Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
After a powerful run in equities, Goldman Sachs is signaling that the next big move in markets may be a pullback rather than another melt-up. Yet even as it warns about the risk of a correction, the firm is still steering clients toward a handful of durable dividend payers that it believes can ride out…
Inflation is drifting higher again in the Federal Reserve’s preferred yardstick, complicating hopes that price pressures were gliding smoothly back to target. The personal consumption expenditures index showed prices rising at 2.8% in November, a reminder that the last mile in the inflation fight is proving stubborn even as growth and jobs remain resilient. That…
Rare earth miners have roared back into focus after a string of surprisingly strong operational updates, turning a once-speculative corner of the market into one of the week’s most closely watched trades. The latest leg higher has been driven less by hype and more by concrete production and project milestones, igniting a new wave of…
Global markets are grappling with a rare alignment of risks, from swelling public debts to shifting geopolitical alliances, that some economists now describe as a self reinforcing “doom loop” for the world economy. At the center of that feedback cycle sits the U.S. dollar, still the dominant reserve currency but no longer looking invulnerable. The…
The decision to leave Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan off the guest list for a Trump reception in Davos turned a private slight into a very public signal. What might once have been dismissed as a scheduling quirk now looks like a deliberate escalation in a long running clash between the White House…
President Donald Trump is again testing the outer limits of American statecraft, floating the idea of paying every resident of Greenland $1 million to bring the vast Arctic territory into the United States. The proposal, framed as a once-in-a-lifetime windfall for roughly 56,000 people, would turn a long-running geopolitical tug-of-war into a direct cash offer…
Criminals have figured out that the easiest way to beat bank security is to go straight to the source: the person holding the card. Instead of hiding behind anonymous phishing emails, they are now showing up, literally and figuratively, at front doors to separate people from their debit cards and PINs. I want to walk…
With artificial intelligence, cloud software, and next‑generation chips driving markets, a handful of focused exchange‑traded funds are positioned to grow far faster than the broad S&P 500 over the next five years. Instead of trying to pick individual winners, investors can use these concentrated vehicles to ride entire themes like semiconductors, large‑cap growth, and small‑cap…
President Donald Trump is dangling a once unthinkable offer over the Arctic: a proposal that could see every person in Greenland handed around 1,000,000 dollars in exchange for backing a transfer of the vast island into the United States. The idea, framed by Trump as an “ultimate deal,” fuses hard cash, strategic minerals and military…
House and federal investigators are now examining how Rep. Ilhan Omar went from reporting no assets to being linked to an estimated $30 million in family wealth, a trajectory some critics have flatly labeled “not possible” under normal circumstances. At the center of the storm are opaque business interests tied to her husband, questions about…