A single retiree turns 75 this year holding $2.1 million in a traditional 401(k) and collecting $4,000 a month from Social Security. The plan was simple: live on Social Security, take the required minimum…
If you put $10,000 into the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLE) on the last trading day of 2025 and forgot about it, you would be sitting on roughly $13,131 as of the June…
Twelve thousand dollars a month in dividend income sounds simple enough until you start doing the math. Many investors assume they can reach that number with a seven-figure portfolio and a handful of high-yield…
A 65-year-old who just retired with $1.4 million in a traditional 401(k) and no plans to touch it until age 73 has a problem most pre-retirees miss. The eight years between retiring and the…
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is the default core holding for tens of millions of investors. It tracks the S&P 500, charges 0.0945% in expenses, pays a 1.25% dividend yield, and has returned about…
Taiwan manufacturing capacity Taiwan is the world’s most critical semiconductor manufacturing hub. In 2025 its economy grew by 8.68% and it exported around $550B, growing at a staggering rate of 34% YoY. Electronics traditionally…
Energy markets have been anything but calm this spring. WTI crude swung from a 12-month low of $55.44 in December 2025 to a peak of $114.58 on April 7, 2026, before settling around $95…
Income investors own the JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) for one reason: a Nasdaq-100 portfolio that pays a high monthly distribution from an options overlay, cheaply. Its 0.35% net expense ratio is among the…
Research firm Sensor Tower reports that OpenAI’s ChatGPT had one billion monthly app users last month. The lead based on this yardstick is long-standing in the industry. According to CNBC: “With its billion-MAU figure…
Many consumers are struggling to keep up with the ever-rising cost of living. And elevated interest rates aren’t helping matters. That’s why many people may be hoping that the Federal Reserve will cut interest…
Income investors have a reason to revisit Realty Income (NYSE:O | O Price Prediction). The Fed has cut 75 basis points over the past 12 months, taking the upper bound to 3.75%, easing pressure…
Passive income is the closest thing investors get to a paycheck that arrives whether the market is open, closed, or in freefall. Wages depend on showing up. Rental income depends on tenants paying. Dividends…
Investors who own the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NYSEARCA:NOBL) bought one of the cleanest stories in dividend investing: S&P 500 companies that have raised their payout for at least 25 straight years.…
Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY | LLY Price Prediction) is the stock everyone wants to own right now, a $1.02 trillion obesity juggernaut that has ripped 20.9% higher in a single month on the back of…
Social Security’s Trustees have been sounding warnings for years that the program is facing a major financial crisis. Their latest report highlights just how imminent that funding crunch is. Based on the Trustees’ latest…
