Sunday, 1 November 2026
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With mega-cap valuations coming into question, more investors are gravitating toward small companies in pursuit of greater growth opportunities. However, simply allocating capital to an ETF that tracks a broad small-cap…
Scientific and technological discovery are at the heart of this country’s national story. We are a country that prizes innovation and creativity, with a proud history of delivering the breakthroughs that built the moder…
The midstream energy segment is seeing a wave of large-scale M&A after a slower start to 2026. This has been largely driven by companies racing to expand natural gas and crude oil infrastructure to support growing expor…
Real assets are gaining attention as global markets move from a 15-year “era of abundance” to an “era of scarcity.” Persistent inflation, underinvestment, and fragile supply chains are driving this shift. In a recent we…
The markets are not taking the bait from oil prices plunging by over $7 in trading today as hope springs eternal for peace in the middle east.
U.S. wholesale inventories increased strongly in July, while sales rebounded following June’s decline. Inventories grew faster than sales during the month, pushing the inventories-to-sales ratio modestly higher.
Why Liquid Alternatives Keep Disappointing — and What to Do About It Most liquid alternative funds fail a simple test: they cannot be held through a full market cycle — adopted in crises, abandoned on recoveries, and go…
For more than a decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist has accurately predicted 85-95 percent of the countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming yea…
Central banks are flirting with rate hikes, and markets have gone crazy. Memories of the 2022 inflation battle are clearly still fresh. Yet talking about rate rises is one thing, delivering them is quite another, and th…
U.S. mortgage rates continued their upward climb, with the average contract rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rising to 6.85% — the highest level since June 2025 — pushing overall mortgage application volume lower for a …
VettaFi has once again earned a coveted spot on the shortlist for the ETF Express US Awards 2026. The recognition spans multiple categories, including Best ETF Research Provider alongside major index honors across equit…
The Nasdaq’s sudden lurch lower on Friday looked like a crack in a story that had seemed, until recently, almost bulletproof—the story that artificial intelligence is not merely a useful tool but a civilizational force,…
At its meeting on 11 September 2025, the Governing Council decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. Inflation is currently at around the 2% medium-term target and the Governing Council’s assessment of…
Oil prices climbed further Tuesday, with Brent crude rising 1% to $97.95 a barrel and briefly touching $99.46, according to the Associated Press. The benchmark has climbed from around $72 over the past two months. Fight…
The indexes most investors use to track the markets don’t look the way they did just five years ago. Many investors are aware that the major stock market index has become far more concentrated in a handful of companies …
The North American midstream sector is entering a period of accelerated growth. Surging liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and rapidly expanding power generation demand are driving record multi-billion-dollar project b…
Faith-Based Investing is not new. For generations, religious individuals and institutions have sought to align financial resources with moral and religious principles. What is changing is the range of investment structu…
Southeast Asia’s export-oriented economies have so far proven highly resilient to the global trade shocks of punitive US tariffs and China’s surging exports.
The EUR/GBP cross loses ground to around 0.8585 during the early European trading hours on Monday. The Euro (EUR) attracts some sellers against the British Pound (GBP) following the German economic data.
The US and Japan coordinated on the biggest currency market intervention in 15 years, helping to stabilize a weakening yen. Karen Fishman, senior FX strategist in Goldman Sachs Research, and Praneet Shah, global head of…
Japan's Ministry of Finance released data on Monday showing that foreign exchange reserves fell to $1.208 trillion at the end of August, down sharply by $79.6 billion from $1.287 trillion at the end of July—a single-mon…
Editor’s note: Any and all references to time frames longer than one trading day are for purposes of market context only, and not recommendations of any holding time frame. Daily rebalancing ETFs are not meant to be hel…
Albert wrote in this week about a problem that can sometimes plague your investments. His email started, “Sometimes I like something that is too complicated for me to handle the taxes.” I didn’t have to read any further…
SEOUL, Sept 5 : South Korea's exports reached $709.4 billion so far this year, surpassing last year's annual record, the customs office said on Saturday.