US anti-bias agency moves to end employer reporting of worker race, sex data

FINRA-registered brokerages’ gangbusters 2025 pushed up the industry’s pretax profits by more than one-third last year. Processing Content While the figures exclude wealth management firms without brokerage arms and include some companies that are broker-dealers but not wealth management firms, FINRA’s “2026 Industry Snapshot,” released last month, revealed important statistics for financial advisors. The six…

Central organizations at nonprofits with local affiliates are now required to file a new form with the Internal Revenue Service to maintain their tax-exempt status. Processing Content The new Form 15644, Supplemental Group Ruling Information, will now be used to make annual Supplemental Group Ruling Information submissions, the IRS said in an email Tuesday. Revenue…

Indian stock markets are expected to trade with a positive-to-range-bound bias on Tuesday as investors shift their attention to the start of the Q1 FY27 earnings season, which is likely to drive sector-specific and stock-specific action. While geopolitical tensions in West Asia, crude oil prices and key global macroeconomic events may keep volatility elevated, analysts…

Screentime apps promise control—but even their creators sometimes struggle to stay off their phones. New research reveals why—and what tools make a real difference.

In today’s digital world, where information travels in seconds, losing your smartphone is far more than an inconvenience. It can be stressful, especially because a single device now holds access to your bank accounts, UPI apps, emails, passwords, personal documents, and other sensitive information. If your phone falls into the wrong hands, or a thief…

This article was written by Follow I spent 30 years in the institutional trenches as a trader, analyst, and portfolio manager, eventually running the equity trading desk at Northern Trust in Chicago. Those decades shaped my approach: stay disciplined, trust the data, and keep emotion out of the way. Since 2009, when I began publishing…