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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Crypto isn’t just building faster payments rails. It may be building the financial system for non-humans.As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. The technical pieces are falling into place. The legal ones are not.At a recent panel at NEARCON 2026, Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg framed the moment as historically significant.“What happens if there’s not a human behind it at all?” Garg asked. “It’s some piece of code that owns a wallet, executing code to make…

Famous for fundamentally reshaping how the world thinks about investing, Benjamin Graham’s influence is so deep that modern value investing, including the philosophy of his protégé Warren Buffett, is built directly on his ideas.  Even though Buffett became an extraordinary stock picker and arguably the greatest investor in our time, he endorses one of Graham’s fundamental themes, that most investors will do better with low-cost index funds rather than individual stock picking.  Graham never commented on S&P 500 index funds directly, as they didn’t exist in his prime, but late in his life, he explicitly endorsed the idea that most investors would be…

A wheel loader operator fills a truck with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. January 30, 2020. Steve Marcus | ReutersA new race to secure critical minerals is unfolding across the global economy.From Washington’s proposed $12 billion Project Vault stockpile to expanding buffers in Asia and the European Union, governments are moving to secure access to metals increasingly viewed as essential to national security and industrial policy.”In metals and minerals is where the newest wave of stockpiling is most visible,” said Patrick Schröder, senior research fellow at Chatham House. Governments are seeking to…

Mention markets are the high-octane, fast-twitch speed competitions of the prediction market world. But they’re just one corner of it. Users of Kalshi and its primary rival, Polymarket, can bet on events major and minor, from politics to sports to culture to the weather. Recent markets on Kalshi have included whether certain words would be used during a Palantir Technologies Inc. earnings call, whether Elon Musk would win his court case against OpenAI and whether the highest temperature in Seattle on Feb. 4 would be within a certain range. Polymarket users have bet on whether the US would strike Iran…

has ripped from the low-$60s to the $430 area, a move of roughly 300% over twelve months and about 75% since early November, yet the valuation has moved the other way. Forward non-GAAP P/E sits around 12.4, roughly 46% below the sector median, and broader forward P/E is in the low-teens versus low-20s for a typical large tech name. The PEG ratio is near 0.21 against a sector median around 1.5, implying the stock is priced as if growth is temporary despite triple-digit earnings expansion. On an enterprise basis Micron trades near 6.3x EV/Sales and about 9.1x EV/EBITDA, versus blended…

PayPal has underinvested in its consumer business, an analyst says. But Stripe could still find value in it.

Piper Sandler Chief Global Economist Nancy Lazar analyzes surging consumer confidence, the job market and more on ‘Making Money.’ Consumer confidence ticked higher in February as American households’ expectations for the labor market improved. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index rose 2.2 points to 91.2 in February from an upwardly revised 89 in January. The January data was initially reported as 84.5, the lowest level since May 2014.Economists polled by LSEG estimated the February reading for the index would come in at 87. FED’S FAVORED INFLATION GAUGE SHOWED CONSUMER PRICE GROWTH REMAINED ELEVATED IN DECEMBER “Confidence ticked up in February…

Dakota Wealth Management trimmed its position in shares of Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO – Free Report) by 14.3% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 114,888 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock after selling 19,189 shares during the quarter. Broadcom comprises about 0.8% of Dakota Wealth Management’s portfolio, making the stock its 26th largest holding. Dakota Wealth Management’s holdings in Broadcom were worth $37,903,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. A number of other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. M. Kulyk & Associates LLC grew its holdings in…

A person using a laptop and mobile phone. Tom Werner | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesApplications are now open for the fourth edition of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies list, produced in partnership with market research firm Statista.Each year, CNBC and Statista chart the top fintech players from around the world, ranging from startups to Big Tech names, across segments including payments, wealth technology, insurance and more. Last year’s iteration included heavyweights such as Mastercard, Stripe and Visa, as well as many newer scaleups. Credit rewards company Bilt, payments upstart TerraPay and insurance platform Entsia made their debuts on the list. The World’s…

Every market cycle has its own character, but certain patterns appear frequently enough that they deserve attention. This is especially true when evaluating early-year rallies in small caps. Market history offers several notable examples of small caps surging right at the start of the year, and these bursts of strength have often provided insight into where we stand in the broader cycle. One example comes from January 1972, during the rise of the “Nifty Fifty”, when small caps rose more than 10% in a single month and finished the first quarter up nearly 19%. Another example occurred in January and…