Gold climbed from about $2,600 per ounce in early 2025 to a record $5,589 by January 2026, setting more than 50 all-time highs in a single calendar year, the World Gold Council reported. The rally has fueled aggressive marketing by precious metals dealers, with retirement investors responding in record numbers. Gold exchange-traded fund holdings grew
Draft night in the NBA is one of those moments that looks perfect from the outside. The suit, the handshake, the jersey, the number that flashes on the screen. For a lot of these kids, it’s the moment their entire life has been building toward. Then the first paycheck arrives and some of them do
Netflix (NFLX) spent the past two years defending its lead with price hikes and a password-sharing crackdown. The next phase looks different. The streaming giant is among several companies in early talks to acquire Letterboxd. Letterboxd is a social platform where film fans connect and review movies. That single detail tells investors something the company
For most of 2026, the market’s story has mostly been on semiconductors and artificial intelligence. Jim Cramer just told investors to look somewhere else. On his CNBC show, the “Mad Money” host called biotechnology the hottest group in the market right now. Coming from someone who admits he had not made that call in years,
A dividend is one of the few promises a company cannot quietly fake. Guidance gets walked back. Buybacks get paused the moment a quarter turns ugly. But a cash payment wired to shareholders every 90 days is a firm putting real money behind its own story, quarter after quarter, with nowhere to hide. That is
More than 6,500 miles from the West Coast in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, New Zealand is, for many, a dream holiday destination, due to both its striking natural beauty and the cost and time commitment required for those visiting from North America. Along with flag carrier Air New Zealand, United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta
On June 25, Apple told the market it was raising prices on MacBooks, iPads, and other devices to cover the cost of a global memory chip shortage. The stock fell sharply that day, wiping out everything it had gained year to date. For a company that had been on a strong run, it was a
McDonald’s has spent the past year quietly expanding its menu through regional tests, limited-time offerings, and new chicken concepts. Now, the company’s latest moves offer one of the clearest signs yet of how its menu strategy is evolving. The latest rollout reflects changing consumer tastes while reinforcing McDonald’s broader push to strengthen its position in
Through the first six months of 2026, 372 larger U.S. companies filed for bankruptcy protection, the highest first-half total since 2010, S&P Global Market Intelligence reported. Yet the bond market barely flinched, and a growing pool of private capital moved toward the wreckage with open checkbooks rather than clenched fists. Distressed-debt investors are treating the
IBM shares crashed toward their worst single trading day in nearly four decades on Tuesday, July 14, after CEO Arvind Krishna told investors the company’s second quarter fell short of what Wall Street expected. Within hours of that warning, one bank cut its price target and told clients to consider buying a basket of IBM’s