The CBOE Volatility Index is trading near 19.5 this morning, but a single number released at 8:30 a.m. ET today could push it sharply in either direction. The March CPI report drops…
The Nasdaq (^IXIC) edged into positive territory in pre-market trading Friday, up a fraction of a percent ahead of the open, while the S&P 500 tracker gained about half that amount. The…
A 41-year-old with a paid-off house, zero debt, and only $800 in monthly expenses recently called into The Ramsey Show, presenting one of the more unusual financial profiles host Dave Ramsey has…
Carl Sullivan Live Updates Markets are Shrugging Off $100 Oil11:36am ETMarkets just went green, shrugging off Iran war fears and gushing oil prices. The S&P 500 is now up 0.27%, or by 18 points.…
Ian Cooper The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) has a concentration problem that keeps getting worse. The top 10 holdings in a cap-weighted S&P 500 fund now represent a historically outsized share of…
Live Updates Oil prices now down $2010:32am ETOil is now down $20 at $92.79. All on hopes the war may finally be over, and with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.…
Here is a number worth sitting with: strip Nvidia and Micron out of Q1 S&P earnings and overall S&P earnings growth drops to roughly 3%. That came from James Lebenthal in a…
Live Updates There's a Generational Opportunity in Tech Stocks, Says Goldman Sachs8:41am ETWith global chaos, tech stocks haven’t done so well. But according to Goldman Sachs, investors now have the best opportunity…
Live Updates Tesla Could Drop Another 60% Says JPMorgan9:01am ETAfter a sharp decline, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) could drop another 60%, according to JPMorgan. The firm reiterated its underweight…
Anne from Pennsylvania wrote into the Clark Howard Podcast with a problem that sounds like prudence but functions like paralysis. She and her husband, 64 and 74 respectively, hold about $5 million…
Austin Smith Every major AI buildout has needed one thing before the servers could run: reliable power. The electricity grid is the binding constraint on how fast AI can scale, making utilities one of…
Active management in large-cap growth has a credibility problem. Most active funds charge more, trade more, and deliver less than the index over time. Fidelity Fundamental Large Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:FFLG) is…
Stripping the Magnificent 7 from the S&P 500 sounds like a contrarian bet, but it has quietly outperformed the full index so far in 2026. The question for income-focused investors is whether…
Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ | STZ Price Prediction) just got a tactical boost from Evercore ISI heading into its April 8 full-year earnings release. The firm added Constellation to its Tactical Outperform list,…
Two retirees. Same $2 million portfolio. Same $80,000 annual withdrawal. One retired in 1995, the other in 2000. Five years later, their outcomes are nearly unrecognizable from each other, and the difference…
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