ETFs Just Set a Trading Volume Record
ETF share of total market volume recently hit an all-time high of 27.6%, according to IEX. That is a significant jump from where things sat for years, when ETF volume hovered in the high teens to low 20s as a percentage of the tape.
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Read MoreToday’s Mortgage Rates Climb Amid Rising Oil Prices: July 21, 2026
Today’s average interest rate on a 30-year purchase mortgage is 6.742%, up from 6.719% yesterday, according to Zillow data provided to U.S. News. For refinancing mortgages, today’s 30-year rate is 6.874%, and the current 15-year rate is 5.866%.
Interest rates on home loans have risen since the beginning of the U.S.
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Read MoreIs Social Security taxed? Changes in 2027 could impact your benefits
While Social Security benefits are taxed for individuals who meet certain income thresholds, various bills have attempted to lower or eliminate that burden: In Sep. 2025, Senator Ruben Gallego, a Democrat from Arizona, reintroduced the You Earned It, You Keep It Act, which would stop federal taxation of Social Security benefits.
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Read MoreThe $850 Social Security Decision You Need to Make Carefully
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Claiming Social Security at 70 versus 62 can mean roughly $850 more per month, or about $10,200 extra per year.
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Filing at 62 cuts your benefit by 30%, while waiting until 70 boosts it by 24% above your full retirement age amount.
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Read MorePrediction: This Quantum Computing Stock Is Going to Plummet After Aug. 6
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Rigetti Computing develops some of the world’s best quantum computing systems, but they might be several years away from accurately solving real-world problems.
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The company is generating very little revenue relative to its $4.7 billion market capitalization, and it’s losing truckloads of money.
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Got $1,780? Is This The Best Investment In 2024?
Retail investors are conditioned to focus on gains but those who have been around the block and made a fortune focus first on downside risks.
That focus is one of the reasons why so many buy Berkshire Hathaway. After all, when the stock market fell by 20% in 2022, Berkshire treaded water and essentially stayed flat.
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1 Little-known Fund Goes All In On Semi Stock
Prospect Capital Advisors isn’t a big name fund but it’s put almost 10% of its fund into a single stock, Silicon Motion Technology.
For a fund overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars, this is quite a bet. Why risk it all on a little-known stock when you can follow the herd into Apple,
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