By Xavier Martinez
Wealth management stocks sank Tuesday after financial-technology firm Altruist announced an artificial intelligence tool that it says can create personalized tax strategies by interpreting financial documents without manual entry.
-- Shares of Raymond James were recently down more than 8%, on pace for its worst percent decrease since March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
-- Other financial-service providers-including LPL, Charles Schwab and Stifel-were down at least 5%.
-- Tuesday's decline in financial stocks comes after data-provider and software stocks fell sharply last week after AI startup Anthropic announced specialized tools meant to help automate analysis and research tasks.
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