Most index investors own the S&P 500 and think they own “the market.” They don’t. The S&P 500 covers roughly 500 of the largest U.S. companies, leaving out several thousand mid-, small-,…
Live Updates Salesforce is Also Seeing Insider Buying9:10am ETSince the start of the year, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has been a train wreck, falling from $267.82 to a recent low of $185.03. The…
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:FBCG) is down 11.67% year to date as of late March 2026, a sharper pullback than the 8.42% decline in the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) over the same…
Most broad U.S. equity ETFs just buy the market. Avantis U.S. Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUS) does something subtler: it buys most of the market, then tilts the portfolio toward stocks that are cheaper…
Semiconductor stocks and AI stocks are slowing down, even though their financials aren’t. One stock I’m especially hopeful about is Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM | ARM Price Prediction), and it’s one I believe…
iShares Top 20 U.S. Stocks ETF (NYSEARCA:TOPT) is down 11.06% year-to-date, and that slide traces directly back to the fund’s defining feature: a portfolio so concentrated in a handful of mega-cap technology…
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD | AMD Price Prediction) closed 2025 with record revenue and accelerating AI momentum, while Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) delivered a more complicated picture: a modest revenue beat, a GAAP net…
Live Updates Steady Powell 12:43pm ETFed Chairman Jerome Powell made the speaking rounds today, suggesting that the central bank wouldn’t let oil prices determine its next move on interest rates. He suggested…
The VIX has climbed 41% in a single month, sitting at 26.95 and in the 93rd percentile of the past year’s readings. For retirement investors who felt last April’s volatility spike to…
Even long-time market darling Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) is starting to look a bit toppy, especially after plunging to the lower end of its lengthy consolidation channel. Undoubtedly, if Nvidia…
XSD is down about 8% over the past month, yet up roughly 52% over the past year. That gap tells the whole story of what semiconductor investors are wrestling with right now:…
The word “conservative” gets attached to a lot of funds that don’t quite earn it. Vanguard Mega Cap Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:MGC) holds roughly 230 of the largest US companies, charges…
SPY has spent over three decades as the default answer to “how do I invest in the stock market?” But the fund that defined passive investing now carries a concentration profile that…
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) reports fiscal third-quarter 2026 results on April 8, 2026, after the close. With a $6.9 billion market cap and a debt pile that keeps growing, this quarter’s call will…
Over 90% of Nvidia’s chips are made at TSMC in Taiwan. This includes Blackwell. Much of Taiwan’s energy is powered by natural gas (about 90%). According to the Atlantic Council, “Taiwan relied…
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