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Big Tech

New iPhone Air Is Ready for its Flex, but Apple Stock’s Already Swole

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iPhone sales surged to $44.5 billion in the quarter ending in June, besting analysts’ $40 billion expectations and rising 14% year-over-year.

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Advisor Upside

How to Win the Coveted Ultra-High-Net-Worth Client

RIAs need to cultivate a higher level of trust and personalization to attract the wealthiest clients.

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Economics

Stalling Jobs Growth May Be Just What the Market Needs

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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Industries

McDonald’s Chief Blasts Minimum Wage Loophole for Tipped Workers

McDonald’s is battling its own industry over fast food workers’ pay, which it believes should be better, and tips, which it opposes.

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Big Tech

Alibaba Executes a Big Tech Pivot

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, having successfully diversified into cloud computing, is now making a push into artificial intelligence.

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ETF Upside

New Spot Crypto Products? Regulators Say Bring It On

The SEC and CFTC recently issued a rare joint statement encouraging applications for new spot crypto products.

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International Economics

‘Not Optimistic’: Washington Hits Tariff Impasse with Switzerland

Small, mountainous Switzerland — a country that ranks 61st in the world by total area — is one of the world’s biggest investors in the US.

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CIO Upside

Legacy Code Might Be Holding Your Enterprise Back

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More than 60% of U.S. companies run outdated code that cannot support cloud or AI.

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ETF Upside

Media Companies Are Cracking the Streaming Code. Should Investors Care?

Disney is the comeback kid of Wall Street, and other streaming giants are following suit.

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Advisor Upside

3 Reasons to Keep Politics Out of Portfolios

Mixing politics and investing is like mixing emotions and math: It rarely adds up.

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ETF Upside

LionShare’s ETF Won’t Take Dividends Lion Down

The company’s new U.S. Equity Total Return ETF invests in other exchange-traded funds in a way that minimizes dividend payments.

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Patent Drop

Glimpse into the future of technology.

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Google Patent Highlights AI and Quantum’s Symbiotic Relationship
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The Time and Place for AI Code Generators
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Into the Future: The Patent Drop Highlight Reel
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Amazon Tries to Help Alexa Get Personal

CIO Upside

Who’s Who? Identity Questions Undermine Model Context Protocol

‘There cannot be room for hallucination in that question.’

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