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The Santa Claus Rally’s Here. Why Advisors Are Channeling Their Inner Scrooge

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Some 42% of advisors now expect a less healthy economy in 2026, the highest reading all year, according to a recent survey.

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Finance

Investors Hope the Santa Rally Is Hitching Up Its Reindeer

The S&P 500 has posted an average gain of 1.3% during this seven-day December-to-January period since 1950

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Advisor Upside

Advisors Target Diversification in 2026 Strategies as Mag 7 Risk Rises

Reducing exposure to top tech stocks such as Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla and keeping an eye on valuations are among advisors’ top priorities.

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Markets

Big Tech’s Allure Fades as Wall Street Bets on Main Street Stock Rebound in ’26

Bank of America analysts forecast S&P 500 earnings will grow 14% next year, and sees the index reaching 7,100.

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Advisor Upside

4 Investment Predictions for 2026

It’s easy to recognize the folly of trying to predict the market, but there are still useful predictions to offer.

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Advisor Upside

How Advisors Are Weighing the Risks of an AI Bubble

While some advisors are sounding the alarm, others are making sense of the market rally.

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Hedge Funds

Hedge Funds Start to Hedge Their AI Bets

Wall Street’s smart money is starting to take out some short positions on the AI trade, albeit mostly around the industry’s fringes.

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Finance

Boom in Crypto Treasury Stocks Faces Inevitable Bust

Digital asset treasury companies are grappling with the law of diminishing returns in the midst of a cryptocurrency swoon. What’s next?

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Semiconductors

With AI Bases Loaded, Nvidia Bats a Quarterly Earnings Home Run

Nvidia faced “the tough task of meeting high earnings expectations and high skepticism around AI capex,” per analysts at Bank of America.

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Artificial Intelligence

With Gemini 3, Google Gains Ground on OpenAI

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Executives are touting Gemini 3, which comes eight months after the chatbot’s 2.5 model, as a “massive jump” for AI.

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Advisor Upside

Tariff Turmoil Not ‘Rear View Mirror’ Yet: Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders

The company’s chief investment strategist warned policy moves can take months or years to ripple through the broader economy.

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Markets

Russell 2000’s Good Fortune May Prove to Be a Bad Omen

Through the last 100 days, the Russell 2000 has bested the rival S&P SmallCap 600 by 9%, good for the widest gap since 2010.

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Artificial Intelligence

SoftBank Dumps $5.8B Nvidia Stake to Subsidize Other AI Bets

CFO Yoshimitsu Goto said on an earnings call that SoftBank’s divestment had “nothing to do with Nvidia itself.”

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