Manju Boraiah, Senior PM and Head of Systematic Fixed Income at Allspring Global Investment, reacts to Wednesday's Fed rate decision saying fundamentally, 'we needed the hike.' He also discusses how investors can break out from frozen positions, arguing that trillions of dollars of wealth is sitting in concentrated positions that are being held back by tax bills, and offers a possible solution to move toward diversification.

#manju #systematic

Nike stock has fallen 40% year to date to $37, raising the question of whether it's dead money or set for a category-driven bounce.
On Holding is down 41% and Lululemon down 53% year to date, signaling a category-wide selloff rather than a Nike-specific execution failure.
With SPY up 12% and XLY down just 5%, athletic apparel's 40-53% collapse stands out as a sector being systematically repriced.
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Shares of Nike (NYSE:NKE) are up 0.96% in Friday afternoon and trading at $36.97, a small bid that barely dents a brutal year. Nike stock is down 40% year to date (YTD), and today's uptick doesn't answer the bigger question hanging over the name.

#nike #question #category #stocks

The 2026 regular season is just a few days away from beginning for the Chicago Bears as they make their final preparations before heading to Charlotte to take on the Carolina Panthers. It's a battle of two surprise division winners from a year ago, with each team hoping to get a jump start to the season.
For the Bears, they officially turned a corner last year during Ben Johnson's first season as head coach, becoming a dangerous team loaded on offense with talented pass catchers and a punishing rushing attack. And they were spearheaded by quarterback Caleb Williams, who broke out as the prolific playmaker he was billed as during his collegiate days to lead them to an 11-6 record atop the NFC North. The Bears advanced to the divisional round of the playoffs last year and are hoping to take another step in 2026 as contenders.
The Panthers, meanwhile, are coming off a successful season of their own under head coach Dave Canales. Carolina was able to hang around .500 all year long with some big wins against playoff contenders and eventually overtook the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win the NFC South at 8-9. Quarterback Bryce Young took steps towards showing he can be a competent NFL quarterback, in part thanks to weapons such as Tetairoa McMillan, but he's entering a critical year in 2026.
Week 1 can feel like an outlier at times considering how much things can change between now and December. Look at what happened last year with Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy. But we're sure to see some big moments on Sunday that turn the tide one way or another. Here are our bold predictions for Bears vs. Panthers.
For all of the talk of the Bears starting slow last season, they got off to hot starts early in the season. The game script was working for Ben Johnson and the offense, even when things still weren't totally clicking yet. In Weeks 1 and 2, they opened the game scoring on their first possession. Johnson has had time to game plan for the Panthers and will be ready with a systematic drive to score six early on.

#bears #last #carolina

NEW YORK — Coco Gauff showed that youth would not be served on this night, beating 18-year-old and fellow American Iva Jovic 6-1, 6-4 to earn a spot in the US Open quarterfinals.
Before a raucous crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Gauff started out slow and was broken on her initial serve but then showed fierceness and a pinpoint serve to systematically dismantle the No. 14 seed, winning the next six games and taking the set in an efficient 33 minutes.
Gauff, herself, was looking to avoid another disappointment at Flushing Meadows. Since winning the championship in 2023, she has lost in this round each of the past two years. At age 22, Gauff is the youngest American woman to make three Grand Slam quarterfinals in one year since Serena Williams in 2003.
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Gauff, the No. 4 seed, has now won her last 10 matches, beaten seven Americans in a row in Grand Slams and reached her 12th Grand Slam quarterfinal.

#grand #open

It was a script that not even the most optimistic Italian fans could have written. Taking a grid penalty that relegated him to the back row of the grid, championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli appeared to be strictly on a damage-limitation run. Instead, the 20-year-old Mercedes prodigy delivered the drive of his life, executing a massive number of overtakes to carve through the entire field and secure a sensational victory at the 2026 Italian Grand Prix.
With the breathtaking win, Antonelli became the first Italian driver to win at Monza since Ludovico Scarfiotti achieved the feat for Ferrari exactly 60 years ago in 1966.
Antonelli's path to the top step of the podium required slicing past 18 different cars on track, systematically hunting down the leaders before a late Virtual Safety Car gave him the tire advantage he needed to pass his teammate, George Russell.
Speaking to the media in the aftermath of the historic victory, the young Italian was visibly overwhelmed by the scale of his achievement. When asked if he ever imagined he could go from 19th to becoming the first Italian to win the race in six decades, Antonelli was almost speechless.
"And yeah, unbelievable. Unbelievable," Antonelli admitted. "I'm so happy, and I could have never imagined to be here today, but you know, we managed to pull it off, and I'm really, really happy."

