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Merrill Lynch Becomes Latest Wall Street Firm to Launch AI Client Meeting Tool

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Vanguard Joins Invesco in Race to Offer Bond Ladder ETFs

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Are Clients in Denial About Retirement Healthcare Costs?

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Drinking in the Stars

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Healthcare

Merck Preps for End of Keytruda Exclusivity with $6.7B Deal for Leukemia Treatment

The key patent protections on Keytruda, Merck’s immunotherapy treatment that outsold all other prescription drugs last year, ends in 2028.

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Semiconductors

Arm Shoulders More of the Supply Chain by Making a Chip

The 35-year-old company previously made money mostly by licensing its designs to other players in the chip ecosystem.

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Finance

Why American Express Doesn’t Fear an Agentic AI Shop-ocalypse

Is it possible Citrini underestimated the dopamine rush Millennials get when they use credit card points to book a “free” flight to Bali?

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ETF Upside

Behind the Tanker Shipping ETF Returning 450% YTD

Amid the war with Iran, oil ETFs have been the strongest performers this year. The Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF is different.

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ETF Upside

Why the $100M AUM Survival Limit May No Longer Matter

It’s becoming less expensive to manage ETFs, allowing more funds to remain on the market with lower AUM, according to analysts.

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Blockchain

NYSE Teams Up with Securitize as TradFi Bets on Tokenization

Securitize will be the exchange’s first digital transfer agent, creating blockchain-based versions of stocks and exchange-traded funds.

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