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Fresh Insights The next generation Secondaries’ next gen: building a bright future? Source: Getty The growth of secondaries has been nothing short of meteoric in recent years. It’s the GP-led side of the market that Private Equity International and affiliate title Secondaries Investor‘s Next Gen class of 2026 believe is next to go into overdrive.

China’s Alibaba on Thursday posted a 75% fall in profits for the June quarter as AI spending weighed on the tech giant’s results.Capital expenditure was up 75% to 67.7 billion Chinese yuan ($10 billion), primarily driven by uneven timing of customer purchases, an increase in CPU-compute capacity and higher prices across a broad range of chip components, the company said.Meanwhile, revenue rose 9% to 268.95 billion Chinese yuan, slightly higher than an LSEG estimate of 268.88 billion yuan.As the AI race accelerates, companies across the sector are increasingly contending with rising expenses for computing power and hardware. In March, the…

Housing affordability is at a crisis low. You’ve read that headline a hundred times. Either incomes rise or home prices crash to get back to pre-COVID levels. That’s true if you measure a home in dollars earned. It’s not true at all if you measure one in shares owned. Every affordability index compares income to home prices. None of them compare portfolios to home prices, and for a lot of buyers, the portfolio is where the down payment actually comes from. Measure it that way and you can see why prices haven’t crashed. Only a small slice of the housing…

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, April 23, 2026.Jeenah Moon | ReutersTreasury yields were lower on Monday after CNBC reported, citing two Treasury officials, that the department could use its $1 trillion General Account to fund its plans to ramp up government bond purchases. The 10-year Treasury note yield was last down more than 3 basis points to 4.704%. The 30-year yield, which last week hit levels not seen since 2007, lost more than 4 basis points to 5.234%.One basis point equals 0.01%, or 1/100th of 1%, and yields and prices move inversely to one…

…children are increasingly seen as interfering with the freedom of parents; views on whether mothers of young children should work have become markedly more progressive and account for a substantially larger share of the decline among the tertiary-educated; and fewer people believe that women or men need children to lead a fulfilled life. This last attitude changed most over the decade and is the largest contributor to the fall in intended fertility, above all among less-educated women. That is from a new NBER working paper by Raquel Fernández, Inés Berniell, and Milagros Onofri. The post Common sense in charge appeared first on…

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While certain U.S. sectors are facing headwinds from the new tariffs on Canadian goods, analysts have said the broad economic effects of the new 50% U.S. levies could be modest for the U.S. overall.

Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. July 16, 2026 Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former chief lending officer of Heritage State Bank For release at 11:00 a.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Prohibition order against James Burns Former Chief Lending Officer of Heritage State Bank, Lawrenceville, Illinois Appraisal-Related Lending Misconduct For media inquiries, please email [email protected] or call 202-452-2955. Last Update: July 16, 2026

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest. At the start of 2021, Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) was a $330 billion company. It had a significant data-center business, but still mostly built chips for gaming computers and consoles.  As you well know, Nvidia would transform into an AI behemoth. ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, a massive AI data-center buildout began the following year, and Nvidia is now the most valuable company on Earth. Investors during that stretch enjoyed a roughly 940% return.  One by one, other AI-related companies have also seen their “Nvidia moment” arrive:  First, it was semiconductor companies like Broadcom…

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Editor’s Note: Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) has become one of the most powerful players in the AI Revolution. Although I don’t currently recommend the stock, there’s still plenty to learn from CEO Jensen Huang’s strategy. That is why my InvestorPlace colleague Louis Navellier is joining us today to show you why Huang’s latest moves could reveal where the next opportunities are hiding. He’ll also explain what Nvidia’s strategy can teach us about building a portfolio where every position has a purpose. Because the challenge today isn’t simply finding another AI…