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Markets

BlackRock Strikes Deal With Banks to Provide Closely Held Bond Price Data

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Real-time prices for corporate bonds are hard to come by. A handful of banks want to bring the closely guarded data into the 21st century.

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Geopolitics

Saudi Arabia Pulls Back as Trump Reemerges on World Stage

Saudi Arabia’s Mammoth Public Investment Fund Turns Inward Just As One of the Country’s Top Allies Reclaims the White House.

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Advisor Upside

Citi Targets Active ETFs in Europe

Through its white label platform, the bank hopes to be a dominant force in Europe’s growing active ETF market.

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Markets

Say Goodbye to the Era of Towering S&P 500 Gains, Says Goldman

Goldman Sachs’ equity strategy team forecasts that America’s blue chip S&P 500 index will bring in infinitesimal returns for the next decade.

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Markets

Trading Windfall Pushes Wall Street to Surprisingly Strong Quarter

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How’d the financial giants — namely, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Bank of America — make out this quarter? Surprisingly well, it turns out.

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Advisor Upside

Big Brokers Beat Estimates in Strong Start to Earnings Season

JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, among other banks and asset managers, beat analysts’ expectations in the third quarter.

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Finance

How Will Wall Street’s AI Experiment End?

Like money, artificial intelligence never sleeps. Financial institutions have pulled out all the stops to fit AI into their own operations.

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Advisor Upside

Advisory Firms Say Thanks, But No Thanks to AI

Artificial intelligence may be one of the fastest-growing tools in business, but don’t tell that to the compliance department.

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Advisor Upside

BlackRock Hits Record AUM as Wall Street Banks Report Solid Earnings

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CEO Larry Fink attributed the healthy performance to growth in private markets, retail active fixed income, and the company’s ETF business.

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M&A

Dealmaking Is Coming Back — With or Without Fed Rate Cuts

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Dealmaking-related revenue at a handful of major investment banks collectively rose 27% year-over-year in the first quarter.

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