What ROAD to Housing Act can — and can’t — do for affordability
iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX +1.56%) and VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH +1.65%) have a lot in common. Both track the semiconductor industry and are passively managed. Despite these similarities, SOXX is up roughly 68.37% YTD, while SMH is up about 51.83% YTD (as of Aug. 25, 2026). While both semiconductor ETF returns are impressive, the 16.54-percentage-point…
A week after a safety incident made national news, we’re beginning to get clarity on what led to a blocks-wide evacuation at the project at the former Pfizer Building. It appears that construction workers at the Midtown office-to-home conversion failed to install key steel reinforcement that could have caused two columns to buckle. The two…
PRP Real Assets and Riyad Capital secured a $250 million CMBS loan to refinance 777 Hidden Ridge, a 1.1 million-square-foot office property in Irving, Texas. Commercial Search reports that Bank of America originated the two-year, interest-only note with three one-year extension options. Previous debt includes a $253.8 million note issued by Citizens Financial Group in…
IPipeline’s protection sourcing technology has been integrated into the JammJar CRM platform, allowing advisers to seamlessly introduce protection into the advice process. Advisers using JammJar will be able to access iPipeline’s protection sourcing within the platform, instead of switching between different systems. The firm said this would make protection a more “natural part” of…
Alibaba to sell gaming arm for $1.5 bln as AI focus intensifies – Bloomberg
Prediction markets’ public ledgers may turn suspected insider trading into a signal that other traders and bots can copy, according to new research into activity on Polymarket International. The nonprofit Anti-Corruption Data Collective said more than 150 wallets on the platform may have traded on inside US military information. The research focused on whether traders…