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Top-Performing ETFs of the Week: Options, Crypto Miners, & Energy

Single-stock derivative strategies, crypto miners, and energy commodities led in performance across non-leveraged ETFs last week. Broad market momentum shifted toward high-beta tech exposure and commodity inflation hedg…

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World Markets Watchlist: July 27, 2026

Our global markets watchlist tracks nine prominent indexes from economies around the world. The list includes the S&P 500 from the United States, TSX from Canada, the FTSE 100 from England, the DAXK from Germany, the CA…

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New U.S. Tariffs Create Case for International Dividend ETFs

It’s becoming increasingly clear that tariff tensions between the United States and the rest of the world won’t be going away any time soon. Last Friday, the U.S. imposed a series of tariffs on 60 different trading part…

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As Small-Caps Rise, Pair These ETFs for Value, Growth Views

Small-caps have produced modest but healthy gains this year. After a slow start, the notable small-caps index Russell 2000 has returned 17.3% YTD. That has helped that same index return 30.7% over the last 12 months. Sm…

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UK retailers report smallest sales drop since January, CBI says

WASHINGTON/DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was having "good talks" with Iran and there was a chance of a deal over their conflict, but warned that U.S. strikes would re…

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Q2 Earnings Season Puts Financials & BCFN in Focus

The Q2 earnings season is approaching a critical moment for the financial sector. With Wall Street anticipating massive profit expansions across indexes, investors are fixated on whether corporate growth is correlated w…

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Reckoner CEO Explains the Need for Actively Managed CLO ETFs

The rapid expansion of the collateralized loan obligations (CLO) has introduced ETF options for investors, namely funds that are passive or actively managed. While passive indexes offer easy access to CLO exposure, the …

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Thornburg’s THOR Skips the Valuation Rally

Thornburg Investment Management’s newest income ETF, THOR, was built around a pattern that has quietly powered much of the market’s gains. That pattern is rising valuations, not stronger earnings.

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Analysts Growing Bullish on AMD; AMUU May Be Worth a Trade

Shares of semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have more than doubled this year. The stock, one of the bellwethers in the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor space, traded higher last week following t…

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The Concentration Trap in Fixed Income & the Equal-Weight Fix

Last time, we discussed how legacy bond benchmarks still carry the fingerprints of a market that no longer exists. This week, we turn to one of the most consequential artifacts still embedded in traditional bond benchma…

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US core capital goods orders increase strongly in June

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) – U.S. inflation increased further in May, breaking above 4.0% for the first time in three years as the Middle East conflict boosted energy prices, and keeping an interest rate increase fro…

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Italian machine tool sector wants tougher EU trade rules on China

When European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen launched the European Green Deal in 2019, she called it “Europe’s man on the moon moment”. The green deal aimed to create the world’s “first carbon-neutral contine…

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As Insurers Eye Private Credit, PCR Offers a Timely Opportunity

Institutional interest in private credit (PC) is surging. According to Marsh’s 2026 Global Insurance Investments Survey, 57% of insurers plan to increase their private credit allocations over the next 12 to 24 months, w…

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The Gas-to-Nuclear Bridge for AI Data Centers

Amentum (AMTM) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) selected them to negotiate a phased lease at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The proposed publ…

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ECB data shows steady lending growth in June

At the turn of the year 2025-26, economic growth surprised on the upside while financial market sentiment remained strong despite high uncertainty. The war in the Middle East is now putting this resilience to the test. …

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China’s industrial profit growth moderates amid patchy recovery

TCL Electronics is marking a strategic shift by negotiating the sale of a 51% majority stake in its sole open-cell display manufacturing plant in Tirupati, India. The deal is reportedly valued between $600 million and $…

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Lula calls new US tariffs a mistake in Washington Post op-ed

Silvana Marques was one of thousands of Brazilians who flocked to São Paulo’s most famous art museum one afternoon last week. But the 51-year-old teacher wasn’t there to marvel over fog-filled London landscapes at Masp’…

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A Renegade Buy Signal: A Dividend Cut

Clearly, there must be a typo in that headline. I’m the one who is always preaching about getting the yield you deserve. So, why would I even consider buying a company that can’t keep its payouts reliable?

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S&P 500 Snapshot: Index Ends Choppy Week in the Red

The S&P 500 ended its choppy week in the red, ultimately finishing with a loss of 0.6%. This marks the second straight weekly decline, the longest streak since late March.