If you want the simplest, cheapest way to own the U.S. stock market inside a Fidelity account, the Fidelity 500 Index Fund (NASDAQ:FXAIX) is the default answer. FXAIX tracks the S&P 500…
Managed futures funds spent most of the past decade as a footnote in portfolio construction conversations. They came back into the spotlight in 2022 when stocks and bonds fell together, and the…
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) punched to a fresh record Wednesday, with the broader market index now perched above 7,300. With a 7.6% YTD gain in the S&P 500 (^GSPC), bulls are back…
Live Updates Advanced Micro Devices Taking a Breather after a Monster Rally9:19am ETJust yesterday, AMD shares exploded by more than $50 per share on strong earnings. And while the stock is taking…
State Street’s 2026 Global ETF Outlook puts a stake in the ground on page 20: the first $1 trillion ETF will land this year. The frontrunner is the Vanguard 500 Index Fund…
The math behind long-term stock picking is brutal. 71% of individual stocks fail to match the market return over rolling 10-year periods, and per Hendrik Bessembinder’s research at Arizona State University, only…
Most dividend ETFs make you pick a lane. You can chase yield with funds packed full of utilities, telecoms, and tobacco names that throw off cash but barely grow, or you can…
On a recent episode of The Compound and Friends hosted by Josh Brown, former Janus analyst Matt Ancrum told a story about how he’d made the correct call that Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST |…
The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) is drifting back toward the 17 line as optimism returns to the S&P 500 and capital rotates into stocks. The VIX closed near 18 on Monday after…
Live Updates Goldman Sachs Just Reiterated Buy Rating on Nvidia8:52am ETShares of NVDA are up about $4 per share in premarket trading. That’s after Goldman Sachs reiterated its buy rating on the…
Ian Cooper The S&P 500 (^GSPC) is set to extend a record run as crude tumbles and traders welcome signs the Iran conflict could be winding down. Stocks are soaring because the Strait of…
If you opened your brokerage statement this year and noticed your portfolio looked suspiciously like the S&P 500 with a few extra tech names sprinkled in, you are not alone. American investors…
Every dollar of AI capex eventually has to plug into a wall. By the time hyperscalers have signed off on GPU orders, the binding constraint stops being silicon and starts being substations,…
Concentrated bets on a handful of mega-cap technology names drove most of the S&P 500’s returns over the past three years, and Roundhill built MAGS to deliver that exposure in one ticker…
Consumer sentiment sits at 53.3 in March 2026, deep in the pessimistic zone, while retail sales just hit a fresh high of $752.1 billion. That gap between how Americans feel and how…
