JUST IN: MSCI to officially remove Michael Saylor's Strategy $MSTR from its indexes by the end of this month.
CoreWeave wants to sit with the credit-market grown-ups ft.trib.al/hznWiYE | opinion
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Rick’s does not agree with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that diseases like cancer and heart disease will be a thing of the past within the next decade
Ricks thinks it will take more time
Strong day across the AI trade as CoreWeave's earnings lifted sentiment:
$CRWV +24% - Best since June '25
$MU +15% - Best since July
SK hynix +11%
$ORCL +10%
$NVDA +4%
Anthropic's pre-IPO perp on @liquidtrading also rose 8% to an implied $1.82T valuation amid strong IPO demand
US pension funds are heavily concentrated in technology stocks:
The technology sector accounts for 44% of total US pension fund equity allocation, according to a Bloomberg analysis of more than 70 pension funds.
This percentage has more than doubled since 2015.
Pension fund equity allocation to technology is now larger than that of the next 3 sectors combined.
By comparison, Financials represent 16%, followed by Healthcare at 12%, Industrials at 11%, and Consumer stocks at 10%.
To put this into perspective, the Consumer sector was these funds' largest allocation in 2014, at ~20%.
US pension funds are more exposed to technology stocks than ever.
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
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United Airlines is moving to block third-party AI agents from booking flights and accessing customer accounts ahead of the holiday travel season bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Someone just put $36 million into $570 calls expiring February 2027, in a single giant print.
23,798 contracts, bought at the ask
Volume of 23,835 vs. open interest of just 597
Breakeven: $585.19
That points to a big new bet on upside, but a few caveats:
- It could be a hedge, for example protecting a short stock position or part of a larger options strategy with legs that traded elsewhere.
- A single block this size is often arranged in advance between institutions, so “at the ask” says less about urgency than a string of aggressive sweeps would.
- Volume far above open interest suggests new positions, but that won’t be confirmed until open interest updates tomorrow.
BREAKING: The perceived probability among US consumers that the unemployment rate will be higher in 1 year increased +1.5 percentage points in October, to 45.3%, the highest since April 2020.
This also marks the 3rd-highest reading on record, surpassed only by the initial pandemic surge in March and April 2020.
Since January 2025, this metric has risen +11.3 percentage points.
Among age groups, consumers under 40 are the most pessimistic, with the perceived probability of higher unemployment at 48.9%, the 2nd-highest reading on record.
By income, this figure among those earning over $100,000 rose to 51.5%, the 2nd-highest reading on record, surpassed only by the 53.9% recorded in March 2020.
Americans are worried about their jobs.
Nomura is exploring the sale of its crypto business Laser Digital, after losses at the Zurich-based entity last year pushed the brokerage’s entire European operation into the red bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

























