Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Aug. 5, 2026.
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Stocks fell on Wednesday as rising Treasury yields and oil prices continued to rattle investors.
Three days of red across every major US stock index, and the culprit is as old as markets themselves: oil.
Brent crude surged to approximately $101 per barrel on September 9, a level not seen since July, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 300 to 346 points (roughly 0.6-0.7%).
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The trade war is set to further escalate later this month: the Trump Administration said on Tuesday that it will bar the import of certain dairy products, motorcycles, and alcoholic drinks from Canada, starting on Sept. 29. The announcement comes after several Canadian provinces prohibited American alcoholic beverages from being sold last year.
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American consumers have spent an estimated $100.9 billion more on gasoline and diesel since the war began in late February, according to a cost tracker published by Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs.
The estimate compares actual fuel prices with what researchers calculate consumers would have paid without the war,
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Peer into the looking glass of the US stock market and you might see a double-digit rally taking shape before the end of the year, one strategist says.
James Thorne, the chief market strategist at Wellington-Altus, said he sees a path for a euphoric rally by 2027, with the S&P 500 potentially rising to 10,000 in the most bullish scenario.
The Federal Reserve accepted $2.12 billion in Treasury bills on August 26 as part of its ongoing Reserve Management Purchase program, a relatively modest bite from the $22 billion that dealers submitted for the operation. That acceptance rate, roughly 9.6% of what was offered, tells you something about how selective the central bank is being as it approaches the tail end of this particular buying cycle.
VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ +1.31%) offers the greatest upside potential because it focuses on smaller mining companies, known as junior gold miners, many of which are still exploration-stage companies. These smaller miners could expand production faster and deliver higher returns than their larger rivals.
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Major changes are coming to your Social Security benefits. Not only has the Social Security Administration (SSA) raised the Full Retirement Age (FRA), but they are also expected to announce their 2027 cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) increase within the next six weeks,
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Some married couples stand to collect a staggering combined Social Security check each month, but pulling it off requires meeting two very demanding conditions that most Americans will never satisfy.
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If you receive Social Security in Alabama, you may have seen some worrying headlines about what’s coming in 2027.
Here’s the good news: Social Security benefits are not currently scheduled for a broad cut next year. Instead, current forecasts point to another cost-of-living increase, with the latest estimate at 3.6%.
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