Gold and the related exchange traded products are off to very impressive starts this year. For example, the SPDR Gold Shares , iShares Gold Trust and ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares are each up about 8.7%.

Global X Funds, a provider of targeted exchange traded fund themes, has rolled out a strategy that specifically focuses on companies led by the original founders of their firms in an attempt to enhance returns and outperform the broader market.

U.S. equities and stock exchange traded funds climbed Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average topping 21,000 for the first time ever, as investors grew more optimistic on the economic outlook, following announcements from President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve officials.

Christians who want to align their investments with biblical values can now look to two new Inspire Investing exchange traded funds to track global companies that provide a positive impact on the world through various environmental, social and governance principles.

Home sales in New Jersey surged in January, continuing a trend of strengthening sales as the employment picture continues to improve. Sales of new and existing homes in January increased 14% compared with the same month in 2016, and rose 31% from 2015, according a market report by Jeffrey Otteau, president of the Otteau Group, an appraisal and consulting firm.

Mar. 01, 2017 – 3:44 – Tim Courtney from Exencial Wealth Advisors, CFRA chief investment strategist Sam Stovall and Art Hogan from Wunderlich Securities discuss when investors should get in on the market as the Dow surpasses 21K.

Charlotte Hogg, a newly appointed Bank of England deputy governor, must take steps to avoid conflicts of interest, say MPs. On Tuesday MPs on the Treasury select committee questioned her about her brother, who works for Barclays as a director in group strategy.

The company sold 200 million shares for $17 each, according to a statement Wednesday. The price gives the company a market value of about $20 billion, based on the 1.16 billion shares outstanding after the offering.

It’s a common problem. Spring arrives and you decide to modestly spruce up your sandal collection.

The Pentagon’s research-and-development shop announced on Wednesday the conclusion of its biggest and longest-running test deployment of its Sigma program. The test run had been running for seven months and finished in February.

Snapchat told an anti-gun group that it would run NRA ads if they didn’t buy ads with the social media company.

Lately there have been many comparisons of the market to that of 1987, so I thought it might be instructive to go back and look at that time period. To begin with, let’s talk about 1986.

The Waldorf Astoria, with its iconic gilded towers framing Park Avenue, is closing its doors today. Hilton Worldwide sold the illustrious hotel to China’s Anbang Insurance Group to the tune of $1.95 billion in 2014, and now it’s finally time to say goodbye to the historic landmark as we know it.

The Minnesota-based company said in July it would shutter the plant rather than move forward with expensive upgrades. Last week, the plant’s control panel and power was disconnected from the power grid for the final time, the Bismarck Tribune reported.

The U.S. economy expanded at a modest-to-moderate pace from early January through mid-February, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, although firms were less optimistic amid some uncertainty about the Trump administration’s fiscal policies. “Businesses were generally optimistic about the near-term outlook but to a somewhat lesser degree than in the prior report,” the U.S. central bank said in its Beige Book survey on the economy, which was collated from anecdotal evidence provided by business contacts across the country.