The S&P 500 closed at 666.06 on Thursday, falling 1.52% as Iranian strikes on two oil tankers sent crude prices surging toward $100 a barrel, reigniting inflation fears and triggering a broad selloff that…
EWY has returned 37% so far in 2026, nearly tripling off its one-year low, and the question for retirees is whether this is a recovery worth owning or a cyclical bounce that has already…
Most U.S.-listed emerging market ETFs have spent the past year treading water or losing ground. The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) has done the opposite. Shares are up 62% over the past year and…
Most retirees know the basics: claim early and get less, wait and get more. But a law signed in early 2025 rewrote rules that had quietly penalized millions of public workers for decades, and…
“Marvell tech had $1 billion more in sales than anyone thought. It’s involved directly with the data center. It’s got optical, it’s got fantastic equipment.” That was Jim Cramer on Friday, pointing to Marvell…
A caller making $140,000 a year reached out to The Dave Ramsey Show in March 2026 asking for “a good butt-chewing.” He got one. The original conversation centered on a luxury bike purchase, but…
The Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF (FELG) is a fund worth owning for decades — not because it promises explosive returns, but because its factor-based approach to large-cap growth gives long-term investors a…
Japanese equities have delivered some of the strongest returns of any major market over the past year, but USD-based investors who chased that rally without hedging their currency exposure captured far less of it…
US stocks entered 2026 on the back foot, with the S&P 500 down 1.4% year-to-date through early March. Over that same stretch, developed international equities moved in the other direction. For retirees managing sequence-of-returns…
EEM is up over the past 12 months, then dropped 8.41% in a single week ending March 6, 2026. That kind of whipsaw is not a glitch in the fund — it is exactly…
Asia-Pacific equities outside Japan have quietly delivered one of the stronger performances among developed-market ETFs over the past year, and most retirees haven’t noticed. iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF (NYSEARCA:EPP) tracks Australia, Hong…
A couple approaching 40 with $86,000 in debt and a $200,000 household income called into The Dave Ramsey Show in March 2026 asking a question that reveals a common panic response to late-start retirement…
SMDV has paid a dividend every single quarter since launching in February 2015, through a pandemic, a rate-hiking cycle, and a regional banking scare. That consistency is worth understanding before you decide whether the…
Monthly dividend checks. A portfolio anchored in Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar, and Microsoft. An expense ratio so low it barely registers. For retirees navigating a market where the VIX has climbed nearly 30% in a…
SCHD gets most of the attention in dividend ETF conversations, and for good reason. Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) is a benchmark many compare against. But WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund (NYSEARCA:DON) has…
Most small-cap value ETFs track an index and call it a day. DFAT takes a different approach: a rules-based, academically driven methodology to pursue the value and profitability premiums that Eugene Fama and Kenneth…
The Federal Reserve cut rates three times between September and December 2025, bringing its benchmark rate down from 4.5% to its current level of 3.75%. Then it stopped. The January 2026 meeting ended with…
With WTI crude at $65.87 a barrel and a geopolitical fuse now lit — Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died on February 28, 2026, escalating U.S.-Iran tensions and pushing oil prices toward $100 —…
Jim Cramer made his position clear on AVGO the morning after Broadcom’s Q1 fiscal 2026 earnings hit the tape: “This is an undervalued stock versus where people thought it was going to be.” The…
When crude prices surge on geopolitical shock, refiners do not all respond equally. The death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, 2026, per NPR reporting, sent immediate shockwaves through energy…
