ETF managers are racing to position themselves for the Anthropic IPO. Ares Management is in talks to buy Leonard Green & Partners to bolster its private equity platform. These are among the investment must reads for financial advisors this week.
StanChart first-half profit rises 9%, beating estimates on strong wealth growth
The Indian stock market surged on Wednesday, with benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rising nearly 1% each, despite a sharp increase in oil prices as US-Iran tensions escalated.At 9:49 am Sensex soared above 800 points to trade at 77,550 level, while Nifty gained over 200 points to trade above 24,200 mark. The sharp gains added…
Canada’s reported population decline in 2025 could be revised away when Statistics Canada updates its estimates of non-permanent residents, according to a new CIBC report. Statistics Canada currently estimates that Canada’s population fell by 234,597 between July 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026, including a decline of 55,025 in the first quarter of this year….
Prediction-market combos and CFDs are structurally different, but their retail dynamics are beginning to look similar: professional firms price complex risk, while individual traders are drawn to products offering large potential payouts. On Kalshi, multi-leg combo markets accounted for 36% of contracts traded so far in July. Retail customers have generated net losses of $294…
Gold and silver prices: Gold fell on Wednesday in the international markets, weighed down by a firm dollar that remained near a one-month high, while investors awaited this week’s US Federal Reserve interest rate decision and comments from Chair Kevin Warsh for signals on the policy outlook. Spot gold fell 1.1% to $4,032.42 an ounce,…
Live News Updated: Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 9:28 [IST] Gold rates and silver rates in India are likely to be volatile due to mixed trend in global bullion market on July 29, 2026. On Wednesday, spot gold traded cautiously with mild corrections to around $4,026 per ounce, on the other hand, spot silver surged nearly…
In the early 1970s, bonds were boring. You bought them, filed them away in a drawer, and clipped coupons until maturity. The prevailing wisdom treated fixed income as a static, buy-and-hold asset class. Bill Gross and a small team at Pacific Mutual in Newport Beach saw it differently. They began trading bonds actively, using newly…
The logo of SK hynix is displayed on a glass wall during the 2026 World IT Show in Seoul on April 22, 2026. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images SK Hynix shares fell on Wednesday as exponential second-quarter earnings and revenue growth still failed to satisfy analysts’ supercharged expectations for an artificial-intelligence darling. Here…
Banks collected more than ₹26,170 crore from customers as penalties for failing to maintain the minimum average balance (MAB) in their accounts over the four financial years from FY23 to FY26, according to a written reply by Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary in the Rajya Sabha. The data, compiled from public sector banks…