#italian #unbelievable #first #happy

Sept 5 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on ‌using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy ‌of citizenship records on states' voter rolls.
In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia declined to lift a lower court's ban on using the Homeland Security Department's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database. The earlier ruling ‌determined that the government ⁠cannot use the system ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, in which Trump's Republicans ⁠will be defending narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins, both appointed to the appeals court by President Barack Obama, upheld the lower ‌court decision that the SAVE system violates the Social Security Act as it shares millions of Americans' private information. The appeals court judges also noted concerns around the potential for inaccurate citizen information that could lead to people having to prove ‌citizenship to remain registered voters, and in some cases could even lead to voter registration being canceled.
U.S. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas, an appointee ‌of President Donald Trump, dissented.
A federal judge in Florida in July ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to resume giving four Republican-led states access to the database after another ‌judge blocked it from continuing to use the database nationwide.

#court #security #federal #circuit

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Management characterizes the tea beverage industry as undergoing a structural shift from shared growth to intense competition over a fixed market base.
The company is pivoting from high-profile marketing to a 'gentle touch point' strategy focused on individual self-expression and consumer comfort.
Performance attribution for the quarter centers on organizational restructuring and a systematic review of the product roadmap to stabilize the business.
Strategic positioning involves moving beyond core loose-leaf fresh milk tea into specialty deals, lattes, and gelato to meet diversifying consumer needs.

#Consumer #tell #Stock

Every quarter, big money managers disclose their holdings on Form 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The batch of filings covering last quarter is now available. Shockingly, they show that the number of financial institutions holding Hyperliquid Strategies (NASDAQ: PURR), which stockpiles Hyperliquid's (CRYPTO: HYPE) token, grew by 122% in just three months to reach a total of 202, with BlackRock and State Street among the largest. Eleven institutions cut their positions in the same period, and another 29 exited entirely.
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A big part of the reason many institutions are now holding Hyperliquid Strategies is that it joined the S&P Global Broad Market Index, as well as the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes, in late June. So any funds tracking those benchmarks had to buy it.
For instance, BlackRock's stake in the company was disclosed via a Form 13G, a passive holder disclosure form, while Morgan Stanley and Invesco built index-scale positions of their own. Citadel Advisors, a market maker, holds more bullish and more bearish options on the stock than any other filer, suggesting it was accumulating market-making inventory rather than loading up on conviction. The same could be true of Jane Street, another market maker among the new holders, though not necessarily of Renaissance Technologies, a systematic hedge fund.

#strategies

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Delivered 18th consecutive quarter of traffic growth and 15th consecutive quarter of market share gains, driven by a value proposition that resonates across all income cohorts, though the vast majority of growth continues to be driven by higher income members.
Achieved a new milestone of 8.5 million members, with membership fee income (MFI) growing nearly 10% year-over-year due to strong acquisition and higher-tier penetration.
Utilized favorable fuel market dynamics and strong volume growth to generate outsized fuel profits, which were partially reinvested into member value and price gaps.
Implemented a systematic Category Management Process (CMP) to optimize ****** ortments, resulting in strong performance in beverages, Active Nutrition, and renovated Home categories.

