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DeVoe counted 77 RIA deals in the third quarter, 17% fewer than a year earlier, and Piper Sandler and Fintrx also logged declines. Capital-backed consolidators are expected to carry 2026 to a record anyway, with MarshBerry saying the count could pass 400.
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JPMorganChase opens third-quarter bank earnings on Tuesday, the first results since the Fed's 25-basis-point hike in September. Deposit costs will show how much of that hike banks are handing back to depositors to keep their balances.
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Byline Bancorp agreed to pay about $87.9 million for Illinois State Bancorp, a deal that lifts the $9.9 billion Chicago lender over $10 billion in assets. Byline is one of few active acquirers in a city investors call overbanked, so the deal tests whether Chicago consolidation rests on one buyer.
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Third Coast Bancshares agreed to pay $239.6 million in stock for Great Plains Bancshares, a $1.9 billion-asset Oklahoma lender. The price is about 7.7 times the seller's 2025 profit, so Third Coast needs that profit to hold through 2028, the year it forecasts 14% accretion to earnings per share.
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Fortune's account of the global selloff traces a chain from oil above $100 a barrel to the debt behind AI data centers. The single testable number in it is a yield level named by one investment chief.
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Kalshi prices Democrats taking the Senate at 61% and Polymarket at 65%, while Piper Sandler's upgrade reached only 45% and still calls the chamber roughly a toss-up. The two baselines sit 16 points apart.
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Thomas O'Brien is spending a discounted $98 million stock sale to clear $306 million of BCB Bancorp's worst credits in a single quarter, and the loss that produces runs to $136.1 million at the top end.
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Chime's proposed purchase of Stride Bank cost its sponsor bank $13.55 a share, even though the Chime contract runs to mid-2028. Valley Bank and Hatch Bank are already sponsoring a different kind of client.
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ServiceTitan beat on revenue and EPS and nudged its full-year guide up by $4m. The stock fell 30% the next session, because the back half of fiscal 2027 is planned at roughly 15% growth against 25% a year ago.
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CNBC's hundreds of test miles put Rivian ahead of GM on highways and behind Tesla's FSD v14 off-highway and point-to-point, which is where subscription pricing has to be justified.
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