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Consumer

Marriott’s Earnings and Growth in Luxury Travel Highlight K-Shaped Economy

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Marriott’s fourth-quarter earnings report shows that well-heeled travellers are still shelling out for top-tier accommodations.

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Markets

S&P Global Shares Dragged by Market’s “Most Bearish Possible” AI Anxieties

In the four trading days before Tuesday, S&P Global mostly sidestepped the Great Software Panic, its shares falling a mere 3.8% in all.

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Advisor Upside

UBS Sheds $14B in Wealth Assets in the Americas

However, the Zurich-based company’s global wealth unit attracted strong inflows from Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Advisor Upside

RIA Boom Redraws Wealth Management Map

Assets at independent advisory firms grew at an annualized rate of 11% over the past five years, while wirehouse assets increased just 8.5%, according to recent data.

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Banking

Luxury Card Cage Match Heats Up With Rising Perks, Prices

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Credit card issuers are enticing big spenders with luxurious perks and prestige brands, funded in part by fees that are higher than ever.

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Markets

Limbo for Longer: Don’t Expect More Fed Rate Cuts Before Mid-2026

2026 presents a catch-22 for the Fed. It normally cuts rates to buoy hiring, which tightened last year, but that could drive up inflation.

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Finance

Schwab Earnings Spotlight the Real Winners of Record Retail Investor Inflows

Everyday investors closed 2025 with inflows that were nearly twice the five-year average, surpassing the previous record set in 2021 by 17%.

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Markets

Wall Street Gets Squeezed by Twin Global Crises

Yields on ultra-long 40-year Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) rose 0.26 percentage points Tuesday, reaching 4.2%, an all-time high.

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Banking

White House Affordability Push Grabs Big Bank Bulls by the Horns

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The six largest US banks paid more than $140 billion in dividends and buybacks last year, setting a record, according to Bloomberg.

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Markets

SpaceX, OpenAI Dominate Speculation About $3 Trillion IPO Geyser

A logjam keeping companies worth as much as $2.9 trillion, from SpaceX to OpenAI, out of public stock markets may finally break in 2026.

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Advisor Upside

Wall Street Reports a Mixed Earnings Bag in Q4

The country’s biggest banks released quarterly reports this week, while their stock prices slumped.

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Banking

Bank Earnings Deluge Offers a Consumer Stress Test

Loan loss provisions — the allowance banks set aside to cover bad debt — is a key data point to watch regarding consumer health.

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Real Estate

Populist Signal or Serious Plan? Experts Question Ban on Corporate Home Purchases

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Shares of Blackrock bounced back on Thursday as analysts assessed the headwinds that have past blocked proposals similar to President Trump’s.

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Real Estate

Trump Seeks to Lock Corporate America Out of Local Housing Markets

For prospective buyers, this could lead to not having to go up against, say, Blackstone, when you put in a bid for a home.

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M&A

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Lead Wall Street’s M&A League Tables

JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs proved they’re still the go-to middlemen for Wall Street deals amid a near-record $4.8 trillion global M&A bonanza

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ETF

Bubble Worries Fail to Break Wall Street’s Gold Dust Fever

Forecasters predict gold’s rally will stretch through December 2026, although one analysis says there’s reason for caution.

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