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Today's Options Market Update

Today's Options Market Update

Major indexes eased after annual Personal Consumption Expenditures data for July topped expectations, though the monthly core figure was in line. Nvidia reports this afternoon.


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Valuing Crypto Through the Lens of a 51% Attack

Analyzing the costs and constraints of a 51% attack might help frame how network security, miner incentives, and decentralization could influence crypto valuation.

Schwab Market Update
Schwab Market Update Podcast

Markets' Two-Part Test: Nvidia Earnings, PCE Data

Investors will have plenty to monitor today. The Fed's favorite inflation gauge and GDP data are due this morning, while Nvidia and other major tech earnings arrive after the bell.

Looking to the Futures

Looking to the Futures

A perfect storm of crop conditions and economic news has pushed corn up seventy cents in the past two weeks.

Schwab Market Update
Schwab Market Update Podcast

Trade Tensions, Nvidia Overshadow Economic Data

Consumer confidence and new home sales reports are on the menu today, but attention remains on looming Nvidia earnings and PCE inflation data amid brewing trade tensions.

Schwab Market Update
Schwab Market Update Podcast

PCE Data, Nvidia Earnings Loom As Yields Climb

The Fed's favored inflation gauge, the Jackson Hole Symposium, and Nvidia earnings highlight a critical week with oil prices and Treasury yields rising.

Week Ahead

Broad-Picture Jobs Data Out This Week | Week Ahead

BLS releases the preliminary benchmark revisions this week. Schwab's Kevin Gordon breaks down what that number is and why it matters in his look at the Week Ahead.

Weekly Trader’s Outlook

Weekly Trader's Outlook

Stocks are attempting to stabilize after a choppy week for risk assets, with Treasury yields pulling back mid-week after the Treasury Department announced plans to increase purchases of longer-term securities.

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Has the Fed Accepted 3% Inflation? (With Jim Bullard)

Liz Ann Sonders discusses inflation and the AI boom with Jim Bullard, former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.