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October 18, 2026, 7:29 PM ET An employee arranges a 12.5 kg gold bar at the Italpreziosi precious metals refinery in Arezzo, Italy, on September 29, 2026. Last month’s announcement from the Dutch central bank that it was moving gold from North America to Europe added to the trend of a global redistribution of reserves. The New York Fed has long served as the custodian of the gold on behalf the U.S. government, foreign governments, other central banks, and official international organizations.

The authorities will have to go “full Weimar” to get out of their debt hole

Those companies are expected to at least triple the pace of S&P 500 revenue growth from 2026 through 2028

It took a decade of hard work. Other highly indebted European countries should heed the lesson

The Strait of Hormuz is “effectively wide open”, says Javier Blas on Bloomberg. Backed by “an array of warships, drones, fighter jets and helicopters”, the US military is slowly prevailing in the battle for control of the waterway. Convoys, which used to cross only at night to avoid Iranian detection, have started moving in daylight. Add in “bypass” pipelines, and crude-oil exports from the region recently reached about 80% of prewar levels. So why are energy prices still climbing? Firstly, the

Ben Emons, FedWatch Advisors CIO and founder, joins 'Fast Money' to talk how fears of Fed rate hikes are moving the markets.