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The intensifying power struggle between Republicans and Democrats nearly torpedoed Christopher Waller’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, but the chief economist at the St....

Stocks closed at new record levels on Friday. Ongoing optimism over the COVID-19 vaccine's progress and expectations for further stimulus drove Friday's rally in U.S. indexes.The Dow and S&P 500...

December started on a high note for many US stocks as the S&P 500 index hit an all-time high on the first day of the month. Year-to-date (YTD), the index is up close to 14%. Similarly, the SPDR...

Technically, the most brutal market corrections often result in the most aggressive reversals. If that adage is to apply to gold in its bid to return to $1,900 an ounce, then consider a fundamental...

Buying shares of the companies that are developing vaccines against COVID-19 has been a great bet this year. Some of the leading candidates in the race to beat the deadly virus have seen their stocks...

The UK's leading share index, the FTSE 100, has had a strong start to December, following solid gains in November.Gains in the FTSE mirror the recent strength shown by US indices as well as many world...

Demand for cybersecurity products is surging as the pandemic increases the global reliance on technology.In the stay-at-home environment, people are increasing their online presence to maintain...

Long-only investors in natural gas are yearning for a return of $3 pricing, as weather models suggest colder temperatures that may finally bring an end to the unseasonably warm winter that has...

Investors aren't thrilled with Salesforce.com's (NYSE:CRM) acquisition of Slack Technologies (NYSE:WORK), announced Tuesday, for $27.7 billion, mostly in cash. It is the software and cloud-based...

Bitcoin has been wavering, fluctuating between a 2.3% gain and 0.9% loss today, remaining little changed around the $19K level at the time of writing.Yesterday, the price of the cryptocurrency plunged...

Long/short equities is a market strategy in which investors take a long position in stocks or buy stocks they believe will rise in the future and, at the same time take short positions, or short...

Wall Street’s third quarter earnings season has largely wound down, but results this week are due from a variety of cloud-computing cybersecurity companies. Cloud-related software ETFs are...

Copper prices are hinting at revisiting, by next year, the mid-$4 per lb record highs set in 2011—a remarkable turnaround for long-only investors who have seen little joy from the metal for the...

The year 2020 has been a different and difficult period for many people. It has also been a time of increased volatility in the markets. Yet, hope springs eternal.As the weather gets cooler and the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a severe blow to global restaurant chains. These companies suffered massive losses this year as customers stayed indoors and the pandemic forced closures of their...

Oil prices are down for a third day, as some of the commodity's major fundamental catalysts appear to have gone to ground. While shale superpower, the United States, has been decimated by the same...