European stocks are having their loudest year in a decade, and the Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (NYSEARCA:VGK) is the vehicle most retail investors will consider. VGK trades around $90, up 18% over…
Dividend funds pulled in $24.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, their strongest opening quarter in four years, and a lot of that cash went looking for a boring place to…
The ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NYSEARCA:NOBL) is built for one job: deliver a slowly rising income stream from companies that have raised their dividends every year for at least a…
On a recent episode of Barron’s Streetwise, host Jack Hough answered a listener named William who was nervous about how much money he had made in AI-adjacent names like Dell (NYSE:DELL | DELL…
Two of the most-watched retail trading proxies in America filed very different sets of paperwork last year. Nancy Pelosi averaged roughly one trade every 22 days over the past 12 years. Donald…
Over the past decade, an investor who put $10,000 into QYLD walked away with a fraction of what a plain Nasdaq-100 index holder pocketed. The fat monthly checks papered over that gap…
A 68-year-old who retired recently with most of his savings in a traditional 401(k) or IRA is watching his account statements with mixed feelings. Goldman Sachs strategists led by Ben Snider project…
Gerelyn Terzo The pitch is simple: monthly checks from blue-chip stocks. The reality is quieter. Holders of JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) have watched a raging bull market pass them by while an…
The Treasury Department just handed one obscure ticker a windfall no marketing budget could buy. The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) was named the default investment vehicle for Trump…
If you own Neos S&P 500 High Income ETF (CBOE:SPYI) for the fat monthly checks, the mailbox math looks great. The opportunity cost is where the fund gets quiet. Over the past…
SPY is the ticker every trader knows and the fund most retail investors default to when they want “the S&P 500.” That default has a price. Two nearly identical ETFs charge a…
Larry Kudlow spent the run-up to the July 4th holiday broadcasting from Washington, D.C., in front of a set dressed for the country’s 250th birthday, walking Fox Business viewers through what he…
Omor Ibne Ehsan Kevin Warsh went to Sintra and said what bond traders have been waiting to hear all summer. Inflation looks like it has peaked. Oil is cooperating. The tail risk of a July…
The pitch for covered-call ETFs is the same everywhere. Trade some upside for a fat monthly check. The reality, as anyone holding JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) through 2026 can tell…
On a recent Motley Fool Money episode, analyst Lou didn’t dress it up. “A lot of products on Wall Street were built to be sold, were built for the fees, not necessarily…
