Crypto’s Institutional Buyers Retreat in Double Blow to Bitcoin

Jun 29, 2026 | Markets

Bitcoin’s biggest institutional sources of demand are faltering at the same time, leaving the cryptocurrency increasingly exposed as exchange-traded fund investors pull money at a record pace and questions persist over the financing playbook behind its largest...

Sovereign Funds Pivot Further to Private Assets in Risky Markets

Jun 28, 2026 | Markets, Private Credit

The world’s biggest public investors plan to shift more capital into private and less liquid assets amid rising risks to their traditional bond-and-stock portfolios, according to an industry survey. Roughly a third of sovereign wealth funds polled by Invesco Ltd. plan...

Private Credit Is Making Bets on Consumer Debt at a Precarious Time

Jun 28, 2026 | Markets, Private Credit

Billions are flowing from firms like Blue Owl and KKR into Buy Now, Pay Later companies. It’s an untested model and skeptics are worried about what happens in a downturn. The private credit industry was dubbed “shadow banking” as it took business away from...

AI Rout Exposes Wall Street’s $270 Billion Speculation Machine

Jun 26, 2026 | Markets

This week’s tech rout did more than puncture one of the year’s hottest trades: it exposed the machinery of modern speculation — and how quickly it can work in reverse. A retail-fueled unwind in AI chip stocks reverberated through semiconductor shares across Asia and...

US Chipmaker Selloff Pushes Key Stock Indexes to Weekly Loss

Jun 26, 2026 | Markets

US stocks ended the week lower as ongoing weakness in chip stocks outweighed a survey showing cooler-than-expected inflation expectations and easing rate hike concerns. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% Friday to cap off its biggest weekly decline since the beginning of June...