A $10,000 position in the MicroSectors FANG+ 3X Leveraged ETN (NYSEARCA:FNGU) at Thursday’s $32.16 close was worth about $8,392 by Friday’s $26.99 close, a 16% single-session drop on June 5, 2026. Stretch the window…
The Allianz Center for the Future of Retirement 2026 Annual Retirement Study arrived with a finding that is easy to misread on first pass. 58% of Americans believe that simply having a retirement account…
A single 73-year-old retiree collects $30,000 a year from Social Security, holds $980,000 in a traditional IRA, and keeps another $250,000 in a regular brokerage account. On paper, she looks financially set. At 73,…
$10,000 in the ProShares Ultra Ether ETF (NYSEARCA:ETHT) at Friday’s open was worth about $7,731 by the closing bell. The fund closed at $7.77 from a $10.05 open, a 22.69% drop in a single…
A 68-year-old woman buries her husband on a Tuesday. By Friday, the funeral home has filed paperwork with Social Security reporting his death. She assumes the rest will sort itself out. It will not.…
The headline number looks reassuring. A couple has saved $4 million by age 67. If they start pulling 3.8% off the portfolio, they'll have $152,000 coming in, plus $58,000 from Social Security. It sounds…
$10,000 dropped into the iShares Asia 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:AIA) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth roughly $15,267 by the close on June 3, 2026. That is the kind of half-year a…
$10,000 dropped into the iShares Asia 50 ETF (NYSEARCA:AIA) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth roughly $15,267 by the close on June 3, 2026. That is the kind of half-year a…
A $10,000 position in the iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (NASDAQ:ICLN) on the last trading day of 2025 is worth about $14,455 as of Tuesday’s close, with shares moving from $16 to $24 in…
A 58-year-old investor with $100,000 parked in SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) as a crisis hedge is paying roughly $300 more per year than necessary for the exact same bars of bullion. That is the…
If you put $10,000 into the GraniteShares 2x Long COIN Daily ETF (NASDAQ:CONL) at Thursday’s close and checked the account Friday afternoon, you had about $8,556. The fund posted a 14% loss on June…
Retirement planning usually assumes a target date that the worker controls. The data say otherwise: 42% of retirees left the workforce earlier than expected, with health issues and unexpected job loss cited as the…
Critics have been writing the obituary of value investing for more than 40 years. The strategy keeps refusing to die, and a recent episode of The Investing for Beginners Podcast explains why the skepticism…
Westwood Salient Enhanced Midstream Income ETF (NYSEARCA:MDST) has paid $0.225 per share every month for 26 straight months, with no cuts and no skipped payments. At a recent price of about $29, that monthly…
A 63-year-old retiree with $400,000 parked in the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) likely picked it for the 100-stock screen and the reliable income stream. The top 10 positions now make up 41%…
