Nuclear energy is experiencing its biggest revival in decades, and investors are noticing, sending shares in related stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) higher. The sector is poised to generate a record level of electricity in 2025, while global investment in nuclear power has increased rapidly over the past four years, with a compound annual growth rate of 14%.
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As gold teases all-time highs, peaking at $3,446 an ounce on Friday and logging its best half-year rise in more than 40 year, investors are scrambling into ETFs to join the party. Yet as several gold ETFs have tracked the metal’s rocket-like run, a more fundamental question is rising to the surface: Are these ETFs designed for the type of crisis driving gold’s rise?
Meanwhile, the lack of clarity from Washington is keeping even potentially bullish large investors from buying in at these prices. Big money managers are historically underweight stocks — their overall equity positioning has been lower than this only 28% of the time since 2010, according to Deutsche Bank AG.
“We feel that the market is asking,
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The small-cap mutual fund category has demonstrated high volatility over the past nine months, characterised by two distinct phases: a substantial correction from September 2024 to March 2025, followed by a robust recovery between March and June 2025.
Following outstanding performance in early 2024, small-cap funds faced a comprehensive correction starting in late September 2024 that persisted until early March 2025.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — US consumer sentiment improved for the first time in six months in June as trade tensions between the United States and China eased, but households worried about the economy’s trajectory.
The rise in sentiment reported by the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers on Friday was,
About $160,000 was invested via cryptocurrency transactions before a Michigan man concluded he was the victim of a scam.
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This year has already proven to be quite a roller coaster for investors. After falling nearly 19% in the span of just a few weeks, the S&P 500 recovered almost as quickly as it fell, now hovering just below its peak in February.
Still, that rollercoaster ride pales in comparison to that of Tesla‘s (TSLA 2.00%) stock.
–Dr. Ramsaroop highlights after visit to three operations producing collectively 2.4M tonnes of aggregate annually
CHIEF Investment Officer of the Government of Guyana and Head of the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest), Dr. Peter Ramsaroop has emphasised the enormous economic and social impact of three significant quarry investments in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
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Wall Street is increasingly interested in bringing private assets to everyday investors. Financial Services from Empower, which oversees $1.8 trillion in 401K accounts for 19 million people recently announced that it will offer private credit, equity, and real estate into some of its accounts later on this year.
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