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Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Friday even as Apple dives on a weak sales forecast. Amazon stock surges on earnings.
Shares of the State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) touched a fresh all-time high Tuesday. That gain is part of a broader shift in the market. Money has moved out of high-flying tech names and into more traditional corners of Wall Street. Key Takeaways: XLF hit an all-time high of $57.33 Tuesday, lifting [...]
Semiconductor stocks have made investors’ fortunes over the past four years, and by extension, semiconductor ETFs turned into the best-performing names. Names like the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMH), Corgi Lithography & Semiconductor Photonics ETF (BATS:EUV), and the iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWT) delivered solid gains earlier this year, only to take a breather in the past ... AI Chip Stocks Just Got Crushed. 3 Semiconductor ETFs to Buy the Dip On
The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]
AI chip stocks hit a sharp correction, but strong earnings and AI demand suggest the pullback may be a dip-buying opportunity for semiconductor ETFs.
Two seemingly similar semiconductor ETFs aren't as similar as they seem. One small detail gives SOXX the advantage for the rest of 2026.
SK Hynix's record $26.5B U.S. IPO and AI memory leadership put semiconductor, South Korea and IPO ETFs like SOXX, SMH, QQQ, EWY, IPO and FPX in focus.
The semiconductor sector had an excellent first half, but investors needed to capture a few different themes in their investing, and this ETF helped them do this.
Semiconductor stocks have dominated every performance leaderboard in 2026, with memory and equipment makers delivering triple-digit gains that dwarf the broader market. Yet the fund capturing most of that upside is not the industry's largest, and it manages a fraction of the assets held by the ...
SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK | SNDK Price Prediction) has become the strangest stock in the S&P 500. Shares are up 634.87% year to date, dwarfing the 67.8% gain on the VanEck Semiconductor ETF. Behind the move is a genuine business transformation. Q3 FY26 revenue hit $5.95 billion, up 251.03% year over year, with datacenter revenue exploding 645%. ... Can SanDisk Outperform the Semiconductor Sector in 2026?
Shares of Microsoft fell almost 1% after the company said it’s cutting 4,800 jobs, or 2.1% of its global workforce.
The chipmaker's massive rerating just met its first serious stress test.
The S&P 500 advanced 1.8%, while the rose 2%, and the gained 2.1%. While the Russell 2000 dipped for the week, it just finished the best first half of a year since 1991, gaining 22% to the S&P 500’s 10%. “Portfolio managers [are] looking for other opportunities outside of owning AI,” says Jason Ware, chief investment officer of Albion Financial Group.
