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Finance

Halt and Catch Fire: IPO Market Accelerates After Sleepy Summer

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Investor appetite for StubHub and Klarna is especially compelling at a time when consumer sentiment starting to slump.

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Technology

Pubmatic Seeks Payback For Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

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Pubmatic’s lawsuit comes after a US Judge ruled in April that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in the ad tech industry.

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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

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

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Advisor Upside

Goldman, T. Rowe Team Up for Public-Private Offerings

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Investing $1 billion in T. Rowe may be more efficient for Goldman than building out its own channel.

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Advisor Upside

Next-Gen Advisors Want Clear Path to Promotion: DeVoe

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Failing to properly guide the next generation could lead to many practices losing their competitive edge.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Targets AI’s Bias Problem in Recent Patent

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Bias is one of the fundamental issues that AI developers face as they build and deploy models.

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More than 60% of U.S. companies run outdated code that cannot support cloud or AI.

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CIO Upside

Who’s Who? Identity Questions Undermine Model Context Protocol

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

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Economics

Stalling Jobs Growth May Be Just What the Market Needs

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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

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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

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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

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

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ETF Upside

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

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

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ETF Upside

LionShare’s ETF Won’t Take Dividends Lion Down

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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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International Economics

‘Not Optimistic’: Washington Hits Tariff Impasse with Switzerland

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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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Advisor Upside

3 Reasons to Keep Politics Out of Portfolios

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

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla Needs its Robo-Tech to Recharge Revenue

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So far, Tesla has launched limited rideshare services in Austin and the Bay area, and it’s looking to expand into Florida, Arizona and Nevada.

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Real Estate

Lowe’s Lays Foundation for Housing Rebound

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In an interview with Barron’s, Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said a rebound is inevitable in America’s something’s-gotta-give housing market

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Private Equity

Carlyle, Goldman Spot Dollar Signs in Private Equity’s Liquidity Logjam

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Last year marked the first time since Bain & Co started tracking data in 2005 that the private equity industry shrunk.

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Advisor Upside

Financial advisor news, market insights, and practice management essentials.

The ‘Everything App’: How Robinhood Grew From Trading Platform to Financial Ecosystem

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Advisors Are Piling Into the RIA Channel. That May Not Be a Good Thing

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What’s the Difference Between 351 Exchanges and Exchange Funds?

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