Drone stocks are bleeding out on a day with zero company-specific news, raising a question that cuts to the heart of the sector: do record backlogs and billion-dollar bookings matter when risk-off…
Trump just signed a proclamation slapping steep tariffs on imported drones, and the winners inside the sector are not who most investors expected. Here is why the reaction splits so sharply across…
The Global X Defense Tech ETF (NYSEARCA:SHLD) and the SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (NYSEARCA:XAR) look like two ways to buy the same rearmament story, but they take structurally different bets.…
Defense ETFs have multiplied as the global rearmament cycle has matured, and two of the most-followed products take very different routes to the same theme. The Global X Defense Tech ETF (NASDAQ:SHLD)…
The Pentagon’s FY2027 budget request totals $1.5 trillion, with $54 billion earmarked for autonomous and remotely operated systems and another $39 billion routed through what the Department of War now calls “Drone…
NATO’s defense ministers committed to spending at least 2.5% of GDP on defense, with Poland, the Baltics, and Greece already running above 4%, and the alliance has set a target of 5%…
The Global X Defense Tech ETF (NASDAQ:SHLD) has done something unusual for a defense fund in a year when NATO is rewriting its spending playbook. It has gone down. SHLD trades around…
Global defense spending hit $2.63 trillion in 2025, up from $2.48 trillion in 2024, and the momentum is accelerating. NATO’s European allies and Canada increased defense spending by 20% in 2025 compared…
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…
The U.S. military’s recent Operation Absolute Resolve put F-35s, F-22s, and stealth drones into live combat, and every platform traced back to a company inside Global X Defense Tech ETF (NYSEARCA:SHLD). Modern…
The decisive, lethal, and comparatively brief strategic military strikes executed by President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth have once again elevated the profile of US military supremacy. Thanks to the successes…
One ETF that is sure to be in the spotlight as Middle Eastern conflicts ramp up, Global X Defense Tech ETF (NYSEARCA:SHLD) is up 82% over the past year, and the conversation…
David Beren Although President Trump is the first 2-term POTUS since Eisenhower to not involve the US in any wars, he is the first one to have successfully ended 8 international wars, with some…
Most investors who track the market start and end the year comparing every result to two yardsticks, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ). One captures…
The S&P 500 has served as an excellent benchmark for the state of U.S. economy for decades. Its reliability, touted by icons like Warren Buffett, has become such that S&P 500 exchange-traded…
