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A South African man named Cornelius Johannes Steynberg once told investors they could hand him as little as $100 in bitcoin and watch a proprietary "bot" turn it into a guaranteed 10 percent a month. No trading experience required. The bot would do everything.…
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In January 2026, gold spiked past $5,500 an ounce intraday, a record no one had seen before. Five months later, in late June, it had slid below $4,000, a drawdown of nearly 30 percent, accor…
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In 2024, the S&P 500 gained 25.02%. The average investor sitting in an equity fund that year walked away with just 16.54%, according to DALBAR's 2026 Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavi…
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Late in 2025, FINRA's Investor Education Foundation asked several thousand U.S. investors how much risk they were willing to take with their money. Only 8% said they'd accept substantial ris…
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Yesterday, something that took years of regulatory groundwork happened almost quietly: five gold-backed ETFs started trading on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the first time ever. The five…
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Gold has gained roughly 20% in 2026 alone, hedge funds returned close to 10.5% last year, and private credit assets under management are on track to cross $2 trillion — yet most people's "po…
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Here's a number that should bother you: the average U.S. savings account pays 0.38% APY as of mid-2026, according to FDIC data. Meanwhile, inflation is running at 3.5% annually. Do that subt…
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According to Gallup's 2025 survey, 62% of American adults own stock — either directly or through retirement accounts like a 401(k). But break that number down by income, and the picture shif…
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Global losses to investment scams hit $12.5 billion in 2024, according to Federal Trade Commission data — up 25% from the year before. What's more striking than the total isn't the number it…
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The 30-year fixed mortgage rate in the US now sits at 6.58% (Freddie Mac, week ending July 23, 2026). Meanwhile, national home prices rose just 1.1% year-over-year as of May 2026, according…
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A factory worker earning Indonesia's average monthly wage make barely enough to cover the provincial minimum in Jakarta — and that's before rent, food, and a motorbike loan eat into it. Acco…
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On October 10, 2025, in under 24 hours, more than 1.6 million crypto traders were wiped out of positions worth a combined US$19.37 billion, roughly IDR 322 trillion, as a wave of leveraged l…
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