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(Bloomberg) -- Private credit is poised to take on an even bigger role in financing the “massive amount of infrastructure investment” for artificial intelligence as companies look for capital to fund outsized expenditures, according to the head of BlackRock Inc.’s research arm.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaChip Stocks Slide on Worries Rally Has Run Too Far: Markets WrapTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last MonthMicrosof

Chinese robotaxi firm Momenta Global said on Tuesday it had priced its Hong Kong ‌listing at the top end of its marketed ‌range, aiming to raise HK$5.89 billion ($751.02 million), joining a wave of tech ​listings reviving the city's capital markets. Here are more details: • The self-driving technology firm is offering 19.9 million shares at an issue price of HK$295.60 per share, an exchange filing ‌showed. It plans ⁠to use about 60% of the net proceeds from the offering to boost research and ⁠development, including upgrading its artificial intelligence computing power, expanding data storage, and scaling up its engineering team, the firm said ​in its ​prospectus.

BlackRock's fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 index will begin trading Thursday, bringing new competition to a segment long dominated by Invesco's QQQ. The iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF is set to trade under ticker IQQ and charge an expense ratio of 0.

BlackRock said on Tuesday it would launch an exchange-traded fund tracking the technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 index, as it ‌seeks to tap surging investor demand for exposure to the ‌AI-driven stock market rally. The iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF, offered by the world's largest asset ​manager, will track the flagship U.S. index and start trading under the ticker on Thursday, just months after the Nasdaq revised its criteria to accelerate the inclusion of newly listed companies such as SpaceX.

The Texas Stock Exchange is now open for trading—sort of. The upstart exchange, backed by Wall Street heavyweights like BlackRock, is now trading a handful of test symbols on its live exchange starting today. The test is expected to last a few days before it transitions to phasing in all publicly traded stocks and funds.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office on Monday, a celebratory event to mark the launch of Trump Accounts, a new investment vehicle for children.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsThe Tanker Tycoon Making Millions on Hormuz Shuttle RunsModi’s Flagship Biofuel Push Faces Backlash From Motorists

(Bloomberg) -- Executives at some of Wall Street’s biggest names have faced a barrage of recent questions about whether artificial intelligence has crippled the value of their software investments.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsThe Tanker Tycoon Making Millions on Hormuz Shuttle RunsModi’s Flagship Biofuel Push Faces Backlash From MotoristsFIFA Allows Balogun to Play After Trum

(Bloomberg) -- For more than a decade, investors could treat the two biggest emerging-market exchange-traded funds as almost interchangeable.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsThe Tanker Tycoon Making Millions on Hormuz Shuttle RunsModi’s Flagship Biofuel Push Faces Backlash From MotoristsFIFA Allows Balogun to Play After Trump Call Sparking UproarNow, a long-running schism over wh

Investors have pulled billions, funds have closed and proxy voting is down. But proponents say the strategy remains viable, even if it’s pursued more quietly.

The chief executive officer of private credit fund BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. is departing the firm during ongoing losses, significant asset markdowns and federal scrutiny over valuation practices. Sources familiar with the matter revealed to Bloomberg that Phil Tseng will...

If you retired in 2023 or 2024, your money market fund delivered yields above 5% on virtually no risk, according to CNBC. Millions of retirees responded by parking record sums in cash, treating short-term instruments as a complete income strategy. That approach worked in a specific rate ...

In crypto news today (July 3), Bitcoin has surged back above $60,000, up +2.7% over the past 24 hours as the market continues to show signs of life. Daily liquidations dropped slightly from yesterday, down from $448M to $413M, with shorts still making up the bulk of that figure at ...

