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Read MoreThe pain from the US government shutdown is about to hit the public
The ongoing US government shutdown will collide with the country’s economy this week, as missed pay cheques and the absence of billions of dollars of government services reverberate beyond federal workers and sting the broader public.
President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress remain deadlocked heading into a third week
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Read MoreFederal Reserve Bank of Chicago president 'a little uneasy' with big interest rate cuts
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee says he’s “a little uneasy” with big interest rate cuts at the moment, ahead of his vote during the Fed’s next meeting at the end of the month. “I still think we’re going to end up with rates down a fair amount from where they are now,”
Read MoreCopper's Long-Term Bullish Trend Supports Higher Mining Stocks
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Read MoreFed Chair Jerome Powell Warns Investors About the Stock Market — History Says the S&P 500 Will Do This Next
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently commented on the stock market’s elevated valuation.
The U.S. stock market has been abnormally volatile this year. The S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.56%) crashed when President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April, falling 10.5% to record its fifth biggest two-day drop in history.
The Burst
1 Rare Stock Buffett Is Buying
Warren Buffett has spent 2024 stockpiling cash, even going so far as to sell off sizeable pieces of some of his largest investments. Recently, though, Berkshire Hathaway announced that it had made some modest acquisitions, including the addition of nearly 388,000 shares of domain name registry service Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN).
These purchases brought Berkshire Hathaway’s holdings in Verisign to 13.2 million shares,
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Stock Market in Chaos? 1 High-Yield ETF Could Be a Safe Haven
The stock market has gotten off to an extremely rough start in 2025, with highly-valued stocks suddenly selling off on a variety of worries. Both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 entered corrections, erasing trillions in value from the market’s total capitalizations.
Much of this selloff has been driven by threats of sweeping tariffs that would drastically raise costs for American businesses and spur higher inflation.
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
Market Precariously Perched at Key Level
As the end of the quarter approaches, how do the markets fare? Zooming out, we can see that the S&P 500 is precariously perched on an uptrending resistance line.
While doomsayers have been lining up to predict the market’s demise for months, it has defied all skeptics and continued its march higher. But now it sits once again at a key threshold level.
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