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Here are your top 5 ⭐ financial insights for the week—including the latest articles 📰, videos 🎥, charts📊, quotes 🦉, books 📚, tools ⚙️, and more—to help you become smarter about finance and investing. Enjoy!

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1. Article We’re Reading

The AI boom has provided an unusual windfall for a tiny island 🏝️ in the Caribbean.

ChatGPT’s debut nearly two years ago heralded the dawn of the AI age and accidentally contributed a huge amount to Anguilla’s economy. Big businesses came in and kicked off a digital gold rush as companies scrambled to stake their own claims by acquiring websites that… (read here).

2. Video We’re Watching

Financial Machine Learning - A Practitioner’s Perspective by Dr. Ernest Chan.

3. Chart We’re Analyzing

We found it here.

4. Term We’re Defining

SKEW is the ticker symbol for the CBOE Skew Index, a measure of the perceived tail risk of the distribution of S&P 500 investment returns over a 30-day horizon. The index values are calculated and published by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) based on current S&P 500 options market data (Wikipedia).

Also read about it here.

5. Quote We’re Reflecting On

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Here is how it compares to other brokers:

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