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Quant who said passive era is ‘worse than Marxism’ doubles down

By Denitsa Tsekova, Vildana Hajric, and others

CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink sepaks during the 2025 Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

BlackRock’s most profitable ETF is a nearly $100 billion Bitcoin giant

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

The Charging Bull Sculpture in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

Wall Street wraps the stock market’s crypto hype into a new ETF

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 17: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on September 17, 2025 in New York City. Stocks were on the rise during the market open amid a monetary policy decision and policy outlook from the Federal Reserve as they are expected to announce the first US interest-rate cut of 2025. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Wall Street turns crypto bet loved by hedge funds into ETF bait

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 06: U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the south lawn of the White House on July 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is returning from a 4th of July weekend in Bedminster. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump Media furthers push into crypto with third ETF filing

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role in the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Tesla’s retail army defies Musk-Trump spat to place record ETF bet

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

Michael Saylor at the White House Crypto Summit in early March.

Michael Saylor-fueled crypto complex gets bigger with debt ETF

By Vildana Hajric, Yiqin Shen, and others

An attendee wears a Bitcoin hat on the exhibition floor during the Plan B Forum in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. The Plan B Forum brings together leaders, technologists, and entrepreneurs to discuss Bitcoin adoption, economics, financial freedom, and freedom of speech. Photographer: Camilo Freedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Crypto day-trader faithful find life under Trump is no paradise

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 05: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on August 05, 2024 in New York City. All three major indexes closed with significant losses, with the Dow Jones falling 1,000 points and the S&P 500 sliding 3.2 percent, its worst day since 2022, amid a global market sell-off centered around fears of a U.S. recession. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Short-term bond ETFs rake in billions amid recession alarm bells

By Bloomberg and Vildana Hajric

man covers face with hand

The much-touted stock market rotation is fizzling as quickly as it started

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – NOVEMBER 09: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO BOOK COVERS. Taylor Swift performs onstage during ” Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on November 09, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal. (Photo by Marcelo Endelli/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

‘It’s refreshing’: Wall Street analysts show they’re Taylor Swift superfans too by riffing on her songs in their usually wonky research notes

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 31: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on August 31, 2023 in New York City. Stocks on the major indexes opened up high amid the release of inflation data and Department of Labor’s jobs report. Both figures come weeks before the Federal Reserve holds their next interest-rate policy meeting. The gains have helped the major indexes cut their monthly losses. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Big part of stock market unconvinced economy is going anywhere: ‘Weakness underneath the hood’

By Isabelle Lee, Vildana Hajric, and others

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In the land of ETFs, the chipmakers are king after a record $805 million influx the day that Nvidia kicked A.I. hype into the stratosphere

By Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg

Bitcoin symbol is seen on a money exchange point in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2023. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Bitcoin just hit $30,000 for the first time in almost a year

By Vildana Hajric, Carly Wanna, and others

Torsten Slok, managing director and chief international economist of Deutsche Bank AG, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Slok examined U.K. economic data and looks at how the weakness of the pound is keeping the nation out of recession. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bank crisis will tip U.S. into hard landing after all, says Apollo’s chief economist: ‘I changed my view’

By Vildana Hajric, Michael P. Regan, and others