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Russia, China, and North Korea have been rapidly advancing their nuclear arsenals.
But thanks to bureaucratic stalemates, the U.S. is starting to lag behind…
Here's a look at how outdated some of our most powerful weapons truly are today.
by David Zeiler
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The Aug. 1 Bitcoin hard fork is sowing much confusion among users of the digital currency. The hard fork means that two distinct versions of Bitcoin will exist side by side.
One of the side effects of this Bitcoin hard fork is that people who own any Bitcoin before the split will receive that exact amount in the newly created "Bitcoin Cash" tokens after the split.
Here's how all of this will work - and what to do now if you own any bitcoins...
by Alex McGuire
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Our newest list of penny stocks to watch (August 2017) shows the top gainers of July.
These companies have posted returns as big as 144% this month.
Here’s our complete list – plus, one of our newest small-cap stock picks to consider today.
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In cryptocurrency news today, the price of Bitcoin climbed more than 2% ahead of the hard fork.
The digital currency community is still torn, but many are excited for the creation of Bitcoin Cash.
Here's all the news that is moving the prices of cryptocurrencies today...
by Stephen Mack
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In spite of a bull market, some analysts are negative on top tech stocks like Facebook and Amazon. Should investors be concerned, or is this just empty talk?
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The price of silver has been in rally mode lately, coming off its third straight weekly gain.
Now that it's up 9.6% since its July 7 bottom, investors want to know if the rebound will continue.
Here's why we think the rally is just getting started...
by Jack Delaney
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Ahead of the hard fork, we wanted to provide our readers with a Bitcoin value update.
As long as there aren't any hiccups, Bitcoin Cash will be created at midnight on Aug. 1, 2017.
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The Dow Jones news today features a new chief of staff for President Trump and rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Dow Jones futures are up 60 points as investors prepare for another busy day of earnings reports.
by Jim Wyckoff
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Global stock markets were mixed overnight. U.S. stock indexes are pointed toward firmer openings when the New York day session begins.
Gold prices are slightly lower in pre-U.S.-session trading after scoring a six-week high overnight. The gold bulls still have good upside near-term technical momentum, amid a steep price uptrend in place on the daily bar chart.
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As Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani says, the big indexes are hitting "serial record highs" in a market where there are now fewer stocks than there are indexes that track them – some 4,000 stocks against more than 5,000 indexes.
Of course the "Big Three," the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq, with their unprecedented strength, are the ones everyone's watching right now.
There's one important index, however, that's continually scraping record lows. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index – the VIX. The VIX measures volatility in short-term S&P 500 options but has come to be thought of by regular investors as a powerful broad-market "fear index."
It seems the market has no "fear" right now, as it braves new heights with essentially zero volatility. And that's got some investors concerned that any sensibility has gone right out the window, replaced by classic "irrational exuberance."
So FOX Business' Gerri Wilder turned to the guy that helped develop the VIX (that would be Shah, of course) to see whether the record lows on the once-roaring "fear gauge" are cause for concern.
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