The Good News Is Your Social Security COLA Is Beating Inflation. The Bad News Is That May Not Last.
Inflation has jumped by 3.8% in April from a year ago, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the highest spike in three years.
The good news for retirees is that the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) forecast is also increasing. The Senior Citizens League,
Read MoreUS stock market jumps sharply today as Dow Jones reclaims 50,000 — Why the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are all in green after U.S.-China trade summit boost
US stock market rallies today as Dow Jones nears 50,000: The Dow Jones Industrial Average punched back above the 50,000 level on Thursday morning, May 14, 2026 — a milestone that matters not just for the number, but for what it signals about investor confidence returning to American equities.
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Stock market today: Dow retakes 50,000 level, S&P 500 and Nasdaq surge as AI trade roars back
US stocks stepped higher on Thursday as the artificial intelligence trade came back into focus and after President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, began a high-stakes US-China summit.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.9%, or more than 450 points, to climb above the 50,000 level for the first time since February.
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The Burst
Sentiment Extreme Warns Traders To Watch Out
Largely, trading falls into one of 3 buckets. Fundamental, technical or sentiment analysis. For the most part, we focus on valuations as part of fundamental analysis and charts as part of technical analysis but sentiment analysis has a time and place, and they appear to be right here, right now.
Tom McClellan, famous for creating the McClellan Oscillator pointed out a remarkable statistic that hasn’t surfaced in over 5 years.
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Paul Tudor Jones Is Betting Big Against the Bond Market: How You Can Too.
Stan Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, both among the most successful traders ever, are now on the same side of a trade: shorting long-duration bonds.
This move is more than just a hedge but rather it’s a bet that interest rates are headed higher, and when these legendary traders make such strong statements,
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1 Surefire Stock That Could 2x Your Money
Despite the firm’s revenue and profit numbers being in line with Wall Street estimates, the FinTech stock underwent a sharp decline. Pre-market trading saw the business lose 8% of its value overnight,
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