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ACA marketplace health plan enrollees could face 'subsidy cliff' in 2026 — here's how to avoid it

ACA marketplace health plan enrollees could face 'subsidy cliff' in 2026 — here's how to avoid it

Marketplace health insurance plan enrollees could face a "subsidy cliff" in 2026, experts say. Here's how to avoid higher costs.

11 months ago
Trusty Raises $1M to Modernize Estate Planning

Trusty Raises $1M to Modernize Estate Planning

Financing | July 22, 2025 Trusty Secures $1M to Help Families Organize and Share Legacy Wishes Using AI On July 15, 2025, Toronto-based Trusty announced it has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered estate planning platform. The round was co-led by Relay Ventures and Graphite Ventures, with support from Mistral Venture


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11 months ago
Schwab to Bring Crypto Trading to Its Brokerage Platform

Schwab to Bring Crypto Trading to Its Brokerage Platform

Crypto | July 22, 2025 Charles Schwab Confirms It Will Let Users Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Directly On July 18, 2025, Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster confirmed in an interview with CNBC Television that Schwab will soon let users buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum directly in its brokerage accounts, with the trading option to


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11 months ago
Why AI Investment Is Missing What Workers Actually Want

Why AI Investment Is Missing What Workers Actually Want

AI Research | July 22, 2025 New Standard Report Data Shows Gap Between AI Funding and What Workers Support According to a recent WORKBank audit, a major new study from Stanford's SALT Lab, 41% of Y Combinator-backed AI agent companies are to tasks that workers have no desire for automation. These 'no go zones' represent


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11 months ago
Kimi K2 Disrupts AI Pricing and Performance Metrics

Kimi K2 Disrupts AI Pricing and Performance Metrics

AI Competition | July 21, 2025 Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Offers Strong Open Source Performance at a Fraction of the Cost of Top U.S. Models On July 11, 2025, TechTarget reported that Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Moonshot released Kimi K2, a fully open source language model to compete toe to toe with top U.S. AI


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11 months ago
Insider report: These stocks had the biggest sales by executives in the past week

Insider report: These stocks had the biggest sales by executives in the past week

Some investors follow company insiders on the notion that they would know better than anyone when it's the right time to buy or sell shares.

11 months ago
How to Create the Best Website for Your Portfolio

How to Create the Best Website for Your Portfolio

July 21, 2025 Creating a proper website for a portfolio is a big deal for anyone who works online. While a polished portfolio might raise your credibility and help you gain recognition in professional circles, a sloppy one can cost you an offer. What is a Portfolio? A rich portfolio can be used interchangeably with


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11 months ago
Provincial PSW Shortage Heat‑Map: Scheduling Tech for Rural & Remote Gaps

Provincial PSW Shortage Heat‑Map: Scheduling Tech for Rural & Remote Gaps

July 21, 2025 Canada’s home-care system is approaching a pivotal moment. According to federal projections, the country will need 39,000 additional personal support workers (PSWs) by 2043 to keep up with demand. As the population ages and more Canadians express a preference to age in place, this gap will only grow especially in rural and


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11 months ago
SEC Exploring Ethereum Standard for Tokenized Securities

SEC Exploring Ethereum Standard for Tokenized Securities

Tokenization | July 21, 2025 SEC Meets Ethereum Groups on Tokenized Securities Standards On July 16, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held a private meeting with Ethereum-linked groups including ERC-3643 Association and Chainlink Labs to explore standards for compliant tokenized securities. At the same time, SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed that the


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11 months ago
Top Wall Street analysts are confident about the potential of these 3 stocks

Top Wall Street analysts are confident about the potential of these 3 stocks

TipRanks' analyst ranking service spotlights three stocks, including Uber Technologies and Alphabet, favored by Wall Street.

11 months ago
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ includes these key tax changes for 2025 — what they mean for you

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ includes these key tax changes for 2025 — what they mean for you

President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill" includes key tax changes that are effective for 2025. Here is how they could impact you.

11 months ago
Elliott has built a stake in Global Payments. How the activist can help the company lift its share price

Elliott has built a stake in Global Payments. How the activist can help the company lift its share price

Elliott Investment Management has a stake in Global Payments, and the news comes a few months after the payments processor made a big acquisition.

11 months ago
Student loan bills could double for some borrowers as Biden-era relief expires

Student loan bills could double for some borrowers as Biden-era relief expires

Many student loan borrowers could see their monthly bills more than double now that the Biden-era SAVE plan is defunct.

11 months ago
What a Trump, Powell faceoff means for your money

What a Trump, Powell faceoff means for your money

Tensions are escalating between the White House and the Federal Reserve, with consumers caught in the middle.

11 months ago
Citi and BofA Plan Stablecoins as Regulation Advances

Citi and BofA Plan Stablecoins as Regulation Advances

Stablecoins | July 18, 2025 Citigroup and Bank of America Enter Stablecoin Race as TradFi Accelerates Towards Digital Dollars The dominoes are definitely starting to fall.  Citigroup and Bank of America have confirmed they are developing or preparing to launch their own stablecoins. In back-to-back Q2 earnings calls this week, executives from both banks outlined their


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