The Mediterranean diet is the best out there. Here’s why Americans struggle with it.

Overlooked market areas may have a banner second half of the year. ETF Action co-founder Mike Akins is encouraging investors to boost exposure to groups that underperformed compared with major artificial intelligence stocks. He told “ETF Edge” this week that his list includes software and cloud computing names. Many have fallen from “nosebleed valuations” and…

High mortgage rates caused builders to continue pulling back in June on new single-family homes, but but the multifamily sector surges, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. Single-family housing starts in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 895,000, down 0.2% from May and 3.2% less than a year ago, Realtor.com reported. The pullback…

The Securities and Exchange Commission released a report to Congress today highlighting policy recommendations from the SEC’s 45th Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The report provides a summary of the forum proceedings, policy recommendations developed by participants for changes to the capital-raising framework, and the Commission’s responses to those recommendations. The forum took…

Taylor Farms, a Taco Bell lettuce supplier, has been linked to a five-state cyclosporiasis outbreak. Taylor Farms, founded by Bruce Taylor and several partners in 1995, is a California-based fresh produce company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise with more than 24,000 employees and 22 production locations across North America. The privately held company…

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to stalking that led to him killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street in December 2024. Mangione’s lawyers immediately afterward filed a motion in New York state court saying that charges of murder and other counts in that court for Thompson’s slaying…