#driven #value #members

A distinct operational evolution has arrived for the Pittsburgh Steelers under head coach Mike McCarthy. Beyond installing his West Coast offensive framework, McCarthy is systematically restoring veteran command, empowering his quarterback with pre-snap freedom that recent Pittsburgh offenses largely lacked.
On a recent episode of "The Snap Count" podcast, former Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch and offensive lineman Trai Essex examined how this philosophical shift directly elevates signal-callers on gameday.
"When you look at Mike McCarthy's history, he's always given his veteran quarterbacks the keys to the drive," Batch explained. "In Pittsburgh, we've seen periods where the pre-snap process was overly rigid. Giving an experienced quarterback full autonomy to audit protection, check out of bad looks, and manage the clock changes the entire defense's approach."
Rather than forcing the offense to execute fixed calls regardless of defensive alignments, McCarthy's system relies on dynamic line-of-scrimmage reads. The quarterback retains full authority to flip plays, adjust protection schemes, or call audibles based on safety rotations and front-seven looks.
Essex highlighted how this veteran command instills confidence across the entire offensive line.

#snap #steelers #mccarthy #essex

It has welcomed marathon runners, rock stars and the first modern Olympic athletes. Now it's time for a monumental scrub.
Athens' U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium — made entirely of white marble — is getting its first systematic cleaning in more than a century.
Rebuilt for the first modern Olympics in 1896, the site is the ceremonial send-off point for the Olympic flame, including for Los Angeles 2028.
The stadium is made of the same glittering marble used on the Acropolis, making the cleanup job delicate.
The work is revealing a monument changed by time, weather and millions of visitors. Cleaners in white and blue overalls move across the stadium's 47 steep tiers with thin spray lances, using clean water at carefully controlled, low pressure. Machines vacuum up the runoff as they go.

#olympic #made #marble

Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Los Angeles County sheriff's department agreed to speed up licensing for people who want to carry concealed ‌weapons, to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of systematically ‌and unconstitutionally denying Californians' Second Amendment rights.
A settlement of the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, and requires a judge's approval. The sheriff did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
While Republican President Donald Trump's administration is regularly at odds with officials in Democratic-led California, ‌its lawsuit last September ⁠focused more on bureaucracy issues than policy differences.
Los Angeles officials were accused of violating citizens' right to bear arms ⁠by typically waiting nine months to review license applications, and sometimes more than two years to interview applicants.
According to the complaint, the sheriff received 3,982 applications for new concealed carry licenses between January 2024 and March 2025 but approved ‌just two.

#lawsuit #carry #concealed

The world record for the women's 800m is the longest-standing in athletics. No-one has managed to break it for 43 years.
So why, despite leaps forward in shoe technology and our understanding of nutrition and recovery, has that record not fallen?
Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson is one of the top three middle-distance runners in the world competing at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham this week. So could that record, finally, be broken?
The women's 800m world record is held by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova, who ran a time of one minute 53.28 seconds in 1983.
There have been claims that Kratochvilova's performance in Munich was ***** isted by the systematic doping regime that existed in her country at the time - something she has strenuously denied.

#athletics #keely #hodgkinson #european

Elena Khoziaeva's story is basically a masterclass in staying somewhere because it's actually good. Khoziaeva, CFA, shared her journey from Belarus to a Houston master's degree, from walking into Bridgeway in 1998 as partner number six to 25-plus years later as the Co-CIO of a firm now running roughly $5 billion on the latest Behind the Ticker episode with host Brad Roth, founder and CIO of Thor Funds. What makes Bridgeway drastically different than your average shop was baked in from the very beginning of the firm. It gives away half its profits to a foundation fighting genocide, caps pay so no partner earns more than 7x the lowest-paid employee, and runs on a research culture where being wrong in a meeting isn't a career risk but half the point. Khoziaeva calls the approach systematic rather than quantitative, but it all comes down to trusting the process, being open to arguments internally to shape better strategies, and not getting defensive when the model's wrong.
Then there's BSVO, the EA Bridgeway Omni Small-Cap Value ETF, one of the more interesting products in a crowded category. It's got a real 15-year track record (born as a mutual fund in 2010, wrapped as an ETF in 2023), holds roughly 600 names instead of the usual sub-200, and deliberately goes smaller and cheaper than the Russell 2000 Value benchmark, with an average market cap under $3 billion. The value screen runs across the whole universe rather than sector-by-sector, which is why it naturally tilts toward financials and energy and away from healthcare currently, not because anyone's trying to time sectors, but because that's just where the cheapest stuff happens to sit.
The bigger picture Khoziaeva paints is a valuation gap that's stretched further than usual, with small value trading around a 14-15 P/E while large growth sits in the 30s, and the book-to-market gap versus the S&P 500 is nearly double its historical norm. Her line for advisors is memorable: "the tighter the spring, the more powerful the release"and Q1 2026 proved it, with small value up 5% while large growth dropped 10%. Her advice isn't to time it, though but to hold the allocation, stay systematic, and let the spring do what springs do.
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#market #partner #firm #average

