Weekly Real-Figures Dashboard — 7 June, 2026 (week 23)
📊 Weekly Real-Figures Dashboard — 7 June, 2026 (Week 23)
Covering Jun 1 – Jun 7, 2026
📡 AI Cultural Penetration Index
How deeply has AI entered everyday news discourse? This section tracks what proportion of general news articles — across five regions — substantially discuss AI as a subject. It is not an opinion poll; it is a systematic measurement of AI’s footprint in public conversation.
Coverage: 2026-06-01 – 2026-06-07 · 7 sampling days · 350 articles sampled
Overall AI mention ratio: 4.3% (↑ from 3.2% previous week)
| Region | Sampled | AI Articles | AI Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | 217 | 11 | 5.1% |
| United States | 34 | 0 | 0.0% |
| United Kingdom | 48 | 1 | 2.1% |
| Japan | 16 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Taiwan | 35 | 3 | 8.6% |
Top AI subdomains mentioned:
- AI Business & Investment: 8 articles
- Robotics: 3 articles
- AI in Healthcare: 2 articles
- AI Ethics & Safety: 1 article
- Ai Policy: 1 article
AI-related articles spotted this week:
- 🔴 EDITORIAL: Do not ignore AI boom risks — Taipei Times
- ⚪ New Aukus drone tech to protect critical undersea cables as Marles warns: ‘seabed is a battlefield’ — Guardian World +12 more in the full sample
₿ Crypto Convergence Index
Is cryptocurrency becoming more like a real currency — or more like a speculative casino? These seven structural indicators track the answer, week by week. The goal is not to predict prices, but to observe whether the underlying market structure is maturing toward currency-like behavior.
Snapshot as of 2026-06-05
- Total crypto market cap: $2.22T
- Spot 24h volume: $134.5B | Derivatives: $528.6B | Total: $663.1B
- BTC dominance: 56.0%
| Indicator | Value | Trend(4wk) | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTC 30d vol (ann.) | 28.9% | ↑ | DXY 30d vol: 4.7% |
| Spot/Derivatives vol | 0.25 | ↑ | |
| Volume/MCap velocity | 0.06 | ↑ | BTC velocity: 0.06 (USD M1 velocity: 1.5) |
| BTC-NASDAQ correlation | 0.54 | ↑ | SPY 30d vol: 9.7% |
| Stablecoin % of MC | 13.4% | ↑ | |
| DEX % of spot vol | 9.2% | ↑ | |
| BTC vol ratio (vs DXY) | 6.1x | ↑ |
Data: CoinGecko, DeFi Llama, Yahoo Finance
📈 Stock Selector
A transparent, rules-based factor model for picking stocks from the US large-cap universe ($10B+ market cap). Six academic factors (momentum, low volatility, 52-week high, volume ratio, downside beta, short-term reversal) are weighted according to the current market regime. No black-box ML, no predictions — just a systematic process, tracked in real-time.
Report as of 2026-06-05
Market regime: VOLATILE · VIX: 21.5
| Ticker | Sector |
|---|---|
| EA | Consumer Discretionary |
| RPRX | Health Care |
| AAPL | Technology |
| TBB | Telecommunications |
| SOJE | Basic Materials |
Turnover: Buy: AAPL, SOJE, TBB | Sell: EBAY, MRVL, MU
Rolling performance (last 2 weeks):
- Mean weekly return: +4.33%
- Win rate: 1/2 = 50%
- Max weekly loss: -1.91%
- Strategy NAV: $108,663 (+8.66% since inception)
Backtest baseline: Week 21 (18 May – 24 May 2026), starting capital $100,000. All performance metrics reset from this point — win rate, NAV, drawdown. Previous weeks (Weeks 19–20) were a separate calibration phase.
Why These Three Dashboards?
These three topics were chosen because they represent different facets of the same underlying question: how is technology reshaping markets, media, and money?
| Topic | It asks: | Why it matters to you |
|---|---|---|
| AI in news | Is AI genuinely penetrating society — or just tech headlines? | If you work in tech, invest, or make policy, knowing whether AI is crossing from niche to mainstream discourse helps you calibrate timing and risk. |
| Crypto convergence | Is crypto behaving more like a currency or a casino? | For anyone holding, building on, or regulating crypto — structural convergence matters more than price. A maturing market behaves differently. |
| Stock selection | Can simple, transparent, academic factors beat the market? | For retail investors tired of black-box quant funds and hype-driven picks. If it works, it’s reproducible. If it doesn’t, you see the loss in real-time. |
How We Collect the Data
| Pipeline | Sources | Frequency | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Cultural Penetration | 18 RSS feeds across HK, US, UK, JP, TW (~500 articles/day) | Daily | Random sample → LLM classifies each article as AI-substantial or not → aggregate into ratio. |
| Crypto Convergence | CoinGecko, DeFi Llama, Yahoo Finance | Weekly (Tuesday) | 7 structural indicators computed from public market data. No proprietary APIs. |
| Stock Selector | Yahoo Finance (price/volume only) | Weekly (Sunday) | 6-factor cross-sectional ranking across ~900 stocks with $10B+ market cap. |
This is a neutral witness project. No buy/sell signals. No bullish/bearish labels. No predictions. Just the data, the methodology, and your own conclusions.