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Picture a 73-year-old who spent the last decade watching prices climb and decided, sensibly enough, to tuck some physical gold inside a self-directed traditional IRA. The plan felt airtight: hedge inflation, ride out the noise, hand the metal to his heirs. Then his birthday arrived, and the IRS reminded him that traditional IRAs come with ... He Put Gold in His IRA to Hedge Inflation. At 73, the RMD Forces Him to Sell the Precious Metal, and Taxes His Social Security.
Rising inflation, Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, and excess leverage continue to draw the cryptocurrency’s price down.
Investing.com -- Artificial intelligence is adding to U.S. inflation rather than reducing it, with the current investment boom estimated to contribute roughly 0.4 percentage points to annual inflation in 2026, according to CIBC Capital Markets.
FedEx (FDX) and UPS spent half a century as the only two names that mattered in American package delivery. They built the aircraft fleets, sorting hubs and delivery routes that turned next-day shipping into a routine promise. The company that once filled those planes and trucks with its own ...
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Costco (NASDAQ:COST)’s food court hot dog and soda combo has been $1.50 for decades. Company management has again recently emphasized that price is not going anywhere. It has become a cultural touchstone: the one number that inflation cannot seem to touch. There is another frozen number from roughly the same era that most retirees have ... Costco Has Held Its Hot Dog at $1.50 for Decades. Social Security Tax Thresholds Frozen Since 1984 Haven’t Been So Kind to Retirees.
Payrolls badly missed the 115,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate's dip to 4.2% masked a shrinking labor force. Now it's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's problem.
Deere (DE) is back in the spotlight after agreeing with the Federal Trade Commission and five states to expand farmers’ access to diagnostic and repair tools for its equipment. See our latest analysis for Deere. Alongside the right to repair settlement, Deere’s recent share price has eased, with the stock down 5.54% over the past week but still showing a 25.72% year to date share price return and an 82.99% five year total shareholder return. This suggests longer term momentum remains intact...
Deere has agreed to a right to repair settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and several states. The deal grants farmers and independent repair shops broader access to Deere repair tools and software. The settlement introduces new compliance obligations for Deere related to how it manages repair access. The settlement puts Deere (NYSE:DE) at the center of a long running debate over who controls repairs for modern farm equipment. The stock last closed at $586.86, with the company up...
In a classic “Friday news dump,” Apple filed a federal lawsuit in California against OpenAI, accusing its once-partner of stealing some of its trade secrets. Specifically, it’s alleging that two of its former employees brought proprietary and confidential information about its hardware to OpenAI when they joined. The lawsuit calls to mind Waymo’s trade secret theft lawsuit against Uber, filed in 2017. Similarly, a well-established tech giant publicly accused a fast-ascending private company, loc
The stablecoin issuer just got a federal stamp of legitimacy. The stock's problem, however, lies elsewhere.

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday, with the Dow gaining nearly three-tenths of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than four-tenths of a percent to end just short of a record high, and the Nasdaq climbing nearly three-tenths of a percent.</p><p>The AI trade returned to the spotlight after South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix ended almost 13% above its offer price at $168 in a blockbuster U.S. listing. The company raised over $26 billion on Thursday by selling American Depositary Receipts priced at $149 each.</p><p>U.S. stocks added to gains after President Donald Trump said that Iran had asked to continue talks and the U.S. had agreed, but that the June ceasefire was "over."</p><p>Ross Mayfield is investment strategist at Baird Private Wealth Management.</p><p>"Today I think markets are a little bit higher as it's evident once again that neither Iran nor the U.S. really want to re-engage in a hot war in the Middle East. This is going to be a volatile back and forth, who knows what will happen over the weekend. But I do think even a little bit of calm is helping markets, helping yields and oil pull back. And then this is kind of a calm before the storm. Not a lot going on today besides the SK Hynix debut. But next week - retail sales, CPI (Consumer Price Index), and the start of bank earnings. So a lot for investors to prep for, kind of a calm before the storm trading day."</p><p>Stocks on the move Friday included Meta Platforms, which jumped 6% to its highest level since April.</p><p>Shares of Moderna tumbled almost 11% in its worst day in over a year.</p><p>And shares of Delta Air Lines dropped more than 1.5%, even after the carrier forecast third-quarter profit above expectations.</p><p>Investors now look to quarterly earnings season, which kicks off next week.</p></body>
Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of running a coordinated campaign to steal confidential product designs and trade secrets.
Circle's new OCC-chartered trust bank gives USDC federal custody backing, sending CRCL up 10%+ as it claws back OpenUSD selloff losses.
The US-Iran ceasefire is fracturing, Brent is climbing, and energy stocks are repricing fast. Whether this is a temporary spike or the beginning of a sustained oil shock will reshape the Fed's next move and every duration-sensitive position in your portfolio.
Jim Cramer just made his first bearish call in 25 years, and the trigger was not a market crash or a recession signal but a single bond deal that he says proves the AI spending machine is quietly running out of fuel.
Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) has received final approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to launch Circle National Trust as a federally regulated national trust bank. This approval brings a large scale stablecoin issuer under direct federal oversight in the U.S. for the first time. The new charter allows Circle to offer digital asset custody within a single national regulatory framework. Circle Internet Group sits at the intersection of traditional finance and...
Delta CEO Ed Bastian says airline fares will stay elevated even if jet fuel prices moderate, as labor costs and inflation reshape the industry.

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Lenovo's AI PCs, infrastructure investments and expanding services support long-term growth despite tariffs, costs and geopolitical uncertainty.
Federal trust charter expands Circle's custody services and consolidates oversight under the OCC.
The OCC granted final approval for Circle National Trust
In early July 2026, Wells Fargo & Company issued a series of new callable senior unsecured notes across maturities from 2029 to 2041 and hired former PJT Partners banker Tom Nicholls as managing director to lead its Sports Investment Banking unit. These moves, combined with the bank’s recent Federal Reserve stress test clearance and planned dividend increase, underline how Wells Fargo is actively using its strengthened capital position to fund growth and expand higher-fee investment banking...
The task force will "survey the pace, the reach [and] the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including AI."
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A single weak jobs report moved more money on Wall Street on Monday than any independent company's earnings ever could. That is what played out on Monday, July 6, 2026, and Jim Cramer thinks it handed patient investors a rare opening. The CNBC host argues that big investment funds sold off shares ...
“We do expect some more pressure on the business from a commodity standpoint,” CFO Steve Schmitt said on an earnings call.
Stocks saw brief pullback after Trump posted about U.S.-Iran negotiations. The Dow was up 54 points or 0.1%, while the S&P 500 hovered near the flatline. “The muted stock market reaction to the re-escalation of Iran tensions this week is prime evidence that the market is looking past geopolitical tensions,” Clark Bellin, CIO of Bellwether Wealth said, adding, “From a stock market point of view, the stock market already reacted to the Iran situation in March and similar to last year's tariff tantrums, once the market reacts to something, it tends to move on in due time.”