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Billionaire investor Jim Simons, a mathematician who founded one of the most profitable investment firms of all time and pioneered the field of quantitative investing, has died at the age of 86.

Also, new index ETFs to help investors narrow their focus and an interview with Maurice Saatchi.

I have seen scores of people build happy and satisfying retirements —money is a small part of it

A top aide to President Joe Biden on Friday cast a battle over expiring tax cuts as a fight for fairness, saying corporations and top earners should contribute more.

Investors will have another way to ride the electric-vehicle sector on Friday, as China-based Zeekr Intelligent Technology Holding Ltd. is set to go public with a market valuation of more than $5 billion.

Marathon has to boost its uptime to help profits, an analyst notes.

The card-based opportunity looks particularly interesting for Afterpay in light of the company’s acquisition by Block.

“I don’t have a financial adviser because no one‘s going to take $25,000.”

Gold futures were climbing sharply on Friday, looking to tally their first weekly gain in three weeks, as downbeat U.S. economic data supported the likelihood of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts this year.

The University of Michigan’s gauge of consumer sentiment fell to 67.4 in a preliminary May reading from 77.2 in the prior month.

Progyny’s stock was headed for a record selloff Friday after the fertility-services company said the Supreme Court of Alabama’s February ruling regarding in vitro fertilization seemed to scare off some potential customers.

Management has adapted well to the new normal of the operating and consumer environment and has got back to executing growth strategies aggressively, analysts said.