{"id":13884,"date":"2025-02-19T12:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13884"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:31:33","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnicks-cantor-fitzgerald-increases-bitcoin-exposure-via-etfs-mstr-mara-adds-chinese-firms-like-baba-baidu-jd-in-q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13884","title":{"rendered":"US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick&#8217;s Cantor Fitzgerald Increases Bitcoin Exposure Via ETFs, MSTR, MARA; Adds Chinese Firms Like BABA, Baidu, JD In Q4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US Commerce Secretary <strong>Howard Lutnick<\/strong>\u2018s hedge fund <strong>Cantor Fitzgerald<\/strong> <strong>LP<\/strong> increased the firm\u2019s exposure to <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and Chinese technology companies during the fourth quarter of 2024, when <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> was reelected as the President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Lutnick is the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, who was Trump\u2019s pick to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. The fund added many Bitcoin-related stocks and exchange-traded funds to its portfolio in the fourth quarter amid the span of the U.S. elections, results for which were declared on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key changes made to the fund\u2019s portfolio during the quarter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While <strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/COIN#NASDAQ\">COIN<\/a>) was already a part of Fitzgerald\u2019s portfolio during the third quarter, the stake was increased by 66% in the fourth quarter. However, the fund also added other stocks involved with BTC acquisition to its portfolio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Strategy Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSTR#NASDAQ\">MSTR<\/a>), formerly MicroStrategy, and <strong>MARA Holdings Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MARA#NASDAQ\">MARA<\/a>) were the new entrants in Fitzgerald\u2019s portfolio. While the &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/market-summary\/25\/02\/43809086\/us-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnicks-cantor-fitzgerald-increases-bitcoin-exposure-via-etf\" alt=\"US\" commerce secretary howard lutnick cantor fitzgerald increases bitcoin exposure via etfs mstr mara adds chinese firms like baba baidu jd in q4>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick\u2018s hedge fund Cantor Fitzgerald LP increased the firm\u2019s exposure to Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Chinese technology companies during the fourth quarter of 2024, when Donald Trump was reelected as the President. What Happened: Lutnick is the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, who was Trump\u2019s pick to serve as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-13884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}