MSCI's Aug. 3 proposal to drop "non-operating companies" from its indexes would remove Strategy and Metaplanet, according to MSCI's own simulation. JPMorgan analysts put Strategy's potential outflows from benchmark-tracking funds at about $2.8 billion in 2025.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence62
Korea Securities Depository will accept government bonds at up to 98% of value as settlement collateral from late September, ending an all-cash deposit rule. How much foreign equity funds save depends on a daily ratio for stocks and on a second step that starts next month.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Strategy's second straight week of buying its own preferreds cost $139.3 million and captured roughly $2.74 million of discount to the $100 stated value. The cash pool that funded it held $1.30 billion on September 13.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 3%
- Operator
- Operator 17%
- Investor
- Investor 80%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence70
The index gained 13 to 16 percent from January 2025 to January 2026. That is between 54 and 66 percent of the 24.1 percent it posted in the same window of 2017, and it came off a base two consecutive 20 percent years had already lifted.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives55
- Confidence38
Delivered units make conversion a real use for obsolete downtown offices. The resale prices underneath the trade are still distress prices, and by one banker's account only a fraction of empty buildings qualify.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence58
Cezar Consing is keeping the Philippine group whole while telling its units to send more cash to the centre, which is break-up discipline run internally, and the comparison he has to beat is GE's 7.7-fold market value since 2018.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services puts a managed research agent behind entitlement-aware connectors to six commercial data vendors. The launch material never says how those licences price a machine reader.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
Private equity buyers have stopped paying for AI positioning and started paying for proof. GTreasury cleared at 2.5x a reported entry price; Visma's listing has not cleared at all.
Publishers:ionanalytics.com
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption44
- Hype gap+17
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
The 840,447-coin stack sat untouched for a week while common shareholders funded a $52.4M dividend and a $132.2M preferred buyback. Cash coverage now runs 2.8 years.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption46
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence57
MSCI dropped its crypto-specific exclusion test, but the replacement simulation still deleted Strategy, Metaplanet and Yellow Cake from ACWI IMI. Feedback closes end-September, results mid-October.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence45
A revived MSCI consultation names Strategy and Metaplanet as deletions if its "non-operating companies" screen passes. Comments close September 30, with a decision due around October 16.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives58
- Confidence42