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Investors' dreaded enemy — inflation — is already hovering around 3.4%. That's the highest level in years. What's the solution?
Two events before September could reshape VOO’s next quarter
Tired of collecting the S&P 500's paltry 0.9% dividend? Prepare to take your money overseas. The rising weight of low-yielding tech giants in the S&P 500 — and rising stock prices — are pushing the index's yield lower.
Many S&P 500 investors don't pay much attention to the number of letters in their stocks' symbols. But maybe they should.
S&P 500 investors can't decide if they should be bullish or playing it safe. But corporate profit guidance for next year can provide a clue.
Investors have braced for the second-quarter earnings for months — hoping for signs of how the S&P 500 is absorbing inflation. So far the answer is — very well.
Volatility in the stock market and the Magnificent Seven dominate the headlines. Investors are repositioning toward more value-based funds.
Just like that, cash flow matters to S&P 500 investors. And it's becoming very apparent. Shares of the nine S&P 500 stocks expected to post the most free cash flow this year, like Micron and Chevron, are smashing the rest of the market.
July wound up as the second-straight down month of the year for most S&P 500 investors. But some stocks rallied anyway.
Investors can debate if S&P 500 CEOs deserve their sky-high pay packages. But not all CEOs get such princely sums.
The paycheck stopped, the 401(k) balance sits there, and now you need it to last three decades without a single mistake. Here is how four ETFs can replace your salary, cushion every market crash, and still grow faster than inflation.
A closer look at brokerage holdings reveals how the S&P 500’s composition has shifted considerably. The index once seen as a broad measure of American markets now carries a heavier technology weighting than at any point in the past two decades. Technology stocks made up close to 40% of the ...
The Treasury just picked one fund to hold every newborn's federally seeded investment account, but whether that same fund deserves a spot in your portfolio depends on a concentration risk buried inside those 500 stocks that almost nobody selling it will tell you about.
Talk about the inescapable force of gravity. Shares of Elon Musk's Space Exploration have fallen to nearly their IPO price.
It was only a matter of time. Eventually someone would want a piece of $488 billion-in-assets Invesco QQQ Trust ETF.
Some S&P 500 companies' second-quarter earnings grew so fast — even analysts are having trouble keeping up.
In the space exploration business, money is easy come, easy go. And that's something Space Exploration IPO investors learned the hard way.
Don't assume some rising S&P 500 stock have gotten away from you. Analysts are unanimously supporting a few of them.
<p>SpaceX’s IPO smashed records, as investors clamored to gain access, pouring in billions to any kind of SpaceX exposure they could get their hands on. One ETF benefited for a couple hours, having changed its entire mandate overnight to capture the hype, before being halted. Tune into this episode of <em>ETF Zoo</em> for the scoop and the precedent it may set for ETFs looking ahead. </p>
<p>Semiconductors and U.S. equities at large benefited in a week dominated by the SpaceX IPO. Meanwhile, investors quietly increased their hedges in ultra-short bonds in ongoing, complex markets. </p>
<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..
(Bloomberg) -- A seemingly endless appetite for buying US stock dips has propelled Vanguard Group’s S&P 500-tracking ETF past $1 trillion in assets, making it the first fund of its kind to reach a milestone once thought unimaginable for the ETF industry.Most Read from BloombergTrump Begins Rebuilding His Tariff Wall, Citing Forced LaborRussia Finance Officials Tell Putin War Spending Is UnaffordableTrump to Get Audit Immunity as $1.8 Billion Fund in DoubtTikTok Billionaire Overtakes Mukesh Amban