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Amazon Sells Cars Now

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Amazon touts itself as the everything store, and now there’s one more market it’s absorbing into its everythingness.

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AllianceBernstein to Sue Switzerland Over $17 Billion Credit Suisse Debt Writedown

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A major American institutional investor is planning to join a lawsuit that says Switzerland’s time to pay up is long overdue.

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Is China’s Export Economy Starting to Slip?

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The world’s factory is slowing down and it might have nothing to do with the tariffs promised by the Trump 2.0 administration.

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Ron ‘Omani’ Carson’s Next Venture? Spiritual Retreats

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Ron Carson, the founder of the $38 billion RIA The Carson Group, is now offering spiritual retreats to clients all over the world.

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What Trump’s SEC Chair Pick Paul Atkins Means for Crypto

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Atkins’ nomination is a breath of fresh air for the crypto crowd, who felt Gensler dragged his feet on policy.

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Driving the Tesla Single-Stock ETF Highway

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Investors can now make bets on Tesla in a handful of different ways through single-stock exchange-traded funds

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Asset Management Giant Vanguard Carves Out New Wealth Management Division

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The move marks the biggest restructuring at the world’s second-largest money manager in more than ten years.

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Google Announces Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

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Quantum computing is potentially revolutionary technology that could, among other things, end classical computing as we know it.

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Advertising Agencies Consolidate in the Face of Big Tech

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The transaction would create the world’s largest advertising agency — that is, if you don’t count Big Tech players like Google and Amazon.

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Into the Future: The Patent Drop Highlight Reel

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What the years of writing about Big Tech’s IP has taught us.

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Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban

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A federal appeals court upheld the “TikTok Ban” that would force China-based ByteDance to sell its app next month or face exile from the US.

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Inflation Report Will Test Fed’s Plans and Bull Market’s Steam

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The market’s sunny optimism, set against wintry December, will face a Game of Thrones-like test this Wednesday: an inflation report is coming.

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US Markets Represents 70% of Total World Market Capitalization

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What this means, however, is that the next time American markets tumble, it won’t just be America’s problem.

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The Costs and Benefits of Quantum Computing

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Big Tech and startups alike are making strides in the race to supplant classical computers, but a few roadblocks remain.

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OPEC+ Once Again Moves to Cut Production

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The global oil cartel announced it would be extending its ongoing production cuts through the first few months of next year.

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Natural Disasters Cost the Insurance Industry $135 billion this year

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So far this year, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods have cost the insurance industry a collective $135 billion in losses.

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Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Capital Takes Big Step Into US Credit Market

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Mubadala Capital, which manages $27 billion in assets, will take a 42% stake in Silver Rock Financial, which manages $10 billion in assets.

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America’s in a Crypto State of Mind for Trump’s Second Term

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With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, the crypto industry has transformed into a major DC power player.

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Inside BlackRock’s Latest $12B Private Assets Deal

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BlackRock is acquiring HPS Investment Partners in a deal that could increase its private assets under management to $600 billion.

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TradePMR’s Robb Baldwin on Robinhood and the American Financial System

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The future of American financial technology is being able to do transactions, trades, and payments in one spot, Baldwin said.

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Trump Media Delays Registration for Bitcoin ETF

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Vanguard’s Joe Davis on AI and the ‘Second Half of the Chessboard’

Joseph Davis, Vanguard’s global chief economist and global head of the Investment Strategy Group.

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China’s Revolutionary DeepSeek Turns to American Hardware for Upgrade

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