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Not all bond ETFs will benefit from higher interest rates.

State, federal and industry leaders gathered Thursday morning at the Centrus Energy facility in Piketon to celebrate a milestone for Southern Ohio and the future of American energy production. At approximately 10:15 a.m. on June 18, Oklo Inc. and Centrus Energy announced the signing of a Letter of Intent that would allow Centrus to provide domestically produced high-assay low-enriched uranium ...

Fed rate-cut delays and weaker ETF inflow expectations prompted Goldman to lower its December gold forecast.

Kevin Warsh‘s hawkish debut as Federal Reserve Chair revived one of the market’s most reliable plays — going long the dollar when the central bank looks ready to hike interest rates. The U.S. Dollar Index – as tracked by the Invesco DB U.S. Dollar Index Bullish Fund – rose 0.8% to above 100.15 on Thursday, its highest level since May 2025 and the cap on a roughly 13-month climb. The move followed a Federal Open Market Committee meeting that broke sharply with March. Nine of the 19 participants p

An iconic supermarket chain is closing stores in key markets, eliminating grocery store choices for local residents as companies close underperforming locations. Grocery chains have faced economic challenges such as rising labor and product costs driven by inflation, fierce competition from ...

At $116.56, Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) looks vulnerable, with dilutive equity issuance colliding with a hawkish incoming Fed under Kevin Warsh setting up a potential path back toward $65. The stock has lost 68.93% of its value over the past year, and Michael Saylor’s resumed bitcoin buying has not arrested the slide. Strategy, the rebranded MicroStrategy ... Buy, Hold, or Sell: Strategy Inc. Resumed Its Bitcoin Buying Spree, but Will Warsh’s First Fed Meeting and Severe Tech Compression Crush M

Juneteenth is the nation's newest federal holiday, celebrated on June 19th, the date in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that the last enslaved Black Americans were free. As Americans make plans for the holiday — which many people celebrate by attending festivals ...

Roger Ferguson, the former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman, went on CNBC Thursday to translate what just happened at Kevin Warsh’s debut meeting as Fed Chair. The Fed held the policy rate steady at 3.75%, where it has sat since December 11, 2025, but the more interesting story was tucked inside the statement and in what ... Fed’s Warsh Still Expects a Rate Hike This Year, Says Former Vice Chair Roger Ferguson

Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) is a tobacco giant in the middle of a profitable pivot, with smoke-free products now accounting for over 43% of net revenues through IQOS heat-not-burn devices and ZYN nicotine pouches. With markets nervous about a potentially hawkish Federal Reserve under Kevin Warsh, retirees want to know if this 3% yielder can ... 1 Dividend Powerhouse Retirees Can Lean On Even If Rates Hike

At $507.29, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) screens as fully valued, with a more attractive risk/reward profile emerging only on a macro-induced, index-wide technical pullback at or below $440. The stock is pressed against record territory just as Kevin Warsh gavels in his first Fed meeting. Systemic multiple compression could mask AMD’s enterprise market share gains ... Buy, Hold, or Sell: AMD Rested Near All-Time Highs as Kevin Warsh Opened His First Fed Meeting. Is AMD Stock a Buy at $507

Retirees watching grocery bills climb need income that grows faster than the receipt. Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) sells a recession-resistant product in nearly every country on earth, and its pricing power is doing exactly what income investors want it to do. With headline PCE at 3.77% and services inflation at 3.49%, the question I want to answer ... Rising Cost-of-Living Pressures? Why Retirees Should Buy This High-Yield Dividend Legend and Never Look Back

There have been renewed talks about whether tariffs could send us into another phase of trade wars. And while it’s up for debate as to whether a trade war 2.0, so to speak, has already arrived, I do think that investors shouldn’t panic over concerns that further tariffs will further fan the flame that is ... “They Forgot to Protect Our Industries With TARIFFS!” — Does a Trump Trade War 2.0 Loom?

Gold prices fell early Friday for a second straight session, even as the dollar retreated from a 13-

The stock market works to build on a rebound from support as Micron Technology and FedEx report and the S&P indexes rebalance.

If you hold Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VYM) in a taxable brokerage account, every December distribution check comes with an IRS partner. At the 24% federal bracket, a portfolio throwing off $20,000 in dividends hands over $4,800 a year to Washington, every year, forever. The Roth IRA is the only legal ... The Case for Holding VYM in Your Roth IRA

The Federal Reserve chair has always been one of the most scrutinized jobs in Washington. Every interest rate decision affects mortgages, credit cards, corporate borrowing costs, and ultimately the stock market itself. That reality made Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Fed chair one of the most divisive economic appointments in recent memory. Supporters viewed him as ... Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting Sinks Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Sock Puppet’ Complaint

Stocks have quickly moved on from Kevin Warsh’s hawkish first meeting as Federal Reserve Chairman. But other parts of the markets haven't.