The Inner Circle 25 arrives on Friday, August 7, featuring a stacked card that guarantees high-stakes martial arts action from top to bottom. Broadcasting live in Asia primetime from Bangkok's historic Lumpinee Stadium, the blockbuster event streams exclusively for subscribers at live.onefc.com.
A bantamweight Muay Thai World ******* le eliminator will determine who faces the divisional king next, the highly anticipated ONE SAMURAI Featherweight Kickboxing Tournament roars to life with a clash between two elite strikers, and one of the most debated results of the year gets its definitive answer in a monumental rematch.
Here are three compelling reasons The Inner Circle 25 is absolutely unmissable this Friday.
Former ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion Nabil Anane and three-division Lumpinee Stadium Muay Thai World Champion Suakim PongSuphan PK will clash in a massive World ******* le eliminator. The victor earns the coveted right to challenge reigning divisional king Rambolek Chor Ajalaboon.
Anane's remarkable journey through ONE Championship has been nothing short of extraordinary. The towering 6-foot-4 Algerian-Thai striker arrived as the youngest-ever WBC Muay Thai World Champion. After an initial setback against "The Kicking Machine" Superlek in his debut, he returned with unmatched focus, systematically clearing out top contenders before defeating Nico "King of the North" Carrillo to claim interim gold in 2025.

#muay #inner #circle #stadium

NEW YORK — David Stearns has barely seen all of the members of the team he constructed on the field at the same time, but that reality is fleeting.
As injuries mounted and underperformance permeated the Mets in 2026, the looming reality that the club might never meet its grand expectations has come to pass. And now, with the Aug. 3 trade deadline a little more than a week away, the stark realization of an overhaul cast a pall on the Mets season.
"I think we have to be open-minded. We've been very clear, Steve (Cohen's) been very clear that we expect to compete in 2027 — we have to keep that in mind," Stearns said. "We also have to make moves that that we believe are right for the organization, and so we're sitting here nine, 10 days out for the deadline, and we're not going to close any paths down right now.
Now, the team that Stearns pieced together this offseason with the belief that a World Series could be attainable will be systematically dismantled. With two months left in the season, the sights have turned toward the future.
"This season didn't go as we anticipated. It's extremely disappointing," Stearns said. "I am extremely disappointed that we are in this situation, but I am also very aware we are in this situation. It's my job to do what's in the best interest of the organization right now."

#season #team #clear #we 're

The Seattle Seahawks shouldn't have to squeeze back into the spotlight.
That ****** e typically would be reserved for the defending Super Bowl champion throughout the offseason. In Seattle's case, however, gazes began to stray not long after Mike Macdonald and Co. got their hands on the Lombardi Trophy.
The Seahawks were, without question, compelling victors. Their systematic dismantling of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 was a fitting capstone to a campaign that eradicated all doubt as to who was the NFL's strongest outfit by season's end.
But it wasn't long before a group known for its lack of braggadocio – and perhaps star power – became somewhat of an afterthought.
As the organization's veterans report for training camp on Friday, July 24, the Seahawks begin preparation for their ****** le defense with a diminished level of buzz. Despite last season's accomplishments, Seattle doesn't stoke comparable offseason intrigue to the Los Angeles Rams, who might have secured their place as the focal point of the NFC West – and perhaps the league at large – with their acquisition of Myles Garrett. And as the Patriots also begin work the same day in preparation for the season-opening Super Bowl rematch, New England clearly is on track to command more attention after the addition of A.J. Brown.

