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BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT, has ranked sixth in net inflows despite being the only fund in the top cohort posting a negative return for the year.Data shared by Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas shows IBIT pulling in roughly $25 billion in year-to-date inflows, even as its annual performance sits in the red. By comparison, several traditional equity and bond ETFs ahead of IBIT on the leaderboard posted double-digit gains, while gold-backed ETF GLD, which is up more than 60% on the year, attracted less capital than IBIT.Balchunas described the result as a “really good sign” over…

Daily Nike, Inc. The initial reaction in the aftermarket trade was bearish with the stock trading $63.75, down $2.05 or -3.11%. Is North America Doing Enough to Offset the Drag from China North America was the bright spot again, with sales up 9% to $5.63 billion. Wholesale was the real engine — up 8% — signaling Nike’s push back toward partners is starting to gain traction. But the strength stops there. China revenue fell 17%, a sharper drop than many in the market were hoping for. That weakness continues to act as a very real cap on sentiment, even if…

The wheat complex was mixed on Friday, with the KC wheat market being the weakest. Chicago SRW futures were up 1 to 2 cents to round out Friday, as March was 19 ½ cents lower this week. KC HRW futures saw 1 to 2 cent losses, as March was just 2 ¾ cents in the red this week. MPLS spring wheat was 5 to 6 cents higher on Friday, with March closing the week up 2 ¼ cents.Export Sales data will be released on Monday morning, catching up for the week ending on 12/4, with analysts looking for between 300,000-600,000…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 19th, 2025, Chainwire GrantiX, an AI-powered SocialFi platform bringing impact investing on-chain, today announced the launch of its $GRANT token following a Token Generation Event and multiple sold-out IDOs. The token is now live and listed on BitMart and BingX, expanding global access to the GrantiX ecosystem. $GRANT serves as the utility and governance token for GrantiX, which connects blockchain donors with verified social entrepreneurs through an audited platform. The TGE follows successful IDOs on Finceptor and Spores Network, alongside additional offerings on Red Kite and Huostarter. “$GRANT is not a speculative launch, it is…

Bitcoin may have ended its historical four-year cycle, signaling an incoming year of downside, despite widespread analyst expectations for an extended cycle driven by regulatory tailwinds.Bitcoin’s (BTC) $125,000 all-time high on Oct. 6 may have signaled the top of the current four-year Bitcoin halving cycle, both in terms of “price and time,” according to Jurrien Timmer, the director of global macroeconomic research at asset management firm Fidelity.“While I remain a secular bull on Bitcoin, my concern is that Bitcoin may well have ended another 4-year cycle halving phase,” wrote Timmer in a Thursday X post. “Bitcoin winters have lasted about…

Cotton futures saw Thursday gains of 8 points across the front months at the close. Crude oil futures were 8 cents per barrel higher at $56.02. The US dollar index was $0.093 higher to $98.095. Export Sales data showed 135,886 RB of cotton sold during the week of 11/27, a 4-week low. Shipments were a 3-week high at 122,094 RB.  Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.  Total export sale commitments are 5.72 million RB, which is now 16.53% below the same period last year. Much of that is due to…

Geneva, Switzerland, December 18th, 2025, TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced that Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market platform, has integrated the TRON blockchain network. This integration enables seamless deposits and withdrawals using TRX, the native utility token of the TRON network, and USDT on TRON, expanding Kalshi’s multichain infrastructure by providing additional liquidity pathways for global market participants while bridging traditional finance with blockchain infrastructure. The integration positions TRON as a critical component in Kalshi’s expansion beyond traditional finance rails into the blockchain…

Ethereum blockspace trading platform ETHGas announced it has raised $12 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital.The funding announcement comes after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently discussed the idea of an onchain “gas futures” market, arguing that such a product could give users a clearer signal of expected fees and let them hedge future costs.ETHGas argues that Ethereum needs “a reimagination of the way blockspace is allocated on the network” and claims that its newly-launched blockspace trading platform is a step in that direction. The company said the market launched with $800 million in commitments from validators, builders…

Unemployment Rate Rises as Participation Holds Steady The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, exceeding market expectations and marking an increase from earlier in the fall . The number of unemployed climbed to 7.8 million, while the labor force participation rate held at 62.5%, suggesting the rise in joblessness was driven by hiring softness rather than workers re-entering the labor market . Longer-term indicators showed little improvement, with long-term unemployment steady at 1.9 million. Sector Performance Highlights Defensive Hiring Job gains were concentrated in health care, which added 46,000 positions, and construction, which expanded payrolls by 28,000 . These…

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — strong fundamentals and a valuation that looks inexpensive. BWX Technologies inc (Symbol: BWXT) presently has an above average rank, in the top 50% of the coverage universe, which suggests it is among the top most “interesting” ideas that merit further research by investors. But making BWX Technologies inc an even more interesting and timely stock to look at, is the fact that in trading on Wednesday, shares of BWXT…