The State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) remains one of the most popular ETFs ever created, but income investors may be disappointed by what it currently pays. After deducting its…
Tony Dong A $10,000 investment in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) on November 6, 2024, the morning after Donald Trump won the election, would be worth roughly $12,600 today, counting dividends. SPY closed…
Omor Ibne Ehsan The risk-and-return profile of most covered call ETFs isn’t especially appealing. You cap your upside while retaining most of the downside exposure. On top of that, the distributions investors receive are not…
If you’re new to options, there are two strategies that are generally less likely to blow up your account than outright speculation. The first is the covered call, where you own 100…
Are you tired of paying ETF providers a fat management fee to sell covered calls for you? If you think you can do better yourself, especially using a zero-commission brokerage, there is…
Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE:APD | APD Price Prediction) is a stock worth owning for decades because it sells an essential, contractually locked-in product into every corner of the global industrial economy…
A friend of Paula Pant’s bought SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX | SPCX Price Prediction) at $171, sold at $191, and walked away with roughly $400 to $500 in profit. Then he walked away convinced…
Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, went on CNBC this morning with a message for retail investors. The Federal Reserve has flipped from an easing bias to…
Omor Ibne Ehsan At $121.15, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO | CSCO Price Prediction) is a hold. The stock sits just under a 52-week high of $130.37 after a powerful run on accelerating AI infrastructure orders, leaving…
Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN | RIVN Price Prediction) at $14.89 is a Hold, with fresh capital best reserved unless a broader sector panic drags the equity toward $11.50. The stock has slid 24.45% year…
The 4% rule survived thirty years of historical backtesting, but one specific decade in recent memory exposed a flaw that can drain a retirement portfolio before a retiree turns 85. Your starting…
Ian Cooper Live Updates Micron Earnings Could Be the Next Big Test for AI8:59am ETInvestors have spent much of this year riding a monster wave of AI momentum. Now, as all eyes turn to…
Ian Cooper If you hold ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA:ARKK) and think the bad news is behind you, look again at the fee line. ARKK quietly charges 0.75% a year on roughly $7.2 billion in…
The fact sheet says JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) charges just 0.35%, but that number is a magician’s misdirection. The real cost of owning JEPI is the upside the fund hands…
The decision sounds simple at the kitchen table. A 68-year-old single retiree with $1.2 million looks at a shaky stock market, sees a high-yield savings ad promising 4.5%, and wonders whether moving…
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