• Mar 25, 2025

Investing in Bitcoin: Buying Strategy Stock vs. Buying Bitcoin Directly

Given that it's a currency outside the command of any government or central bank, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is inherently an outsider's challenge to the traditional financial system. Strategy's extremely ambitious investment approach, which calls for using equity and debt financing as well as cash to buy a lot of Bitcoin, leaves investors with an interesting question: Is it better to simply buy Bitcoin directly, or might the returns from buying the stock be even higher? Strategy's strategy is essentially to issue convertible debt and equity to finance the purchase of billions of dollars of Bitcoin.

  • Mar 25, 2025

Amundi Sees Korean Stocks Braving Short Sellers to Extend Rally

(Bloomberg) -- For short sellers who are ready to take aim at South Korean stocks when a ban is lifted next week, Europe’s biggest asset manager has some advice: such a move may backfire.Most Read from BloombergThey Built a Secret Apartment in a Mall. Now the Mall Is Dying.Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?Trump Slashed International Aid. Geneva Is Feeling the Impact.How SUVs Are Making Traffic WorseParis Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free“It’ll be very dangerous

  • Mar 25, 2025

Oil prices climb on US crude, fuel stock draw, Venezuela supply worries

HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Wednesday, buoyed by government data showing U.S. crude oil and fuel inventories fell last week and by mounting concerns about tighter global supply following the U.S. threat of tariffs on nations buying Venezuelan crude. U.S. crude stocks, gasoline and distillate inventories fell last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories fell by 3.3 million barrels to 433.6 million barrels in the week ended March 21, the EIA said, a deeper draw than the 956,000 barrels that analysts had expected in a Reuters poll.