If you’re lucky enough to have a pension, be careful with your payout choices. Pension elections are irreversible. Under many plans, Option A pays the highest monthly income for the pension holder’s life only.…
A 12% yield looks unbeatable on day one. A retiree who wants $60,000 a year needs only about $500,000 at that yield, compared with roughly $1.7 million at a 3.5% yield. But retirement income…
Arizona can still work for retirees who are not bringing a Scottsdale budget, but the city choice matters more than the state’s retirement marketing suggests. Sedona and Scottsdale can strain an ordinary portfolio quickly,…
On July 6, 2026, Meta disclosed in a court filing that four states (California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey) are seeking approximately $1.4 trillion in penalties ahead of an August 2026 trial in Oakland,…
The Number Gold’s proxy in the equity market, SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEARCA:GLD), has returned 22.27% over the past twelve months, climbing from $309.25 on July 2, 2025 to $378.13 on July 2, 2026. That…
On the June 27 episode of the Animal Spirits podcast, Michael Batnick and Paul Schroeder of Invesco spent a segment on something that should annoy anyone who thinks they understand the NASDAQ 100. As…
Prediction markets just had their coming-out party, and the numbers are staggering. $3,996,191,303 has traded on the “World Cup Winner” market as of July 6, 2026, per Polymarket, a single contract that has quietly…
Income investors looking at the 4.38% on a 10-year Treasury and wishing it were closer to seven have a quiet alternative: midstream energy. Pipelines move oil, gas, and refined products under long-term contracts that…
Samsung Electronics just did something no company has done before. Its operating profit last quarter came in roughly 19 times what it was a year ago, revenue more than doubled to a record, and…
The median full-time worker in the United States earned $1,235 a week in the first quarter of 2026, which annualizes to roughly $64,220 in gross income. Using the standard financial planning rule that retirees…
The world’s third-richest person just accepted a 94% loss to walk away from New York City real estate. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, worth roughly $280 billion, sold his stake in a Manhattan multifamily fund…
The chip trade is having one of those days where every bull’s favorite narrative and every bear’s favorite chart are both correct at the same time. On Tuesday’s CNBC Morning Call Sheet segment, Steve…
The pitch for the iShares National Muni Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:MUB) is almost aggressively boring, and that is the point. While every brokerage feed screams about AI capex and $4 trillion market caps, MUB quietly…
Scroll through Robinhood’s ETF page and you keep bumping into a boring blue ticker parked near $50 a share that barely moves. That is the WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund (NYSEARCA:USFR), and it has…
Index-inclusion day is supposed to be a party. Passive funds line up to buy, forced demand meets thin supply, and the newly added stock pops. That is the script. SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX | SPCX Price…
