Author: Money Mechanics

Find out how much you could earn by locking in a high CD rate today. A certificate of deposit (CD) allows you to lock in a competitive rate on your savings and help your balance grow. However, rates vary widely across financial institutions, so it’s important to ensure you’re getting the best rate possible when shopping around for a CD. The following is a breakdown of CD rates today and where to find the best offers. Historically, longer-term CDs offered higher interest rates than shorter-term CDs. Generally, this is because banks would pay better rates to encourage savers to keep…

Fed FOMC minutes, Walmart earnings will be in focus in the shortened trading week ahead. Analog Devices heads into earnings with analysts expecting a robust 41% EPS jump and 28% sales growth. Walmart faces “priced for perfection” risk as it prepares to report. Stocks on Wall Street ended little changed on Friday as markets assessed softer-than-expected inflation data that kept the Federal Reserve on track to deliver interest rate cuts this year. Source: Investing.com The major averages all posted declines for the week as AI disruption fears rippled beyond software stocks to sectors such as brokerages, commercial real estate firms,…

The typical home that sells takes 66 days to do so–the longest span in seven years–as buyers take their time looking at their options and negotiating with sellers.  U.S. pending home sales fell 5.1% year over year during the four weeks ending February 8, the biggest decline in over a year.  On a local level, pending sales dropped in all but five of the 50 most populous U.S. metro areas–the most in over two years. The only metros where pending sales increased were West Palm Beach, FL (9.1%), Jacksonville, FL (7.7%), Columbus, OH (1.4%) and Chicago (0.1%). They were flat…

Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors, an Indian startup building plug-and-play, system-level power solutions designed to cut energy losses and improve the economics of large-scale AI infrastructure. C2i (which stands for control conversion and intelligence) has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Yali Deeptech and TDK Ventures, bringing the two-year-old startup’s total funding to $19 million. The investment comes as data-center energy demand accelerates worldwide. Electricity consumption from data centers…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldIt’s been a big week for indefatigable defenders of western culture everywhere. On the hallowed stones of the “digital town square”, X, Elon Musk once again bemoaned the sad demise of Grand Britannia by sharing an AI-generated image of a lion — the kind that makes you less worried about the imminent takeover of AI — wrapped in a union jack with a little blonde girl crying over it saying “Please wake up!” In Paris, Britain’s very own, newly God-fearing Stephen…

After rocketing parabolic in a popular speculative mania, violently crashed. It suffered some of its biggest down days ever in recent weeks, shockingly-brutal plummetings. Silver’s past reckonings after extreme toppings failing in crashes argue this current savage selloff remains far from over. Following rare vertical moonshots, silver has suffered big-and-fast symmetrical collapses erasing much of their blistering gains. Even before silver’s extraordinary soaring in recent months, it has long had a cult-like following among super-bullish enthusiasts. They brook no dissent from contrarians, attacking any opinions not advancing silver’s to-the-moon party line. But like all markets, volatile silver prices perpetually flow…

Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities became increasingly embedded in reinsurance programmes in 2025, a trend set to continue as investors increasingly look to long-term allocations to the asset class, executives from Howden Capital Markets & Advisory (HCMA) have explained.Reflecting on a busy year for cat bonds and ILS in 2025, HCMA explained that, “Investor appetite across reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) evolved markedly in 2025, as capital continued to flow into the sector amid attractive risk-adjusted returns and growing institutional confidence.” Over the course of last year’s record levels of issuance, “catastrophe bonds continued their shift from niche to mainstream…

Calculate How Inflation Changes the Value of Money Over Time Use this Cumulative Inflation Calculator to see how purchasing power changes between two dates. Enter an amount and select the start and end dates (month and year) to instantly calculate cumulative inflation and determine what your money would be worth today. This tool uses historical U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data to measure inflation accurately across decades. Whether you’re researching historical prices, planning investments, or adjusting past earnings for inflation, this calculator provides a fast, reliable way to compare dollar values over time. Inflation Calculators: » Cumulative Inflation Calculator  »…

High home prices, faltering supply and weaker consumer confidence in the economy all continue to weigh on the U.S. housing market. The chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, Lawrence Yun, is calling it “a new housing crisis.”Sales of previously owned homes in January dropped a much wider-than-expected 8.4% from December to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 3.91 million, according to the NAR. Sales were 4.4% lower than January 2025. That is the slowest pace since December 2023 and the biggest monthly drop since February 2022.This count is based on closings, so contracts that were likely signed in November…

(World Oil) – Halliburton has introduced a new injection system designed to support carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) operations, as operators seek improved reliability and performance in CO₂ injection wells. The XTR™ CS injection system is a wireline-retrievable safety valve engineered for use in CCUS wells, where high pressures, temperatures and corrosive conditions can present operational challenges. The system can function as a primary or contingency safety valve and may also be deployed as a deep-set flowback prevention device in injection environments. According to the company, the system features a non-elastomeric design intended to reduce potential leak paths and eliminate reliance on hydraulic…