Global physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew $6.6 billion in April, reversing March’s heavy outflows.
A record $12 billion drained from global gold ETFs in March, the steepest monthly outflow ever, as US-Iran tensions weighed on bullion. But as the chart below shows, investments rotated back into gold in April,
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A new proposal might cap Social Security benefits for certain recipients.
According to the Washington, D.C., think tank Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), Social Security is less than a decade away from insolvency, triggering a law that would call for a 24 percent cut to benefits across the board.
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Last year marked the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since the first retired-worker benefit was mailed in January 1940, Social Security has been providing a financial foundation for aging workers who could no longer do so for themselves.
In May 2025, we also witnessed the average monthly retired-worker benefit surpass $2,000 for the first time.
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As demand for energy grows, nuclear energy is making a powerful resurgence. In the United States, lawmakers have their sights set on quadrupling the country’s nuclear energy capacity by 2050 and are taking steps to accelerate the deployment of next-generation nuclear reactors, such as small modular reactors and microreactors.
With the rapid rise in energy demand from hyperscalers,
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Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN) has drawn attention after recent performance data showed a mix of short term pullbacks alongside stronger returns over the past 3 months and year to date,
Lawmakers are banning themselves from prediction markets like it’s nothing. So why are they still allowing themselves to trade stocks?
That question may have crossed your mind after the Senate passed a resolution late last month that instantly banned senators and staff from trading on prediction markets.
The AI semiconductor trade has a passport, and lately it has been stamped more often in Seoul than in San Jose. On a recent Reuters Morning Bid podcast segment titled Chip stock boom, the host pushed back on the assumption that the chip rally is a Wall Street phenomenon,
Bitcoin is up $1,415 at $81,267.60 and could push even higher.
For one, lawmakers reportedly reached a compromise on stablecoin regulation, otherwise known as the Clarity Act, which is boosting optimism for clear crypto rules.
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The biggest chip stocks have stolen the spotlight throughout the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Nvidia is the obvious headliner, and Intel has staged a surprising recovery in recent months. But there’s another chip stock grabbing the market’s attention — especially recently.
I’m talking about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD +11.44%).
