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Both the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and the Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQ) secured new record highs on Wednesday, brushing off any fear of an extended government shutdown. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. The shutdown has reached its …

Taylor Swift has broken the first-week, equivalent-unit sales record long held by Adele for her 2015 album 25, making The Life of a Showgirl the fastest-selling-and-streaming album of the modern era, Billboard reports. Since its release on Friday, October 3, Showgirl has already hit 3.5 million equivalent unit sales—some 20,000 more than 25 amassed in its first week—according to initial …

Taylor Swift‘s “The Life of a Showgirl” now officially has a claim to the biggest first-week numbers ever recorded for an album. Billboard reported Wednesday that, in its first five days out, the album has surpassed 3.5 million equivalent album units, representing consumption across both sales and streaming. That breaks the record previously held by Adele‘s “25,” which bowed with …

A day after its winning streak snapped, the S&P 500 was back on the rise on Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 114 points, or 0.3%. The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.3%. The yield on the 2-year Treasury note was down to 3.57%. The 10-year yield was down to 4.11%. The iShares …

Will Mortgage Rates Fall—or Rise—Because of the Government Shutdown? 12 minutes ago The U.S. government shutdown could impact the cost of mortgages, especially if the Republicans’ and Democrats’ inability to agree on a new spending bill drags on. These standoffs make it harder to tell how the economy is doing, and consequently complicate the tricky task of predicting rates even more. …

The price of gold has hit a record high of more than $4,000 (£2,985) an ounce as investors look for safe places to put their money over concerns about economic and political uncertainty around the world. Gold has seen its biggest rally since the 1970s, rising by more than 25% since April when US President Donald Trump announced tariffs which …

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Monster: The Ed Gein Story Netflix Ryan Murphy’s Monster series, chronicling the tales of famous killers, has never been a critic-pleaser, but Monster: The Ed Gein Story? The show has just hit a new low-water mark on Netflix. Now that more reviews have come in, the Rotten Tomatoes score of Ed Gein has sunk more than 20%, and now stands …

From short scripts to vast simulations of Earth’s climate, protein structures or even the cosmos, it is hard to imagine scientific research without software. Scientists use software code in myriad ways — to plan experiments; to record, organize, analyse, visualize and archive data; to control scientific instruments, and more. Why it’s worth making computational methods easy to use But software …

US gold futures top $4,000 mark as record run gathers pace  Reuters Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq tick higher after records as gold tops $4,000  Yahoo Gold Prices Topped $4,000 For The First Time. Where Do They Go From Here?  Investopedia Gold Price Hits $4,000 an Ounce, a Sign of Turmoil and Unease  The New York Times Stocks decline, with S&P 500 …