The S&P 500 and a related fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY), have vaulted 28% over the past year, the household ledger sitting beneath that rally on Wall Street tells a…
David Moadel Here’s a fact that might shock you: the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) has ripped 303.3% higher in U.S. dollar terms since the start of 2025, while the SPDR S&P 500…
Most American portfolios contain a fund like Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:VEA) the way most American kitchens contain a wok. Technically present. Pulled out twice a year. The investor knows, vaguely,…
The Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) is up 11% year to date, a lead that only looks small next to the 9.4% return on the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:VUG) over the same stretch.…
A recently divorced caller phoned Ramsey Everyday Millionaires with a familiar mid-life math problem: 21 years of marriage gone, $85,000 in annual income, and almost nothing saved. The host’s response was startlingly…
Danielle Liverance The pitch for Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) has always been embarrassingly simple: own every public US stock that matters, charge almost nothing, and wait. That is it. The…
A Redditor posted a screenshot to r/wallstreetbets last week with the title “Boring $4,000,000 gain with triple-leveraged SPXL. I told WSB 6mo ago I would sell at $3.1m, am glad I TACO’ed.”…
At $121.77, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction) is a Hold. After a year that turned a left-for-dead semiconductor name into one of the market’s loudest comeback stories, the question is whether…
The JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) has become the default income vehicle for investors seeking S&P 500 exposure without full equity risk. JEPI pays monthly, with trailing twelve-month distributions of roughly…
The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHX) is a low-cost, passively-managed option if you want broader exposure to the market. Having this broader exposure has made the ETF perform quite interestingly over the…
Most investors skip the simplest piece of self-accountability available to them. They form a thesis, place a trade, and then let time blur the original reasoning into something vaguer and more flattering.…
Don Lair The math behind active management is brutal, and most investors refuse to look at it. Bo Hanson and Brian Preston of the Money Guy Show keep returning to one statistic because it…
Don Lair Patience pays. That is the unglamorous truth at the heart of a recent discussion on the Earn Your Leisure podcast, where a guest broke down how the calendar can quietly become the…
Don Lair Rashaad Bilal of Earn Your Leisure described a moment most workers never quite have out loud. “My wife, I saw her 401(k) killing mine. I’m looking like, what am I doing? My…
Don Lair Two signals are running in opposite directions on Wall Street right now, and both are flashing at maximum intensity. Hedge funds and professional traders are piling into short positions at levels not…
