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Gold’s spot price — or its current trading value — today as of 9:00 a.m. ET is $4,109.29 per ounce, according to CNBC’s Gold/ US Dollar Spot Price. That’s slightly higher than Wednesday’s price, when it traded at $4,076.04 per ounce at the same time. Gold is a safe-haven asset that investors gravitate toward when…

This article adheres to strict editorial standards. Some or all links may be monetized. CNBC’s Jim Cramer is scared that the surge in semiconductor stocks could be setting up for a nasty pullback. In a recent Mad Money episode, Cramer focused his fears on the recent outperformance of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX), which posted…

Inflation is still biting. The Iran war fallout is still rippling through energy markets. The Fed is talking about rate hikes again. And the June jobs report came in at just 57,000, less than half of what economists expected. If any of that has you uneasy about your portfolio, Warren Buffett has something to say…

Updated Wed, July 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM UTC WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) – The global economy has been broadly resilient to the shock from the war in the Middle East, the heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group and World Trade Organization said in a joint statement on Wednesday. …

Almost definitely not. Futures trading suggests that there’s a 0% chance the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at its July 29 meeting, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. The real debate is whether rates will hold or increase. As of early July, the futures market shows a 74.9% probability the Fed holds rates steady…

Bitcoin (BTC) institutional demand is “not yet strong” despite positive inflows to the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Key points: Bitcoin ETF flows reverse a ten-day losing streak, but analysis warns that demand remains weak. An “overwhelming” sell-off is nonetheless over, says Swissblock. Overall BTC demand shows a clear gap between spot and derivatives…

© Stock 4you / Shutterstock.com He is 66, and for 30 years his answer to the retirement question was the same: he would sell the business. The shop, the customer list, the equipment, the relationships built one handshake at a time. He plowed profits back in rather than funding a SEP-IRA or a solo 401(k),…

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Never miss an important update on your stock portfolio and cut through the noise. Over 7 million investors trust Simply Wall St to stay informed where it matters for FREE. X-Energy stock has fallen sharply year to date, yet both the intrinsic value estimate based on a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach and the market…

Which stocks do you think are delivering the biggest gains right now: the major tech stocks that are driving the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, or smaller companies that most people might not know by name? The answer might surprise you: Small-cap stocks have been on a hot streak. The Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG +0.13%) focuses…