By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) – Vanguard Group’s Standard & Poor’s 500 ETF is on the edge of finally seizing the title of the world’s largest exchange-traded fund from rival State Street Global Advisors’ product, the SPDR S&P 500 Trust, according to data from FactSet, LSEG and other sources. As of late Friday, the State Street…
(Reuters) – BlackRock has temporarily paused meetings with some portfolio companies while studying the impact of new reporting rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the matter. The top U.S. asset manager is among those affected by a recent SEC interpretation requiring fund firms to file more extensive ownership…
By Sara Merken (Reuters) – U.S. personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan sent an urgent email this month to its more than 1,000 lawyers: Artificial intelligence can invent fake case law, and using made-up information in a court filing could get you fired. A federal judge in Wyoming had just threatened to sanction two…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has rejected a bid to bar the government downsizing team created by President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing internal systems in the U.S. Department of Education that house federal student financial aid information concerning millions of Americans. Washington-based U.S. District Judge Randolph…
