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Markets

Trump Says Wall Street Should Ditch Quarterly Earnings: What Would That Mean?

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President Trump wants to end mandated quarterly financial reports for publicly traded companies. Odds are his dream comes true.

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Finance

Can a Fed Rate Cut Boost the Magnificent Seven to New Heights?

In a note last week, JPMorgan’s Andrew Tyler wrote that macro conditions could turn a widely-expected rate cut into a “sell the news” event.

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Industrials

Caught Between Painful Present and Optimistic Outlook: Copper’s Tariff Price Odyssey

Demand for copper, already one of the most commonly used metals in the world, has surged amid the AI computing boom.

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Finance

Halt and Catch Fire: IPO Market Accelerates After Sleepy Summer

Investor appetite for StubHub and Klarna is especially compelling at a time when consumer sentiment starting to slump.

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Economics

Stalling Jobs Growth May Be Just What the Market Needs

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The latest jobs report appeared to confirm that America’s labour market is slowing, which may clinch the rate cut markets are salivating over.

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Markets

Everyone’s Joining Big Tech’s Market Rally

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Through August, Wall Street began rotating into small cap companies and sectors outside the bounds of the AI trade.

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Consumer

Keurig Dr Pepper Adds Peet’s Coffee to Soon-to-Fracture Beverage Empire

After the Peet’s acquisition, Keurig Dr Pepper says it will split into two companies: one focused on coffee and the other on soft drinks.

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Finance

CFPB Rewrites Open Banking Rule as Banks Feud with Fintechs Over Your Data

The “open banking” rule goes back to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that introduced sweeping financial reforms after the Great Recession.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Stocks Slide as AI Reality Lags Behind Hype

Part of the investor pullback comes after an MIT report that checked in on the billions that companies have spent on generative AI.

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Finance

Warren Buffett Reveals Multibillion-Dollar Pre-Retirement Bets

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The big surprise was a brand new, $1.6 billion stake in UnitedHealth, accumulated entirely during the second quarter.

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