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While “the sky is not falling” for firms weighing whether to enter an increasingly frenzied M&A market, experts are expecting the rate of activity to increase in the years to come.DeVoe & Company founder David DeVoe offered his perspective during a discussion at this year’s BNY INSITE conference in Aurora, Colo., stressing that firms’ ability to spend millions to develop artificial intelligence and other tech tools threatened to “move us into a have and have-not space.” Additionally, the consolidation of the industry’s top RIAs will make it harder for firms with six-digit AUM totals (or even those in the billions) to…

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Spanish businessman Florentino Perez has won reelection as Real Madrid president after club elections that took place over the weekend. Perez, who was first elected in 2000 and has served as Real Madrid’s president ever since, apart from a three-year hiatus between 2006 and 2009, will remain in charge of the Spanish giants until 2030. Elections are normally held every four years, although a president can call early elections under certain circumstances, and the presidents are elected by the ‘socios,’ the club’s members and collective owners.  Perez won the electoral race against his only rival, Enrique Riquelme, and both claimed…

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A 98-year-old was brutally beaten inside his Brooklyn apartment building amid an argument earlier this week — and police said they’re searching for the female culprit.Investigators said the female responsible for the attack punched, kicked, and struck the elderly victim with a broomstick and metal chair inside his apartment building in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, News 12 Brooklyn reported.The beating is yet another in a stretch of attacks involving older Brooklyn residents.The attack took place around 4 p.m. Thursday, the station said.Investigators released video showing the woman appearing to drop off flyers at a building, News 12 Brooklyn reported, adding that…

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You won’t find them at grocery checkouts, but the U.S. penny is back. To celebrate America’s 250th birthday in 2026, the U.S. Mint has introduced one-year-only design overhauls to almost all circulating coins, which are out now.The rollout includes quarters, nickels, dimes, half-dollars…and yes, the penny.Though President Donald Trump ordered the end of circulating penny production late last year to save taxpayers an estimated $56 million annually, a special “dual-date” penny has returned exclusively for the semiquincentennial. Think of its comeback like Pluto’s status as a “dwarf planet”: Not quite a “regular” planet, yet it makes us feel good. From…

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brayden McNabb showed up for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals with at least two dozen stitches in his face that forced the Vegas Golden Knights defenseman to wear a caged helmet for the first time since his youth hockey days in Davidson, Saskatchewan.“It’s part of hockey,” McNabb said. “You get through it.”AdvertisementAfter the Golden Knights took a 2-1 series lead over the Carolina Hurricanes with a 5-4, double-overtime victory on Saturday night, Vegas coach John Tortorella was a bit less measured in describing the 35-year-old McNabb.“When you get this far in the playoffs, it’s…

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filFilecoin$0.7769**prices delayed up to 10 minutes+7.00%24HBuy FilecoinAnalysts are forecasting that Filecoin (FIL) could reach $3.11 by 2030. Feeling confident about this FIL price prediction? You can trade Filecoin on Coinbase—and if you’re new to the platform, you could earn up to $400 in rewards by completing a few quick educational lessons and making your first qualifying trade.Filecoin (FIL) has been preaching the gospel of decentralized storage since 2017. It promises to be the backbone of Web3’s data infrastructure, aiming to upend Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud by letting users rent out their hard drive space in exchange for FIL…

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Iran attacked Israel with a limited number of ballistic missiles late Sunday after an Israeli attack in the outskirts of Beirut against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group. It raised the specter of a return to open conflict between Iran and Israel for the first time since a cease-fire paused the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in early April.The Israeli military said that it had intercepted all Iranian missiles in the first of two barrages and announced at around 11 p.m. local time that citizens were free to leave shelters. The government ordered schools to be closed nationwide on Monday as a…

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