#Seattle #offseason #perhaps

In XRP news today, David Schwartz, Ripple's CTO Emeritus and co-creator of the XRP Ledger, publicly admitted on July 20, 2026 that he regrets selling XRP at $0.10 and 40,000 ETH at roughly $1.05 each – but he was clear that neither sale reflected a loss of conviction in crypto. Both were products of a rules-based risk-management pact he had made with his wife years earlier.
The admission landed on X under his longtime handle JoelKatz, after another user raised his history of selling XRP at $0.10 and Ethereum near $1.
With XRP price trading around $1.13 and ETH price near $1,927 at the time of the article's publication, according to multiple price feeds, the scale of the missed upside is not hard to calculate.
The central tension this story unpacks: even one of crypto's most technically sophisticated insiders – a man who helped build XRP from the ground up – systematically sold ***** ets that later generated life-changing returns, and he did it on purpose.
Schwartz's explanation centers on an agreement he reached with his wife around 2012, when they discussed a cryptocurrency derisking plan.

#selling #wife #around #emeritus

BlackRock (BLK) is the world's largest ****** et manager, helping individuals, institutions, and governments invest across stocks, bonds, ETFs, private markets, and alternative ****** ets. That scale was on full display in the second quarter as the company delivered another blockbuster earnings report, fueled by strong investor demand and broad-based growth across its business.
Net inflows accelerated across ETFs, private markets, active fixed income, and systematic equity strategies, while the top and bottom lines comfortably topped Wall Street's expectations. More importantly, those inflows pushed BlackRock's ****** ets under management (AUM) to a record $15.34 trillion, highlighting the company's ability to attract fresh capital even in an uncertain market.
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Housing Rights Initiative, a nonprofit watchdog organization, has filed multiple complaints with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights for alleged fair housing violations by Greystar, the largest apartment manager and owner in the nation.
The filings are part of a multi-state action, with 114 total complaints made across six states and Washington, DC, that accuse the company of systematically refusing to rent to prospective tenants holding Section 8 housing vouchers.
"Greystar has been committing mass civil rights violations at a scale unlike anything our organization has ever seen," said Aaron Carr, founder and executive director of Housing Rights Initiative. "We have never encountered a landlord that operates with such brazen contempt and hostility toward the rule of law as Greystar. The largest landlord in America is the most discriminatory landlord in America."
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In response to the claims, Greystar said in a statement that it "remains committed to fair housing practices." The company also said that it "provides training and expects our team members to comply with all applicable laws."

Apple accused OpenAI on Friday of telling Apple employees interviewing for jobs to bring confidential prototypes, engineering artifacts and hardware components to interviews as part of an effort to accelerate the artificial intelligence company's push into consumer devices.
The allegation is among the most explosive claims in a sweeping trade secrets lawsuit Apple filed in federal court against OpenAI, former Apple executives and engineers, accusing them of systematically misappropriating confidential information to build OpenAI's hardware business.
"At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies to create the best products and services in the world, and protecting their work and intellectual property is something we take very seriously," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business.
"Recently, significant evidence has emerged suggesting individuals employed by OpenAI wrongfully took Apple's secret and confidential information regarding our unreleased technologies, processes, and products. We will always defend our teams' hard work and innovations, and we are taking all appropriate steps to do so."
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July 10 (Reuters) - Apple on Friday sued OpenAI and two former employees, alleging misappropriation of its trade secrets to benefit the ChatGPT-owner's foray into consumer hardware, a dramatic escalation of already simmering tension between the two companies.
The complaint accuses OpenAI of orchestrating a broad effort to systematically acquire and exploit Apple's confidential information through former employees, ‌recruiting practices and supplier relationships to accelerate its push into the consumer hardware business.
"We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets," OpenAI said in a statement. "We remain focused on building innovative technology ‌that empowers people everywhere."
The lawsuit sets up a battle over who will control future AI devices that may not use traditional apps or operating systems — devices which, if successful, would direct consumer attention away from Apple's best-selling iPhone. ******* ysts believe OpenAI is working on a phone or other device of its own.

