3 Defensive ETFs for Today’s Market Volatility

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Oil prices drop sharply after two-week cease-fire reached

Oil prices slumped on Wednesday after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week cease-fire on Tuesday evening. The West Texas Intermediate contract (CL.1) declined over 15% to $95.67 a barrel, while ...

Paige Lorenze finds a buyer for $2.5 million Connecticut home as she and tennis star Tommy Paul renovate new mansion

Dairy Boy founder Paige Lorenze may soon have some more cash to splash on renovations to the $4.7 million mansion she and fiancé Tommy Paul just purchased-after landing a buyer for her picturesque ...

'I plan to exit corporate life': I'm 50 and have $400,000. My wife is a teacher. Can I retire at 55?

By Quentin Fottrell 'I would like to stop working in about five years to spend more time with our child and support my wife' "I also have $85,000 in a brokerage account, which I w ...

Cease-fire means the bottom is in, declares strategist Tom Lee

A move above the 200-day on the S&P 500 paves the way for a decisive move up World stock markets - and the Iranian people - greeted the news of a truce agreememt warmly Strategist Tom Lee thinks the ...

'The View' host Joy Behar tries an unusual strategy to sell her longtime Hamptons home

Joy Behar in New York City last year. "The View" host Joy Behar is enlisting a unique new tactic to try to sell her longtime Hamptons home-by jacking up her latest asking price by more than $1 million ...

What the market is now pricing for Fed and global central bank interest rates after the cease-fire

Markets have consequently priced in reduced chances that the Fed will raise its funds rate by the end of 2026, according to CME FedWatch. At the start of the week traders were seeing an 11.7% chance ...

Oil Tumbles, Stocks Surge as Markets Greet U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire with Optimism

London's FTSE 100 is 2.3% higher, lagging behind other indexes as falling oil majors weighed--BP and Shell slid 7.5% and 6.7%, respectively. Banks jumped, helping to push Spain's IBEX 35 up 3.6% and ...

Dow Jones Top Energy Headlines at 4 AM ET: Oil Prices Likely to Remain Elevated, Choppy | Shell ...

Dow Jones Top Energy Headlines at 4 AM ET: Oil Prices Likely to Remain Elevated, Choppy | Shell ... The return of free-flowing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, without Iranian tolls or controls, ...

Then and now: Comparing where the S&P 500, crude and other assets are to the pre-war situation

An Iranian man holds up picture of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei as others react to a cease-fire announcement at the Enqelab square, in Tehran, on April 8 2026. Financial markets ...

U.S. Futures, European Stocks Surge

U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were up 2.6% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 2.3%. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell. In Europe, ...

Shell Sees Hit to Gas Production, Boost From Trading Amid Middle East War — Update

Shell cut its outlook for first-quarter natural-gas production but said it expected a boost from oil trading, as the energy industry counts the cost of the damage caused by the war in the Middle East.