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Bitcoin rallied past $81,000 for the first time, boosted by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of digital assets and the prospect of a Congress featuring pro-crypto lawmakers. His decisive victory in the presidential election has prompted celebratory chest-thumping from the digital-asset industry, which spent over $100 million backing a range of crypto-friendly candidates. Meanwhile in Europe, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he’s open to moving up a parliamentary confidence vote by several weeks to before Christmas. Scholz, whose three-party government collapsed last week, said the shift in timing would depend on an agreement between parliamentary leaders of his Social Democratic Party and the two parties backing Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democrat who’s seeking the chancellorship in a bid to move Germany toward more conservative policies.

Today’s guests: Aneeka Gupta, Wisdomtree; David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group Co-Chairman; Dean Forbes, Forterro CEO
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"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops.

Chapters:
00:00:00 – The Pulse with Francine Lacqua
00:00:42 – Aneeka Gupta, Wisdomtree
00:04:24 – Bitcoin rallies past $81,000 for the first time
00:05:41 – David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group Co-founder & Co-Chairman
00:10:12 – Rubenstein on US private equity outlook
00:15:00 – Cal Ripken Jr., Riken Baseball CEO
00:20:07 – Headlines
00:20:57 – Forbes, Forterro CEO
00:32:57 – Kremlin denies report on Putin-Trump call
00:37:05 – Scholz open to early confidence vote
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