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May 22, 2023

Equity markets opened the week with mixed results while bonds yields ticked higher as investors eagerly await updates on debt-ceiling negotiations. Relative to last week’s close, NDAQ 0.13%  is trading at -0.2%, ^SPX 0.71%  is flat (+0.1%), while QQQ 1.24%  is changing hands at +0.4%. US02Y and US10Y are up 1% on the day, reflecting the President’s and House Speaker’s meeting later today in an effort to avoid a technical default. Digital asset markets are relatively flat in the past day – BTC and ETH are trading at -0.1% and +0.1% over the period. After its meteoric rise in the past 3 weeks, PEPE has seen a prolonged retracement, declining by 5.4% over the past day. While RNDR has retraced by 3.5% in the past 24 hours, the decentralized GPU network has been the biggest gainer in the top 100 for the past week (+33.6%), coinciding with strength in metaverse-related tokens. 

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