The S&P 500 closed Monday at 7,554.29, up 1.65%, as the Nasdaq surged 3.1%. This sharp rally appeared closely tied to geopolitical developments. On Sunday, June 14, President Trump announced the US-Iran peace deal via Truth Social, simultaneously authorizing the toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and removing the naval blockade. Consequently, WTI crude dropped roughly 5% to around $80, while Brent fell to $83, their lowest levels in months. The S&P now walks into one of the most consequ
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At $81.27, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) screens as compelling for investors researching quality growth at compressed multiples. A 39% drawdown from the all-time high has compressed one of the highest-quality compounders in media to a forward multiple that finally looks reasonable, just as the advertising business approaches scale. Netflix runs the world’s largest paid streaming service with ... Buy, Hold, or Sell: Dropping 39% From Its All-Time High Under a Hawkish New Fed, Is Netflix an Absolute Buy a
Just look at what happened the last time the New York Knicks won it all.
An Inflation Rate of +4.2% hasn't been this high since April of 2023, when higher Fed funds rates were working inflation metrics down from June of 2022's +9.1%.
At 8:30 a.m. ET this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the May Consumer Price Index. There has not been a more loaded macro release in months. The Federal Reserve has already cut its policy rate 75 basis points from last September’s peak, to an upper bound of 3.75%, and the bond market is ... Wall Street is Braced for Massive Inflation Numbers Wednesday Morning. Here’s What Numbers Could Cause Stocks to Sink or Soar.
Wall Street woke up Monday to a session where the bond market is calling the shots. A stronger-than-expected jobs report and sticky inflation worries pushed Treasury yields higher, forcing investors to rethink expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts. Yet across a CNBC segment featuring two strategists with very different lenses, their verdict on one corner of the market ... The Bond Market Is Forcing the Fed to Cut Rates. But Wall Street CIO Says “The Semi Trade is Very Much Intact.”
The May employment data landed with a thud for bond bulls, with implications for Treasury proxies like the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT). May nonfarm payrolls rose 172,000, the best number since March, when the figure came in at 185,000, and well above expectations. CNBC’s Rick Santelli, reacting on Squawk Box, asked, “Is ... The Jobs Report Released Today Was Great. That’s Bad News for Bond Yields.
S&P Dow Jones Indices stated that it will not be changing its rules to fast-track SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) and other mega-IPOs into the S&P 500 index (^GSPC). Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman and Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean discuss SpaceX's valuation in the lead up to the space company's public launch a week from now. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon hosted Elon Musk as part of SpaceX's (SPAX.PVT) pre-IPO roadshow, as the company sets its sights on an IPO price of $135 per share next Friday, June 12.
Investors who stayed invested in May were winners as a microchip-driven technology stock rally pushed ahead.
<p>SpaceX is going public on June 12 — nine days from now — at a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion, which would make it the largest IPO in history. For ETF investors, the event is unavoidable: index rules will force an estimated $22–27 billion in automatic buying from funds tracking the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. Here's which ETFs will hold SpaceX, when they'll buy, and what the IPO means for your portfolio.</p>
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, the index investing pioneer's flagship exchange-traded product, became the first in the history of ETFs to reach and exceed $1 trillion in assets, the investment firm confirmed on Wednesday. The Vanguard fund hit this milestone, the latest record in the remarkable ascent of exchange-traded funds, on Tuesday, less than 18 months after overtaking State Street Investment Management's SPDR S&P 500 ETF in assets, as investors looking for broad market exposure also sought out the lowest-cost funds. VOO levies a management fee of only 0.03%, compared to 0.09% for the State Street fund, which now is third in the three-way race between those two firms and BlackRock Inc..
At $459.97, Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) looks attractively positioned for investors with a 12-month horizon. The stock just touched a 52-week high of $465.99 and sits on the doorstep of an earnings report that prediction markets are pricing as a near-certain beat, which makes the next 90 days a real test of the bull thesis. Broadcom designs ... Buy, Sell or Hold Broadcom Before Earnings Tomorrow?
Yardeni expects strong retail demand for the AI-3 IPOs, noting that brokers have already begun inviting clients to participate in the SpaceX offering.
Although the bull case has rarely sounded louder, with one-year gains running hot and the index pressing new highs, Wall Street has a long memory, and that memory is not kind to stretched valuations that meet an inflation regime. The benchmark S&P 500 sits at $745.64 on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) proxy ... The S&P 500 Lost 40% in Real Terms from 1968 to 1982. History Says It Could Happen Again.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Monday amid ongoing hopes for a U.S.-Iran deal. Nvidia stock jumped on a new chip.
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
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
On the May 19, 2026 episode of The Clark Howard Podcast, Clay from Kentucky asked advisor Wes Moss whether to leave roughly $60,000 in a vested state law enforcement pension earning a guaranteed 4% annually, or roll it into the Roth Thrift Savings Plan he now contributes to in his new federal job. “This seems ... I left law enforcement with a $60,000 state pension earning 4%. Should I roll it to a Roth TSP instead?
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, used a CNBC Squawk Box appearance on May 22, 2026 to give Kevin Warsh an unusually full-throated endorsement before Warsh has even taken the Fed Chair seat. Warsh wants to drag the Fed back to monetary policy and away from everything else, and the White ... Hassett Backs Incoming Fed Chair Warsh’s Focus on Monetary Policy, Downplays Inflation Risks From Oil Shock
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The instinct to do something when markets convulse is almost universal, and almost always expensive. That tension was on full display in April 2026, when tariff announcements rattled global markets and brokerage inboxes lit up with panicked questions. Joe Saladino, speaking on Paula Pant’s Afford Anything podcast, offered a counterintuitive prescription: pick a date on ... Joe Saladino: “Touch Your Portfolio Just Once a Year. That’s It.”