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Banking Behemoth Morgan Stanley Confirms Various XRP ETF Holdings

Banking giant Morgan Stanley has confirmed exposure to several XRP exchange-traded funds.

Applied Materials Quarterly Revenue Guidance Implies Slower Systems Shipment Growth, Morgan Stanley Says

Applied Materials AMAT -Shutterstock Applied Materials (AMAT) fiscal fourth-quarter revenue outlook suggests slower full-year systems shipment growth than previously estimated, Morgan Stanley said in a client note Friday. The brokerage was expecting the semiconductor-equipment manufacturer to issue a revenue Silver Upgrade to read this …

Is Capital One Financial (COF) A Bargain Following Its Arena Naming Rights Extension?

Track your investments for FREE with Simply Wall St, the portfolio command center trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Capital One Financial (COF) is back in focus after agreeing to a 20 year naming rights extension for Capital One Arena, in connection …

AI will make the biggest companies bigger and the smallest more powerful. Hotels show who gets squeezed

In 1988, eight people squeezed into a single room in New York to start an investment firm around an unusual premise: data and technology could give investors a clearer view of risk. That firm became BlackRock. Its Aladdin system grew from an internal risk …

Larry Fink's BlackRock Just Crossed $15.3 Trillion in Assets. Here's What That Scale Actually Earns.

Key Points BlackRock is a dominant player in asset management with $15 trillion in assets under management. In the recent quarter, BlackRock saw AUM increase 22%, while its profit margins expanded to their highest in nearly five years. The company is seeing strong growth …

Fast Money Bets on November RBA Hike in Fight Against Inflation

(Bloomberg) -- Speculative investors are increasingly betting the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise interest rates again in November as inflation remains above the central bank's target. Most Read from Bloomberg Selena Gomez Accused of Fraud by Mental-Health Startup Investors Anthropic in Talks to …

Michael Burry Calls Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Financing Push a ‘Wall Street Stunt’: ‘Meet the New Boss…'

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Famed investor Michael Burry has targeted Nvidia Corp.'s push to unlock over $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure financing, calling the initiative a "Wall Street stunt" that …

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) Sees Precision Castparts Value Reappraised On Aircraft Demand

Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St's easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) is seeing substantial value appreciation in its subsidiary Precision Castparts as aircraft industry demand remains strong. Analysts and investors are highlighting the higher estimated …

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Cerebras Stock Slumps After Earnings -- Analysts See 'Buying Opportunity'

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ:CBRS) shares fell double digits on Thursday after the AI chipmaker's second-quarter report triggered a sharp pullback, even as several Wall Street firms maintained bullish views on the stock. Cerebras reported $180.1 million in second-quarter revenue, …

JPMorgan Says Salesforce Investors Miss Bigger Story

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. JPMorgan is turning bullish on Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), arguing that investors have pushed concerns about artificial intelligence and slowing growth too far. The bank initiated coverage of Salesforce with an Overweight rating and a December 2027 price target of …

How Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Financing Push Could Impact NVIDIA (NVDA) Investors

Nvidia recently unveiled memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to create independent compute financing platforms intended to mobilize over US$500.00 billion of third‑party capital for global AI infrastructure buildouts across data centers and "AI factories." This move effectively …

MSCI (MSCI) Stock May Be 16% Undervalued On First Street Deal

Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St's easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. MSCI stock has delivered a 10.0% gain over the past three years, yet the current checks send a mixed signal, with the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) intrinsic …

3 Reasons We’re Fans of Ameriprise Financial (AMP)

3 Reasons We're Fans of Ameriprise Financial (AMP) Ameriprise Financial has followed the market's trajectory closely, rising in tandem with the S&P 500 over the past six months. The stock has climbed by 14.8% to $557.69 per share while the index has gained 11.7%. …

Goldman Sachs wants to turn bitcoin into a yield machine

Scott Melker discusses the Goldman (GS) deal to acquire the yield-generating ETF platform Neos rather than build out its own. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure …

Analysts Are Undervaluing Berkshire Hathaway Now That Greg Abel Is Putting the Company's Cash to Work. But That's Not the Reason.

Given that the stock's only a tad below analysts' consensus price target of $525.08 following the recent release of its second-quarter results, Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) Class B shares appear to be fully and fairly valued. And maybe they are. Dig deeper, …

Why Is Wells Fargo (WFC) Up 1.6% Since Last Earnings Report?