As confirmed by the club, Bazoumana Touré has left Bundesliga side TSG Hoffenheim to join Premier League outfit Newcastle United. The lightning-quick winger moves to St. James' Park for a club-record transfer fee, reported to be in the region of €50 million.
"Since joining from Sweden in February 2025, Bazou has undergone an extraordinary development – a fact largely attributable to the coaching team led by Chris Ilzer. His performances were instrumental in the second-best season in the club's history," said Hoffenheim sporting director Andreas Schicker.
"Of course, we would have loved to keep Bazou with us. However, it is in line with TSG's DNA and our chosen path to sign highly talented players and, together with our coaching team, to develop them systematically and enable them to make the step up to elite clubs. We sincerely wish Bazou all the best and much success for his future endeavours and the challenge of the Premier League."
Touré's transfer surpasses the fee Newcastle paid for Joelinton in the summer of 2019, making the Ivorian Hoffenheim's biggest sale in club history.
Reflecting on his departure from the Kraichgau club, Touré said:

SoFi Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFI) is one of the best NASDAQ stocks to invest in for long term. On June 23, SoFi announced the launch of Composer by SoFi, an AI-powered investing platform acquired to help investors transform ideas into automated strategies. The service allows users to use NL to design, test, and execute complex, rules-based investment plans without needing coding skills or multiple software tools.
The platform offers three primary ways to invest: designing custom strategies from scratch, selecting from over 2,000 community-built strategies, or building diversified portfolios that combine multiple approaches. Unlike autonomous trading bots, the platform keeps investors in control by using AI to build transparent, rules-based strategies that can be back-tested against historical data before activation.
This launch follows SoFi Technologies Inc.'s (NASDAQ:SOFI) recent introduction of its AI financial ***** istant, SoFi Coach, as part of its broader push to integrate advanced technology into its financial ecosystem. Composer will be integrated into the main SoFi platform, with expanded access provided to SoFi Plus members to simplify systematic investing alongside their existing financial products.
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Investors poured $210 billion into US-listed ETFs in June, pushing year-to-date inflows past $1 trillion and putting 2026 on track for a $2 trillion haul if the current pace holds.

US equity ETFs did most of the heavy lifting for the month, taking in $103 billion. Fixed income funds followed with $46 billion, international equity ETFs added $37 billion, and leveraged products picked up $15 billion. The two categories in the red were commodities, which lost $6 billion, and currency ETFs, which shed $4.6 billion.

The backdrop was a strong one. US stocks climbed to fresh records during the second quarter after finishing near their lows for the year at the end of Q1, when the war involving Iran, Israel and the US rattled markets. The S&P 500 was up more than 10% at the midpoint of the year, and the Nasdaq-100 had gained over 20%.

International stocks also performed well, rising around 14%, while bonds managed only a fractional gain.
The flows data, which comes courtesy of FactSet, showed the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) at the top of the June leaderboard.

Right behind it was the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), the breakout hit that has become one of the fastest-growing ETFs of all time. The fund pulled in almost $10 billion during the month, lifting its ***** ets above $25 billion. Another AI winner, the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX), collected $4.1 billion.

Returns for both ETFs have been remarkable. SOXX is up 113% so far this year, most of that coming in the second quarter, and DRAM has gained 166% since it launched in April.
Other standouts on the inflows side included the iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF (IALT), which took in $4.3 billion in what looks like a model portfolio or institutional allocation. The iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF (SGOV) added nearly $4 billion, making it the biggest fixed income winner of June.

The outflows column was led by the iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF (EFV), which lost $5.6 billion. The ETF gained 10% through the first half of the year, which is respectable, but trailed the broader international category.

Another value fund, the iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (VLUE), gave up $5.4 billion even as it turned in one of the stronger performances of any fund this year, up 47% on the back of well-timed stakes in Micron and Cisco, two tech names that have taken off.

Rounding out the June outflows list were the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), which shed $3.4 billion and $3.2 billion. Both bitcoin and gold have had a rough year, down 33% and 7%.

A full list of the top inflows and outflows for June and for 2026 so far appears in the tables below.

