The price of gold today, July 28, 2026 — and the best places to buy
Gold’s spot price — or its current trading value — today as of 9:00 a.m. ET is $4,031.77 per ounce, according to CNBC’s Gold/ US Dollar Spot Price. That’s slightly lower than Monday’s price, when it traded at $4,082.78 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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Read MoreHow much will Social Security benefits go up next year? Here’s when you’ll know
Rising inflation means Social Security recipients could get their highest cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, since 2023. They’ll have to wait a while longer, however, to find out exactly how much their checks will increase.
Social Security’s COLA is determined by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers,
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Read MoreDow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: Nasdaq futures slide as AI concerns mount ahead of Big Tech earnings
Dow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: Nasdaq futures slide over 1% as AI, China concerns weigh ahead of Big Tech earnings
Nasdaq futures fell more than 1% on Tuesday, reflecting growing investor caution toward AI and semiconductor stocks ahead of a crucial week of Big Tech earnings.
Read MoreWarren Buffett and Greg Abel Have Been Loading Up on This Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock That's Trading at a Bargain-Basement Price
Warren Buffett delighted the market when Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB) announced a new stake in Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) in the 2025 third quarter, and Greg Abel added to the position when he tripled it in the 2026 first quarter, his first as chief executive officer. Alphabet represents 7.8% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio,
The Burst
Forget Billionaire’s Amazon Buy, Time For This Mag 7 Stock?
Stanley Druckenmiller’s Q3 purchase of nearly half a million Amazon shares drew attention, but the move is more interesting when viewed in context.
Druckenmiller has a long habit of trading Amazon in cycles, buying heavily when sentiment softens and trimming when momentum returns. His last cycle didn’t produce much upside, making his decision to jump back in at a higher cost especially noteworthy.
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Is This AI Stock a Buy Heading Into 2026?
CoreWeave sits in a new category analysts now call the neocloud. Rather than operating like traditional cloud providers built for broad, generalized workloads, neoclouds specialize in dense clusters of GPUs designed purely for AI training and inference.
In practical terms, CoreWeave is building industrial-scale AI factories, meaning customized data centers filled with Nvidia’s highest-end accelerators,
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Berkshire’s $9.7 Billion OxyChem Deal Means What?
Buffett’s firm has spent years amassing a giant stake in Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY), starting with a $10 billion preferred stock and warrant package in 2019 that helped Occidental fund its acquisition of Anadarko.
By mid-2025, Berkshire had built that into a 32.7% equity position, making OXY one of its six largest holdings.
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