Gold climbs above $4,100 as Middle East tensions underpin prices

The network found no evidence that McClain knew of the Pentagon’s later moves to integrate xAI’s Grok models, or that she traded on nonpublic information, and she holds no committee seats overseeing defence or technology.   She does sit on the Financial Services Committee, and Capitol Trades, which tracks congressional disclosures, lists her household with 1,443 trades over three years, more…

India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $7.26 billion to $674.19 billion in the week ended July 3, driven by an increase in foreign currency assets (FCAs) and gold reserves, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday.   FCAs, the largest component of the reserves, increased by $4.51…

For more than a decade, if you were to ask the technology futurists which industries would be most significantly disrupted by AI, tax, accounting and audit-related professions would have been at or near the top of the list. Those predictions were partially true.  Processing Content AI is indeed changing the way tax professionals work in…

The video game industry’s problems are crystallizing inside Microsoft’s Xbox. A fresh round of layoffs at the tech giant’s games division shows how those pressures are coming home to roost as costs rise and players devote more time to a just a handful of favorites. Plus, there are some Microsoft-specific problems to address. “Our business…

Key​​ Takeaways Savers can still snag interest rates near 4.00%. The average national interest rate for savings is 0.38%. Interest rates for savings accounts may continue to drop in 2026. After a couple of years of spiking interest rates in the wake of the pandemic, yields on savings accounts have been falling since late 2024,…