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Medicare Advantage plans could be the winners of a decision by the Trump administration to put an early end to a program that kept the cost of Medicare prescription drug plans lower.

Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. July 31, 2026 Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank “insiders”—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who could potentially influence a bank’s lending decisions For release at 10:00 a.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board on Friday requested comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank “insiders”—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who…

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Bots Took Over Our Lives: The New Yorker on the quiet colonization of daily life by automated agents — customer service, social media, dating, commerce. The bots aren’t coming; they’re here, and we barely noticed. During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere. (New Yorker) • Dear Ben I want to begin by…

Why he asks the same three questions every single time. Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Many people assume the world’s best venture capitalists succeed because they have extraordinary instincts. Our technology expert Luke Lango believes they succeed because they ask the same disciplined questions every time. In today’s Friday Digest takeover, Luke shares the three-part framework he uses to evaluate private companies before they ever reach Wall Street. He explains why exceptional founders matter more than flashy résumés, why solving an urgent customer problem beats clever technology, and why timing can make the difference…

Apple paid nearly $2 billion for a startup with no public product. Here’s what its earliest investors saw first. Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Editor’s Note: My colleague Luke Lango studies where the AI boom is going next – and which young companies are building technologies the Big Tech giants may eventually decide they need. Today, he’s looking at one of Apple’s largest recent acquisitions: Q.ai, an obscure AI startup reportedly purchased for nearly $2 billion despite having no sales or publicly available product. Luke believes the deal offers investors an important lesson about…

The yield on the 10-year note finished July 31, 2026 at 4.75% while the 2-year note ended at 4.28%. The chart below overlays the daily performance of several Treasury bonds, starting from the pre-recession equity market peaks, along with the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) since 2007. This next table shows the highs and lows of yields and the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) since 2007. A Long-Term Look at the 10-Year Treasury Yield Here is a long-term view of the 10-year yield starting in 1965, well before the 1973 oil embargo that triggered the era of ‘stagflation’ (economic stagnation coupled with…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed up +0.70%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up +0.53%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +0.60%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) rose +0.69%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) rose +0.59%.Stock indices settled higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 posting 1-week highs.  Amazon.com surged more than 15% to lead megacap technology stocks higher, which bolstered market sentiment.  Amazon’s cloud unit recorded the fastest quarterly revenue growth in 5 years in Q2, reassuring investors that its projected increase in capital spending will generate sufficient returns and…

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Overall foreclosure prevention activity slowed at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this spring, just ahead of a transition to shorter allowable forbearance periods and more reliance on loan modification.Processing ContentThe government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) completed 17,201 foreclosure prevention actions during the month, representing an 8.7% drop from March’s 18,835. “Foreclosure prevention actions decreased in April, driven primarily by a decrease in forbearance plans, repayment plans, and payment deferrals,” the Federal Housing Finance Agency said in a report.Although foreclosure prevention activity fell in those categories, permanent loan modifications rose 4.7% to 7,484. The report also showed refinancing activity increased. Loan modifications and new…