Strategy’s Michael Saylor shrugs off potential MSCI index removal

Michael Saylor has a message for MSCI. He doesn’t much care what it decides. The executive chairman of Strategy Inc. said the index provider’s potential removal of Bitcoin treasury companies is not important to him, because he believes digital assets are the future. The timing is pointed: MSCI is expected to announce its decision by October 16, 2026, and the outcome could put billions of dollars in passive investment on the move. What Saylor said, and what MSCI is weighing Saylor laid out his view during a Bloomberg interview on October 13, 2026. He criticized MSCI’s proposed rules as biased against digital assets. He also argued that being dropped from the indexes would ultimately have no significant impact on Strategy’s operations. Saylor used the same interview to share his read on Bitcoin. He suggested the asset has bottomed near $60,000 and is positioned for a recovery toward the $80,000 range. He also forecast that it would eventually exceed $100,000. The rulebook under dispute is MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying so-called non-operating companies. Using data from May 2026, the proposal flagged three names as potential candidates for deletion from the MSCI ACWI Inve...