It’s a golden era for gold.
The price of gold is up 74% over the past year and 201% over five years. Gold has been outperforming stocks.
Is it time to add some gold to your retirement account?
On top of its spectacular recent performance, gold can function as an effective “hedge” in an investment account,
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As you approach and enter retirement, there are gobs of issues to consider. Ideally, you will have had a comprehensive retirement plan, having socked away enough money to support you for perhaps decades. You will have considered and planned for some big expenses, such as healthcare. You might even be thinking about relocating for retirement.
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By Jennifer Nash
The S&P 500 slipped back below its 50-day moving average to end the week, marking the index’s seventh cross of the key trendline this February. The index finished the week with a loss of -0.4% and
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He may no longer be Berkshire Hathaway‘s CEO and resident stock-picker. There’s no denying, however, that Warren Buffett’s fingerprints are still all over the conglomerate’s current portfolio.
If you wanted to poach a pick or two from the Oracle of Omaha’s selections, there’s still time. In fact, here’s a couple that you might want to consider buying first —
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Uncertainty is a natural part of the retirement planning process. You can’t predict how long you’ll live or how much you’ll spend annually. But at least in the past, retirees have been able to count on regular Social Security checks to cover a large chunk of their living expenses.
That’s not necessarily the case for today’s workers and seniors.
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Nvidia’s stock is up 50% from its last split in 2024.
The stock has split, on average, every four years, often at a lower price than its current one.
However, recent splits have only happened at much higher prices.
From a purely statistical standpoint, Wall Street has been pleased with Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House.
Although the stock market has endured some of its wildest historical swings under President Trump (e.g., the five-week COVID-19 crash and a one-week swoon in early April 2025), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI),
Interactive Brokers has been an incredibly fast-growing asset-gathering machine, crossing 4.6 million client accounts in February.
With an elite 79% pretax profit margin, the company turns incremental account growth into outsize bottom-line gains.
The stock isn’t cheap.
Even before factoring in Monday’s monster surge in oil and gas stocks, the energy sector was already up 24.2% year to date compared to just 0.5% for the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.33%). Sectorwide underperformance in 2025, paired with rising oil prices and now geopolitical tensions in Iran,
