The Dow Jones Industrial Average punched through to a fresh record this week, its first since February, while the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index sat at 49.8 in April, a reading the survey…
The Quiet Cliff Sitting Between $108,999 and $109,001 A single retiree, age 70, lives off Social Security, a modest pension, and a traditional IRA. Her required minimum distribution just kicked up. She runs the…
onsemi (NASDAQ:ON | ON Price Prediction) has staged a remarkable comeback in the semiconductor sector this year, and our proprietary model says the rally has room to run. After bottoming below $41 last spring,…
By far, the oldest and longest-standing gold exchange-traded products, or ETPs, generally charge around 0.4% annually in expense ratios. That applies both to closed-ended structures like the Sprott Physical Gold Trust (NYSEARCA: PHYS), which…
It’s not exactly a secret that Social Security serves as a critical source of income for millions of retirees today. And without those monthly benefits, many older Americans would not be able to keep…
West Texas Intermediate crude started 2026 at $57 a barrel and now trades near $112, a near-doubling driven by Iran-related tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and a sustained geopolitical risk premium on seaborne…
The Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF (NYSEARCA:FIDU) is a low-cost ETF that gets you exposure to some of the premier industrial and defense stocks in the market. Most investors view it as a solid…
Walmart (NYSE:WMT | WMT Price Prediction) just delivered a quarter that makes the bull case for 2030 hard to ignore. Q1 FY27 revenue hit $175.68 billion, up 6.08% YoY, with global eCommerce climbing 26%…
I have a soft spot for the iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS: GOVT), and clearly a lot of investors do too given that it now sits at roughly $41 billion in assets under…
For years, investors treated artificial intelligence as a GPU story. Buy the chipmakers, ride the boom, and call it a day. But AI data centers have evolved into something much bigger — sprawling digital…
If you are looking for investing discussion a little more sophisticated than what you typically find on Reddit, I would suggest checking out the Bogleheads forum. It is populated largely by adherents of John…
Most retirees own a passive bond index fund without thinking twice. The PIMCO Multisector Bond Active ETF (NYSEARCA:PYLD) is the alternative that has quietly pulled in $8.07 billion in net flows over the past…
Aubrey Williams reached financial independence in Santa Barbara, California, one of the most expensive real estate markets in America, without packing up and moving to Tennessee. On the Catching Up to FI podcast, he…
The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:VYM) addresses a specific retirement problem: drawing income from stocks without concentrating the outcome in any one company. VYM holds roughly 605 dividend-paying companies, which makes it a…
A 73-year-old retiree with a $1.2 million dividend portfolio generating $5,400 a month faces a quieter retirement problem than most. The income works, but it depends on corporations continuing to pay and raise dividends…
