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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

MLP Q2 Earnings Call Highlights

Key Points Interested in MLP SE? Here are five stocks we like better. Record first-half results: MLP's revenue rose 10% to approximately €583 million, while EBIT reached a record €64 million, driven by growth across wealth, life and health, and property and casualty businesses. …

American Airlines, Stand Up To Cancer and Lily Collins collaborate for 10th annual fundraising campaign for innovative cancer research

FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and American Airlines today launched their annual campaign to raise funds for innovative and lifesaving cancer research.Combined SU2C and AA logos The six-week campaign, "Let's Go Further, Together," launches Aug. 13 …

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 …

Ackman adds Netflix, Visa and Mastercard in portfolio revamp

Investing.com -- Bill Ackman disclosed six new portfolio holdings on Thursday, including Netflix, Visa, and Mastercard, representing his largest portfolio restructuring in several years. The billionaire investor said he began purchasing the shares during the second quarter for his investment funds, including Pershing Square …

Crypto’s Wall Street Era Arrives as Retail Buzz, Liquidity Fade

(Bloomberg) -- Gracy Chen doesn't want to run just a crypto exchange anymore. Most Read from Bloomberg Walter Sells Lakers, Seeks More Cash to Pay Loans Amid DOJ Probe Anthropic Said in Talks to Buy Startup Decart for $6 Billion Phoebe Gates Knew Phia …

Ackman unveils six new investments including Netflix, Visa, Mastercard in biggest portfolio overhaul in years

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Bill Ackman unveiled six new holdings including Netflix, Visa and Mastercard, marking the billionaire investor's biggest portfolio overhaul in years. Ackman said on Thursday he acquired shares ‌starting in the second quarter that will be …

Risk-On Momentum in Bank Stocks Echoes Aftermath of Dot-Com Bust

(Bloomberg) -- The recent weakness in artificial intelligence high-flyers has investors rotating into the less glamorous corner of the market: financial stocks. Most Read from Bloomberg Walter Sells Lakers, Seeks More Cash to Pay Loans Amid DOJ Probe Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App …

3 Great Mutual Fund Picks for Your Retirement

Investing in mutual funds for retirement is never too late. And the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank can be an excellent tool for investors looking to invest in the best funds. The best way to shortlist great mutual funds is to ensure solid performance, diversification, …

ADFW 2026 Unveils First Wave of Top Speakers, Bringing the World's Capital Community to Abu Dhabi

The first wave includes senior UAE and Abu Dhabi government leaders alongside top global CEOs, chairpersons, founders, and institutional investors from industry giants such as Allianz SE, DBS Group, Franklin Templeton and Temasek Holdings ABU DHABI, UAE, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the …

American Express Expands Virtual Card Capabilities to Help Businesses Utilize Fast-Growing Commercial Payment Method

NEW YORK, August 13, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Express today announced new capabilities to help U.S. commercial customers simplify payments and give them more options to efficiently manage spending in their financial software of choice with American Express® Virtual Cards. Virtual cards are a fast-growing commercial …

Only 12% of family businesses stay in the family by the third generation. A Goldman Sachs chairman says optimism is the reason

Only about 12% of family-owned businesses make it to a third generation still under family control, according to a new Goldman Sachs playbook aimed at the founders and dynasties the bank counts among its most prized clients. It's a statistic Goldman itself put in …

Bank of America to acquire 49.9% of India’s Jio Credit

Bank of America is set to take as much as a 49.9% holding in Jio Credit, the lending arm of Jio Financial Services, through a preferential issue of equity shares and warrants. The deal will bring together Jio Financial Services' digital distribution and its …

HSBC backs AI financial services software firm Model ML

Model ML has secured funding from HSBC Asset Management through its venture capital vehicle. The new capital is intended to aid the company's growth at a time when enterprise use of AI is moving beyond standalone models towards the broader infrastructure needed to deploy …

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square buys Netflix, 5 other stocks in 2026