It has been about a month since the last earnings report for Wells Fargo (WFC). Shares have added about 1.6% in that time frame, underperforming the S&P 500. Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to its next earnings release, or is Wells …

AMD to Raise as Much as $5 Billion From Debt Offering

(Bloomberg) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is planning to raise as much $5 billion in what could be the chipmaker's biggest-ever investment-grade bond sale, adding to a wave of debt tied to the artificial intelligence boom. Most Read from Bloomberg Walter Sells Lakers, Seeks …

Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

Nvidia announced this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia's effort to create …

Morgan Stanley doubles down on SpaceX stock for investors

There is a number making the rounds on Wall Street right now that would have seemed disconnected from reality 12 months ago: a $600 price target for a company that went public at $135 in June and briefly fell below that listing price within …

MCY Outperforms Industry in a Year: Time to Add it for Better Returns?

Mercury General Corporation MCY shares have risen 40.5% in the past year, outperforming the industry, the Finance sector and the Zacks S&P 500 composite's growth of 7.8%, 13.3% and 21.7%, respectively. Mercury General has outperformed its peers, including Axis Capital Holdings Limited AXS, The …

Goldman Sachs Expands Bitcoin Push With $2.25B Asset Manager Deal

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: $GS) has agreed to acquire NEOS Investments, the asset manager behind the $1.1 billion Bitcoin High Income ETF (BTCI), in a cash-and-stock transaction that values the firm at as much as $2.25 billion. NEOS manages about $30 billion across 19 options-based …

Zerohash Fails To Secure U.S. Trust Bank Charter

Zerohash Fails To Secure U.S. Trust Bank Charter Zerohash has fallen short in its quest to secure a U.S. Trust Bank Charter. Privately held Zerohash is a Chicago-based financial technology company founded in 2017 that provides infrastructure for trading in digital assets such as …

How Is Morgan Stanley Strengthening Its Position in Digital Assets?

Morgan Stanley's MS launch of the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust ("MSSE") and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust ("MSOL") marks a meaningful expansion of its digital-asset product strategy. The two exchange-traded products (ETPs) give investors exposure to ether and SOL through a regulated exchange-traded structure, complementing …

Will GS's Push Into Options-Based ETFs Enhance Its Competitive Edge?

The banking industry is witnessing a structural shift toward active ETFs and options-based income products, as investors increasingly seek higher income, tax efficiency and downside-risk management within the liquid ETF wrapper. Derivative-income ETFs have grown to roughly $180 billion in assets, seeing a CAGR …

From Campus to Career: Schwab Advisor Services™ Names 2026 RIATA Student Scholarship® Recipients

WESTLAKE, Texas, August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Advisor Services, in partnership with Charles Schwab Foundation, announced the 15 recipients of its 2026 Registered Investment Advisor Talent Advantage (RIATA) Student Scholarship. In its sixth year, the program continues its commitment to expanding access to the advisory …

MetLife (MET) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. DATE Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS President and Chief Executive Officer - Michel Khalaf Chief Financial Officer and Head of MetLife Investment Management - John McCallion Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations - John …

Is Ameriprise Financial (AMP) Stock Undervalued Right Now?

Here at Zacks, we focus on our proven ranking system, which places an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions, to find winning stocks. But we also understand that investors develop their own strategies, so we are constantly looking at the latest trends in …

Nvidia and Broadcom Deepen AI Financing Push — But Wolfe Sees Long-Term Risks

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), two of the world's largest chipmakers, are tapping debt and private capital markets to fund the AI infrastructure boom. These massive financial commitments coming from some of the biggest names in the market signal exceptionally-strong AI compute …

Priori Expands Client Advisory Board with New Members from Fortune 500 Corporate Legal Departments

Priori Legal operations and legal department leaders from Mastercard, Meta, Google, Uber, General Motors, U.S. Bank, Capital One and more will help shape the future of outside counsel management NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Priori, the legal technology company modernizing outside …

Can SYF Turn Record Purchase Volume Into Stronger Earnings?

Synchrony Financial's SYF record purchase volume is an important growth driver for the second half of 2026. It reached an all-time high of $49.8 billion in the second quarter, up 8% year over year, with growth across all five sales platforms. This growth accelerated …

Morgan Stanley Sees Sea's Spending Building Earnings Power

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sea (NYSE:SE), the Singapore-based operator of the Shopee e-commerce platform, Garena gaming business, and Monee digital finance arm, had its price target raised by Morgan Stanley to $153 from $130, with the firm maintaining an Overweight rating. Morgan …

4 Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds to Buy for Wealth Creation

The U.S. economy is showing a mixed picture this month, with the labor market losing momentum even as some indicators remain resilient. July nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000, far below expectations for an 83,000 gain, while previous months were revised sharply lower. The unemployment …