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The U.S. stock market is having another fantastic year, driven by massive spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Year to date, the broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has added 12%, the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) has advanced 13%, and the blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) has added 9%. However, Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this week,

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From energy and grocery prices to health care bills, the high cost of living continues to be one of the most important financial issues facing American families, according to a recent Gallup poll. We want to hear from TODAY viewers. How is the affordability crisis affecting you and your family? Take our Affordability Survey below.

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Key PointsWarren Buffett has for decades advocated for a long-term, buy-and-hold approach to investing.A disciplined strategy that includes buying stocks throughout market declines can improve long-term returns.This could be the single move that does the most to improve your portfolio’s performance.Most investors today have become accustomed to the idea that stock prices just keep going up.

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Cathie Wood praised the AI industry for talking openly about its own risks and dismissed the specific risk it has been talking about, in the same set of remarks to reporters in Sydney.
The ARK Invest founder said she was “happy that the leaders of the industry are advertising the risks associated with this new technology”.

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Gold’s spot price — or its current trading value — today as of 9:00 a.m. ET is $4,289.13 per ounce, according to CNBC’s Gold/ US Dollar Spot Price. That’s slightly higher than Monday’s price, when it traded at $4,270.52 per ounce at the same time. Gold is a safe-haven asset that investors gravitate toward when economic and political turmoil erupts,

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Dow Jones futures fell nearly 350 points as surging crude oil prices and the US 10-year Treasury yield topping 5 percent weighed on US stocks ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision.
Wall Street futures fall US stocks set to open lower on Tuesday.Oil prices surge, Treasury yields climb above 5%.AI concerns weigh on tech stocks like Alphabet.Did our AI summary help?

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Key PointsSecond-quarter operating earnings rose 16% year over year even as Berkshire’s insurance results softened.The company bought about $39 billion of stocks and sold about $28 billion in the first half of 2026, its first stretch as a net buyer in years.Berkshire repurchased about $4.5 billion of its own shares in the second quarter, at average prices of about $476 to $488 per B share.Berkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRKA)(NYSE:BRKB) has spent the past year standing still.

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What happens when the person managing your money decides to leave? Warren Buffett faced a related situation in 1969, when he decided to step away from managing his own investment partnership.

His biggest concern was the people who had trusted him with their savings. Buffett Partnership Ltd, which he had built over many years,

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting Europe this week as his country seeks a closer strategic alliance with the European Union amid its bitter trade war with the United States.At the same time, once-reliable transatlantic relations between Europe and Washington have been strained by US President Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs and his aggressive bid to acquire Greenland,

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