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Coca-Cola Sees Glass Half Full Even as Trade War Drains Fizz From Pop Sales

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Coca-Cola was one of several companies whose earnings last week flashed positive signs, despite the hail of uncertainty around tariffs.

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Markets

Growth is No Longer Just for Tech Megacaps

S&P 500 stocks — excluding the Magnificent Seven — are on pace to deliver their first profit growth since the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Markets

The Carry Trade is Unwinding. How Much is Left to Go?

In a carry trade, you borrow money in a country with low interest rates and use it to buy a higher-interest-rate currency like the dollar.

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Markets

Proposed Nasdaq Rules Would Clamp Down on Risky Penny Stocks

After months of criticism for listing over 400 penny stocks, Nasdaq is proposing tightened rules to crack down.

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Finance

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Has Some Tips for SEC

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Top of the list is a warning over the rise of 24-hour trading, just as the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange pursue it.

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Finance

Buffett’s $300B Cash Pile, Fed by Apple, Spurs Investment Guessing Game

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Buffett acolytes are primed to be receptive to new ideas after Berkshire’s more contrarian bets over the last decade have proven prescient.

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Finance

How Will Wall Street’s AI Experiment End?

Like money, artificial intelligence never sleeps. Financial institutions have pulled out all the stops to fit AI into their own operations.

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Markets

Energy Crisis Spurs Record Payout at Vitol Group

Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil trader, has paid around a record $6.4 billion in share buybacks to its employee-owners.

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Janney Montgomery Scott Sold in Major PE Deal

Janney will be sold from the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, marking another major equity deal in a busy year for the industry.

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Finance

Why Stock Exchanges Want a Piece of Texas, ‘The Wall Street of the South’

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