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Precious metals entered 2026 with strong momentum as gold and silver climbed amid central bank buying and global uncertainty. After gold reached roughly $5,400 per ounce and silver $116 per ounce

A new crypto index launched on July 20, and it excludes the market's largest cryptocurrency. Pantera Capital, the S&P Dow Jones Indices, and Artemis collaborated on the S&P Pantera Digital Asset

It's a gut-wrenching feeling when a stock you're bullish on suddenly tanks. It's downright terrifying when the forces that were supposed to lift that stock higher all seem to vanish at once.

With

For most of a decade, Citadel Securities' Ken Griffin rejected cryptocurrency. But on July 16, 2026, Citadel invested $400 million into the exchange Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation. It was the

Last week was a tone-setter for Wall Street. It marked the busiest week of the third quarter for earnings releases and featured a Federal Reserve interest rate decision.

But on July 29, the day Fed

In late July, S&P Global and Pantera Capital launched a new digital asset index based entirely on financial fundamentals. Two famous coins, Bitcoin and XRP, failed to qualify, while Ethereum

The S&P 500 has never stayed cheap for long. But, at a cyclically adjusted Shiller price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 40.6, it's in valuation territory that it has reached only once before -- right

The cannabis industry has taught investors a painful lesson over the past five years: Revenue growth means very little if a company can't generate cash. Dozens of operators expanded too quickly

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), one of the largest investment banks, made waves when it launched the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust in April. It was the firm's first crypto ETF and offered a 0.14% expense

As energy demand from artificial intelligence surges, investors are weighing the merits of fuel cells versus next-generation nuclear. Choosing between Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) and Oklo (NYSE:OKLO)

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), one of the world's fastest-growing developer-driven cryptocurrencies, set a record high of $295 on Jan. 18, 2025. But today, it trades at about $73. Let's see why this hot

Last week was arguably the most important of the quarter for Wall Street. It marked the busiest week of earnings season and the latest Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates.

While earnings

Statistically, the stock market is the greatest wealth creator on the planet. When compared to the annualized returns of bonds, commodities, and real estate, the average annual returns of the

Some of the stock market's largest single-session declines throughout history have occurred under President Donald Trump. Despite this volatility, we've also observed outsize annual returns with

The energy sector is known for being volatile. So it shouldn't be all that surprising that the geopolitical conflict in the Middle East has led to large swings in oil and natural gas prices. What is

On July 21, one of OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) escaped from its test environment where it was being evaluated for its cyberintrusion capabilities, got to the open internet, and then

The S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has a miserly yield of roughly 1%. That fact highlights just how difficult it is to find attractive dividend stocks in 2026. But if you are an income investor

With five months left, 2026 has shaped up as another banner year for the stock market. The iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and

For more than a century, the stock market has been the greatest wealth-creator on the planet. The average annual returns of the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), benchmark S&P

Bill Gates has poured more than $1 billion of his own money into TerraPower, the nuclear company he co-founded, and his bet is finally rising out of the Wyoming ground. With artificial intelligence

Supply chain software specialist SPS Commerce (NASDAQ: SPSC) finished July in style. On the last day of the month, its shares raced nearly 11% higher, thanks to a quarterly earnings report that

U.S. stocks are drifting slightly higher at midday Friday as two of the market's largest companies move in opposite directions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) is up 0.3% as of

Shares of chemicals-and-ammunition-maker Olin Corp (NYSE: OLN), soon to merge with Huntsman (NYSE: HUN), tumbled 17.8% through 11:35 a.m. ET Friday after missing earnings last night.

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