Financials


Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Stocks Have Tanked This Week. Here’s Why.

A confluence of events makes it one of the worst possible environments for a potential Fannie-Freddie share offering.

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Goldman Sachs Buys $42.5 Million Minority Stake in GeoWealth. Here’s Why.

The investment builds on a growing relationship between the bank and the technology and asset-management services provider.

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Soaring Oil Prices, Surging Inflation, Fed Rate Fears. It’s Déjà Vu for Markets.

Powell’s Fed press conference brought the unexpected, Micron smashes expectations, Trump temporarily waives the Jones Act, and more news to start your day.

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Polymarket Has Problems Congress Can’t Fix, Legal Experts Say

U.S. lawmakers have introduced five separate bills related to prediction markets. Legal experts say the reforms are unlikely to work.

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Dell, Weyerhaeuser, Visa: A Cross-Sector Look at Former Stock Picks

Technical indicators have turned constructive, creating possible entry opportunities.

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SoFi Stock Rises as CEO Defends Against Short Seller’s ‘Financial Engineering’ Allegations

The fintech lender appears to have decided that the best defense is a good offense following a report by Muddy Waters.

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Wells Fargo’s FiNet Recruits Advisory Teams from UBS, Commonwealth, and Stifel

Following the independent channel’s 25th birthday, Wells Fargo announces three recruiting wins that total $1.2 billion in client assets.

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Private Credit Funds Have Started Throttling Redemptions. Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Has Done It for Years.

SkyBridge Capital has been able to satisfy only a fraction of redemption requests as investors mobbed the exits in the last few years.

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Bill Banning Blackstone and Other Investors From Buying Homes Has a Big Loophole

The housing bill is meant, in part, to prevent institutional investors from buying up homes. Critics say a loophole allows them to continue doing just that.

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Stocks Can’t Recover While Oil Prices Surge. Why the Fed’s Unlikely to Help.

Nvidia’s Huang predicts $1 trillion in hardware sales, government bonds will keep selling off, Nebius strikes a second big AI deal, and more news to start your day.

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For Now, AI Is Making Financial Advisors More Productive. What Comes Next Could Be More Disruptive.

Thousands of financial advisors at the Future Proof conference in Miami last week got a glimpse of how AI is changing their industry. Here’s what they saw.

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JPMorgan Is Considering New Prediction Market Guidance for Employees

The world’s largest bank is trying to get a handle on the fast-growing world of prediction markets, where regulation is still taking shape.

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The Market’s Seen This Movie Before. It’s Not an Oscar Winner for Investors.

Nvidia’s big AI event is this week, Fed’s Powell likely to stay on board if investigation continues, Berkshire’s stock buybacks could reach $50 billion, and more news to start your day.

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Blackstone’s Public BDC Sees Insider Buying as Private Credit Remains Under Pressure

Top-ranking insiders including the fund’s chief operating officer are buying shares in the Blackstone Secured Lending Fund.

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TPG Can Navigate the Private Credit Unwind. Hold on to the Stock.

Many worst-case scenarios are already priced in, especially compared with competitors.

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Oracle Has More Resilience Than Peers, Says Analyst. Plus, CarMax, Rivian, and More.

Analysts also report on CarMax, Steel Dynamics, Synchrony Financial, and Rivian Automotive.

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Charles Schwab Expects First-Quarter Revenue Boost. Here’s Why.

The company provided new revenue guidance as part of its monthly activity report, which provides details about the new assets Schwab is bringing in.

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What Is Private Credit—and Why Could It Be a Bigger Problem Than the Iran War?

The $3 trillion private-credit market is facing growing investor withdrawals and rising scrutiny as analysts warn of risks tied to opaque lending and AI-driven disruption.

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Hilda Applbaum

Hilda Applbaum is a portfolio manager at Capital Group.

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Katherine Boyle

Katherine Boyle is general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

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Sharon Brovelli

Sharon Brovelli is president of workplace investing at Fidelity Investments.

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Kate Burke

Kate Burke is CEO of Allspring Global Investments.

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Kim DeDominicis

Kim DeDominicis is portfolio manager of target-date funds at T. Rowe Price.

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Liz Everett Krisberg

Liz Everett Krisberg is head of Bank of America Institute and deputy director of BofA Global Research at Bank of America.

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Nancy Fahmy

Nancy Fahmy is head of the investment solutions group at Bank of America.

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