The AI networking trade has produced one of the sharpest leadership shifts of the year, and it favors the name many investors had written off. Over the past month, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO…
The Magnificent 7 are supposed to comprise the world’s hottest megacap companies. Their businesses will control the future. They are a mix of AI, search, the future of vehicles and robots, Alphabet…
Live Updates MU $1T Club11:46am ETA surge in chip and memory stocks has lifted Micron (Nasdaq; MU) to a fresh all-time high, catapulting the company into the $1 trillion market-cap club. Micron…
Imagine a retiree who reads that Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEARCA:VIG) is a top dividend fund, parks $300,000 in it, and waits for the checks to arrive. They get ~$4,500 a year.…
It’s pretty hard to know what to believe when it comes to this ongoing AI revolution. The AI bubble calls have been growing louder for well over a year now. And while…
The host of Retire SMART Podcast opened Episode 416 with a number that should stop every income-focused retiree in their tracks. The S&P 500’s dividend yield has fallen to roughly 1.1%, an…
If you bought JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) for the monthly checks, you probably think you own a Nasdaq-100 portfolio with a covered-call overlay. That is mostly true. The part…
On a recent All-In Podcast episode dissecting SpaceX’s S-1 filing, guest investor Gavin Baker and the hosts framed Elon Musk’s privately held rocket and connectivity empire as something more ambitious than a…
When a sitting administration’s top science advisor invokes Eisenhower’s 1953 Atoms for Peace speech to frame a present-day policy move, investors should pay attention. That is exactly what happened at the Operation…
The NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF (NASDAQ:QQQI) paid out $0.6589 per share on May 22, 2026, the latest in a steady run of monthly checks that produce a headline distribution rate near…
Here is the data point that should make every passive index investor pause. On Retire SMART Podcast Ep 416, the host laid out the math: “If we removed the Nvidias, the AMDs,…
The Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:MGK) is built for capital appreciation, with dividends an afterthought. With a 0.05% expense ratio and a portfolio engineered for capital appreciation, MGK pays a yield…
Jim Cramer’s blunt line to a young first-time homebuyer on the May 22 episode of Mad Money: “Expect corrections and don’t rely on hope as an investing strategy.” The caller, a younger…
Rashaad Bilal of Earn Your Leisure distilled the Musk-versus-Altman saga down to one sharp line: “He knows the flaws because he knows the man.” That framing reorients how investors should read every…
The ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (NYSEARCA:XOVR) sits at an awkward crossroad heading into summer 2026. Shares trade near $19.08, down 5% year-to-date even as the public-side AI mega-caps it holds have ripped…
