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Women Advisors Now Make Up 24% of Workforce. There’s a Long Way to Go

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Art Might Be Beautiful, but Where Does it Fit in Portfolios?

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How Advisors Can Keep More Clients When Changing Firms

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Economics

Bottom Line Undercuts Hot Quarter for Top-Line US GDP

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Economists anticipated a 2.5% rate, so the better-than-expected top line figure was obviously cause for celebration, right?

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M&A

Palo Alto Networks Broadens Cybersecurity Consolidation With $25B Deal

With CyberArk, Palo Alto enters into the “identity security” market, now at an “inflection point” due to the rise of agentic AI.

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Banking

Evercore’s Purchase of Robey Warshaw May Birth Trans-Atlantic M&A Titan

The deal will help bolster Evercore’s presence in Europe, where it placed 13th by deal volume in PwC’s advisory rankings last year.

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ETF Upside

Crypto ETFs Get Major Relief From SEC

Bitcoin, Ether and other crypto ETFs are no longer limited to cash transactions — they can use in-kind creation and redemption.

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CIO Upside

IBM Patent Leverages AI to Fix AI

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Throwing AI at problems might not always be the answer.

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Electric Vehicles

Can Tesla and Samsung Find Salvation in Each Other?

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For Samsung, it’s a chance to finally carve out some foundry industry market share from rival chipmaker TSMC.

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Consumer

Is Nike Pulling Off Its Comeback Plan?

In its fiscal year 2025 earnings call, the company said it projects new tariffs will saddle it with $1 billion in additional costs this year.

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International Economics

Trump’s ‘Biggest Deal Ever’ With EU Prompts Yawn From Wall Street

The deal sets 15% baseline tariffs on EU goods and commits the bloc to buy billions of dollars worth of US energy and defense products.

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Policy & Power

Defense Earnings Highlight Peril, Payoff of Contracting

A slew of quarterly reports last week showed, even with analysts flashing buy recommendations, the defense sector is a sensitive one.

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CIO Upside

Empowering CIOs to drive innovation.

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Double Whammy: When Insecure Code Meets Burned-Out Cybersecurity Teams
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Demand for Cloud, Data and Cybersecurity Skills Outranks AI
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Google Patent Straightens Out AI Training Data
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White House Deregulation of AI Creates Fresh Pitfalls for Businesses

CIO Upside

Microsoft SharePoint Attacks Show Weaknesses of On-Prem Storage vs. Cloud

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‘Given enough of an attack surface … it is going to be attacked’

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Electric Vehicles

‘Flying Car’ Industry Taxis Toward Takeoff

A US-based startup, backed by Japan’s Toyota, and a freshly capitalized initiative in China could make flying cars a full reality next year.

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Real Estate

US Housing Market Mired in the Mud

While June typically marks the hottest point of the year for home sales, last month instead saw a decline as prices rose to a record high.

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ETF Upside

What Coca-Cola’s New Sugar-Cane Coke Means for a Sugar ETF

The world’s leading beverage company plans to add a cane-sugar version of its namesake beverage in the US.

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