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China's so-called national team of state-backed funds and brokers is actively buying domestic equities as retail and institutional investors pull back from the AI trade. Beijing is leaning hard on its market stabilization playbook, a signal that confidence in the rally is thinner than officials would like to admit.
Shifting to industrials, Lincoln Electric posted third quarter sales of one point two two one billion dollars, up fifteen percent year over year. For long-term holders, that kind of top-line growth in a welding and fabrication business reflects durable demand from manufacturing reshoring and infrastructure spending — sectors with genuine staying power heading into next year.
And on the digital asset front, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is pushing back on the SEC's approach to tokenized equities, warning that a temporary exemption alone won't attract serious institutional capital into the space. His argument is essentially structural — without a durable regulatory framework, the assets that matter most will stay off-chain and overseas.
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