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A single ETF purchase made before most investors had ever heard the term changed what passive investing looks like today, but the original is no longer the obvious choice for everyone holding it.
Jeffrey Gundlach thinks the Fed's own forecast exposes a contradiction at the heart of its rate decision, and he sees the same kind of stress already showing up in the bond market for AI companies before most equity investors have noticed.
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The S&P 500 carries 500 company names, but the math tells a different story about where your money actually goes. Three ETFs attack that problem from completely different angles, and the returns so far in 2026 suggest the strategy is working.
Equal-weighted index funds are surging amid concerns of a tech bubble.
Investors’ intense focus on AI is at times adding to the might of a small club of Big Tech stocks with mega market values to potentially make or break a single trading session for the S 500.
The S&P 500 is more than Nvidia, but not much. With the S&P 500 up 0.7%, it was up $481.99 billion in market capitalization. Salesforce, which also reported after the bell on Wednesday, surged more than 20%.
The chip stock rally is already petering out, and the rest of the market isn't picking up the slack. The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.5%. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 68 points, or 0.
The equal-weighted S&P 500 is outperforming the main index as the Mag 7 struggle. That trend should continue, offsetting any concerns about fund fees.
The equal-weighted S&P 500 is outperforming the main index as the Mag 7 struggle. That trend should continue, offsetting any concerns about fund fees.
The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.2%, while the S&P 500 was down just 0.1%. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, which counts each S&P 500 stocks equally, was down 0.6%. Tech was the only major S&P 500 sector rising, and that was mostly due to chip stocks.
<p>Are the days numbered for 351 exchanges, box spread, and dividend-avoiding ETFs? Tune into this episode of <em>ETF Zoo</em> to find out, plus learn why markets seem to care less and less about the struggling consumer, and what the recent NEOS acquisition could indicate for the future of the options income category. </p>
September and October can be rough for stocks. Here’s how to add some shock absorbers to your portfolio.
September and October can be rough for stocks. Here’s how to add some shock absorbers to your portfolio.
The S&P 500 was struggling to build on last week’s closing high. The Nasdaq Composite was down slightly. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, which counts every stock in the S&P as if they were the same size, was flat.
Your own evolving goals might point the way to a different type of exchange-traded fund.
Smart Beta ETF report for RSP
<p>The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF is closing in on a milestone it has never hit, helped by a rare stretch of the megacaps lagging the rest of the market.</p>
Style Box ETF report for RSP
The S&P 500 may be down, but three-quarters of stocks in the index are actually rising. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, or RSP, was up more than 1% despite the S&P 500 struggling to stay above breakeven. A majority of stocks have moved in a different direction than the broader S&P 500 index 36.9% of the time so far this year, which is up from 22.4% in 2025 and 23% in 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
It's been a tough trading day for the S&P 500, but if you take a look under the surface, the market was actually holding up alright. The S&P 500 was down 0.3% after trading more than 0.9% higher earlier in the session. Chip stocks were the weakest link, with Sandisk, Coherent, and Lam Research as the index's worst performers.
Equal weighting the S&P 500 sounds like a clean fix for mega-cap concentration, but the strategy carries trade-offs that rarely get the attention they deserve, and the long-term numbers tell a story most investors haven't heard.
The S&P 500 is hugging the breakeven line, but most of the market is actually on the rise. The market benchmark is down 0.1% after turning higher a few times and losing steam. The Dow is also around breakeven.
The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF has crushed the broad market since its launch, but equal-weighting seven mega-cap giants cuts both ways, and 2026 is exposing exactly how badly that math can unravel when the group stops moving together.
RSP is beating SPY for the first time in years, but two specific signals will determine whether equal-weight strategies keep their edge or surrender it back to the mega-caps before year end.
If you own a broad index fund, you may be far more exposed to a handful of mega-cap stocks than you realize, and trimming that risk does not require abandoning tech altogether.
The S&P 500 is in the red despite 10 out of 11 sectors trading higher. Tech is the lone decliner. The tech sector was down 2.1%, while all other sectors were in the green. The S&P 500 was down 0.2%. The last time the market benchmark closed lower while 10 of its sectors rose was on November 8, 2007, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
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.
Today’s S&P 500 gains wouldn’t suggest it, but most of the index’s components are actually in the red. The S&P 500 is up 0.4% while the Equal Weight S&P 500 is moving in the other direction, down 0.3%. Nearly two-thirds of names in the S&P 500 were down despite session gains, signaling that stocks on the rise are doing the heavy lifting, offsetting the larger group of laggards and then some.
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