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Dive Brief: Companies are under pressure to carefully balance ambitious merger-and-acquisition priorities alongside artificial intelligence transformation as investments on both fronts accelerate, according to Bain & Company’s mid-year M&A outlook. The dynamic is creating a new “winner’s paradox,” as the same AI boom that has fueled many deals is also competing with broader M&A efforts,…

Private equity players are paring back data center holdings, reports Morningstar. ETF.com looks at why small-cap stocks are outperforming. These are among the investment must reads for financial advisors this week.

Dan Ives logs into the Zoom call in a loud, tropical shirt, the word “Margaritaville” splashed across the chest. He has spent the better part of 25 years as one of Wall Street’s most recognizable tech bulls — a go-to voice on everything from Apple to Nvidia, a prolific note-writer who repeated the phrase “fourth…

Apple and Nvidia battled it out on Friday for the title of world’s most valuable company, with the iPhone maker briefly topping the long-time leader in market value. Shares of Nvidia briefly dropped about 3% and its market value dipped to $4.84 trillion in early morning trading, while Apple hovered near a $4.88 trillion market…

There were 728 new ETFs listed in the U.S. in the first half of 2026, and CFRA has identified five of them as notable launches (see Table 1). We screened the new launches and identified those that have rapidly gathered assets or innovated in growing ETF categories. These products are representative of the rapid and…

Texas and Louisiana are facing a dangerous combination of stormy weather and extreme temperatures as Tropical Storm Bertha sweeps across the Gulf Coast during a heat wave. Bertha is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge and as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain, while temperatures climb well above 100F (38C). Added humidity…