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Is inflation rising? The consumer price index (CPI), an index used as a proxy for inflation in consumer prices, offers some answers. In 2020, inflation dropped to 1.4%, the lowest rate since 2015. By comparison, inflation sits around 2.5% as of Ju...

How Rising Treasury Yields Impact Your Portfolio Since the start of 2021, the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note has climbed to pre-pandemic levels. But what exactly does this mean, and how could it impact your portfolio? In this Markets i...

The Briefing Amazon plans to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for $8.45 billion This move would add 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows to Amazon Studios’ content library ...

The Briefing Bitcoin had its latest price correction, pulling back more than 50% from its all-time highs Elon Musk’s tweet announcing Tesla’s suspension of bitcoin purchases accelerated the price drop ...

The Briefing U.S. household debt stands at $14.56 trillion, and has doubled since 2003 Student loan debt has expanded a colossal 550% in the same time frame ...

Visualizing Interest Rates by Country in 2021 Going as far back as the 14th century, pandemics have been found to have a negative effect on interest rates. History shows that this effect is even greater than that of financial crises. Across a s...

U.S. Stock Ownership Over Time (1965-2019) The U.S. stock market is the largest in the world, with total U.S. stock ownership amounting to almost $40 trillion in 2019. But who owns all these equities? In this Markets in a Minute from New York L...

The Briefing The U.S. and China contain the most ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals in the world Asia is expected to see the fastest growth in UHNW population over the next five years ...

The Briefing Since 1980, college tuition and fees in the U.S. have increased by 1,200% Because of the shift to online classes, 2020 saw the lowest tuition increase in the last four decades ...