State Street’s 2025 prediction recap delivered the headline number gold bugs and silver bulls have been waiting for. “Precious metals had an unprecedented year with 12X the inflows year-over-year, and +50% performance in 2025,”…
State Street’s 2026 Global ETF Outlook calls for $2.1 trillion of US ETF inflows this year, with the lion’s share flowing into three core funds: Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO), iShares Core S&P 500…
Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST | FAST Price Prediction) is a stock built to be owned for decades, because it sells the boring, essential consumables that keep American industry running, and it has quietly compounded capital through…
The AI rally that’s driven the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to all-time highs has felt like it was hitting a crescedo for three years straight. But as hyperscalers push their own capital expenditure commitments higher…
Markets abhor uncertainty, and today both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rallied to record highs on the hope that the anxiety and overhang from the US / Iran conflict may be coming to a…
State Street’s 2026 Global ETF Outlook revisits its prior-year forecasts and flags a finding most investors glossed over: precious metals returned roughly 50% in 2025, and US precious metals ETFs now hold about $310…
YieldMax PYPL Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:PYPY) is built for one thing: turning PayPal’s volatility into monthly cash. The fund holds Treasury bills as collateral, builds synthetic long exposure to PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL | PYPL…
The iShares High Yield Muni Active ETF (CBOE:HIMU) sits in one of the more specialized corners of the bond market: actively managed, below-investment-grade and non-rated municipal debt, wrapped in an ETF and pitched at…
Fidelity Enhanced High Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:FDHY) pays monthly, currently distributes around $0.27 per share, and has posted a 7.1% one-year total return through mid-July 2026. For income investors weighing whether that distribution is durable,…
Crude oil tanker freight futures rarely produce the year’s biggest gain. Yet Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (NYSE:BWET) closed at around $172, after a 1,331% one-year run driven almost entirely by one event: the closure…
ProShares Ultra Bitcoin ETF (NYSEARCA:BITU) gives traders 2x daily exposure to the Bloomberg Bitcoin Index through swaps, with a 0.98% expense ratio. The appeal is simple: when Bitcoin moves, BITU moves twice as hard,…
The active bond ETF wrapper is about to absorb a structural shift. the PIMCO Active Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:BOND) sits near $92 after a 6% total return over the past year, while Fidelity’s Fidelity Total…
Gold has done exactly what its defenders promised over the past year, and the numbers explain why allocators are revisiting the metal as a real portfolio building block. iShares Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:IAU) returned 42%…
Concentrated bets on a handful of mega-cap technology names drove most of the S&P 500’s returns over the past three years, and Roundhill built MAGS to deliver that exposure in one ticker without forcing…
State Street’s own 2026 ETF outlook called active fixed income the “global product center of gravity”, which is a striking concession from the firm that built the largest passive high-yield ETF on the market.…
State Street opened its 2026 Global ETF Outlook with a single sentence that framed an entire year of flows: “Defense was the standout theme of 2025.” The line, buried on page 13 of a…
The 2026 Global ETF Outlook from State Street made a specific call about where fixed income flows are heading. State Street wrote that “Active ETFs incorporating CLO-based fixed income strategies are gaining traction, reflecting…
The iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF (NYSEARCA:BAI) solves a problem that has tripped up most thematic funds: how to own the AI build-out without locking yourself into a static index that gets…
The VistaShares Target 15 ACKtivist Distribution ETF (NYSEARCA:ACKY) gives investors a packaged way to ride alongside Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square book while collecting a targeted 15% annual distribution paid monthly. The fund mirrors Pershing…
Income investors hunting for double-digit yields keep landing on the YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:ULTY), a weekly-paying fund that has built a $2.48 billion asset base in roughly two years. The pitch…
