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Merger funds and ETFs are vehicles for retail investors to get involved in the trillion-dollar boom in corporate M&A.

After 3 months of somewhat surprising strength (given the background of disastrous hard data), US Services PMI dropped in April by the most since December, missing expectations by the most on record. Against serial extrapolators’ expectations of a rise to 58.9, PMI fell to 57.8 with cost inflation jumping to a six-month high and the biggest rise in the jobs index suggests to Markit that “the FOMC to consider starting the process of normalising monetary policy sooner rather than later at its meeting later this week..”

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Standard & Poor’s downgraded Puerto Rico’s general obligation rating to “CCC+” from “B” in a Monday morning announcement.

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It’s the biggest stock in the world, but don’t call it a bellwether. Apple is worth more than any company in history, at more than $750 billion.

U.S. elections have long featured a familiar whipping post. Thanks to the energy boom, however, it’s one that may not play a role in 2016.

Corinthian Colleges will shut down all of its remaining 28 ground campuses, displacing about 16,000 students, less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Education announced it was fining the for-profit …