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Real Estate

What Does Mamdani’s Primary Win Mean for New York Real Estate?

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To say housing is the defining issue in current New York City politics is likely a massive understatement.

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Advisor Upside

Morningstar’s CEO Kunal Kapoor on Private Assets and ‘Extracting Gold’

Over the past eight years, Kapoor has helped the company expand its workforce to over 10,000 employees and boost its stock price more than threefold.

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Social Media

Bumble Swipes Left on a Third of Its Workforce

Bumble and Match both reported annual declines in revenue and the number of paying daters using their apps in 2025’s first quarter

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Energy

Shell Dismisses BP Takeover Talks as Mere ‘Speculation’

A megamerger of this sort would vault Shell’s market cap closer to ExxonMobil’s $468 billion and likely beyond Chevron’s $248 billion.

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Economics

Jerome Powell is Finally Getting Specific

Simply put, Powell says he needs to wait and see June and July price data to know just how impactful and inflationary tariffs have been.

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Healthcare

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Treatment Wins First of Its Kind FDA Blessing to Treat Lung Cancer

Like many other major pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca is facing a series of patent cliffs for key treatments in its portfoilio.

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Industries

Carnival Cruises Past Market Expectations in Boon for Shares

The choppy waters predicted for the cruise industry this year were based on the very real risks of trade wars and real wars.

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CIO Upside

Is Meta Chasing a Superintelligence Pipe Dream?

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The risks may be greater than the payoff.

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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

International Economics

Markets Stay Relatively Calm as Fragile Ceasefire Deal Follows Missile Strikes

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While the headlines screamed conflict, maneuvers by the US on Monday signaled to markets that the prevailing mood was one of compromise.

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Blockchain

Fiserv Connecting Thousands of Banks to Crypto with New Stablecoin Platform

Financial institutions are racing to get into stablecoins as the Genius Act makes its way toward POTUS Trump’s desk.

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Healthcare

Novo Nordisk Backs Away From Hims & Hers Partnership

Novo and Hims’ April team-up turned the two firms from competitors into collaborators at just the right moment.

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ETF Upside

Active Strategies Are Coming for Model Portfolios

Asset managers said active strategies are among their top choices for new products, per Morningstar.

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