The iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF (NYSEARCA:IHE) is the rare fund that has spent the past year being publicly threatened by the President of the United States and quietly outperforming nearly every healthcare benchmark anyway.…
On the Clark Howard Podcast's March 31, 2026, episode, certified financial planner and Money Matters host Wes Moss laid out a piece of math that quietly rewrites the retirement playbook for affluent savers: "I…
The iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT) and the Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (NASDAQ:FDIG) offer fundamentally different exposures. One holds bitcoin itself. The other holds companies that touch bitcoin. So far in…
A 67-year-old retiree with $920,000 in savings and a $2,800 monthly Social Security benefit appears to have a comfortable setup. With annual spending totaling $58,000, the portfolio only needs to generate about $24,400 per…
A 55-year-old anesthesiologist clearing $450,000 a year decides she is done with hospital call schedules. She wants to consult two days a week, draw down some of her 401(k) to bridge the income gap,…
Shares of Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM | ARM Price Prediction) are trading higher by 4% in midday action Tuesday, extending a year that has put the chip-IP designer in a class of its own among…
Shares of Pinterest (NYSE:PINS | PINS Price Prediction) are down 6% in midday trading on Tuesday, changing hands near $18.75. The selling is sharper than what’s happening at the rest of the social media…
A 64-year-old earning $180,000 gets the call no one plans for: the role is gone, severance runs 12 months, and the carefully drawn line that said “claim Social Security at 70” suddenly looks like…
The Iran war started on February 27, and the aluminum market has not been the same since. Alcoa CEO William Oplinger told investors on the company’s Q1 2026 call that London Metal Exchange prices…
For millions of Americans, deciding when to claim Social Security is one of the biggest financial choices they’ll make in their lifetime. That’s because the timing of those claims impacts monthly benefit payments. You’re…
With money market funds and short Treasury bills still hovering near 4.6%, the bar for owning anything with equity-like risk has gone up. Income investors keep asking the same question: which funds actually pay…
If you’ve ever stared at a ticker yielding north of 30% and wondered what the catch was, Credit Suisse X-Links Crude Oil Shares Covered Call ETN (NASDAQ:USOI) is the catch made visible. USOI is…
Shares of Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU | MU Price Prediction) are up 6% in midday trading on Tuesday, leading the memory complex higher after a brutal week. SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) is climbing 4%, while Western Digital…
Income-focused investors comparing high-yield options to mainstream dividend funds encounter a familiar gap. VanEck BDC Income ETF (NYSEARCA:BIZD) pays a distribution yield near 13%, which would generate roughly $26,000 a year on that balance,…
Data center electricity demand has turned utility stocks back into a growth story, and First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund (NYSEARCA:FXU) has captured the move. FXU is up 17% over the past year and 7%…
