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Both the U.S. and Iran see an end to this conflict as necessary to their economic well-being, but coming to terms is proving difficult.

These ETF gainers of June may keep climbing in July as dovish Fed hopes, strong earnings and easing geopolitical risks support markets.

On a recent Animal Spirits podcast titled “Talk Your Book: How SpaceX Got Into the Nasdaq 100,” Invesco’s Paul Schroeder dropped a statistic that should stop any growth investor mid-scroll. The Nasdaq 100, which you probably know through Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) and its cheaper sibling Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (NASDAQ:QQQM), now owns 27% of ... The Nasdaq 100 Now Controls a Quarter of Every Growth ETF Dollar

Anastasia Amoroso, chief investment strategist at Partners Group, walked onto CNBC on July 7, 2026 with a target that would have sounded aggressive six months ago and now sounds almost consensus. The S&P 500 could reach roughly 8,500 on 2027 earnings, with 8,200 the more likely landing spot by the end of 2027. The index ... This Strategist Sees the S&P 500 Hitting 8,500, and One Thing Changed Her Mind

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.5%, and the actively t

The Number $8.662 billion. That is what Mounjaro alone generated for Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) in the first quarter of 2026, a single product, a single quarter, up 125% year over year. The figure was disclosed in Lilly’s Q1 2026 earnings release on April 30, 2026, an actual reported figure. This key growth driver is what ... This $1,200 Stock Could Be the Next Massive Stock Split Opportunity

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Wednesday after Trump declared the ceasefire is "over." Micron and Sandisk dived.

The fund just printed a record price, and while it feels like a moment for a big decision, the data points toward quiet confidence.

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Investor positioning is so optimistic that earnings disappointments could trigger a massive stock reversal.

U.S. forces carried out a "series of powerful strikes" against Iran late Tuesday after the Middle Eastern country struck three commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. Treasury Department revoked a license allowing Iran to sell its oil worldwide following an attack on a Qatari natural gas shipment.

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Buried inside President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 defense budget request sits a line item that dwarfs almost every other increase in the document. The Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG), a Pentagon office that stood up quietly late last year with an initial budget of roughly $225 to $226 million, is slated to receive $54.6 billion ... Trump Just Made An Obscure Pentagon Office Bigger Than The Marine Corps. Here Are 5 Stocks For This $1.5 Trillion Defense Opportunity

AI stocks are soaring, but so did tech in 2000. Here's what the dot-com crash, Cisco, and today's concentration risk reveal about whether the AI bubble is real, and what it means for your money.

Ben Snider, Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs, went on CNBC to say something that should register with anyone who has been happily riding this market higher. The character of this market is shifting midyear, and the driver is a substantial increase in a substantial increase in leverage across investor types: retail margin debt, ... Goldman’s Top Strategist Sees a Dangerous Amount of Leverage Piling Up

Ed Yardeni is holding firm through the AI bubble debate. On Squawk Box, the veteran strategist and president of Yardeni Research argued that the current market rally rests on earnings, and he reiterated an aggressive S&P 500 target of 8250 by the end of 2026. The benchmark closed last week at 744.78 on the SPDR ... Yardeni: AI is the real deal, not a bubble; targets S&P 500 at 8,250 by year-end

July has historically been the U.S. stock market’s best month. The S&P 500 — as tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) — rose 2.56% on average over the past 20 years in July, the strongest average return of any month. The index finished July higher 80% of the time and has closed green in each of the past 11 Julys. • Apple stock is showing upward bias. Where are AAPL shares going? A subset of large-cap technology stocks has done even better. Data compiled on TradingView across the same

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.19%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.04%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.43%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are down -0.25%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.1%, and the actively t

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose, while tech futures sold off amid Samsung earnings. Micron and Sandisk plunged.

Unnerved by market swings, a 66-year-old single retiree has roughly 90% of her $1.7 million portfolio parked in cash and short-term bonds. The portfolio feels safe and sleep comes easier. That comfort has a potential price tag — roughly $39,000 a year in foregone returns. How do we reach this number? Here’s our scenario: Roughly ... Playing It Safe With $1.7 Million in Cash and Bonds Is Costing This Retiree $39,000 a Year

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Micron insiders have sold more than $100 million in company stock over the past 24 months, and they’re not slowing down. Per the Oppenheimer desk, as cited by CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla on Bluesky this morning, “$MU, the second-best performing SPX stock YTD, is seeing insider selling at the highest level on record since 2010.” That ... Insiders Are Dumping Micron At The Highest Rate Since 2010. Is It Time To Get Out?

Replacing $1,500 a month in portfolio income looks simple until yield enters the equation. At a 3.5% yield, you need roughly $514,000 invested. At 6%, the target falls to $300,000. At 10%, it drops to $180,000. Those numbers seem to reward the highest-yielding portfolio, but the real question is what you may have to give ... The $1,500-A-Month Portfolio: Conservative, Moderate, And High-Yield Paths Compared

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment remained ‘bullish’ around QQQ, and improved to ‘extremely bullish’ on SPY.

Shares of Microsoft fell almost 1% after the company said it’s cutting 4,800 jobs, or 2.1% of its global workforce.

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee laid out a roadmap for where he saw the market going for the rest of the year on a CNBC Squawk Box interview on July 6, 2026, arguing the S&P 500 can grind to 8,000 by year-end, with upside to 8,400 to 8,800, but that would likely come only after surviving a ... Top Wall Street Strategist: The S&P 500 Could Hit As High As 8,800 This Year, But a 10-20% Drop May Come First

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) looks mispriced, and the discomfort is the whole point. The company is cutting roughly 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its workforce, while telling investors it will spend roughly $190 billion on capex in calendar 2026 to feed AI and Azure. Microsoft is the closest thing the S&P 500 has to a pure AI ... Microsoft Is Cutting 4,800 Jobs to Feed the AI Machine. Should You Still Own It?

The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (BATS:IGV) is down 10.5% year to date while the S&P 500 is up 10.8% and the Technology Select Sector SPDR is up 26%. That gap reflects the market pricing software as if the AI thesis has turned against it. Own IGV and you are betting the “SaaSpocalypse” narrative, that ... AI Crushed Software Stocks. IGV Is Betting the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Is Overblown