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(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, the economic data and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. retail and food services sales for February 2026 rose by 0.6% to $738.4 billion, slightly rebounding from a revised 0.1% dip in January. When excluding...

The specter of political interference in the Federal Reserve is rippling through the market, and for ETF investors, the parallels to the 1970s are becoming more and more difficult to ignore. • What’s next for TIP stock? While Sen. Elizabeth Warren has accused President Donald Trump of...

Gold is down 13% in March, on track for its steepest monthly decline since October 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and global markets were in freefall. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) recorded over $8 billion in outflows during the month — more than double its...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures rose on Tuesday following Monday’s mixed close. Futures of the major benchmark indices were higher. In the latest on the U.S.-Iran war, President Donald Trump...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concerns about the fiscal trajectory of the U.S. while addressing the students at Harvard University on Monday. Powell acknowledged that the $39 trillion debt load, while not immediately threatening, is on an unsustainable path that demands urgent...

U.S. equity markets bounced off seven-month lows on Monday, with major indices broadly higher by midday as President Donald Trump disclosed active negotiations with a “new and more reasonable” Iranian regime while Fed Chair Jerome Powell downplayed the need for imminent rate hikes...

The Bond Vigilantes had been dormant for much of the past three to four years, until President Donald Trump's war in Iran snapped them back into action. Now they are back, repricing sovereign bond yields from Washington to London to Frankfurt, punishing governments and central banks for any...

Editor’s Note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs and the headline were updated in the story. U.S. stock futures rose on Monday following Friday’s sharp sell-off. Futures of the major benchmark indices were higher after they entered the correction territory last week, falling...

Brent crude topped $110. The Nasdaq is officially in correction. And for the first time since 2023, futures markets are pricing in a rate hike. THE RUNDOWN WAR › The Dow fell 793 points on Friday and entered correction territory for the first time since early 2023, joining the Nasdaq, which is now...

Something is badly mispriced in the bond market, and almost nobody is talking about it. WTI crude rallied to $99 on Friday — on track to close at the highest level since July 2022. The 2-Year Treasury yield, one of the most reliable real-time gauges of Federal Reserve interest rates, is at 3.92%....

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 400 points today, dropping into correction territory as wartime supply fears kept Brent crude hovering near $111 a barrel and the S&P 500 headed for its fifth straight weekly decline, its longest losing streak since 2022. But the bigger story is...

A new policy initiative from the Federal Reserve, through one of its governors, Stephen Miran, is bringing bank loan ETFs back in focus. His proposal to shrink the balance sheet while potentially allowing lower rates creates a tricky backdrop for floating-rate strategies that have thrived in a high...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures fell on Friday following Thursday’s sharp sell-off. Futures of the major benchmark indices were lower. On Thursday, President Donald Trump pushed the deadline for...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a sharp letter to Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh on Thursday, saying he appears likely to serve as a “rubber stamp for President Trump‘s Wall Street First Agenda” Warren, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, told...

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed to a six-month high this week, adding fresh pressure to an already strained housing market as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East pushes oil prices higher and reignites inflation concerns. Freddie Mac (OTC:FMCC) reported Thursday that its Primary...