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When it comes to investing, gold may be the antithesis of artificial intelligence (AI). The precious metal has acted as a store of value for

Of course, last week’s headliner was Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve (Fed) cutting rates by a half percent on Wednesday, September 18,

Second quarter earnings season is in the books, and it was a good one. S&P 500 companies collectively grew earnings at a double-digit pace f

In December 2023, Vladimir Putin declared that the 2024 BRICS Summit, hosted by Russia, would be focused on establishing a “fair world order

In his recent speech, Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell focused on the fragilities of the labor market and is preparing markets f

Every year as the summer months draw near their end, LPL Financial hosts its annual Focus conference for financial advisors.

Pullbacks are the stubbed toe of the stock market.

Those of us who lived through the Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual (to sadly only name a few) financial collapses...

Summer is finally here, but 2022 is still shaping up to be one of the worst years for investors ever...

It’s been a very tough start to the year with both stocks and bonds down sharply. Adding to the “wall of worry” for investors...

Several policy-related risks loom in September and October that may lead to an increase in market volatility.

The term stagflation has been circulating increasingly in the financial media as inflation readings have risen sharply in recent months.

Corporate America did it again. Companies blew by estimates and made strategists and analysts look silly.

The highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 now makes up an overwhelming majority of the new cases in the U.S., bringing with it...

Last week was a huge news week, from the Fed, to gross domestic product (GDP), to a giant week of earnings reports.

Markets Blog Economic Blog 2021 has been a very strong year for both stocks and the economy, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been...

t is hard to believe we have passed the halfway point of 2021. After a 2020 that would never end, the first six months of 2021 flew by.

We ran out of superlatives to describe corporate America’s stunning performance during first-quarter earnings season. Despite lofty...

Markets are off to a strong start this year, with the S&P 500 Index up about 14% so far. However, most of those gains came early in the...

Inflation has been on the rise. Investors are not as interested in what’s happening now as they are in what’s happening next.