking rewards from the day they arrive to the day they are sold. Cryptobriefing.com reports the committee may cut that provision to bring a Democrat along before the September 16 markup.
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SoSoValue counted $13.29m leaving bitcoin funds on September 11 and $216m arriving in ether funds. Another tracker counted $267m out of bitcoin and $46m out of ether on the same date.
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The September 16 markup pairs that revenue estimate with H.R. 9175, a bill letting miners and stakers wait until they sell before recognising income on newly created tokens. Bloomberg reported the schedule.
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Fidelity takes 15% of an ETF's revenue for shelf space and Schwab is bringing platform fees back, while Altruist says it takes nothing from asset managers. Vanguard now owns Altruist, which turns that zero into a pricing weapon.
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