At midday on Thursday, cotton futures prices are back down 260 to 396 points from the Wednesday close. Futures closed the Wednesday session with contracts up 24 to 96 points. Crude oil is was up a modest 10 to 15 cents per barrel late morning, with the US dollar index up 25 points. Export Sales […]
Over the course of my career in the retail financial services sector, I have watched the barrier to entry for launching a brokerage drop remarkably. As we pass the middle of 2026, we have entered a golden age of specialized, out-of-the-box brokerage technology. The capability of modern Forex CRM systems is deeply impressive, and often […]
Mumbai: The ₹9,813-crore initial public offering (IPO) of SBI Funds Management, India’s biggest asset manager by some distance, is a tale of multiple eye-popping superlatives. The biggest IPO of 2026 is also the most subscribed ever among billion-dollar domestic issues, with investors bidding nearly 42 times the shares on offer by the money manager that […]
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Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Albany pulls the plug… Ford’s “AI Boomerang” in jobs… a margin-debt flashing light… why we’re not worried about the AI trade yet… and how to trade either way Yesterday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order barring construction of new large-scale data […]
Google is months behind schedule on delivering its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, Bloomberg reported Thursday (July 16), citing unnamed sources. The company was widely expected to release 3.5 Pro at its developer conference in May, but it is still working to improve the model’s capabilities, especially in coding, according to […]
National Average Mortgage Rates Rates data is based on a borrower with good credit, a conforming loan amount (at least $200,000 but less than the national conforming loan amount), and a loan-to-value ratio of less than 80% (For purchase loans, this corresponds to a down payment of 20% or more). © Zillow, Inc., 2006-2016. Use […]
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A startup founded by Bryan Johnson spent a decade building a headset that measures brain activity using lasers. Health correspondent Hilary Brueck went to Kernel’s headquarters in Los Angeles to test the technology and learn how the company believes better brain data could help doctors, researchers, and even businesses understand how we think.