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Stock futures are little changed ahead of a holiday-shortened trading session as investors watch gold and silver continue to rally. Here's what investors need to know today.

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S&P Global ( SPGI +3.95%), the financial markets information and analysis company best known for its S&P series of indexes, beat its own S&P 500 index on the first trading Monday of 2026. The company's shares rose by 4%, topping the index's 0.6% gain, thanks in no small part to a bullish new analyst note on its prospects.

Retiree Mary Johnson, 73, said she doesn’t usually check her retirement accounts when the markets are in a freefall, but she couldn’t “remember a fall this deep.” On April 4, when the blue-chip Dow dropped 2,231 points, or 5.5%, and the broad S&P ...

The stock market took a dive on Friday, and the latest tariffs could increase consumer prices. We asked top finance influencers for their No. 1 piece of advice right now. Some said don't panic while others advised prioritizing budgeting and investing.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. The October Effect is a theory that stock prices decline in October. One basis for this belief is that nine of history’s 20 ...

The "Buffett Indicator" takes the Wilshire 5000 Index (viewed as the total stock market) and divides it by the annual US GDP. It rose to fame following a 2001 Fortune Magazine article written by Buffett and longtime Fortune writer and Buffett insider Carol Loomis.

"Small and large Chinese refineries have for while been buying deeply discounted oil" from Venezuela which has faced U.S. sanctions, said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo. Any potential sanctions relief would mean that China will have to either pay market rates,