Artificial intelligence has turned the stock market into a contest over who will own the infrastructure powering the next decade of computing. Investors have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into AI leaders, pushing…
A 66-year-old executive retires in 2024 with a $410,000 annual pension, $52,000 in Social Security, and roughly $50,000 in dividend and interest income. His first Medicare bill arrives in 2026. The Part B premium…
Artificial intelligence is rapidly shifting from the cloud to the devices we use every day. The first wave of generative AI relied on massive data centers packed with expensive graphics processors. The next phase…
Stellantis shareholders have suffered, the losses are staggering, and Antonio Filosa keeps insisting the turnaround is on track. So which side of that argument does the evidence actually support after his first year running…
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP | PEP Price Prediction) just hiked its dividend for the 54th straight year and beat Q1 estimates, putting it squarely back in dividend-investor chatter as consumer staples wobble through another bout of…
Two couples crossed the same retirement starting line. Each ended a long career, locked in a $1 million dividend portfolio, and budgeted around $60,000 a year in portfolio income. Both signed up for Medicare.…
She is 63, widowed in her late fifties, and remarried at 62. For months she assumed that remarrying meant losing the roughly $2,300 monthly survivor benefit from her late husband’s Social Security record. In…
JEPI deposits a check every single month, but two investors holding identical shares can collect very different amounts depending on when they look at their account. Understanding what actually controls the size of that…
BIZD just posted its highest quarterly payout ever, yet the fund's price has shed double digits over the same stretch. Understanding what is holding that yield up matters more than the yield itself.
A 68-year-old widow in Ohio inherited her brother’s $400,000 traditional IRA in 2024. As a non-spouse beneficiary, she generally has to empty the account by the end of the 10th year after his death.…
The AI boom has transformed one of the semiconductor industry’s most cyclical businesses into one of its tightest markets. Memory chips, once plagued by oversupply and collapsing prices, have become one of the biggest…
If you own VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMH) for AI exposure, you are betting on the same handful of chip designers everyone else holds. SMH is the default vehicle for the trade: a concentrated basket…
A caller named Robert phoned into The Clark Howard Show with a problem most savers would love to have: the IRS was forcing him to pull money out of retirement accounts, and he didn’t…
Few stocks earn their place in a retiree’s portfolio the way Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED | ED Price Prediction) has. The New York utility delivers electricity, gas, and steam to roughly 3.7 million electric customers…
The biggest IPO in history is about to reach another milestone, but smart investors shouldn’t confuse forced buying with lasting value. On July 7, SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX | SPCX Price Prediction) will officially join the…
