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World Stocks Hit Highs, Gold Surges 4%, and Investors React to Fed Talks By Jamie McGeever Global Market Overview and Investor Reactions ORLANDO, Florida, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Solid corporate earnings and optimism around a peace deal in the Middle East pushed world stocks to new highs on Wednesday, although momentum cooled as investors digested…

Hightower Advisors announced Tuesday that it had continued to expand its new Hightower Signature Wealth division by adding an affiliate firm with a 30-person team managing about $2.5 billion in client assets. Stearns Financial Group, based in Greensboro and Chapel Hill, N.C., was founded in 1991 and joined Hightower in 2022 as part of the…

Airbnb’s push to reinvent itself as an AI-first travel platform is beginning to show up in its financial results, executives said on a Q2 earnings call. The travel platform beat its own expectations on revenue, bookings and profitability while raising its full-year outlook, CEO Brian Chesky said on the Thursday evening (Aug. 6) call. He…

There’s an uptick in the number of home builders reporting that they have been approached about being acquired. In fact, the National Association of Home Builders noted that number has doubled in less than a year, according to recent results from the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) survey. NAHB said that in challenging economic…

1 min read Last Updated : Aug 20 2026 | 10:18 PM IST The government has reappointed Anand Mahindra, chairman of the Mahindra Group, as a part-time, non-official director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for four years with effect from August 20, 2026, or until further orders, whichever…