Earnings360 Newsletter for 12/10/2024

Every afternoon at 2:00 PM Eastern, roughly $3.5 billion in institutional money flows into the market as pension funds and 401(k) contributions get deployed before the close.

Researchers at Duke, Stanford, Notre Dame, and the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board have studied this pattern. During one volatile week in June, a $1,000 trade set at 2:00 PM settled by 4:00 PM five days in a row, and the full month produced $2,016 in net income on a single contract.

Something big just happened on Wall Street. DTCC—the financial-market infrastructure giant that processes trillions of dollars in securities transactions—just launched a new tokenization service.

And some very familiar names are already involved: JPMorgan. Citi. Morgan Stanley. Altogether, 20 major financial firms have signed access agreements.

Now, I want to be clear: These institutions aren’t endorsing the little-known crypto project I’m recommending. But I believe what they’re doing tells us something much more important.