Gold prices just reached a new record high at more than $4,200 an ounce, double from just a year and a half ago. NBC’s Vicky Nguyen joins TODAY to break down why prices are up and what experts recommend for anyone considering buying or selling.

Top U.S. officials say China’s latest rare earths export restrictions amount to a “global supply chain power grab.”

Fall is in full swing and as temperatures drop, travel deals grow in a period experts call “shoulder season,” the time between a location’s peak season and off-season. Travel expert Mark Ellwood joins TODAY to share deals in Oregon, Maine and more.

Today’s AI boom and its stock market highs are drawing comparisons with the 1990s dot-com bubble — and fears for the crash that ended it.

Gas prices are expected to keep dropping and could be on course to fall below a $3 national average. Meantime, there are new signs that interest rates may be dripping as well. NBC’s business correspondent Brian Cheung joins TODAY to break down how long the gas price decrease could last and why signs are pointing to another interest rate cut.

The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to eviscerate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana.

The CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo all landed independently on the word “resilient” to describe the U.S. economy and its consumers.

At the two-week mark, Republicans and Democrats are bracing for a long government shutdown, with both parties seeing more upside in persisting with their conflicting demands.

A shield statute allows the state to withhold a telling piece of information: where Texas is finding a hard-to-get execution drug.

A triumphant President Donald Trump has declared “peace in the Middle East” between Israel and Hamas, claiming to have brought one of the world’s most deeply entrenched conflicts to an end.