Should you invest in gold or silver? 3 ways to invest in precious metals
After a record-setting 2025, both gold and silver prices have hit new highs of over $5,100 and $100, respectively.
Gold, silver and other precious metals saw this growth in part due to geopolitical tension. Metals are also often considered a safe-haven asset,
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Read MoreFrom Tokyo To Oslo, Country ETFs Are Running Hot As Global Markets Ride Policy Shifts, AI Buzz
Early 2026 is shaping up as a stock-picker’s market, with investors increasingly rewarding countries where inflation is peaking, policy clarity is improving, or growth drivers are strengthening.
• iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund stock is approaching key resistance levels.
10 States Where Social Security Covers the Most
Most retirees count on Social Security as a core part of their income, but how far those benefits go depends a lot on where you live.
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Read More1 Investing Rule I Never Break
Here’s what two of our analysts have learned from their own investing experience.
After investing for about 20 years (and making many mistakes along the way), I’ve developed a rulebook to prevent costly errors and let me stay invested while sleeping soundly at night. In this video, Fool.com analyst Tyler Crowe joins me to discuss some of our top investing rules that we use in our own portfolios.
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Read MoreWarren Buffett's surprising investing preference: silver, not gold
Gold is “a way of going long on fear,” Warren Buffett said in a 2011 appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” He added that if people become more afraid, you make money, and if they become less afraid, you lose money, because “the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.”
In his 2011 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter,
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Read MoreThe Burst
How To Make 100% In Next 11 Months
The most important Federal Reserve announcement ever led to about as much excitement yesterday as two turtles racing to a finishing line.
Prior to the announcement by Chairman Jerome Powell, the market had forecast, with 68% probability, a 50bps rate cut.
That alone signaled that the market had priced in precisely what the Fed delivered and so when expectations became reality not a whole lot happened.
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AI Bets and Buffett’s Seal of Approval, Is This a Bet on a Cashless Future?
There is something inherently attractive about buying a stock and holding it for a long time. Stable don’t just have strong balance sheets that can weather rough markets but they often pay dividends, which account for as much as 95% of total returns over the past century according to research by Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel.
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Market Commentary: Blowoff Top?
When does the market top? Looking back at prior bubbles, one rule of thumb to internalize is “when price goes vertical, a top may be near”. If you’re the mathematical type, think of the angle of ascent that price takes. Usually, a bull market plods along, slow price rises push up against the Wall of Worry.