Canada Inflation Heats Up to 3% in July
The consumer-price index rose 0.5% in July, bringing the annual inflation rate to 3%, Statistics Canada said.
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U.S. Futures Mostly Higher as Tech Stocks Make Gains
The Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 were advancing but Dow futures were in the red as investors look ahead to U.S.
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF is a basic index fund, but some interesting history makes it an intriguing option for investors right now.
The same goes for the high-growth Invesco QQQ ETF.
How stocks act before and following elections may be revealing for these ETFs.
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Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US witnessed their biggest weekly withdrawals since late June, signalling renewed caution among investors after a strong beginning to August.
According to a report by Bloomberg, the 13 US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows of $389.7 million during the week of August 10.
Liz Thomas, SoFi head of investment strategy,
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The 30-year fixed-rate for VA loans is 6.30% as of today, according to data released by Optimal Blue. That’s slightly higher than what it was on Thursday.
The Optimal Blue Mortgage Market Indices is an average of locked rates during the weekday prior across a third of all mortgage providers in the U.S.
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Usually when numbers shoot higher on Wall Street, it is a reason for celebration.
That is not how Jonas Goltermann, the chief markets economist at Capital Economics, feels when he looks at one of the most feared charts on the stock market: the Shiller price-to-earnings (PE) ratio.
“That’s obviously a bit worrying,” he says after seeing the metric on track to end the month at its highest level since August 2000.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has hinted that his remarkable football career could be nearing its end after revealing that the 2026-27 season is “probably” his final year in professional football.
If there is any reason to proceed with caution ahead of Nvidia’s (NVDA) earnings on Aug. 26, it’s that the market is positioned for the company to post great results and for CEO Jensen Huang to sound super bullish on the earnings call.
This could indeed create a sell-the-news moment,
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Technology stocks once held a reputation for not paying dividends. In the beginning, these were emerging growth names that felt they could invest their capital more effectively in themselves.
Today, most companies with the highest market caps are tech stocks, which brought a level of maturity that has inclined more of them to pay dividends.
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