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When will mortgage rates go down? The bond market isn't helping.

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Some offers on this page are from advertisers who pay us, which may affect which products we write about, but not our recommendations. See our Advertiser Disclosure . When will mortgage rates go down? The bond market isn't helping. E. Napoletano Contributor Hal Bundrick, CFP Senior Writer Thu, September 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM PDT 8 min read Mortgage rates are the highest they've been in well over a year, and the Federal Reserve is considering a rate hike, while the bond market is reaching multi-year yields. What will it take for mortgage rates to finally move down? See today's best rates. Are mortgage rates dropping? No. As of Sept. 10, Freddie Mac reported that the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate was 6.76%. This is five basis points higher than last week. At this time in September 2025, mortgage rates averaged 6.35%, 41 basis points lower. The average 15-year fixed mortgage rate this week was 6.09%, up five basis points from last week, and 59 basis points higher tha...

Surging bond yields presage pain—and not just for bond investors

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Dell, Skyworks Solutions, GameStop & more

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: DELL, SWKS, GME Skip Navigation Markets Business Investing Tech Politics & Policy Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Dell Technologies Shares rallied more than 10% as part of a broader upswing in tech. The gain would be the stock's sixth in seven sessions. Dell also got a boost after RBC initiated coverage with an outperform rating. "We believe DELL is well positioned as a primary beneficiary of the global IT spending environment, as enterprise, sovereigns and cloud providers aggressively direct capital towards AI infrastructure," RBC said. Vicor The power components maker's stock rose about 11%, on pace for its best day since July 30, after the company said it was acquiring two sites in New Hampshire for additional ChiP fab manufacturing. Shopify Shares popped nearly 4% for the Canada-based commerce company after Bernstein initiated coverage for the s...

The day that blew America and the world off course

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Just Called CrowdStrike Its Top Security Partner. How to Play CRWD Stock Here.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Just Called CrowdStrike Its Top Security Partner. How to Play CRWD Stock Here. Patrick Sanders Thu, September 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM PDT 4 min read CRWD NVDA NBIS TSM META The CrowdStrike logo on an office building by bluestork via Shutterstock Here's an indisputable fact about semiconductor sector leader Nvidia (NVDA). It has massive coattails. One comment from CEO Jensen Huang and his leadership team can push a lot of momentum and investor interest. We've seen it with his remarks about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) (calling it one of the "greatest companies in the history of humanity"), Meta Platforms (META) ("Nobody uses AI better than Meta"), and Nebius Group (NBIS) ("Nebius will take care of you"). Now the shine is on CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD), the cybersecurity company known for its cloud-native platform for endpoint security. At CrowdStrike's recent Fal.Con 2026 conference in Las Vegas, Huang said that ...

Iran, Russia condemn Western economic sanctions and urge BRICS bloc to deepen economic ties

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized Western sanctions on their economies and urged countries of the Global South to deepen trade relations as they addressed the BRICS Business Forum. "BRICS must create an environment in which no country can disrupt the legitimate trade of another country through monopolizing a financial instrument or technology," Pezeshkian said in New Delhi. He urged the bloc, which has sought to amplify the influence of the Global South, to expand the use of national currencies to trade among member countries. Pressure on Iran has entered a "dangerous phase," shifting from sanctions to military aggression by the U.S. and Israel, Pezeshkian said, adding that the impact of the war against Tehran was being felt beyond its borders, affecting regional and global stability. The conflicts have also disrupted global energy markets and pushed fuel prices sharply higher. U.S. diesel prices hit $6 pe...

Is Bessent winning the wrong battle in markets?

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U.S. crude oil falls back below $100 but heads to weekly gain

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Oil prices retreated on Friday, but remained on track for a weekly gain of about 9% after soaring above $100 a barrel for the first time in months. Brent crude oil futures , the global benchmark, were down by 2.3% to trade at $105.15 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate was down 2.73% to $99.68 per barrel. On Thursday, Brent crude peaked at around $108 a barrel, while WTI hit more than $104. The price decline came after Iranian state media said Tehran will meet with Gulf states in Oman to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, indicating some diplomacy is taking place despite a week of sharp escalation. Crude oil futures Brent futures were on course for a weekly gain of 9%, and set to end the week above the critical $100 mark. WTI's week-to-date gain stood at 8.9%. Friday's decline snaps five consecutive days of gains for Brent crude and an eight-day winning streak for WTI. Markets are bracing for a protracted Iran war, reacting to the escalating conflict in the Middle East and a Wa...

Why Warsh is starting to bite back

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Ryanair boss O'Leary defends 'high-fare rapists' airlines remarks

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Image source, Getty Images By Katy Austin , Transport correspondent and Mitchell Labiak , Business reporter Published 26 minutes ago Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has refused to apologise to a rape crisis centre which criticised him for describing rival airlines as "high-fare rapists". Speaking to journalists, O'Leary said some people were "desperate to get to Ryanair's low fares because they can't afford to fly with the high-fare rapists around Europe". O'Leary doubled-down on his choice of words when asked about them at the time, and later refused to apologise when the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) wrote to him asking for apology, in a letter seen by the BBC. Ireland's deputy premier Simon Harris said it was "clearly an inappropriate use of language" and that O'Leary "should have moved to rectify it". Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told UK radio outlet LBC that victims of rape are "not going t...

