This Dividend Stock Is Beating the Market in 2026 and Yields 2.36%
Merck (MRK) was at the center of a major cancer-treatment update in August. Specifically, the drugmaker and Moderna (MRNA) said their personalized mRNA cancer therapy, intismeran autogene, delivered positive results in a Phase 3 study involving 1,137 patients with high-risk melanoma.
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Read MoreStock market today LIVE updates: Sensex, Nifty fluctuate; NSE IPO opens today, check latest GMP price
Sep 17, 2026, 10:17:27 IST
NSE IPO LIVE updates: A guard stands at the gate of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Mumbai
NSE IPO LIVE updates: Indian stock market indices BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty had a muted start on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates and signalled further hikes.
President Trump departs for midterm campaign event as Federal Reserve announces rate hike
President Trump departs for midterm campaign event as Federal Reserve announces rate hike
The Federal Reserve unanimously decided to raise interest rates, citing inflation concerns and geopolitical risks, including the impact of the Iran war on energy prices.
President Trump is traveling to North Carolina aboard Air Force One to campaign with Senate candidate Michael Whatley.
Read MoreFederal Reserve raises interest rates for first time in 3 years
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today for the first time in three years in an effort to battle inflation.
The Federal Open Market Committee increased the target range for the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points to between 3.75% and 4%.
The interest rate increase follows the latest update from the Consumer and Producer Price Index,
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Read MoreFederal Reserve and Bank of England ramp up scrutiny of bank-trading firm ties after Jane Street’s $15B loss
Jane Street, the quantitative trading powerhouse that has quietly become one of the most profitable firms on Wall Street, just had its worst month in a decade. The firm posted a roughly $15 billion trading loss in July 2026, its first month of negative trading revenue since 2016. Now the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are using the episode as a catalyst to take a harder look at the risks banks face from their deep financial ties to firms like Jane Street.
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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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