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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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.
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How To Spot a 100% Winner
It wasn’t long ago that I highlighted Planet Labs as a stock with the potential to blast off. At the time it was sitting at $1.90 per share.
Fast forward to the present and Planet Labs has soared well above $4 per share and is now posting gains of over 100%.
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Uber’s Stock Is Down But Business Is Booming, Why It Might Be a Buy
Uber (NYSE: UBER) has had its fair share of ups and downs lately. After peaking last October, the stock took a hit on the heels of Tesla’s flashy Cybercab announcement, a move that spooked investors and led to a sustained selloff into year-end.
While the stock has been slowly clawing its way back,
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Palantir Soared 20.5% But Is It Just The Start?
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has been in business for 20 years but it’s only recently that it’s accomplished one of its most impressive feats to-date, tripling the number of users of its artificial intelligence platform in a single quarter.
That spike in demand translated to a spectacular Q3 that blew away Wall Street’s expectations.
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