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Despite gold’s price dip in September, sector fundamentals look solid: producers are reporting near-record margins, strong balance sheets, and management teams focused on execution. Key Takeaways Strong cash flow is giv…
The world's largest copper mine, Escondida, is on the brink of a strike. The supervisors and professional staff union at BHP's Chilean operation said Tuesday that labor and management failed to reach a new collective co…
Markets today are defined by AI. From yields to the movements of the S&P 500 — the story is, like it or not, a story of data centers, chips, and models. For investors, then, what are the best ways to get exposure to AI …
S&P 500 Today LIVE: The S&P 500 declined on October 15, 2026, as selling pressure in technology and semiconductor stocks weighed on the broader US market. According to the supplied market snapshot, the index fell 48.19 …
Recent weakness across nuclear energy ETFs represents a market dislocation in the industry. While public equities have pulled back year to date, strong regulatory tailwinds and massive private sector funding suggest tha…
Matthew Bielski, founder and CEO of Defiance ETFs, recently joined Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on Bloomberg’s ETF IQ to discuss the Defiance Autism Impact ETF (ASD) and the personal family experience that helped inspi…
The United States recorded a budget deficit of $1.99 trillion in fiscal 2026, an increase of $217 billion from the prior year, according to Reuters. Figures released by the Treasury Department on Friday showed the short…
Looking for a broader base of market support As third-quarter earnings season begins, the S&P 500 Index sits just below last week’s all-time closing high. But how strong is the foundation under stocks’ latest push? One …
BRUSSELS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose curbs on imports from China going beyond the safeguard measures it agreed with Beijing to halve inbound shipments of Chinese hybrid cars, European Commis…
When it comes to surging bond yields, Treasuries aren’t the only game in town. That ominous scenario, which means bond prices are declining, is permeating the fixed income space, including corporate debt and the related…
Amid two ongoing hot wars involving major energy-producing countries — the war in Iran and the Russia/Ukraine conflict — the commodities arena may appear to be a hazardous place for investors to allocate capital. But re…
Inflation came in hotter than the consensus expected September CPI rose 0.6% month-on-month and 3.7% year-on-year, above the 3.6% consensus.1 Energy did much of the work, with gasoline prices up 9.1% over the month and …
For decades, Japan’s military spending was tame compared to other developed nations with comparably sized economies. But in recent years, the Land of the Rising Sun kicked defense spending into high gear. Those changes,…
With elevated U.S. stock valuations, rising interest rates, and overall market uncertainty, investors may want to consider diversifying abroad – one reason being to help mitigate concentration risk from the handful of n…
ORLANDO, Florida, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The AI equity rout accelerated significantly in Asia on Thursday on growing fears about the murky, circular financing powering the intelligence revolution's buildout, although its fo…
Gold prices moved to session highs on Thursday after U.S. retail sales data showed consumer spending increased more than economists had anticipated, according to Kitco News.
Buying bitcoin once meant handing over cash or wiring money to Tokyo, said Henri Arslanian, co-founder of Nine Blocks Capital Management. He described how access has changed, from bank closures to ETFs, stablecoins, and…
At a time when the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 make up 35 to 40% of the index by weight, and many of those names are in tech, it’s fair for investors to ask how much more tech their portfolios can hold. Still, tech sto…
Energy infrastructure ETFs delivered varying returns for investors in the third quarter of 2026, driven largely by underlying exposure to the utilities sector. Utilities was the worst-performing S&P 500 sector in the th…
Jobs Growth: Slower but Steady Over time, growth in real GDP roughly equals the combination of productivity growth and labor force growth, and employment growth tracks the labor force (exhibit 1). When the business cycl…
Last year’s Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Johannesburg, the first ever held in Africa, put the continent’s prosperity at the top of the agenda. Accordingly, Africa’s mounting debt crisis featured prominently. Today, m…
Novel ETFs are headed toward a clearer review process, according to Brian Daly, who directs the Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Key Takeaways: Daly says the SEC is reas…
Last week, the NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF (QQQI) crossed $15 billion in assets under management. This major milestone was the result of investor demand. In the first nine months of 2026, the tax-efficient options-b…
.Danaher (DHR), one of the world’s largest providers of medical diagnostics and laboratory equipment, recently announced plans to launch its first AI-powered autonomous laboratory, scheduled to operate at commercial sca…