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The Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) deserves credit where it’s due. It was one of the pioneers in making master limited partnerships (MLPs) accessible through the ETF wrapper. Instead of purchasing individual MLPs and dealing with the administrative headache of Schedule K-1 tax forms, investors receive a market-cap-weighted basket of many of the largest midstream energy…

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In the last few days, a lot of news piled up, from renewed tensions between the U.S. and Iran to memory and storage stocks selling off, leading investors to rotate out of tech stocks. And even more broadly, major indexes like the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.42%) were feeling the pressure. That, however, doesn’t necessarily mean…

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Qnity Electronics Inc. (NYSE:Q) is one of the best up and coming tech stocks to buy now. On June 22, Qnity Electronics announced the launch of its Advanced Packaging Innovation Hub, a new platform highlighting the company’s role in the semiconductor industry’s shift from “shrink” to “stack” architectures. This initiative underscores Qnity’s focus on advanced…

The US is likely to bear the brunt of a worldwide inflation wave driven by AI, according to new research from Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street giant crunched the numbers on how the boom in artificial intelligence could stoke higher consumer prices around the world, thanks to supply constraints that have pushed up the prices…

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences. At the 8th Future Investment Initiative…

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ARK Invest purchased shares of Coinbase Global in three ETFs: ARKF, ARKK, and ARKW on Friday. On the same day, ARK sold Advanced Micro Devices and Deere & Co from ARKK, ARKQ, and ARKX. The largest single trade by weight was the sale of Roku from ARKW, accounting for about 0.31% of the fund. ARK…

Stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed that its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.4% to close out its fourth winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones industrial average added 149 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.3%.…