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U.S. and Iranian negotiators agreed on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire, media reports suggested.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Thursday closed up +0.58%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.05%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +0.84%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) rose +0.59%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

The S&P 500 and a related fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY), have vaulted 28% over the past year, the household ledger sitting beneath that rally on Wall Street tells a far more unsettling story. The U.S. Personal Savings Rate declined to 2.6% in April, the lowest reading since April 2008, according to Creative ... The Average American Savings Rate Plunged to 2.6%. Every Time It’s Fallen This Low the Market Crashed.

Here’s a fact that might shock you: the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) has ripped 303.3% higher in U.S. dollar terms since the start of 2025, while the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) has gained 29.9% over the same stretch. That puts Korean stocks at roughly 10 times the U.S. return. EWY shares traded ... The U.S. Market Is On Fire, But One Surprising Country Has Outperformed U.S. Stocks 10-to-1 Since the Start of 2025

Most American portfolios contain a fund like Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:VEA) the way most American kitchens contain a wok. Technically present. Pulled out twice a year. The investor knows, vaguely, that international diversification is supposed to matter, and forgets about it because the S&P 500 has spent fifteen years making everything else look ... This Vanguard VEA ETF Is Beating Your S&P 500 ETF – Here’s Why You Should Buy It

The Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) is up 11% year to date, a lead that only looks small next to the 9.4% return on the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) over the same stretch. That is the actual shape of the so-called Great Rotation so far in 2026. Value is ahead of growth on the year, and ... Vanguard’s Value ETF May Soon Outperform Your Tech Holdings as “The Great Migration” Accelerates

A recently divorced caller phoned Ramsey Everyday Millionaires with a familiar mid-life math problem: 21 years of marriage gone, $85,000 in annual income, and almost nothing saved. The host’s response was startlingly upbeat. “The biggest thing you have to overcome is not the mathematical challenge of being okay by age 65, because that’s a laydown. ... I’m 40, just divorced with $85,000 income and nothing saved. Can I really become a multimillionaire by 65?

In this episode of the MoneyShow Money Masters Podcast, explore the escalating tech rivalry between the US and China with Rebecca Fannin, founder of Silicon Dragon Ventures and a contributor for CNBC.

The pitch for Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) has always been embarrassingly simple: own every public US stock that matters, charge almost nothing, and wait. That is it. The fund holds no tactical tilts, factor overlays, or managers trying to time the rotation out of tech. Which is why it is mildly ... Wall Street’s Laziest Fund Is Outperforming Against SPY – Time to Switch to VTI?

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.44%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.01%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.62%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are up +0.33%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

A Redditor posted a screenshot to r/wallstreetbets last week with the title “Boring $4,000,000 gain with triple-leveraged SPXL. I told WSB 6mo ago I would sell at $3.1m, am glad I TACO’ed.” The position is Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SPXL), bought on May 10, 2010. The investor owns 14,760 shares at a ... Investor Turns $70K to $4M Using This S&P 500 Bull ETF

Q1 core PCE quarter over quarter -- excluding volatile food and energy costs -- made a massive jump to +2.7% in the first read to +4.4% this time around.

At $121.77, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is a Hold. After a year that turned a left-for-dead semiconductor name into one of the market’s loudest comeback stories, the question is whether the price already assumes the turnaround goes perfectly. Intel designs and manufactures CPUs across three segments: Client Computing, Data Center and AI, and Intel Foundry. Under CEO ... Prediction. Intel Has Run 492% and Its Own Insiders Are Selling

The JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) has become the default income vehicle for investors seeking S&P 500 exposure without full equity risk. JEPI pays monthly, with the last twelve distributions totaling roughly $4.73 per share, a trailing yield near 8.4% on a current price of $56. That headline number pulls retail capital in, but ... JEPI’s 8.4% Yield Masks The Volatility Trap Most Investors Ignore

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.04% and the actively t

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index fell Thursday ahead of key inflation data. AI stock Snowflake soared on earnings.

The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHX) is a low-cost, passively-managed option if you want broader exposure to the market. Having this broader exposure has made the ETF perform quite interestingly over the past few years, and it’s worth taking a serious look at. The ETF holds everything from your usual large caps to more under-the-radar ... Buy, Sell, or Hold Schwab’s US Large-Cap ETF Now | SCHX

A report from Reuters stated that the U.S. military had launched overnight strikes in Iran, targeting ‌a military site and drones that were viewed as a threat around the Strait of Hormuz.

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Iranian state media said the country is committed to restoring commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed up +0.02%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.36%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.09%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) rose +0.04%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

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Most investors skip the simplest piece of self-accountability available to them. They form a thesis, place a trade, and then let time blur the original reasoning into something vaguer and more flattering. Clare Flynn Levy, the former hedge fund manager who founded behavioral analytics firm Essentia Analytics, has a fix for that, and she shared ... I Was Wrong About Inflation and Missed a Huge Stock Rally: The One Investing Discipline That Could Have Saved Me

The math behind active management is brutal, and most investors refuse to look at it. Bo Hanson and Brian Preston of the Money Guy Show keep returning to one statistic because it cuts through every clever pitch and every promising fund manager bio. According to SPIVA, 90% of active US large-cap managers underperformed the S&P ... If 90 Percent of Professional Managers Can’t Beat the S&P 500, Why Do You Think You Can.

Patience pays. That is the unglamorous truth at the heart of a recent discussion on the Earn Your Leisure podcast, where a guest broke down how the calendar can quietly become the most expensive variable in a trader’s portfolio. The episode, titled “Retire Rich The Ultimate Guide to IRAs, 401(k)s, & HSAs!”, zeroed in on ... Short-Term Stock Trading Could Cost You Up to 39% in Taxes: Here’s Why the One-Year Rule Matters

Rashaad Bilal of Earn Your Leisure described a moment most workers never quite have out loud. “My wife, I saw her 401(k) killing mine. I’m looking like, what am I doing? My allocation was poor,” he said on the show Retire Rich The Ultimate Guide to IRAs, 401(k)s, & HSAs! Bilal had spent 10 years ... I Ignored My 401(k) Allocation for 10 Years While My Wife’s Crushed Mine: Here’s the Percentage That Mattered

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.07%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.54%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.44%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.07%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Two signals are running in opposite directions on Wall Street right now, and both are flashing at maximum intensity. Hedge funds and professional traders are piling into short positions at levels not seen in more than a decade. At the same time, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 are pressing against all-time highs on ... Short Sellers Are Betting Record Amounts Against Stocks. But the Market is Rallying On a Potential Deal Between Trump and Iran.

Although Wall Street tends to treat record-setting streaks as a reason to brace for a pullback, the historical record points the other way this week. The benchmark S&P 500 just stitched together eight straight weekly gains, with a cumulative 8-week return of 17.3%, a run that independent market historian Ryan Detrick (@RyanDetrick on X) ranks ... Good News For the Trump Bull Market: Stocks Just Had Their Second Best 8-Week Rally Ever. History Has a Clear Pattern for What Comes Next.