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- 0:05SPEAKER_00: Happy Monday all,
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: and let's kick off the week with everything that happened over the past 24 hours.
- 0:10SPEAKER_00: Bitcoin is trading back below $86,000,
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: so we're seeing a bit of a pullback to start October,
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: but the whales are not slowing down because Michael Saylor hinted
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: at another Bitcoin announcement saying the company is more orange than ever.
- 0:25SPEAKER_00: And Strive's chief executive also teased buying more Bitcoin pointing to
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: an amplified Bitcoin plan.
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: So it looks like the corporate accumulation The inflation race continues.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: On the macro front,
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: the US and China announced tariff cuts covering $30 billion of goods
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: on each side led by US consumer imports and Chinese agricultural products,
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: Which is a positive step for trade relations.
- 0:52SPEAKER_00: Though geopolitical tensions remain elevated because Iran said the Strait
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: of Hormuz will stay closed until the US meets seven conditions from
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: the June Islamabad agreement.
- 1:04SPEAKER_00: Energy supply concerns are not going away anytime soon.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: The bond market keeps making history and not in a good way because
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: the 10-year Treasury yield hit a 24-year high of 5.3%,
- 1:19SPEAKER_00: While the S&P 500 dividend yield fell to an all-time low of 1.07%,
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: which really tells you how stretched valuations have become relative
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: to risk-free rates.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: Speaking of the stock market The ratio of technology stocks to the S&P 500 reached
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: a record high and nine of the ten largest US companies are now
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: in tech versus six oil and energy names back in 1980.
- 1:48SPEAKER_00: So the concentration at the top Wall Street seems to agree
- 1:53SPEAKER_00: that stocks can only go up because 60% of S&P 500 stocks now carry a buy rating
- 2:00SPEAKER_00: from analysts,
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: which is the highest share on record,
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: and you can interpret that That has either bullish sentiment or
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: a contrarian warning, depending on your perspective.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: In crypto regulatory news,
- 2:12SPEAKER_00: OKX filed with the SEC to launch tokenized US stock trading,
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: which adds another player to the race for bringing traditional equities on-chain.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: President Trump announced a super intelligence force
- 2:25SPEAKER_00: and Elon Musk said SpaceX AI will be renamed SpaceX SI calling SpaceX
- 2:31SPEAKER_00: a super intelligence company so the AI branding wars continue at the highest levels.
- 2:37SPEAKER_00: This week's earnings slate includes Constellation Brands on Tuesday
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: where we will be watching beer pricing versus wine weakness,
- 2:45SPEAKER_00: Levi Strauss on Wednesday for direct to consumer growth trends and Delta Airlines
- 2:51SPEAKER_00: on Friday where few Fuel pressure on airline margins will be the key focus.
- 2:56SPEAKER_00: In altcoin news,
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: BNB briefly moved back above $800,
- 3:01SPEAKER_00: Pump.fun overtook Hyperliquid in 30-day revenue,
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: which is a significant milestone,
- 3:07SPEAKER_00: Polymarket's chief executive teased an announcement around token 2049,
- 3:13SPEAKER_00: and Sunrise opened access to SHIB on Solana with Launch on SF
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: and Pump.fun now supporting SHIB pairs.
- 3:22SPEAKER_00: A Solana Foundation lead also made waves
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: by saying Robin Hood's chain should drop Arbitrum,
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: arguing that Layer 2s cannot scale on performance or fees and would be better off as
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: a new high-performance chain or on Solana, which is certainly a spicy take.
- 3:40SPEAKER_00: That's your Monday kickoff.
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: I'll see you all tomorrow.
- 3:43SPEAKER_01: Panic Drop
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