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Powell Blames Rate-Cut Delays on Tariffs

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The S&P 500’s recent record high marked an encouraging sign that markets are no longer all that concerned with worst-case trade war scenarios.

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Consumer

Home Depot Acquires Building Products Distributor GMS

Home Depot’s push into the pro market began in earnest last year, when the company dropped $18.5 billion to buy SRS Distribution.

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Advisor Upside

Advisors Scrutinize Bill to Ease Rules for Accredited Investors

The proposal is designed to give a larger swath of investors access to private offerings.

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Media & Entertainment

Apple’s Film Division Finally Finishes First at Box Office

While Apple has been able to produce a string of TV hits, making successful movies has proven a little more difficult.

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Electric Vehicles

EV Dealerships Urge Slow-Walking Tax Credit Cutoff Amid ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Debate

Experts have already warned that rollbacks to electric vehicle tax incentives will slow sales growth big time.

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Electric Vehicles

BYD Downshifts Production into First Gear

BYD is now the EV pace-setter in Europe, too, according to a recent report from automotive firm JATO Dynamics.

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Regulation

SEC Seeks to Rev Up ‘Engine of Growth’ by Loosening Corporate Disclosure Rules

SEC Chair Paul Atkins’s stance on financial regulation contrasts starkly with that of his predecessor, Gary Gensler.

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CIO Upside

Reducing Data Security Risks from Model Context Protocol

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“If you compromise that AI, you compromise everything that it’s connected to.”

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Industrials

America’s Anduril Among Potential Winners of NATO Breakthrough

NATO chief Mark Rutte said last week that the new defense 5% of GDP spending target amounts to a “quantum leap.”

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ETF Upside

ETFs Built On Tax Advantage Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Rich investors with large stock portfolios and capital gains get a tax bonus with 351 ETF exchanges.

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Energy

Low Battery: ‘Heat Dome’ Exposes Cracks in America’s Decaying Power Grid

Rising temperatures and massive new data centers are providing a massive stress test for the US power grid.

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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

Kognitos Works to Remove the AI ‘Language Barrier’

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“Humans must be steering AI, even if it becomes superhuman.”

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ETF Upside

Calamos Launches First Autocallable ETF

The fund enters into swap agreements with J.P. Morgan and tracks an index from MerQube.

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Advisor Upside

Advisors Increasingly in Scramble Mode Over Fee Pressure

Advisors are getting creative with more services and non-traditional fee models.

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ETF Upside

ETF Investors Lured to AI, Crypto, Fintech

People are also more informed than ever about their ETF investments, per a Nasdaq report.

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