Morning Edition · Friday, October 16, 2026Published at 1:52 AM EDT · New York

MSCI Adopts Rules That Could Remove Strategy and Metaplanet From Its Global Indexes on November 30

Estimates of forced passive selling in Strategy alone range from about $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion. MSCI will publish its final list of affected companies on November 11.

MSCI, the index provider, has adopted rules that make "non-operating companies" ineligible for its Global Investable Market Indexes. Strategy, the bitcoin treasury company led by Michael Saylor, and Japan's Metaplanet both fall into the aff…