Kalshi launches ‘perps’ for gold and silver following CFTC approval, expanding futures offerings

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Kalshi has won approval to list perpetual futures tied to precious metals gold and silver in the U.S., in the latest development as the company seeks to grow its trading offerings beyond prediction markets . Originally filed in July, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which regulates derivatives contracts approved the listing of the perpetuals this week. The new markets for the contracts launched on Thursday on the site. Kalshi first received approval to list perpetual futures tied to cryptocurrencies in late May, bringing the novel asset class with $90 trillion in annual volume in 2025 onshore to the U.S. for the first time. Since then, the contracts have done $44 billion in notional volume, according to the platform's website. Udesh Jha, chief risk officer at Kalshi Klear, the exchange's clearing house, said the company moved to have this be their next asset to offer perpetual futures for due to high interest in the commodities. "Metals, especially gold and silver...

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop, Oracle, Adobe, RH & more

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GME, ORCL, ADBE, RH Skip Navigation Markets Business Investing Tech Politics & Policy Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop The video game retailer and meme stock climbed more than 3% after CEO Ryan Cohen disclosed he purchased 1 million shares at an average price of $20.375. Cohen now owns 39.347 million shares. As of Thursday's close, that stake was valued at around $802.28 million. National Beverage The parent company of La Croix sparkling water fell more than 5% after reporting fiscal first-quarter results. National Beverage earned 50 cents per share on revenue of $331 million. The company said it felt pressure from tariffs, weakening consumer sentiment and elevated packaging and ingredient costs. Kroger The grocery store chain lost 3% after reporting mixed second-quarter results. Adjusted earnings per share of $1.09 beat a FactSet estimate of $1.06 ...

Europe’s difficult choices on AI

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9/11 and the America it left behind

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From Farmland to Fast Trading, ETFs Are Doing It All

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From Farmland to Fast Trading, ETFs Are Doing It All ETF Zoo Podcast Wed, September 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM PDT 2 min read SMH SOXX VFFSX IBIT Farm This week's ETF Zoo crew takes a lay of the land as summer comes to a close and some new and interesting developments crop up. ETF.com hosts Dave Nadig, President & Director of Research, and Sumit Roy, Senior ETF Analyst, are joined in this episode by Cinthia Murphy, Director of Research at TMX VettaFi, and James Seyffart, CFA, CAIA, Senior Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Together the group talks about some of the big M&A announcements lately, dig into the AI chokepoint perspective, and more. You can view this episode here or on our YouTube channel or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. M&A land grab in full swing. Billions in ETF acquisitions, including Victory Capital/First Eagle, Vanguard/Altruist, and more, signal that scale instead of organic growth now drives the industry. The Zoo crew debated whether firms ar...

Interest rates could rise again across the world – here's why

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Image source, Getty Images By Michael Race Business reporter , Reporting from New York Published 11 September 2026, 00:03 BST Updated 1 hour ago There's nothing like talk of energy prices and potential higher borrowing costs to remind us that the summer holidays are well and truly over. Surging oil prices have been pushing up what drivers pay at the fuel pumps and eating away at household budgets for months, and concerns remain over whether the economic impact of the US-Iran war will drive the cost of living higher. Citing the Middle East conflict and warning inflation was "set to remain well above" its 2% target for some time, the European Central Bank raised interest rates this week to 2.5%. Other central banks are also responding, with the US and the UK poised to make interest-rate decisions next week. Up first on Wednesday is the US Federal Reserve, which has held rates steady between 3.5% and 3.75% for five meetings in a row . It last made a change - a rate cut - in...

Modi and Xi are set to meet at BRICS with trade and border issues in spotlight

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When the BRICS summit gets underway tomorrow in India, the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be among the most keenly watched events. Beijing confirmed Xi's attendance at the event on Thursday, marking the Chinese president's first visit to India since 2019, and since ties deteriorated following deadly border clashes in 2020. "This is a really crucial moment," Vrinda Sahai, research analyst in the Security Studies Program at Carnegie India, told CNBC. "It's a great opportunity to use the BRICS summit as an excuse to have a really substantive bilateral meeting." The meeting comes amid thawing relations between New Delhi and Beijing, and follows Modi's visit to China last year for the SCO summit , although border disputes and trade imbalance remain sticking points between the the two countries. Border issues between New Delhi and Beijing are expected to be on the agenda, a dispute that goes back ...

Inflation is back around the world—as is the fight against it

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UK economy grew faster than expected in July

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Image source, Getty Images By Emer Moreau Business reporter Published 11 September 2026, 07:13 BST Updated 36 minutes ago The UK's economy grew faster than expected in July, latest official figures have shown. The economy expanded by 0.4% in the month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, whereas economists had predicted no growth. The expansion was helped by a strong performance from the services sector, and particularly computer programming. It follows growth of 0.3% in June and zero growth in May. According to the ONS director of economic statistics, Liz McKeown, there was evidence that businesses involved with artificial intelligence and related technologies helped to boost the sector, not just in July but in May and June as well. She also said some businesses had said that the warm weather and football world cup had affected activity in July, although she said the effects "differed across industries, benefitting some businesses while creating challenges for oth...

Bessent says 'a large bank' will be sanctioned on Monday as part of Iran strategy

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"A large bank" will be sanctioned by the U.S. next week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday. "We're going to do it on Monday because we want to honor the memory of our fallen citizens on 9/11. But watch this space on Monday," Bessent said during an appearance on "Real America's Voice," without naming the financial institution nor the country. The announcement come after Trump's administration sanctioned the Dubai branches of the second largest bank in Egypt which is believed to have given Iranians $1.8 billion of funds. According to Bessent, Turkey's largest bank "that had been giving to the Iranians" will also be closed. Since the Mideast conflict began in February, the U.S. implemented a series of economic measures against Iran, including sanctions. However, the Trump administration escalated its pressure last month via what Bessent called "Operation Economic Outcast ," which imposed sanctions on almo...