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An outbreak of E. coli and salmonella that has sickened dozens of people across 15 states has been linked to an alfalfa grower in Minnesota, federal health officials said Friday.
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Over the 10 years ended December 31, 2025, investors in U.S. mutual funds and ETFs earned an average annual return of 8.7%, compared with 9.9% for the funds themselves. According to Morningstar’s latest Mind the Gap res…
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The comparison is understandable. Technological breakthroughs have a long history of attracting capital, capturing investors’ imaginations, and creating expectations that eventually prove difficult to satisfy. Today, en…
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On the back of the White House’s cryptocurrency confab, which brought together policymakers and leaders of the digital asset community, Bitcoin notched a double-digit gain over August 19-20 — a rally that pumped new lif…
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The fund tracks the Dynamic Semiconductor Intellidex Index. The rules-based index selects about 30 U.S. semiconductor companies.
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To start with, copper itself had a fairly strong performance in July. As Jacob White, CFA, director, ETF product management, Sprott Asset Management noted, the price of spot copper was up 3.65% over the past month, as o…
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The acceleration in output growth, combined with near record selling price inflation and a sustained rise in employment, strengthens the case for the Bank of Japan to proceed with a rate hike at its September meeting. A…
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SINGAPORE - Singapore’s manufacturing output picked up in January as demand for products and applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI) drove the orders of advanced semiconductors.
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This weekly update tracks some of the largest cryptocurrencies by market share: Bitcoin and Ether. While both are considered high-risk assets, they possess foundational differences that investors should understand. We h…
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The ETF landscape includes a growing roster of actively managed strategies that can invigorate portfolios. This particularly includes the fixed income space, where the active ETF wrapper can offer some major benefits co…
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Leading asset managers T. Rowe Price announced the acquisition of $19 billion F/m Investments in a press release Thursday afternoon. The deal brings F/m’s suite of leading fixed income strategies and ETFs into T. Rowe P…
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Investors are looking at sector-balanced dividend strategies to protect gains and establish durable yield. Speaking during a recent SS&C ALPS Advisors due diligence session, Danny Schwab and Kyle Kleckner outlined why a…
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Bitcoin mining facilities were built to crunch numbers for cryptocurrency. Now they’re some of the most sought-after real estate in the artificial intelligence boom.
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It’s been another year of record-breaking feats for ETFs. Various firms are pegging this year’s inflows to cross the $2 trillion milestone, and Goldman Sachs added its stamp of approval to that forecast. According to ne…
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By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) – S&P 500 companies are winding up a banner quarterly earnings season, fueled in large part by surging profits at AI-related companies. The S&P 500 is on track for a 5…
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Confluence Investment Management offers various asset allocation products which are managed based on “top down,” or macro, analysis. We publish asset allocation thoughts on a bi-weekly basis, updating the report every o…
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Wednesday, August 19 turned out to be a very interesting day for those who keep a close eye on earnings for major retailers. This is because both Lowe’s and Target reported their Q2 2026 results, with noticeably differe…
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Anthropic’s preliminary second-quarter results reignited enthusiasm across the artificial intelligence sector, lifting semiconductor stocks 1% on Monday despite broader tech sector declines. Q2 revenue topped $11.5 bill…
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On August 19, 2026, Bank of Montreal and REX Shares announced the launch of a new suite of exchange-traded notes (ETNs). These ETNs, issued by BMO, go live for trading on the Cboe BZX Exchange on Thursday, August 20, 20…
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The prolonged zero-interest-rate environment that provided massive tailwinds for U.S. markets is shifting as central banks adjust policy and global interest rates normalize. Global capital costs are rebalancing, creatin…
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Goldman Sachs ETF acquisitions and the blurring line between investing and gambling headlined this week’s ETF Prime. Host Nate Geraci welcomed Mike Akins, founding partner at ETF Action, followed by Paul Baiocchi, head …
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On Monday, August 17, 30-year Treasury yields hit 5.31%, the highest level in 19 years for long-dated U.S. government bonds. That move has plenty of traders and fixed income investors on edge, because 19 years ago was s…
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Entering this year, retail traders expected big things of SoFi Technologies (SOFI). The fintech stock was commanding plenty of adulation in social media investing circles. Things haven’t gone according to plan, as the s…
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Listed miners have announced more than $70B in AI and high-performance computing contracts. For advisors, that turns a one-dimensional bitcoin proxy into something closer to a digital power infrastructure allocation. Cu…