Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) is having one of its strangest years in recent memory. The AI franchise is exploding, with CEO Satya Nadella telling investors “Our AI business surpassed an annual revenue…
The SonicShares Global Shipping ETF (NASDAQ:BOAT) pays one of the more unpredictable distributions in the ETF universe, and shareholders pulling income from BOAT need to understand why. The fund holds container, dry bulk, and…
One of the things that really grinds my gears is when investors looking for a cash management vehicle simply default to whatever money market fund their brokerage platform happens to highlight first.That can be…
With major indexes near record highs and AI-linked names trading at premium multiples, the hunt for reasonably priced AI exposure has shifted toward fintech. Stocks under $15 with real earnings, beyond just an AI…
Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY | LLY Price Prediction) is growing like a software company. Q1 2026 revenue hit $19.80B, up 55.5% year over year, with Mounjaro at $8.66B (+125%) and Zepbound at $4.16B (+80%). CEO…
Warren Buffett sold more stock than he bought for 13 quarters before Greg Abel came in. The result sits on Berkshire’s balance sheet as a number that functions like a flare. Roughly $397 billion…
A federal employee retiring at 62 after 30 years of service with a "high-3" salary average of $90,000 would receive an estimated FERS basic pension benefit of roughly $29,700 annually, based on the standard…
Costco (NASDAQ: COST | COST Price Prediction) and Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ: SFM) both look vulnerable for very different reasons. Costco is firing on all cylinders yet trades at a valuation that leaves no…
Kiplinger has reported that the Treasury Department is studying whether it can index the cost basis of capital gains to inflation through regulation, without an act of Congress. For a retiree liquidating a long-held…
The pitch on the Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:VGT) is sector breadth. You pay nine basis points, you get the entire information technology sleeve of the U.S. market, roughly $125 billion in assets aggregated…
Margaret is 70, single, healthy, and owns her home outright. She has $800,000 in retirement assets and a budget that works. The line item that does not appear on her spreadsheet is long-term care.…
It’s quite tempting for new investors to want to track the market’s current behavior while looking for patterns in the past to try to get a feel for how things could go in the…
Our Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction) call sits squarely against the recent rally. The 24/7 Wall St. price target for Intel is $101.40, modestly below where shares trade today. After a 399.4% one-year…
Warren Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway on December 31, 2025, after six decades leading the conglomerate he transformed from a struggling textile mill into a $1 trillion empire. The “Oracle of…
Anyone who has held XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) since last summer has had a rough ride. The token peaked at $3.65 in July 2025, then started a grind lower that still hasn’t stopped. The XRP…
