The iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) has gone vertical. SOXX trades near $569, up 89% year to date and 174% over the past year, a run powered less by valuation re-rating than by…
The iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWT) has done something most country funds rarely do: it has more than doubled in a year. Shares closed near $103 on May 29, up 103% over…
The SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:XSD) and the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) look like interchangeable ways to own the chip cycle, but they differ in one fundamental way. XSD spreads capital across…
The Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXQ) has emerged as one of the cleanest, lowest-cost vehicles for direct semiconductor exposure during the AI capex cycle. The fund tracks the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index,…
A 2x leveraged semiconductor ETF will eventually give you a day like June 5, 2026. ProShares Ultra Semiconductors (NYSEARCA:USD), which seeks twice the daily return of the Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index,…
Although 2026 has been a roller coaster year for the markets so far, certain sectors have remained strong. Ironically, while the Magnificent 7 stocks have been volatile due to mixed perception about…
Shares of Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN | TXN Price Prediction) are up 4% at midday Tuesday, trading near $304, while NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock is down 1% near $222. The intraday divergence is small,…
Ten thousand dollars in Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SOXL) on May 27, 2025 was worth about $131,000 thirteen months later, and almost nobody you know actually held it the whole…
A $10,000 position in Invesco Semiconductors ETF (NASDAQ:PSI) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth ~$20,496 by the close on May 26, 2026, and that is the kind of arithmetic…
After three years of hyperscaler capital spending feeding through to chip designers, foundry capacity, and lithography backlogs, the semiconductor ETF complex has separated into distinct buckets. iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX), VanEck Semiconductor…
High-bandwidth memory has become the choke point in the AI buildout, as NVIDIA’s Blackwell accelerators rely on stacked DRAM modules that only three companies can produce at scale, and the order books…
Most capital chasing the generative AI theme has flowed into chips. Semiconductor funds have absorbed the bulk of inflows, and the price action shows it: the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) is up…
One hundred thousand dollars dropped into Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SOXL) on May 28, 2025 was worth around $1.28 million by the close on May 27, 2026. People who bought…
The AI trade is really starting to take off, but much of the gains, at least of late, have been concentrated within the same old, same old. The semiconductor trade has continued…
Semiconductors have been the trade of 2026, and the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SOXL) has been the vehicle retail traders keep reaching for. SOXL is up about 291% year to…
