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The endless bull market might slow down a bit more than most investors are expecting.

Updates of the domestic labor market, of late, appear to be improving from the doldrums of last year around this time.

The Invesco QQQ ETF has more than doubled the S&P 500's 10-year returns. Can its tech-heavy portfolio continue to outperform over the next decade?

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 1%, and the actively trade

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Monday on U.S.-Iran news. SpaceX stock rallied on its addition to the Nasdaq-100 index.

The quote came from a recent Ramsey Everyday Millionaires segment, after a caller explained that his father had died five years ago and left him a $50,000 traditional IRA he is still draining under the 10-year rule. The 10-year rule requires that the entire balance of an inherited traditional IRA be withdrawn within 10 years ... “You’re Gonna Get That $200,000 Back in Tax-Free Growth So Freaking Fast”: Ramsey Host Explains Why Paying Taxes Now Can Leave More for Your Kids

According to an Axios report, the U.S. and Iran have agreed to halt attacks and will meet on Tuesday in Qatar to renegotiate terms following the dispute that escalated over the weekend.

Expense differences and fund structure can impact long-term returns for investors choosing between these two S&P 500 giants.

Micron, AMD, Intel, Broadcom, and Nvidia are the new pop stars of the stock market.

If you own VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMH) for AI exposure, you are betting on the same handful of chip designers everyone else holds. SMH is the default vehicle for the trade: a concentrated basket led by NVIDIA, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Broadcom that has produced the headline gains of the AI cycle. The case for owning ... Forget the AI Chipmakers. For 0.47% This Fund Owns the Companies Building the Data Centers

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday defended the administration’s aggressive trade policies, unveiling a comprehensive “3 through 3” economic blueprint designed to sustain high GDP growth while neutralizing “structural inflation.” Deconstructing critics’ claims that import penalties harm American consumers, Bessent...

The Dow Jones ended its third consecutive week higher amid cooling oil prices and strength in pharma and materials stocks.

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) just became the first exchange-traded fund in history to cross one trillion dollars in assets, a milestone State Street had penciled in as one of its headline 2026 predictions. The interesting part is what investors think they own when they buy VOO versus what is actually sitting inside the ... VOO Became the First ETF to Hit $1 Trillion, but Nearly 40% of It Is Now Tech

Monthly checks averaging around 20 cents per share against a $33 share price is how the iShares U.S. Large Cap Premium Income Active ETF (CBOE:BALI) builds its roughly 7.7% distribution yield. The “too good to be true” framing on BALI assumes the cash must be coming from somewhere expensive, usually capped upside or quietly eroding ... The “BALI” Bull Run: Is BlackRock’s 7.7% Yield Strategy Too Good to Be True?

The S&P 500 is sitting at around $734 on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) proxy, up 7.4% year to date and 20% over the past year, and a strategist appearing on The Markets segment “S&P to 8,000 This Year?” thinks the index has a clean path to a new comma. The pitch is ... This Strategist Thinks the S&P 500 Could Smash Through 8,000 ‘In the Near Term’

The host’s bet on The Markets this week was simple and a little contrarian, given the headlines about a handful of mega-cap tech names dialing back repurchases. “My gut is that this year, despite some Mag Seven names pausing buybacks, we’ll have a record repurchase year from notional perspective and from a number of companies ... Corporate America Is Quietly Buying Back Its Own Stock at a Record Pace, and It’s Not Just the Mag 7

Pension funds run on rules, not vibes. Every quarter, especially at half-year close, big institutional allocators check their books and realize the math has drifted. Stocks went up. Bonds did not. That mismatch forces a mechanical trade unrelated to whether the market is cheap, expensive, or about to discover artificial general intelligence in a garage. ... $30 Billion in Stocks Are About to Hit the Market in 2 Days, and One Strategist Says: Buy It

Jeremy Grantham, the co-founder and long-term investment strategist at GMO Asset Management, returned to CNBC Squawk Box with one of the bleakest market calls of his career. Grantham, who says GMO manages roughly $85 billion, called this “the most expensive market in American history” and warned that a reversion to trend would be closer to ... Jeremy Grantham Warns U.S. Stocks Could Plunge 70% in the Most Expensive Market in History

The case for owning the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) has always been simple: cheap, liquid, and the default proxy for U.S. equities. The problem in 2026 is that SPY no longer behaves like a diversified bet on 500 companies. Roughly a third of the cap-weighted index sits in a handful of Magnificent Seven ... Forget the Magnificent Seven. This Equal-Weight S&P Fund Beats the Mega-Caps for Just 0.20%

This week of trading had so far been established early on: sinking in the Nasdaq and, by consequence, the S&P 500, while staying in the green for the blue-chip Dow and small-cap Russell 2000.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.54%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.42%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.38%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are down -0.51%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...

(Corrects the third paragraph to state that May advance trade deficit widened.) The broad market

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.7%, and the actively t

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index fell, while Nasdaq futures dived amid a global tech sell-off. Micron, Nvidia and Sandisk tumbled.

The pitch is seductive. Park enough in JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) and collect about $100,000 a year in monthly distributions. JEPI throws off a trailing yield in the 8.2% to 8.4% range. The headline works. It also quietly assumes you already have the principal. $100,000 at an 8.2% yield gives you about $1.22 ... JEPI’s Covered-Call Strategy Could Pay You $100,000/Year for Doing Nothing

Most investors understand all the reasons to own them. What's not as clear is the degree to which you should own these super-simple investments.

Analysts don't like to put "sell" ratings on S&P 500 stocks. So the fact they're willing to do it with some is worth your attention.

U.S. stock markets are mostly headed for a month in the red amid a downbeat streak for technology names.

icron stock soared 16% on strong Q3 earnings, while Apple slipped after increasing prices of Macs and iPads.

The State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) remains one of the most popular ETFs ever created, but income investors may be disappointed by what it currently pays. After deducting its 0.0945% expense ratio, SPY’s 30-day SEC yield has fallen to just 0.97%. Part of that reflects changing corporate priorities. Many companies are directing ... Own 100 Shares of SPY? Here’s How to Earn High Income Selling Covered Calls