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Wall Street bonuses surged to their highest level on record in 2025, underscoring a profitable year for the financial sector even as headcount growth began to stall. The total bonus pool for New York City’s securities industry climbed 9% from 2024 to $49.2 billion, according to an annual estimate released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The figure surpasses pre-pandemic peaks and approaches inflation-adjusted highs last seen in 2006.  “The securities industry had another strong year in 2025,” DiNapoli said. “When Wall Street does well, it’s good for our state and city budgets, which are reliant on the industry’s significant tax contributions. However,…

Corn futures closed the Thursday session with bulls giving a late push, as contracts were fractionally to 2 ¼ cents higher. May was the lonely holdout, down ¼ cent. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was down 1/4 cent to $4.24 1/2.  Export Sales data from this morning tallied old crop corn bookings during the week of 3/19 at 1.22 MMT. That was back up from last week and 17.1% above the same week last year. Mexico was the top buyer of 428,600 MT, with 319,400 MT sold to Colombia, and 97,200 MT to the Dominican Republic. New crop sales…

Hamilton Lane has made a strategic investment in Republic, an on-chain global investment platform, deepening a partnership aimed at expanding access to private markets through tokenization and digital infrastructure.  The investment reflects Hamilton Lane’s broader strategy to modernize private markets distribution and reach a more diverse investor base, particularly as demand grows for retail access to institutional-quality strategies.  “We believe that private markets are evolving toward a more inclusive and expansive investor base,” said Juan Delgado, co-CEO of Hamilton Lane. “Republic has built a platform that aligns with our approach to thoughtful innovation and meeting investors where they are.”  Republic will use the…

Jack Mallers’ Twenty One Capital is now the second-largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury by BTC holdings, after miner MARA sold off a portion of its holdings and fell to the number three spot.The newly formed Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company holds 43,514 BTC in its corporate treasury, valued at over $2.9 billion using the market price at the time of this writing, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.Twenty One Capital becomes the second-largest BTC treasury company by BTC holdings. Source: BitcoinTreasuriesTwenty One Capital was publicly listed late last year following its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners, a special purpose acquisition company.…

The wheat complex posted gains across the three exchanges on Wednesday. Chicago SRW futures were up 2 ¾ to 5 cents at the close. KC HRW was a penny to 4 ¼ cents higher across the board. MPLS spring wheat was 5 to 6 ½ cents in the green on the day.Export Sales data will be released on Thursday morning, with the trade looking for between 300,000 to 550,000 MT of all wheat sales in the week that ended on 9/5.There are some concerns about crops in the Kursk region in Russian being harvested due to the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian…

Corporate finance chiefs entered 2026 with a cautiously constructive macro view, even as tariffs and trade policy remain their top headache for a fifth straight quarter. Average optimism about the U.S. economy ticked up to 61.7 in the first quarter from 60.3 at the end of 2025, according to The CFO Survey, a collaboration of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta.  On their own P&Ls, CFOs expect revenue to rise 5.8% in 2026 and 7% in 2027, only slightly below prior-quarter projections. Price and wage expectations are essentially unchanged, while anticipated unit cost and employment growth…

Bitcoin (BTC) continues to face significant resistance at the $72,000 level, but the bulls have kept up the pressure. Trader Daan Crypto Trades said in a post on X that BTC will have to cross and stay above the $72,000 resistance area to “test the $80Ks again.”Markets tend to hate uncertainty, but BTC’s resilience since the start of the US and Israel-Iran war shows that traders are not keen to sell at lower levels. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said in a post on X that March has mostly recorded BTC outflows from crypto exchanges. Although the demand is not sufficient to…

Investors purchased just over 32% of all single-family residential properties sold in Q4 2025, down slightly from 34% in Q3 but still above 30% for the third straight quarter, data provider BatchData reported. In total, investors bought 1.32 million homes in 2025, a 4.5% decline from 1.39 million in 2024. Roughly 18% of the nation’s 86 million single-family homes are now investor owned.  The biggest landlords, those with 1,000 or more homes, continued to sell into the market. They unloaded 5,970 properties in Q4 while buying only 4,336, marking an eighth consecutive quarter as net sellers; over the full year, they sold 20% more homes than they purchased.   “While…

May WTI crude oil (CLK26) on Tuesday closed up +4.22 (+4.79%), and May RBOB gasoline (RBK26) closed up +0.1731 (+5.82%).  Crude oil and gasoline prices settled sharply higher on Tuesday, recovering some of Monday’s losses amid concerns that the conflict in the Middle East could escalate.Crude prices rise on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have taken steps toward joining the Iran war, potentially signaling an escalation of the fighting.  Saudi Arabia agreed to give the US military access to King Fahd Air Base, and the UAE closed an Iranian-owned…

Lombard, a company building Bitcoin-based lending infrastructure, will team with Bitwise Asset Management to enable institutions to earn yield and borrow against Bitcoin (BTC) without moving assets out of custody, aiming to unlock hundreds of billions of dollars in Bitcoin held in institutional custody.The partnership was announced Tuesday at the Digital Asset Summit in New York. Jacob Phillips, CEO and co-founder of Lombard, told Cointelegraph: The breakthrough is Bitcoin Smart Accounts—connecting two previously isolated worlds: institutional custody and onchain finance.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Bitwise will develop yield strategies combining DeFi lending with tokenized real-world assets, while Morpho, a decentralized…