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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.05%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.15%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.05%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Wednesday as oil prices continued to tumble. Micron stock surged in premarket trading.
The actively managed Sapient Quality Select ETF (SQS) targets quality-growth companies aligned with long-term economic trends across multiple sectors.
A 67-year-old retiree opens her brokerage statement after three turbulent weeks and sees the balance has fallen from $1.2 million to roughly $1.013 million. The portfolio is 100% S&P 500 index funds. The paper loss of about $187,000 is real money that could fund groceries, property taxes, and Medicare premiums. This scenario plays out regularly ... A $1.2M Portfolio Lost $187,000 in Three Weeks. Could a Bond Sleeve Help?
Markets have been closely tracking developments in the Middle East, with the U.S.-Iran war now in its 13th week.
Semiconductors have been the trade of 2026, and the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SOXL) has been the vehicle retail traders keep reaching for. SOXL is up about 291% year to date and roughly 792% over the past year, and inflows have followed the chart. The same math that produced those gains produced a ... SOXL Lost 90 Percent in 2022 While Semiconductors Themselves Fell 35 Percent, And the Daily Reset Math Hasn’t Changed
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Tuesday closed up +0.61%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +1.76%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) rose +0.61%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (NYSEARCA:SPHD) sells the most appealing pitch in income investing: take the highest yielders in the S&P 500, filter for the calmest fifty, collect monthly checks. Over the last five years that pitch delivered 36% in total, or roughly 6% annualized. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ... SPHD’s High Dividend Low Volatility Promise Has Returned Just 6 Percent Annualized While the S&P 500 Doubled It
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.81%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.10%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +1.74%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are up +0.77%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Although the S&P 500 has gained 17% over the past 8 weeks, the instinctive reaction across Wall Street has been familiar: brace for a pullback. Yet, the historical record, as compiled by research firm Creative Planning, points in a direction most market watchers would not guess. According to a Creative Planning analysis posted by Daily ... The Stock Market Just Saw One of Its Best 8-Week Stretches Ever. What Normally Happens Next Will Surprise You.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.72%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.31%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +1.42%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are up +0.62%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
A risk-averse retiree who bought iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF (NYSEARCA:USMV) in 2021 wanting equity exposure without the full white-knuckle ride got exactly what was advertised, and now has to decide whether the trade was worth it. USMV returned roughly 45% over the past five years. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) returned ... USMV’s Minimum Volatility Promise Got Trounced By the S&P 500. Wait for Redemption or Run?
Most investors buy Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) because the fund’s reputation tells them they are buying diversification. SCHD has 105 holdings, screens hard on dividend quality, and charges 0.06%. The retiree who built an income sleeve around SCHD usually has not read the holdings list. Read the list and the diversification story bends: ... SCHD’s Dividend Quality Filter Now Concentrates 42 Percent of Your Money in Just Ten Stocks
ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF blends public equities with select private company exposure in a single fund.
Although the S&P 500 has climbed roughly 9% year to date and about 28% over the past year, Wall Street is now sitting on a valuation signal it has only ever flashed twice before. Tom Bilyeu, speaking on the Impact Theory show, said there have only been two other times in history when the cyclically-adjusted ... The Stock Market Is at a 40-to-1 CAPE Ratio Seen Only Twice Before. 1929 and 1999 Preceded Crashes.
Imagine a retiree who reads that Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEARCA:VIG) is a top dividend fund, parks $300,000 in it, and waits for the checks to arrive. They get ~$4,500 a year. That is the VIG problem in one sentence. The fund’s 1.5% distribution yield sits right next to the S&P 500’s payout, which means ... VIG Calls Itself a Dividend Appreciation Fund, But Its 1.5 Percent Yield Reveals What That Really Means
On a recent episode of The Money Guy Show titled “Even Smart People Make These Massive Money Mistakes,” co-host Bo Hanson framed the cost of procrastination in terms most savers have never seen laid out plainly: “They have the exact same amount of money in this, $225,000 each. They even have the same period that ... Waiting Just 10 Years to Invest Costs You $1.1 Million
The United States Oil Fund, along with semiconductor-focused funds like iShares Semiconductor ETF and VanEck Semiconductor ETF, as well as leveraged tech fund ProShares UltraPro QQQ, have all outperformed the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust in 2026.
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Monday that negotiations with Iran are proceeding nicely, even as the military conducted “self-defense strikes” on southern Iran.
Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Federal Reserve Chairman this week, and the most striking thing about his arrival is how little Wall Street seems to care. On CNBC’s Halftime Report Friday, one host captured the moment with a line worth holding onto: “The Fed is not the first or second or third sentence of ... Kevin Warsh Inherits a Fed That Wall Street Has Almost Stopped Talking About
Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Slimmon, who runs the firm’s Global Strategies group, delivered a contrarian message on Barron’s Streetwise podcast that cuts against the prevailing wisdom on Wall Street. The most common question he hears from individual investors right now: “I don’t get why the stock market is at an all-time high.” His answer reframes the ... The Anatomy of a Disconnect: How $4.35 Trillion in Corporate Profits Cleared the Way for Record Highs
Jim Cramer just refused to bless a portfolio built almost entirely on his own stock recommendations, and no question that the lesson is worth pausing on. On the May 22 episode of Mad Money, a caller named Jerry laid out a tech-saturated portfolio diversified across tech retail sales, software, semiconductors, data center, and advertising, noting ... The One Thing Jim Cramer Demands From Tech-Only Investors Before He’ll Bless the Strategy
On a recent episode of the Money Guy Show titled Even Smart People Make These Massive Money Mistakes, co-host Bo Hanson shared a truly painful reality about personal finance. He explained how trying to time the market can completely gut a portfolio, noting that missing just fifty of the best days can wipe out a ... The 5-Day Trap: How Missing Less Than a Week Wiped Out $154,000
The host of Retire SMART Podcast opened Episode 416 with a number that should stop every income-focused retiree in their tracks. The S&P 500’s dividend yield has fallen to roughly 1.1%, an all-time low going back to the 1800s. His framing was blunt: “The dividend usually fluctuates between 2 and change, and sometimes up to ... S&P 500 Dividends Just Hit an All-Time Low Going Back to the 1800s — Here’s What Retirees Need to Know
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Strip AI infrastructure and energy from the S&P 500’s forward earnings picture and growth collapses to zero. That’s the single most uncomfortable number from Lance Roberts’s recent appearance on Adam Taggart’s Thoughtful Money, and it reframes everything about market risk right now. Roberts, chief investment strategist at RIA Advisors, walked through what he called the ... S&P 500 Other Than AI Infrastructure Is Growing at 0%. Lance Roberts Warns What Happens if the AI Boom Stumbles.
Here is the data point that should make every passive index investor pause. On Retire SMART Podcast Ep 416, the host laid out the math: “If we removed the Nvidias, the AMDs, so AI chips, these are the chipmaking companies, the storage companies, and the companies that are facilitating AI that are publicly traded. And ... The Math That Should Terrify Index Investors: AI Chips Account for Nearly All S&P 500 Gains
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