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Category: Risk Factors

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Five Big Questions About Trump’s Plan for Tariffs on China

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President-elect Donald Trump made the geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States a key theme of his campaign during the 2024 election cycle. Trump and his advisers have apparently taken his victory earlier this month as an end...

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SEC Dings SolarWinds Victims for Cybersecurity Disclosures

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Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission settled four enforcement actions against current and former publicly traded companies for making what it deemed “materially misleading” cybersecurity risk disclosures. The cases could all b...

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Cybersecurity Threats to Financial Services Emerge with Growth of AI

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The hit film Terminator 2: Judgment Day cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger’s leading-man status with his portrayal of a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator assigned to help humanity stop the artificial intelligence Skynet from taking over the world....

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Companies Forced to Confront Geopolitical Risks

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When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon talks, people in the business world listen. Some of his remarks in the banking giant’s latest earnings release sent a chilling message. “We have been closely monitoring the geopolitical situation for some...

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Boosted by AI, Nuclear Power is Having a Moment

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It’s a widely shared concern that artificial intelligence has the potential to create disaster of some kind for our species. It seems only fitting, then, that to feed the energy needs of its AI services, Microsoft has turned to the nuclear...

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