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Auquan was founded in 2018 by Chandini Jain, a former analyst and derivatives trader.It launched an AI product in late 2023 that can automate research work usually done by analysts.It has since inked deals with UBS, Blue Owl Capital, and T. Rowe Price.The wave of fintechs building autonomous agents for…
Trump’s mass deportation plan could strain retirees’ wallets.Immigrants in the country illegally pay taxes that support Social Security and Medicare but don’t receive their benefits.Deportations could also increase healthcare costs and shrink the industry’s workforce.President Donald Trump’s immigration policies could hurt retirees’ wallets and make it harder for them to…
Democrats may need to help Republicans raise the debt ceiling this year.If that happens, Democrats aren’t going to do it for free. They’ll likely demand concessions.Rep. Ro Khanna, a Silicon Valley Democrat, says his party should demand a federal minimum wage hike.At some point in the next few months, Congress…
I’m raising a teenager, and I often feel that none of my choices is right. Parenting right now often feels like the “Barbie” monologue where we can’t do anything right.I wonder what he’s going to remember as an adult and what he’s going to forget. My teenage son was about…
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer (NYSE:) COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers (NYSE:) Squibb’s cancer cell therapies and vaccines from France’s Sanofi (NASDAQ:) at the start of 2025, according to data analyzed by healthcare research…
Minimum-wage workers in California, Vermont, and 19 other states will earn more at the start of 2025.Missouri voters passed a referendum in the November election raising the state’s minimum wage.An analysis found over 9 million workers will likely be affected by the coming minimum wage increases.Workers in 21 states are…
Members of Congress were set to make a few thousand extra bucks under a government funding bill.Then, Elon Musk helped tank it.That’s despite growing concern that it’s becoming unaffordable to serve in Congress.One of the most controversial pieces of the short-term government funding bill that Elon Musk helped tank last…
By Colleen Howe BEIJING (Reuters) – A new round of U.S. solar panel import tariffs on Southeast Asian producers is expected to raise consumer prices and cut into producer profit margins, but was largely anticipated by industry, analysts said. The new duties announced on Friday by the Commerce Department extend…
By Leah Douglas and Ed White WASHINGTON/REGINA, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – U.S. prices may rise next year for avocados, strawberries and other fresh produce, and consumers could face shortages, if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on plans to slap tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, agricultural economists and industry executives…
The author (not pictured) left her job to stay home with her kids. kieferpix/Getty ImagesAfter receiving my Ph.D. in sociology, I launched my career in policy development and speech writing.In 2021, both my oldest and youngest kids got complex medical diagnoses.It made me reconsider my career, and I quit to…