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Investors are assessing strong momentum for hardware companies in the first half of the year.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index fell Monday, while tech futures rallied. Micron stock and Sandisk rebounded in premarket trading.

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

Biotech, China, insurance and healthcare ETFs led June gains as strong earnings, AI optimism and easing geopolitical fears lifted markets.

SpaceX will officially join the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday, and investors holding some funds tied to the index will end up exposed whether they like it or not. Mutual and exchange-traded funds with a collective $800 billion in assets under management that track Nasdaq’s flagship tech index, including the popular ETF, are set to buy SpaceX shares at Monday’s closing price in order to mirror the index’s performance.

U.S. stock futures edged higher in the overnight session ahead of Monday’s open following a strong rally in the prior week.

Over the past decade, an investor who put $10,000 into QYLD walked away with a fraction of what a plain Nasdaq-100 index holder pocketed. The fat monthly checks papered over that gap rather than closing it. What You’re Actually Paying The Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF (NASDAQ:QYLD) sells the story of income. The ... QYLD’s $10,000 Problem: How a Covered-Call ETF Left Investors With a Fraction of Nasdaq Gains

If you bought ProShares UltraPro QQQ (NASDAQ:TQQQ) expecting a clean 3x version of the Nasdaq-100, look at the last five years. The index proxy Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) returned 107.69%. Triple that is 323%. TQQQ actually returned 177.7%. That gap, roughly 145 percentage points of missing upside on a rising index, is the hidden cost ... The $82 Annual Fee Is Just the Start: TQQQ’s Hidden Cost Structure Explained

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) and the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ) can both serve as long-term holdings. But one is clearly better suited than the other.

After a stellar performance, investors are trying to figure out if this popular exchange-traded fund is worthy of their capital.

If you own JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) for the fat monthly checks, the real cost hides in the price chart, well past the expense ratio line. Over the past year, JEPQ holders collected a rich yield and still watched a plain Nasdaq-100 fund lap them by nearly eight percentage points. What You ... The Monthly Income Trap: How JEPQ Investors Gave Up $18,000 Per $10,000 Invested Since Inception

The REX FANG & Innovation Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:FEPI) is one of the most aggressive volatility-income products on the market, selling calls against a concentrated basket of AI and mega-cap tech names to fund weekly cash distributions. Recent payouts have run roughly $0.21 per week against a share price of about $42, which annualizes ... FEPI’s 25% Yield Masks a Painful Truth About Call-Writing Income

The Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:GPIQ) has become one of the fastest-growing options-income products on the market, pulling in roughly $2.12 billion of net inflows in 2025 on the strength of a distribution yield that recently sat near 9.8% to 10%. GPIQ investors are buying a monthly paycheck backed by call premiums on ... Why GPIQ Lags QQQ in Rallies, Yet Retirees Keep Buying the Monthly Dividend

The Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) and the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) both get pitched as reasonable core holdings, but they are not interchangeable. VOO owns the entire large-cap U.S. earnings stream. QQQ owns a concentrated slice of it, weighted toward software, semiconductors, and platform companies. Over the past decade that difference produced a return ... QQQ vs. VOO: Should the Nasdaq-100 or the S&P 500 Be Your Core Holding?

A 45-year-old tech professional sitting on $200,000 in Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) for growth exposure has a fair question in 2026: why hold a Nasdaq-100 fund that includes Costco and Pepsi when a pure-tech alternative exists at half the cost? That alternative is Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:VGT), a roughly $143 billion fund that has ... Why Vanguard’s $143 Billion Tech ETF Outpaced QQQ While Charging Half the Fee

An investor who put $10,000 into FNGU on June 1, 2026 watched it shrink by roughly 28.88% in a single month, while the Nasdaq-100 barely moved. That gap is the product working as designed. It is also the hidden cost the marketing page will never lead with. What You’re Actually Paying The MicroSectors FANG+ Index ... Why FNGU’s 0.95% Fee Is Only Half the Hidden Cost

If you bought WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (NASDAQ:WCLD) five years ago hoping to ride the cloud wave, your $10,000 is now worth roughly $5,744. That is the visible cost. The hidden one is what you gave up while sitting in it. What You’re Actually Paying WCLD is marketed as a pure-play bet on emerging cloud ... $10,000 Became $5,744: The Equal-Weight Rebalancing Tax That WCLD Never Discloses

Investors eager to own and trade the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 stock index are getting a larger and potentially cheaper lineup of exchange-traded funds to choose from. Vanguard is adding T. Rowe Price as an advisor to three active equity funds, tasking its fellow asset manager known for its stock-picking expertise with overseeing a piece of each fund’s portfolio. Effective June 29, T. Rowe Price is serving as an advisor to the Vanguard Variable Insurance Fund—Small Company Growth Portfolio, and Vanguard Growth and Income Fund.

The pitch is simple: monthly checks from blue-chip stocks. The reality is quieter. Holders of JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) have watched a raging bull market pass them by while an options overlay clipped the upside and the IRS took a bigger bite than the fact sheet lets on. What You’re Actually Paying JEPI’s ... JEPI Investors Missed 13.21% in Gains While Paying Hidden Taxes on ‘Monthly’ Income

Shareholders of the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ) aren't getting the tech exposure they think they are. This pure-play ETF is better.

The momentum trade that powered the US stock market through the first half of 2026 is showing cracks, and Bloomberg US Equities Reporter Natalia Kniazhevich says the unwind is already underway. On the July 3 Bloomberg Daybreak segment, Kniazhevich explained that “Momentum is the best-performing factor. It is up by 28% year to date. We ... Top Bloomberg Reporter: Wall Street’s Biggest Winning Trade Is “Starting to Fade” After Jobs Report Shock

Over the past 52 weeks, U.S. Treasury bills have outperformed 39 companies within the celebrated Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index.

The fund's strong return hides a story of extreme concentration, with a few winners pulling the weight for hundreds of others.

The South Korea ETF has a habit of bouncing back from drops like this one, but the price of admission has often been more pain.

Some of America's largest growth stocks struggled during the first half of 2026.

History says it is coming. A 30% drawdown is part of the contract you signed when you bought stocks. What matters is whether you will still be holding the bag when prices recover. Three ETFs are built for that stress test: Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) pays you to wait, iShares MSCI USA Min ... The Next 30% Crash Will Happen. These 3 ETFs Mean You Won’t Panic-Sell at the Bottom

CNBC’s Oliver Renick spent part of his July 2 segment on a tension defining SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) trading. A Daiwa Securities analyst opened Thursday labeling the stock’s valuation “catastrophic”. Options desks spent the same morning buying calls. Shares are up roughly 9% off recent lows after a three-day bounce, closing at $157.54 on July 1 and ... An Analyst Called SpaceX’s Valuation ‘Catastrophic.’ Options Traders Are Betting the Other Way

Broad Market Indicators Broad-market exchange-traded funds IWM and IVV fell. Actively traded I

The AI trade isn’t just about Nvidia anymore. That could be the true warning sign underlying Michael Burry’s current move on the markets. The investor behind "The Big Short" has revealed new bearish positions against Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), Caterpillar (CAT), Applied Materials (AMAT), and the ...

This is the fourth-straight month of job growth from the BLS, which we haven't seen since the spring of 2025.