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Most investors assume ETFs follow the same tax rules, but physical gold trusts carry a classification that quietly hands the IRS a much larger cut of your gains than your brokerage statement ever warns you about.

<p>Here are the daily ETF fund flows for August 21, 2026.</p>

<p>US-listed ETFs took in more than $56 billion last week.</p>

Treasury yields fell and the price of gold continued its recent rally Monday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent essentially warned investors not to bet against his ability to tame the government bond market. Following last week's news that the Treasury will at least double its buybacks of long-term bonds, Bessent and his lieutenants signaled their readiness to deploy the nearly $1 trillion that sits in the department's general account to pack a bigger punch. The upshot is that instead of a twist in which the government buys back long bonds while selling short-duration Treasury bills, Bessent may buy long-term Treasuries and hold onto them, which would be like quantitative easing.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.2% and the actively tr

A weaker dollar and rising Treasury yields could create opportunities across inverse-dollar, gold, commodity, emerging-market and large-cap ETFs.

Cryptocurrencies and precious metals shot higher, while the U.S. dollar weakened, after the Treasury Department said it planned to double its bond buybacks.

<p>Here are the daily ETF fund flows for August 20, 2026.</p>

Gold's latest breakout may still have another leg higher.

Equities are regaining some of yesterday’s losses in early trading. Gold, silver, and Bitcoin are all moving higher, while crude oil is mostly flat. The dollar and Treasuries are marking time, too.

A retired widower with a solid plan to burn $100,000 bridging to age 70 may have overlooked a Social Security option that changes his math entirely, and the clue was hiding in a status he already has.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.4% and the actively trad

A bond-market intervention changed the setup for gold investors

Goldman Sachs has held a bold gold price target through a swing of more than a thousand dollars, and the cheapest way to ride that call charges a fraction of what most investors assume they are paying.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.5% and the actively tr

<p>The 30-year Treasury yield recently hit 5.33%, a 19-year high, before Treasury intervention. Meanwhile the national debt is closing in on $40 trillion with the federal deficit on track to top $2 trillion this fiscal year. It’s a reality that's actively reshaping which ETFs win and which get punished. Here's how America's debt reality is hitting the ETF market right now.</p>

Gold, as measured by SPDR Gold Shares (NASDAQ:GLD), surged 3% Wednesday after the U.S. Treasury unexpectedly doubled the size of its long-dated bond buybacks, sending yields and the dollar sharply lower. The move came a day after the 30-year Treasury...

The gold price jumped and the GDX gold miner ETF surged on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's move to cap long-term bond yields, which fell.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.4%, and the actively tra

<p>Here are the daily ETF fund flows for August 17, 2026.</p>

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.4%, and the actively t

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.1% and the actively trad

Both funds track physical gold with nearly identical returns, but IAU's lower 0.25% expense ratio could compound into meaningful savings over decades for buy-and-hold investors.

Gold surged after a bruising jobs report, but GLDM still sits well below its 2026 record, and that gap creates a very different conversation than buying bullion at a peak.

One major source of demand has barely returned

The U.S. dollar could face downside risks as cooling inflation and softer jobs data reduce Fed rate-hike bets. Here are ETF strategies to follow.

Iran faces new economic pressure. See which ETFs could gain or lose from higher oil, defense spending and inflation risks.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.1%, and the actively tra

One technical level could decide whether momentum keeps building

In this MoneyShow MoneyMasters Podcast episode, I sit down with Tom Bruni, director of community and content for the CMT Association, and Sid Mokhtari, executive director at CIBC World Markets, to break down the current market environment in the US and Canada — and where investors should focus next.