Crypto recently has really been the heart of the Trump trade or the most prominent part of it.

The idea that there's going to be a very friendly regulatory environment around crypto,

the medium to long term outlook for crypto is very dependent on how much institutions and mom and pop investors

want to buy into it as an investing class.

Brian Stewart, welcome to the podcast.

It's great to have you, our director of news at Seeking Alpha. Super

happy to have you, super happy to have you on the show. Thanks for joining us. Thank you.

Thanks for having me. Excited to start this segment off. We're going to be looking a bit at the week

that was and the week ahead and what themes we should be chewing on and trying to digest as best as

possible. I'd like to start off in the world of stocks specifically. What stocks are popping?

What stocks are we looking at this week that are making you pay attention either on the high side or the

low side? Yeah. So, you know, as a news guy, I'm always looking for the stocks that are moving

with some sort of catalyst. So on the downside this week, we had AVV. They dropped about 15%

in the past week after missing a goal in a schizophrenia treatment trial.

There's not a lot to take away from that sort of macro-wise.

It's a very stock-specific story, but just a big gainer or big decliner, sorry,

in a larger cap stock.

More interesting, really, for the longer-term view of the market.

We had Shopify earnings that sent the stock higher 40% over the past week. It popped about 20% day

after earnings and then has kind of kept pushing forward. They announced a 24% increase in the

gross merchandise volume, which is a really good sign. Headed into the holiday shopping

season, they're bellwether for the e-commerce sector. So for anybody kind of looking at the health of the consumer

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