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A stock market index of the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange, dominated by major technology firms.
Four Korea-listed U.S. index ETFs took in 2.019 trillion won in the month to Oct. 7, ETF CHECK data show. A stronger won left the hedged version of TIGER's S&P 500 fund 10.67 points ahead of its unhedged twin over three months, so choosing a share class is now a call on the won.
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Ray Dalio called AI a "classic bubble" near bursting in Singapore, citing rising rates on AI debt that Morgan Stanley sees nearing $570 billion this year. With hyperscaler capex near all of operating cash flow, the cost of the bonds that fill the gap decides whether he is right.
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Grayscale says removing bitcoin's 15 best days turns its 225% three-year gain into an 11% loss, while the Nasdaq-100's 109% return falls only to 21%. That makes waiting in cash far costlier in bitcoin, though the test as reported only prices missed good days.
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Grayscale's Oct. 5 research shows bitcoin's 225% three-year return turns into an 11% loss once its 15 best trading days are removed. The study drops only the rallies, so it puts a hard price on sitting out but leaves untested the timer who also skips the worst sessions.
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More than 80% of 401(k)s default into mostly cap-weighted target-date funds that buy more of the Magnificent Seven, about 30% of the S&P 500, as they grow. At Amazon, a paper gain on Anthropic supplied almost $17 billion of nearly $30 billion in first-quarter net income.
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Strategy's 48% month made it the best stock in the Nasdaq-100. The $67.6bn Cryptobriefing puts on its 845,050 coins works out at bitcoin at $80,000, a level the same piece says the coin is still approaching.
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AI stocks fell worldwide on Sept 14 after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow model progress and Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO. The deepest single-day drops landed on chip equipment and power suppliers.
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Anthropic has picked Nasdaq for an October listing, and by rule its financials go public at least 15 days before the roadshow opens. Customers weighing a renewal will finally have numbers they can check.
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Passive funds tracking the Nasdaq 100 have to add SpaceX at the September rebalance now that lockups have lifted its tradable float from under 5% to about 16%. The stock coming unlocked is worth many times the buying.
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Apple unveils the foldable iPhone on Wednesday under a US$570 billion summer rally and a chief executive who started on Sept. 1. Morgan Stanley's own numbers leave most of the quarter's iPhone revenue with the ordinary models.
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Pushback has stalled the plan to trim existing ISA benefits, but a separate "productive finance ISA" would load extra relief onto Korean holdings. Advisers are already redrawing account allocation.
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The numbers in the one write-up available do not agree with each other. Even the smallest of them says the marginal ETF dollar goes active now, and it arrives in a cheaper vehicle.
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July net purchases of U.S. equities hit $4.5 billion, with about 19% going into one ADR buyers could have bought at home and four leveraged funds in the top ten.
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Management says scale is starting to show up as operating leverage. The release as supplied gives a backlog, power figures and more than $14bn of fresh capital, but no margin numbers.
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Net buying of SOXL and the SK hynix ADR nearly equalled all Korean purchases of US stocks in July. Thirteen days into August, both names sit outside the top 20.
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