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Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Friday as Netflix stock plunged on earnings. SpaceX shares sold off on a canceled test flight.
SVOL has kept its 20% yield intact through a turbulent stretch, but one shift in the VIX futures curve quietly transforms its core profit engine from tailwind to headwind, and the monthly distributions are already whispering that something has changed.
U.S. markets bled amid rising AI concerns after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing massively hiked its capital expenditures for 2026.
A seasoned portfolio analyst argues that buy-and-hold investors face a threat more insidious than a sudden crash, and the quiet math behind today's 60/40 portfolios is what should keep them up at night.
<p>The flood of ETF launches seems unending, with the industry smashing through AUM and trading records once again this year. With so many ETFs trading, ICI’s Josh Weinberg offers an inside look at what the hottest topics and trends were at the 2026 ICI ETF Conference this year. </p>
Small-cap stocks are staging their most dominant run against the S&P 500 in over two decades, and three ETFs are competing for the best seat at the table. Which one actually comes out ahead may surprise you.
Marvell shed a third of its value in a single month while its AI data center business posted record revenue and management flagged an all-time high in design wins. One Wall Street analyst just set a target that would roughly double the stock, and the reasoning centers on a program most investors have not priced in.
Intel shed nearly 20% in a month while most of Wall Street shrugged and called the stock fairly valued. One HSBC analyst just broke from the crowd in a dramatic way, and his reasoning centers on a part of Intel's business the rest of the Street has largely ignored.
XYLD hands you a monthly check and calls it income, but buried in the fine print is a tradeoff that bull market investors keep learning the expensive way.
DTCC launched a live tokenization pilot with BlackRock, Vanguard, JPMorgan, and nearly 40 financial firms. The trial tokenizes Microsoft, SPY, QQQ, and US Treasuries ...
SpaceX has surrendered every post-IPO gain in five weeks, landing back at its offering price while one analyst quietly models a valuation that dwarfs the entire cloud computing industry. The question is whether that call is visionary or delusional.
Yep. And you should, if you can.
A new record for the fund feels like a moment for a big decision, but the smartest move might be the simplest one.
Picture two retirees, each with a fresh $1 million to invest, staring at the same market on the same morning. One builds a portfolio of high-yield covered-call funds, mortgage REITs, and business development companies, aiming for roughly $100,000 in annual distributions. The other buys dividend growers yielding closer to 2%, collecting about $20,000 in year one. ... The $1 Million Portfolio With Two Very Different Futures
Schadenfreude is a beast—and momentum investors are on the receiving end now. Momentum, the practice of buying the market’s best-performing stocks based on the premise they will stay the best performers, is a wonderful investing strategy when it’s working in your favor. The returns are fantastic—the Invesco S&P 500 Momentum exchange-traded fund has returned 42% a year for the past three years, more than double the SPDR S&P 500 ETF’s 20% annual return.
Every month XYLD investors cash their check, something else quietly leaves their account, and most of them never notice until they compare the scoreboard.
Cooler-than-expected producer prices contributed to hopes for easing inflation on Wednesday.
A single government program just funneled $30 billion toward one obscure low-cost ETF, and the fund's fate now rests on two specific risks that the market has not yet bothered to price in.
Vanguard's cheapest growth ETF carries a nearly perfect long-term track record and a three-cent price tag, but crack open the holdings and a very different story starts to take shape.
Three covered call ETFs are all chasing the same monthly income promise, but their fees, structures, and 2026 returns tell very different stories about which one actually earns its keep.