Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) looks mispriced, and the discomfort is the whole point. The company is cutting roughly 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its workforce, while telling investors it will…
The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (BATS:IGV) is down 10.5% year to date while the S&P 500 is up 10.8% and the Technology Select Sector SPDR is up 26%. That gap reflects…
The pitch for the Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF (NASDAQ:BOTZ) has quietly changed. For years BOTZ was sold as a niche automation bet, a fund for people who wanted factory-floor…
The math on retirement saving punishes late starters in ways most people underestimate. A 25-year-old who sets aside $300 a month and earns a 7% average annual return finishes at age 65…
David Beren European stocks are having their loudest year in a decade, and the Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (NYSEARCA:VGK) is the vehicle most retail investors will consider. VGK trades around $90, up 18% over…
Dividend funds pulled in $24.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, their strongest opening quarter in four years, and a lot of that cash went looking for a boring place to…
The ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NYSEARCA:NOBL) is built for one job: deliver a slowly rising income stream from companies that have raised their dividends every year for at least a…
On a recent episode of Barron’s Streetwise, host Jack Hough answered a listener named William who was nervous about how much money he had made in AI-adjacent names like Dell (NYSE:DELL | DELL…
Two of the most-watched retail trading proxies in America filed very different sets of paperwork last year. Nancy Pelosi averaged roughly one trade every 22 days over the past 12 years. Donald…
Over the past decade, an investor who put $10,000 into QYLD walked away with a fraction of what a plain Nasdaq-100 index holder pocketed. The fat monthly checks papered over that gap…
A 68-year-old who retired recently with most of his savings in a traditional 401(k) or IRA is watching his account statements with mixed feelings. Goldman Sachs strategists led by Ben Snider project…
Gerelyn Terzo The pitch is simple: monthly checks from blue-chip stocks. The reality is quieter. Holders of JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) have watched a raging bull market pass them by while an…
The Treasury Department just handed one obscure ticker a windfall no marketing budget could buy. The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) was named the default investment vehicle for Trump…
If you own Neos S&P 500 High Income ETF (CBOE:SPYI) for the fat monthly checks, the mailbox math looks great. The opportunity cost is where the fund gets quiet. Over the past…
SPY is the ticker every trader knows and the fund most retail investors default to when they want “the S&P 500.” That default has a price. Two nearly identical ETFs charge a…
