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Brent crude rose to $111.66 a barrel as AI-linked stocks fell across global markets. The Nasdaq, S&P 500 and major Asian indexes declined, while investors focused on corporate debt, elevated Treasury yields and upcoming Federal Reserve decisions.
MSCI approved rules that could remove Strategy, Metaplanet and other investment-heavy companies from its equity indexes. The affected firms will be named Nov. 11, while JPMorgan estimates Strategy’s exclusion could trigger about $2.8 billion in stock outflows.
The Bitcoin Policy Institute is questioning MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rules, which could exclude Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes. The institute says metadata suggests the broader review may retain elements of an earlier crypto treasury proposal and wants clearer classification criteria.
Bitcoin Core is targeting an Oct. 10 final tag for an update that changes default wallet protocols. CryptoSlate says compatibility checks cover PSBTs, fee estimation, HTTP clients, indexes and private broadcast, with temporary disruption possible for some apps.
CryptoSlate reports that Solana’s pending upgrade could disrupt incompatible indexers, streams and sponsors. These services must update before the first v1 transaction, as the issue may freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits.
Michael Saylor is calling on MSCI to drop a proposed screening rule that could remove Strategy from its global indexes. The screen would affect three companies in November, with Strategy the largest of them.
Strategy has challenged MSCI’s proposal to remove it from the Global Investable Market Indexes. Michael Saylor and Phong Le called the plan flawed and accused MSCI of discriminating against digital asset businesses.
