TMX CEO jumps deeper into ETFs

TMX CEO jumps deeper into ETFs

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s parent company has already completed a major deal this year: its acquisition of ETF education company VettaFi. According to TMX Group CEO John McKenzie, the deal helps expand its exchange-traded fund business globally. “The exchange-traded fund is essentially one of the most important innovations in investing in the marketplace history — … Read more

Online trading platform Webull set to go public via $7.3B SPAC deal

Online trading platform Webull set to go public via .3B SPAC deal

The Webull logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Webull is planning to go public through merging with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal that values the digital investing platform at $7.3 billion. The New York-based online brokerage will combine with SK Growth … Read more

Baylor outperforms Ivy League in university endowment performance rankings

Baylor outperforms Ivy League in university endowment performance rankings

Watch out, Ivies, there’s a new endowment performer in town. Baylor University’s $2 billion endowment — a fraction of those in the Ivy League — generated a 6.4% return for the fiscal year that ended June 30, outperforming the entire conference. Harvard’s endowment, the largest at $50.7 billion, returned 2.9%. What’s more, Baylor’s annualized return … Read more

Baylor outperforms Ivy League to top endowment performance rankings

Baylor outperforms Ivy League in university endowment performance rankings

Watch out, Ivies, there’s a new endowment performer in town. Baylor University’s $2 billion endowment — a fraction of those in the Ivy League — generated a 6.4% return for the fiscal year that ended June 30, outperforming the entire conference. Harvard’s endowment, the largest at $50.7 billion, returned 2.9%. What’s more, Baylor’s annualized return … Read more

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says AI is not just hype — ‘This is real’

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says AI is not just hype — ‘This is real’

The burgeoning artificial intelligence tools from companies such as OpenAI still have their share of skeptics, but don’t count JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon among them. The Wall Street titan told CNBC’s Leslie Picker on Monday that AI is not just a passing fad and is bigger than just the large language models such as … Read more

Indians scurrying to hoard Nvidia shares as everyone buying shovel-makers in AI gold rush

Indians scurrying to hoard Nvidia shares as everyone buying shovel-makers in AI gold rush

The magnificent rally in semiconductor stock Nvidia in recent days has made the Wall Street stock among the most popular bets for Indians who invest in US stocks. In volume terms, it is the second most popular stock on Vested Finance since the last 6 months with trading volumes of more than $25 million. Volumes … Read more

Warren Buffett says Berkshire may only do slightly better than the average company due to its sheer size

Warren Buffett says Berkshire may only do slightly better than the average company due to its sheer size

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger at press conference during the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, April 30, 2022. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway‘s Warren Buffett said his sprawling conglomerate may only slightly outperform the average American company due to its sheer size and the lack of buying opportunities that could make an impact. The Omaha-based … Read more

S&P 500: S&P, Dow eke out another record closing high as Nvidia momentum endures

S&P 500: S&P, Dow eke out another record closing high as Nvidia momentum endures

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out another closing record high on Friday, with all three Wall Street benchmarks scoring weekly gains, as artificial intelligence stocks had enough steam to keep the rally chugging along. AI poster child Nvidia advanced again, rising 0.4%, and briefly traded above $2 trillion in market valuation … Read more

Nvidia: What Nvidia’s historic rally means

Nvidia: What Nvidia’s historic rally means

Nvidia briefly hit $2 trillion in market value for the first time on Friday, a day after adding $277 billion in stock value. Thursday’s M-Cap rally by Nividia was Wall Street’s largest one-day gain for a single company in history after the heavyweight chipmaker’s quarterly report beat expectations and reignited a rally fuelled by optimism … Read more