<body><p>STORY: &nbsp;From SpaceX's colossal climb up the market...to Pizza Hut's price tag</p><p>This is the week in numbers.</p><p>:: The Week In Numbers</p><p>:: $2.52 trln</p><p>$2.52 trillion was the market cap given to SpaceX as shares of the rocket maker soared this week.</p><p>Elon Musk's company's value catapulted past Amazon's and briefly above Microsoft's.</p><p>Towards the end of the week though, shares dropped more than 6%...</p><p>as the post-IPO frenzy that briefly placed Elon Musk's rockets-to-AI firm...</p><p>among the world's top five most valuable companies, appeared to fizzle out.</p><p>:: 30%</p><p>30% is how much Allbirds shares soared by after the former footwear company changed its name to Smartbird.</p><p>The move cemented its months-long transformation from shoemaker to AI infrastructure firm, shifting its focus to offer cloud computing capacity.</p><p>The company also appointed former Amazon executive Nadia Carlsten as its new CEO.&nbsp;</p><p>:: 7%</p><p>More than 7% is the hit BMW's shares took after the German automaker issued a profit warning.</p><p>The premium carmaker blamed ongoing weakness in the world's largest auto market China, and the impact of the Iran war on prices and customer sentiment.</p><p>Analysts said the outlook cut was significantly larger than expected.</p><p>BMW shares dipped to their lowest level since 2020.</p><p>:: $22 bln&nbsp;</p><p>$22 billion is the amount media giant Fox is spending on buying streaming platform Roku.</p><p>The deal gives the parent company of Fox News access to Roku's more than 100 million households.</p><p>Potentially helping the legacy cable and broadcast company better compete for eyeballs, target its ads and reduce reliance on traditional distribution.&nbsp;</p><p>:: $2.7 bln</p><p>$2.7 billion is the price tag Yum brands set for Pizza Hut as the fast-food business struggles with stiff competition and cautious consumer spending.</p><p>Rising inflation and higher commodity costs have weighed on U.S. pizza chains facing weak demand.</p><p>Growing use of weight-loss drugs is nudging consumers toward healthier options.</p></body>

The market spent much of the week celebrating what appeared to be a major geopolitical breakthrough. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the U.S. and Iran helped calm fears of a broader regional conflict, sent oil prices lower, and eased concerns that inflation could reaccelerate just as the Federal Reserve was trying to keep ... Will the Collapse of the U.S.-Iran Truce Force the Fed to Raise Rates Again?

Juneteenth has become a significant date on the American calendar, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States and marking the nation's newest federal holiday. As Americans prepare for the holiday, investors may be wondering whether Wall Street will be operating on its normal schedule or ...

Historical trends suggest inflation will be far stickier than anticipated.

Did you feel the “Whoosh” on Wednesday? That was stocks tanking after new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s first policy meeting. Hawkish talk and hawkish forecasts caused the odds of an interest rate hike to spike!

Rising inflation and climbing Treasury yields have already pushed investors to shift the narrative from interest rate cuts to potential rate hikes. Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee update made that outcome look a lot more realistic, maintains Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro US.

CEO Raj Subramaniam has broken down the delivery company’s business silos and elevated its stock price.

(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its year-end gold forecast by $500 an ounce as the Federal Reserve is no longer seen reducing rates in 2026.Most Read from BloombergRead the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and IranModi Warns of ‘Shortage of Trust’ Ahead of Trump MeetingTrump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Peace DealNYC Greek Eatery Kiki’s Seized for Failure to Pay $1 Million TaxUS Ends Hormuz Blockade, Downplays Tolls as Negotiations RestartThe revised target

Leading cryptocurrencies fell, while stocks rebounded on Thursday as investors parsed the hawkish pivot in the Federal Reserve’s policy. Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:25 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-2.49%$63,012.93Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) -2.49%$1,713.17XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) -3.39%$1.14Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) -3.49%$69.83Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) -2.88%$0.08369 Crypto Market Dips Further Bitcoin fell to the early $62,000s, while Ethereum tumbled to an intraday low of $1,670, extendi

The Federal Reserve just held rates steady, with a hint that rate hikes could be in the cards.

Progress toward a peace deal with Iran outweighed hawkish undertones from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. Plus, the Knicks’ market impact.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes closed higher on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than 1% and the Nasdaq gaining nearly 2%.</p><p>The session began with oil prices sliding to their lowest levels since early March after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement that extends the April ceasefire by another 60 days.</p><p>But Alexander Morris, CEO and chief investment officer at F/m Investments, warns that lower oil prices won't immediately ease other inflationary pressures.</p><p>"Certainly energy prices are set to come down and meaningfully so in the short run. But energy prices have been elevated for a while, and that influences way more than just the cost at the pump. That's the cost of fertilizer for the Northern Hemisphere. All of the plants that needed to be planted and immediately fertilized, they've been in the ground for weeks. So that is now baked into the price of our future soft commodities, grains, corn, soybeans, et cetera. So we're going to see this reverberate."</p><p>Investors on Thursday were still assessing Kevin Warsh's first press conference as Federal Reserve Chair a day earlier, in which he stressed the central bank would keep its focus on price stability but provide less guidance on the path of interest rates.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Among individual stock moves, semiconductor companies outperformed the rest of the market, with Intel's shares jumping more than 10.5% to a record high. President Donald Trump said Apple had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture its chips in the U.S.&nbsp;</p><p>Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX shed 3.5%, falling for a second straight day. The stock had rallied sharply earlier in the week following last Friday's blockbuster market debut.</p><p>And shares of Kroger tumbled almost 8.5% after the grocer reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and kept its annual forecasts unchanged.</p><p>The U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday.</p></body>

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF's heavy tech concentration could become a liability in an extended high-inflation environment.