Europe has spent three years trying to wean itself off Russian energy, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis has made that urgency impossible to ignore. When Iran began imposing tolls and laying mines in…
Since Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on February 28, 2026, the global oil market has been volatile. U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure sent crude prices surging through March. A ceasefire…
WTI crude oil surged above $114 per barrel in early April after the U.S. imposed a naval blockade on Iran following the collapse of peace talks in Islamabad. Oil climbed from $56 in early…
The U.S. dollar has been weakening against a broad basket of currencies. And despite a ceasefire, the U.S.-Iran military conflict has injected a geopolitical risk premium into global energy markets that will still make…
The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% of the world’s traded oil through a narrow chokepoint. When U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran triggered Iranian escalation in late February 2026, including a declaration closing…
Credit Suisse X-Links Crude Oil Shares Covered Call ETN (NASDAQ:USOI) gained ~30% year-to-date, while oil surged sharply higher. The gap between those returns is the entire story of what USOI is, what it costs,…
The S&P 500 Software Index is down 30%, and it increasingly looks to be on the verge of bottoming out and recovering. The Invesco Nasdaq Internet ETF (NASDAQ:PNQI) might be the perfect buy in this…
Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed in Islamabad on April 11, 2026, and President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. A fragile two-week ceasefire that began on…
For years, owning small-cap stocks felt like watching a neighbor’s party through a window. Large-cap indexes kept climbing, mega-cap technology names absorbed Wall Street’s attention, and smaller domestic companies sat quietly in the corner,…
Oil crossed $100 a barrel on Sunday night after President Trump announced a U.S. Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following the collapse of peace talks in Islamabad between Washington and Tehran. With…
Software stocks have sold off so rapidly that many on Wall Street are calling this a “SaaSpocalypse”. Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW | SNOW Price Prediction) has also been a victim, but it has been beaten down to…
Gold is up nearly 50% over the past year, platinum group metals are tightening on mine supply constraints, and the world’s energy transition is creating demand for minerals that sit overwhelmingly under African soil.…
Most investors seeking Nasdaq exposure reach for QQQ without hesitation. It’s the most traded ETF in the world, liquid, and synonymous with tech growth. The problem is that QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100, which holds…
The Roundhill AMZN WeeklyPay ETF pays investors every week, but the weekly check may be coming straight out of their own pocket. Roundhill AMZN WeeklyPay ETF (BATS:AMZW) is built around the premise that Amazon…
AI semiconductor stocks have been holding up, and some have been soaring. Their earnings have risen so much that some are still trading below 20x earnings, like Micron (NASDAQ:MU | MU Price Prediction), Skywater Technology (NASDAQ:SKYT),…
People who want to outperform Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) usually buy stocks like Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) or AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), but this stock may be a smarter choice for you, and you’ve probably never heard of it.…
You’re only going to get hurt if you try to predict whiplashing oil prices and fragile ceasefires. Instead of doing that, you could buy into energy ETFs like the Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:PBW),…
There’s a semiconductor stock in the market that Wall Street is quickly learning to appreciate, and the sooner you get in, the better. That stock is Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE:TSM | TSM Price Prediction). We’ve all…
Quantum computing ETFs were the hottest names in town for months, but this is no longer the case. The capital flowing into them is instead flowing into, or about to flow into, names like…
YieldMax PYPL Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:PYPY) has delivered steady weekly income while its underlying asset collapsed. The result is a fund that looks like a disaster on a price chart yet tells a…
