#financial-history

#financial-history

From a low-key, circular podium in the middle of a lavish New York City event hall, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor took the mic and opened the Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference event. He joked awkwardly about the orange ties, dresses, caps and other merch to the (mostly male) audience of who's-who in the bitcoin treasury company world. Once he got onto the regular beat, it was much of the same: calm and relaxed,

Across the floor and walls sprawl grand mosaics and sculptures depicting lions, piles of gold, thunderbolts and ancient Roman gods. "When this building was created, it was designed as a working bank building. There were people coming and going all day," explains the Bank of England Museum's curator, Jenni Adam. "And immediately they were greeted with this sense of grandeur along with lots and lots of messages about what's happening in this site."

Shares of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) gained 4.03% over the past month after gaining 2.33% the month prior. That brings the stock's year-to-date gain to 13.29%. Since hitting its 2025 low on April 4, BAC is up 45.86%. When the company reported Q2 earnings earlier in July, it announced mixed results with EPS of 89 cents versus analysts' expectations of 86 cents, and revenues of $26.61 billion versus expectations of $26.72 billion.