Experts sound alarm as US national debt tops GDP for first time since WWII
The milestone marks a symbolic and economic threshold, with federal debt now roughly twice its historical average relative to the size of the economy. Outside of a brief distortion early in the COVID-19 pandemic — when output collapsed sharply — the United States has not ended a fiscal year with debt above 100% of GDP since 1946.
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Read MoreAssessing Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP) Valuation After Recent Share Price Strength
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Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP) has drawn attention after recent trading left the units at a last close of $67.02,
Dow Jones expected to build on gains as earnings impress
8am: Mixed start expected
The Dow Jones is set to build on Thursday’s gains when trading gets underway as solid company earnings continue to offset concerns about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,
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Read More3 Balanced Mutual Funds With Strong Upside Potential
Balanced funds offer investors the convenience of buying a single fund rather than holding both equity and bond funds. This category of funds also reduces a portfolio’s volatility while providing higher returns than pure fixed-income investments.
The fund managers also enjoy the flexibility of changing the proportion of equity and fixed-income investments in response to market conditions.
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Read MoreWarren Buffett tells CNBC it's not the ideal environment to invest Berkshire's record cash hoard
CNBC’s Becky Quick sits down with Berkshire Hathaway Chair Warren Buffett at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
Read MoreThe Burst
How a $300 Mistake Opened a $1 Billion Market
Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical giant behind weight-loss blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy, just let a key patent on semaglutide lapse in Canada because it forgot to pay a routine maintenance fee, the pharmaceutical equivalent of forgetting to renew your car registration.
As a result, generic versions of semaglutide, the active ingredient in both drugs,
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Is This The #1 Semi Stock To Buy Now?
AI stocks have been on fire in 2025. After Oracle and other hyperscalers revealed record-breaking capital expenditures, most semiconductor names raced back toward all-time highs. Yet one company that sits at the very heart of chip production has been noticeably absent from the party, ASML.
Despite that enviable position, the stock hasn’t kept pace with the AI rally.
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
Trade Like a Billionaire
Few traders in history have the capacity to seamlessly transition across asset classes, zooming out to see the big macro picture and in to see the minutia of a company’s 10Q but Stan Druckenmiller ranks as one of the few who have succeeded in so doing.
Stan’s thesis has been that the Fed is really in a bind,