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street is kicking off the second half of 2026 with fresh conviction: shrugging off one shock after another, markets are set to grind even higher. Most Read from BloombergExxon to Change Name for First Time in Decades After RedomicileMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerGermany Rejects Trump’s Demands for NATO Loyalty to WashingtonRussia Indicates Ukraine Fired Long-Range Ballistic MissileDow Average Hits Peak as Jobs Ease Fed-Hike Worry: Markets WrapA d

Veteran investor Cathie Wood is one of the most prolific traders on Wall Street and is counted among the strongest believers in Bitcoin (BTC). In fact, she once claimed that her investment firm, ARK Invest, was the first public asset manager to gain Bitcoin exposure in 2015, when the leading ...

For the first time, a U.S.-listed stock and ETF have been tokenized by a third party on a public blockchain and done so entirely within America's existing regulatory framework. Ondo Finance, the leader in tokenized securities by total value, has launched tokenized versions of BlackRock's iShares ...

Shares of Securitize traded as much as 16% higher in the tokenization firm’s New York Stock Exchange debut Thursday. The company is expected to raise $400 million in gross proceeds after shareholders approved its merger with a special-purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald. The total tokenized market cap of Securitize on the Avalanche blockchain will be over $300 million on Thursday, making it the largest tokenized stock.

Many of this year’s hottest stocks are the biggest decliners in premarket trading Thursday after sharp drops in the previous session.

The U.S. Treasury has selected two low-cost BlackRock iShares exchange-traded funds as foundational investment options for the upcoming federal "Trump Accounts" initiative to build childhood wealth.

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(Bloomberg) -- The head of BlackRock Inc.’s beleaguered private credit fund is in the process of leaving the firm, a move that follows months of losses on soured loans and revelations of a US regulatory probe into the unit’s valuation practices.Most Read from BloombergMeta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing PowerSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingTrump Reports at Least $1.4 Billion in 2025 Crypto EarningsDemocratic Socialist Ousts 15-Term House Incumbent in Co

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There is a new stablecoin in town, and an old player's stock is facing the heat. A stablecoin is an integral part of the DeFi infrastructure. It is a cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value by pegging to an asset like the dollar, typically backed by reserves such as cash and ...

Market Domination Host Josh Lipton tracks several of the day's top trending stock tickers, including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shares getting a lift after Wells Fargo analysts boosted their price target on the chipmaker's stock, while Circle Internet Group (CRCL) plummets on reported stablecoin competition from other firms.

(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin tumbled more than 3% toward $58,000 on Tuesday as investors reversed an initial vote of confidence in Michael Saylor’s financing overhaul at Strategy Inc., raising fresh concerns that one of the cryptocurrency’s biggest buyers may no longer be a consistent source of demand.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Left Mirae With No Shares on MisunderstandingSupreme Court Backs Birthright Citizenship in Blow to TrumpYen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled JapanW

A consortium backed by companies including BlackRock, Google and Coinbase said Tuesday that it is launching a stablecoin. Called Open USD, the new dollar-backed stablecoin is slated to be offered later this year on the Coinbase-affiliated blockchain Base, as well as on Solana and other networks.

Investing.com -- BlackRock Inc. has downgraded its view on emerging-market equities to neutral from overweight for the next six to 12 months, citing concentration risks in artificial intelligence-linked companies, according to its 2026 mid-year global investment outlook released by the BlackRock Investment Institute.

The GM- and Tencent-backed autonomous-driving firm is seeking a nearly $9 billion valuation.

The GM- and Tencent-backed firm plans to use about 60% of proceeds to fund R&D, including AI computing and data storage

BlackRock is slated to announce its second-quarter results soon, and analysts expect its bottom line to grow at a single-digit pace.

(Bloomberg) -- US-listed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are on pace for their worst month of withdrawals since launching two years ago.Most Read from BloombergTrump’s U-Turn on Iran Sanctions Would Unravel Decades of CurbsAramco Helicopter Crash in Ras Tanura Kills All 14 on BoardOil Pares Early Gains as US, Iran Halt Attacks After Flare-UpUS and Iran Agree to Halt Attacking Each Other Ahead of TalksAn Analyst’s Missed Remark Surfaced in Deadly Iran School Strike ProbeInvestors have pulled more t