Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Wall Street has spent the past week trading not just on earnings and economic data, but on the fate of a remote Arctic island and a looming Supreme Court showdown. With President Donald Trump backing away from his threat to slap new tariffs on European allies over Greenland, traders are unwinding one geopolitical scare while…
The S&P 500 has become shorthand for “the market,” but not every S&P 500 fund plays by the same rulebook. Invesco has built an exchange-traded fund that rewires how the index is weighted, and over long stretches that structural tweak has translated into periods of stronger returns than a traditional tracker like Vanguard’s VOO. I…
Global clean energy investment has not just cooled, it has lurched into a sharp downturn that has stunned traders who spent the past decade betting on a one-way transition. Capital that once chased solar farms, wind projects and battery plants is suddenly being pulled, delayed or redirected, even as demand for electricity and climate pressure…
Most major cryptocurrencies are trading lower, with selling pressure concentrated in Avalanche and XRP as traders rotate into safer assets and reassess risk across the digital asset complex. The pullback comes even as structural themes like tokenization and exchange-traded products keep building in the background, creating a sharp contrast between weak prices and still‑growing market…
New York City is suddenly arguing over a very specific financial instrument: Israel Bonds. At the center of the fight are two Democrats, a Jewish citywide fiscal watchdog and a mayor who has promised to pull public money away from the Israeli state. The question is not only whether the city will buy more of…
Ray Dalio is sharpening a warning he has been issuing for years: the world is quietly reordering itself in ways that could pull capital away from the United States and weaken the dollar’s central role. He argues that a long era of relatively predictable rules, anchored by U.S. power and institutions, is giving way to…
With recession odds now at 60%, I see every dollar as a potential line of defense rather than something to spend casually. The reporting on rising risks makes clear that waiting for layoffs or market drops is too late, so I want to lock in the most effective money moves now. These six steps focus…
Micron has become the purest stock-market expression of the artificial intelligence hardware boom, and Wall Street is scrambling to keep up. A fresh bullish call argues that the current surge in high-end memory is not a flash in the pan but the start of a multiyear upcycle that could reshape expectations for profits, pricing power,…
Talk of a rapid regime change in Cuba under President Donald Trump is no longer a fringe idea, it is an explicit policy goal that markets are starting to price in. A swift political shift on the island could jolt U.S. stocks, from airlines and cruise operators to telecoms and defense names, as investors reassess…
Money is moving fast out of U.S. stock funds and into emerging markets, and one BlackRock vehicle has become the focal point of that shift. The iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF has just absorbed a record $6 billion of new money, a surge that signals how aggressively investors are repositioning away from U.S. exposure….