What Is SVB and Does It Pose a Risk to Your Portfolio?

A bank is in trouble. Investors are understandably perturbed.

Signage outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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