The Hall of Fame Index was first published in 201o. It had been in the works for nearly a decade at that point. The whole point was to establish a systematic way of looking at Hall of Fame candidates and those already in the Hall of Fame. At its best, it measures fitness for the Hall of Fame and aims to put players into groups with other similar players so we can compare them.
The sequel was published in 2020. It obviously updated numbers for players that were currently active, but also adjusted the formula as we got more information. One of the key things in statistical **** ysis is that we are always learning something new. The formula is similar to JAWS, but has a couple of key differences. First, it combines baseball-reference.com WAR and Fangraphs.com WAR into one number. I do that for two main reasons. First and foremost, the more data the better in most instances. It gives us a cross-section of what keen sabermetric minds feel about a player.
The second reason is that there is always an intellectual divide on these things. The old formulas included win shares, but since Bill James retired, there is no longer an update on current win shares, so that one has been dropped from the formula. Like JAWS, the index includes a peak value element. However, the peak value is made up of ten seasons. I have gotten push back on this and the push back is perfectly reasonable. I chose ten years because you need to play at least ten years to get into the Hall of Fame and ten years gives you slightly more data than the seven years that JAWS brings.
That is important distinction because I do not profile any players until they have been in the league for at least ten seasons. So, as we compare Alex Bregman to his contemporaries, there are five third baseman that make the list. I will not speak for Jay Jaffe (the creator of JAWS) but the index was never meant to rank order players. It was meant to place players into groups with other similar players so that we can directly compare them using other means. I have done this before with Bregman, but since we are at the midway point of the 2026 season, it is a good time to revisit it.
BWAR

Google has developed a new plan to police the increasingly capable AI agents it uses within its own AI research organization, and the company is publishing the so-called road map to help other AI labs counter the potential threat of rogue AI agents.
The Google DeepMind security plan involves a pivot away from the AI safety community's typical focus on "the alignment problem"—the idea of figuring out how to train an AI system so that its actions reliably match the intentions, values, and ethics of the humans who are managing it.
While continuing to say that alignment is one key safety component, Google's road map acknowledges that the alignment problem may never be fully solved, and instead creates a layered security system that treats AI agents as potential rogue insiders within an organization. The 35-page technical report maps out a series of steps and procedures that are designed to catch potential adversarial behavior by AI agents.
"If the first line of defense—alignment—fails, how can we mitigate harm anyway?" Rohin Shah, who leads the AGI safety and alignment team at Google DeepMind, told Fortune in an interview.
The AI agent framework borrows heavily from traditional cybersecurity, especially insider-threat prevention. "We borrow a lot from security, which already deals with the threat of internal employees who might be malicious, and we can apply these to a new setting," Shah said. But, he noted, "AI is systematically different from humans."

For more than five years, Winston Batino was a trusted figure in the Chicago Church of Christ's North Ministry Center community in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He was also, federal prosecutors allege, systematically stealing from the people who trusted him most, the Daily Herald reports (1).
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Thistle Resources (TSX-V:TRCG, OTC:TRCGF) earlier this week reported encouraging drill results from its flagship Middle River Gold project in New Brunswick's Bathurst Mining Camp, with management saying the latest intersection continues to support the scale and growth potential of the emerging gold system.
Speaking with Proactive, chief executive Patrick Cruickshank said drill hole 21TRC-AU007 returned a significant gold-bearing interval from a shallow section of the deposit. The hole formed part of the company's ongoing drilling campaign aimed at expanding and defining mineralisation at Middle River.
Cruickshank reported that the 74-metre drill hole intersected 21 metres of significant gold mineralisation at a composite grade of approximately 1.66 g/t gold. He described the result as "a pretty rich composite over 74m" and noted that it also contained stronger intervals over eight metres and 14 metres.
The CEO said the result further validates the company's exploration model. Thistle has identified seven kilometres of mineralised folds across the project area through geophysical work undertaken with specialist partners. To date, the company has defined a deposit extending roughly 400 metres along one of those folds.
A key catalyst for investors will be the company's continued drilling program. Cruickshank explained that Thistle intends to focus on expanding the current mineralized trend before progressing to additional targets. The strategy is designed to support future inferred and indicated resource estimates through systematic step-out drilling and improved drill density.