Live Updates Pepsico Earnings Beat Estimates8:42am ETPepsiCo topped estimates, with EPS of $1.61 versus $1.55. Revenue of $19.44 billion beat expectations of $18.94 billion. As noted by the company, “For the first…
Ian Cooper Between retirement and Social Security, high earners quietly land in lower tax brackets than they saw during their working years, and a market downturn turns that window into something worth serious money.…
David Beren A closed-end management name focusing on long-term capital, Gabelli Equity Trust (NYSE:GAB) has committed to paying at least 10% of its average net asset value annually since its inception in 1986, a…
For years, owning small-cap stocks felt like watching a neighbor’s party through a window. Large-cap indexes kept climbing, mega-cap technology names absorbed Wall Street’s attention, and smaller domestic companies sat quietly in…
Live Updates Bloom Energy Soars 23%12:00pm ETShares of Bloom Energy (BE) are up more than 23%, or by $40, thanks to its partnership with Oracle. Just yesterday, Bloom Energy revealed an expanded…
Ian Cooper If passive fund mechanics are your jam, and mega-cap concentration risk is the bread you eat it on, what Steve Sosnik laid out recently on The Compound and Friends is one of…
Crude oil prices have surged more than 50% since the U.S.-Iran war began on February 28, with WTI crude sitting at $102 per barrel as of April 13, 2026. The S&P 500…
Don Lair The NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) opened Monday under pressure, slipping 0.34% in early trading after 21 hours of U.S.-Iran peace talks over the weekend collapsed without a deal. President Trump ordered a naval…
The S&P 500 Index (^GSPC)opened Monday under pressure, sliding roughly 0.6% in early trading after President Trump ordered a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Weekend peace talks between the U.S.…
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is reversing sharply this Monday morning, spiking more than 7% after weekend negotiations between the U.S. and Iran collapsed following 21 hours of talks, sending the fear…
Live Updates Nike Was Downgraded Again8:30am ETWall Street has apparently lost its patience with Nike. After pushing recovery hopes out a bit further with its last batch of earnings, analysts at HSBC…
A recent Animal Spirits episode centered on a listener who had reached $1 million in investable assets and hated it. He called it “the single worst level of realistic wealth a normal…
Jeremy Phillips At 45, you have roughly 20 years until traditional retirement. That's not a lot of time to waste, but it's not a crisis either. A $50,000 inheritance at this stage is genuinely…
Tech giant Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) and AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) both delivered powerful earnings beats in early 2026, yet are running fundamentally different races. The question for investors is which architecture,…
March 2026 just delivered the hottest inflation print in nearly two years, and prediction markets are already pricing a 63% chance that inflation exceeds 4% before the year is out. For investors…
