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Is Goldman Wooing Retail Customers, Again?

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Stocks Hit Record Highs Every Three Days on Average in Q3

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Does Retirement Math Still Work? Goldman Warns of Growing ‘Financial Vortex’

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Blockchain

Crypto Stocks and Currencies Earn Their Own S&P Index

Cryptocurrency markets still remain somewhat volatile, so indexing adds the appeal of smoothing out exposure.

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Inflation & Prices

Bummed Consumers Predict Shrinking Labor Market, Spiking Inflation

Whatever they say, consumers’ actual spending has remained rock solid, even if sentiment is yet to return to prepandemic levels.

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla Steers Toward Mass Market … Sort Of

The new Model Y, dubbed the Model Y Standard, essentially fills the void of the expired tax credit with a starting price of $39,990.

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ETF Upside

Gold ETFs Shine as Price Hits $4,000

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Investors have been piling into gold ETFs amid uncertainty exacerbated by the government shutdown and the dollar’s declining status.

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Finance

Too Big to Fix: IPO Revival Unlikely to Reverse Three-Decade Slide in Stock Exchange Listings

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In the late 1990s, there were roughly 8,000 US companies traded on stock exchanges. Today, estimates say it’s about half of that.

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CIO Upside

Empowering CIOs to drive innovation.

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In Security, ‘There’s Two Sides to AI,’ Box CISO Says
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How OpenAI’s Partnership With Oracle Could Alter the AI Landscape
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Salesforce Patent Could Recycle AI Model Outputs
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IBM Patent Could Rein In Power-Hungry Data Centers

ETF Upside

State Street Adds Junk Bond Rungs to Laddered ETF Series

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It may not be an ideal time for high-yield corporate bonds, but State Street is filling out its target-maturity suite with several new ETFs.

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