This week's action in the stock market has made clear that the S&P 500 has become a riskier play - despite its status as the benchmark for U.S. large-cap stocks - because it has become a highly ...

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Mortgage rates actually increased and have remained a major hurdle for prospective home buyers. Car loans haven't downshifted much, and credit-card annual percentage rates, or APRs, have only crept ...

Money-market funds are not bank accounts, but super-safe investment destinations to park cash. The average seven-day yield on the biggest funds is now around 4.19%, down from 5.10% at the start of the ...

Two decades ago, Raymond Lombra, a now-retired economist at Penn State University, warned of a "rounding tax" that could amount to at least $600 million a year if merchants were to routinely add a ...

That's according to Goldman Sachs strategists led by Samantha Dart, whose team reiterated a $3,000 per ounce gold price forecast for the second quarter of 2026. The note was published late Thursday, ...

The crypto industry has paid close attention to President Donald Trump, who spoke of creating a strategic bitcoin reserve in the U.S. during his campaign. Last week, he signed an executive order to ...

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The split came into clear focus on Friday, the first day Fed officials spoke publicly in the wake of the decision earlier in the week to hold its benchmark interest rate steady in a range of 4.25%-4.5 ...

Still, the S&P 500 SPX rose over 0.7% since Inauguration Day. It was the best first nine trading days of a presidency for the large-cap index since former President Barack Obama was sworn in for a ...