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Inc. disclosed on Wednesday that it had taken a new position in Netflix stock, returning to the streaming company after a loss-making investment in 2022, and added five other new positions in the first half of 2026. As of June …

Kaplan Says Fed Right Not to Raise Rates in July

Robert Kaplan, Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman and former Dallas Fed President, says the Federal Reserve was right to not raise interest rates at the meeting in July. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." View Comments

European Central Bank: Independence risks rise with debt – Commerzbank

Commerzbank’s Dr. Marco Wagner assesses how political pressure threatens the European Central Bank’s (ECB) independence using a Central Bank Pressure Index based on AI analysis of politicians’ statements.

Prosper Family Office Opens New Office in Tsim Sha Tsui

Ribbon cut by Dr Justin Chiu, Executive Director of CK Asset Holdings Limited; Miss Lai-Chong Au, Group Chief Executive Officer of Delta Asia Financial Group; and Dr Cartier Lam, former Executive Director & Chief Executive of The Bank of East Asia (China) Limited HONG …

Canadian Dollar Recovery Hinges on Broader Economic Strength, Not Oil Prices, Commerzbank Says

The Canadian dollar's medium-term recovery will likely depend less on oil prices and more on whether PREMIUM Upgrade to read this MT Newswires article and get so much more. A Silver or Gold subscription plan is required to access premium news articles. Upgrade Already …

You’ve retired — so grow up already and stop buying these 5 things to save yourself thousands of dollars

Photo by YuriArcursPeopleimages / Envato Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Retirement isn't just about changing how you spend your time. It's also about changing how you spend your money. Many purchases that made …

Stock Markets Beware: AI Funding Plans Have Shades of the Financial Crisis

Cisco benefits from AI demand, Musk is optimistic about Starlink, inflation hasn’t thrown cold water on stock market rally, and more news to start your day. Continue Reading

JPMorgan gets bullish on Salesforce, says concerns are "overblown"

Investing.com -- JPMorgan initiated Salesforce (CRM) at Overweight, saying concerns weighing on the stock are "overblown" and that the shares are pricing in further deceleration rather than progress toward the company's Rule of 50 target. Analyst Samik Chatterjee moved CRM to an Overweight rating …

Amex Gold Mining Files Project Notice for the Perron Gold Mine

Montreal, Quebec--(Newsfile Corp. - August 13, 2026) - Amex Gold Mining Inc. (TSXV: AMX) (FSE: MX0) (OTCQX: AMXEF) ("Amex" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has officially filed the Project Notice for the proposed Perron Gold Mine with Québec's Ministère de …

Converging Trade in Nansha, Connecting the Globe: The Heart of the GBA Shapes a New Landscape for the Global Cross-Border Trade Ecosystem

GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recently, the Global Cross-Border Trade Industrial Cluster Ecosystem Conference, themed "Converging Trade in Nansha, Connecting the Globe," was held at the Guangzhou Nansha International Convention & Exhibition Center. Industry giants including Google, Midea, Guangzhou Port, and …

Big Tech Drives Up Credit Risk for Safe Firms With No AI Links

(Bloomberg) -- As a flood of debt sales by US tech companies ripples through the credit market, it seems to be triggering an inadvertent rise in risk metrics for some of the world's safest firms. Most Read from Bloomberg Walter Sells Lakers, Seeks More …

Should Goldman Sachs MarketBeta U.S. 1000 Equity ETF (GUSA) Be on Your Investing Radar?

If you're interested in broad exposure to the Large Cap Blend segment of the US equity market, look no further than the Goldman Sachs MarketBeta U.S. 1000 Equity ETF (GUSA), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on April 5, 2022. The fund is …

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF ITS TENDER OFFERS FOR FOUR SERIES OF NOTES

LONDON, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HSBC Holdings plc (the 'Company', 'we' or 'us') today announces the results of its previously announced four separate offers to purchase for cash the outstanding series of notes listed in the table below, which were made upon the …