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The five-year Treasury yield reached 5.06% on Monday after crossing 5% last week
The five-year Treasury yield reached 5.06% on Monday, Sept. 28, after first crossing 5% for the month a week earlier. The maturity is a common...
The 30-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.56% on Monday, from 5.27% on Sept. 1
A 30-year Treasury bond that yielded 5.27% on Sept. 1 stood at 5.56% on Monday, Sept. 28, the highest reading in September’s daily table from...
T-Mobile is raising its quarterly dividend 15% to $1.17 a share
T-Mobile US said on Sept. 24 that it is raising its quarterly dividend 15%, to $1.17 a share from $1.02, payable Dec. 10 to shareholders...
Palladium traded near $1,251 an ounce on September 25 as platinum outgained it
Palladium edged up to $1,251 an ounce on September 25, a $4 gain of 0.32%, while platinum climbed $23, or 1.31%, the same session, according...
Platinum rose $23 to $1,773 an ounce on September 25, Kitco prices show
Where gold eased for most of September, platinum moved the other way: Kitco’s benchmark tracking showed the metal up $23 to $1,773 an ounce on...
Gold held near $4,284 an ounce on September 25 after pulling back from its September highs
Gold slipped for most of September after opening the month near its highest levels of the year, closing at $4,284.20 an ounce on September 25,...
The Nasdaq closed at a record 27,122.09 on September 21, topping its June high
A 2.26% single-session jump pushed the Nasdaq Composite to a record close of 27,122.09 on September 21, edging past the 27,093.90 high the index had...
Philip Morris International lifts its dividend 8.8 percent to $1.60 a share, payable October 26
Philip Morris International will pay $1.60 a share for its next quarterly dividend, 8.8% more than the $1.47 it replaces, the company said in announcing...
Altria pays its raised $1.11 quarterly dividend October 9, its 61st increase in 57 years
Sixty-one dividend increases in 57 years is the streak Altria Group extended again in August, when the tobacco company raised its quarterly payout 4.7% to...
Fed officials now expect 3.7 percent inflation this year, far above their goal
Federal Reserve officials now expect their preferred inflation gauge to finish 2026 at 3.7%, according to the median projection released alongside the central bank’s September...
The Fed’s September hike lifted its reserve rate to 3.90 percent, effective September 17
Since September 17, the Federal Reserve has been paying banks 3.90% overnight to hold reserves at the central bank, the interest rate on reserve balances...
Investors who sold Twitter shares between May 13 and October 4, 2022, have until November 24 to claim from the Musk verdict
Roughly $7,940 in jury-awarded damages, plus interest, is what one investor who sold 1,000 Twitter shares on May 18, 2022, could recover under a claims...
Gold futures opened at $4,382.50 an ounce on September 22, up 17.8 percent from a year earlier
Gold’s December futures contract opened at $4,382.50 a troy ounce on September 22, 2026, up 17.8% from where the same contract traded a year earlier,...
McDonald’s raised its dividend for a 50th straight year, but the 3.8% boost to $1.93 a share is its smallest since 2020
McDonald’s has now delivered a dividend increase every year since 1976, a streak that reached 50 consecutive years on September 17, 2026, when the board...
Microsoft raises its quarterly dividend 8 percent to 98 cents a share, payable December 10
Microsoft will pay shareholders 98 cents a share on December 10, a quarterly dividend the company’s board raised 8% on September 15 from the prior...
A one-year Treasury bill paid 4.51% on September 24, up from 4.18% on September 1, as the Fed raised rates
Savers buying a one-year Treasury bill on September 24, 2026, locked in interest of 4.51%, according to Treasury’s daily par yield curve, up from 4.18%...
The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.18% on September 24, up from 4.79% on September 1
The interest rate on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note closed at 5.18% on September 24, 2026, according to the Treasury Department’s daily par yield curve,...
The effective tariff rate reached 6.7 percent in July, nearly triple where it stood in January 2025
The average effective U.S. tariff rate stood at 6.7 percent in July 2026, nearly triple the 2.3 percent rate recorded in January 2025, according to...
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, pushing credit card bills higher
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate a quarter point on September 16, 2026, lifting the federal funds target to a range of 3.75%...
A brokerage SIPC claim can cover up to $500,000
Securities Investor Protection Corporation coverage can protect up to $500,000 in a qualifying brokerage failure, including up to $250,000 for cash. The limit applies when...