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Registered investment advisor buyers were more selective in their purchases in the first half of 2026, but they’re also going for bigger fish, according to analysis by a team at Fidelity Investments. Fidelity found that the number of deals, compared to the first half of 2025, dropped 9% to 120. When it came to asset…

Solid Data-Driven Gains Thu, Aug 13 2026, 5:10 PM Thursday was a fairly straightforward session for bonds. Yields fell modestly overnight in response to slightly lower oil prices and then more forcefully after the cooler-than-expected PPI data. Mid-day fuel price volatility caused a slight pull-back, but not enough to undo a reasonably…

Members of the White House television press pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis decided Monday to stop covering those events because of the White House’s ban on CNN from acting as a member of that five-member pool, CNN reported. CNN was barred from covering Trump as the designated TV…

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Financial planning educational departments are investing in “role-playing” artificial intelligence agents to help aspiring advisors learn how to interact with different types of clients. Think of AI-created personas able to respond to, and ask questions of, a financial advisor, and then evaluate the quality of that advisor’s side of the interaction. It’s a mostly positive…

We need compulsory disclosures for AI cyberattacks, says the CEO of Hugging Face. In an interview with CBS aired on Sunday, Clem Delangue said that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face. “These problems happened on unreleased models. So I think the…