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Capital One Performance Savings still pays 4.10% APY, while online-only competitors hover around 4.20% — the CFPB’s new open-banking rule lets you switch in minutes for free
As of June 2026, Capital One’s Performance Savings account is advertising a 4.10% annual percentage yield. That is a strong rate by historical standards, but...
Kevin Warsh’s first FOMC meeting opens June 16 — and Wall Street is pricing in under a 3% chance of any rate cut for the rest of 2026
Kevin Warsh has been Federal Reserve chairman for less than a month, and the bond market has already rendered its verdict on what he will...
Brent crude jumped 2.5% Tuesday to $98.47 — Iran’s foreign ministry now says vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz “will have costs” as part of any ceasefire deal
Iran is no longer just threatening to weaponize the Strait of Hormuz. It is billing for passage. Brent crude settled at $98.47 a barrel on...
The S&P 500 closed at a fresh record 7,519 the first day back from Memorial Day — Wall Street brushed off Iran’s retaliation threats and a dip in consumer confidence
Stocks shrugged off airstrikes in Iran and a dip in consumer confidence on Tuesday, May 27, 2026, sending the S&P 500 to a fresh all-time...
Brokers are paying up to $1,000 or more to move your investment account over — a cash bonus most savers don’t know they can simply ask for
Last spring, a financial planner in Dallas told me something that stuck: the easiest money most of her clients ever made was a phone call....
Gold has jumped 41% in a year and central banks can’t stop buying — the metal is now outrunning the S&P 500 and the cash sitting in your savings account
In May 2025, an ounce of gold fetched roughly $2,350 on the London Bullion Market. Twelve months later, spot prices have pushed past $3,300, a...
Nvidia is now a bigger slice of your index fund than the entire energy sector — just five tech stocks drove nearly half the S&P 500’s gains this year
Open your 401(k) statement and look at the largest holding in your S&P 500 index fund. Odds are it is not a bank, not a...
Bitcoin ETFs are now buying ten times more coins each day than miners can produce — a supply squeeze building since April’s halving cut new supply in half
During the first full week of May 2026, U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled in a net 31,500 BTC, according to daily creation and redemption...
Americans are now parked on a record $7 trillion in money-market funds — earning about 4% while the stock market keeps setting records without them
Americans are now parked on a record $7 trillion in money-market funds, earning about 4% while the stock market keeps setting records without them. Somewhere...
80% of companies that adopted AI cut jobs this year — and a new study finds the layoffs haven’t actually boosted profits at most of them
Companies rushed to cut headcount after rolling out artificial intelligence tools. For most of them, the payoff never arrived. The headline claim that 80% of...
Just five tech stocks have driven more than half the S&P 500’s gains this year — so your index fund is now a bet on a handful of companies
As of early June 2026, the S&P 500 has returned roughly 11% year to date. But strip away just five names and the picture changes...
One year after Moody’s stripped the U.S. of its last AAA rating, the 30-year Treasury yield just hit 5.14% — the number that sets the floor under every mortgage
The 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5.14% in late May 2025, a level not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis. It arrived almost to the...
Brent crude hit $114 this week, the highest of the entire Iran war — after the U.S. sank six Iranian boats and the UAE came under drone attack
Brent crude hit $114 a barrel on May 19, 2026, its highest price since the Iran conflict began. The spike followed two shocks in rapid...
The Fed meets June 17 with markets betting 98% it does nothing — meaning your 6.5% mortgage and 21.5% credit card rate are locked in deep into 2026
Put 10 percent down on a $400,000 house today and the 30-year fixed principal-and-interest payment runs about $2,270 a month. The same loan at the...
One-fifth of the world’s oil is now trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz — the largest energy supply shock ever recorded, and it just pushed gas to $4.53
The pump reads $4.53. For millions of American drivers filling up in June 2026, that number is the most visible consequence of a crisis unfolding...
Jet fuel prices are up 80% since the Iran war started — Delta says higher fuel costs alone will add $2 billion this quarter, and that bill lands on every summer flight
A round-trip flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles cost about $280 last June. This summer, the same route is pricing north of $400 on many...
Goldman Sachs models $80 billion in Nvidia revenue Wednesday — $2 billion above consensus, and the data center number alone tops New Zealand’s entire GDP
Nvidia is expected to report fiscal first-quarter revenue of roughly $80 billion when it releases results on Wednesday, according to Goldman Sachs, a figure that...
Brent settled near $108 the morning Iran’s counteroffer collapsed — refiners typically pass crude hikes through to the pump in 7 to 10 days
Drivers filling up this week are still paying late-spring prices. That window is closing fast. Brent crude, the international benchmark that sets the cost of...
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled out $1 billion last week — the worst exit since early February, as BTC slid under $77,000 over the weekend
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed roughly $1 billion in net outflows during the trading week ending Friday, June 6, 2025, their steepest weekly drawdown since...
Meta starts laying off 8,000 workers Wednesday — the same quarter the company posted $26.8 billion in net profit and pledged $135 billion on AI
About 8,000 Meta Platforms employees began receiving termination notices on Wednesday morning, a cut that erases roughly 10 percent of the company’s workforce. The layoffs...