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View More News“Call spreads remain attractive for anyone wanting recovery exposure into the post-quarterly reset. And now look even better on a relative-vol basis, since call spread longs are buying the cheaper wing of a skew that is leaning the other way,” he said.There are a number of factors that might drive volatility higher in the near term. Friday’s options expiry, for example, which Péquignot described as “traditionally one of the most significant liquidity events on the annual calendar.”Moreover, ahead of the expiry, options traders who bought puts, or downside bets, in recent months are sitting in profit. That is, they are…
MoneyGram has become a validator on the Solana blockchain, allowing the remittance company to participate directly in securing the network and processing transactions.As part of its validator operations, the company is staking Solana’s native SOL (SOL) token and processing transaction blocks. MoneyGram also joined the Solana Developer Platform, a program that supports companies building financial applications on the network.MoneyGram said it now uses blockchain infrastructure and stablecoins across its treasury, product development and payments operations after more than five years of integrating digital assets into its business, which serves more than 60 million customers through nearly 500,000 retail locations worldwide.The…
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One of David Hockney’s favourite stories concerned a ceramic owl made by Picasso. Standing before it in contemplation, he would point out that a stuffed owl contains infinitely more information than Picasso’s sculpture. A stuffed bird preserves the details of plumage, coloration, and anatomy with scientific accuracy, while Picasso’s owl has none of those things. But in Hockney’s view, the artist’s rendition possessed something the stuffed bird lacked—the experience of the human gaze.Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, spent over seven decades making pictures. During that time he became one of the most recognisable artists in…
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Market forecasts have ballooned in recent years. Citi has estimated tokenized assets could reach a $5 trillion market capitalization by 2030, while a report…
Political action committees (PACs) backed by cryptocurrency companies and aligned interest groups have bet more than $8 million to support candidates in Tuesday’s primaries…
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from the schrodinger’s-slush-fund dept In mid-May, the Todd Blanche-run DOJ agreed to “settle” the fake case Donald Trump had brought against his own IRS.…
Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law…
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from the stop-your-spying dept On Friday, the government’s Section 702 surveillance authority lapsed! It may be temporary, but it’s still an important milestone. Section…
President Donald Trump’s mercurial nature has been on display at the G7 summit in France this week. On Tuesday, Trump met with Ukrainian President…
Moody’s Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm’s…