Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio on stage at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in March. Courtesy of CNBC Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said investors should allocate as much as 15% of their portfolios to gold even as the precious metal surged to an all-time high above $4,000 an ounce. “Gold is a very excellent diversifier in the…
Fake gold bars piled up in Clermont-Ferrand France on March 25 2025. Romain Costaseca | Afp | Getty Images Gold prices hit $4,000 for the first time Tuesday as investors seek a safe haven from geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty and stubborn inflation. Gold futures were last trading at $4,005.80 per ounce. Prices have gained more…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Shares of New York Stock Exchange parent, Intercontinental Exchange, rose more than 4% in the premarket after The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reported that the company was nearing a deal for a $2 billion stake in Polymarket. The deal is expected to…
US President Donald Trump, left, and Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of U.S.-listed minerals explorer Trilogy Metals jumped as much as 205% in premarket trade on Tuesday, shortly after…
LONDON — European stocks ticked lower on Tuesday, with all eyes on France after the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu plunged the country into a fresh political crisis. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was down 0.2% by 8:36 a.m. in London (3:36 a.m. ET), with most sectors and major bourses in the red. France…
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Galaxy Digital shares jumped 7% Monday after the digital assets investment firm led by CEO Mike Novogratz unveiled a Robinhood-like trading platform, called GalaxyOne. The platform, which launched Monday, hosts commission-free buying and selling of more than 2,000 stocks and exchange-traded funds, in addition to trading of cryptocurrencies…
Aerial view by drone of Tokyo Cityscape with Tokyo Sky Tree visible in Tokyo city, Japan on sunrise. pongnathee kluaythong | Moment | Getty Images Japan’s Nikkei 225 hit a record high Tuesday for the second straight session, lifted by a tech rally on Wall Street after a massive deal between OpenAI and AMD —…
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones believes the conditions are set for a powerful surge in stock prices before the bull market tops out. “My guess is that I think all the ingredients are in place for some kind of a blow off,” Jones said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “History rhymes a lot, so I…
Aerial view of Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower and modern skyscrapers in Tokyo on a sunny day. Yongyuan | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to open higher on Monday, with investors closely eyeing Japan equities after the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party elected staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi as its new leader on Saturday,…
Government shutdowns should, theoretically, matter to the stock market. A shutdown could hurt spending power for up to 900,000 people, the highest estimate I have seen for those to be furloughed. That’s a lot of people who will spend a lot less money – especially because most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Shutdowns still don’t…
