Sam Altman wants Wall Street to value OpenAI at $1 trillion. Meanwhile, 14% of US college students are reading at or below the level of a 10-year-old, according to the OECD. Those two facts,…
Prediction market traders are betting serious money on which AI giant hits the public markets first, and the crowd favorite is not the name dominating the headlines. The odds on Polymarket tell a story…
Parking Vanguard's mid-cap ETF in the wrong account could quietly hand a six-figure tax bill to the IRS over a decade. The math behind sheltering VO in a Roth reveals a layered advantage most…
Asia’s markets open a pivotal week with one question hanging over the semiconductor tape: how durable is the memory trade? On Bloomberg TV’s The Asia Trade this morning, analyst Anthony Stephens framed SK Hynix’s…
The U.S. labor market has become one of the economy’s biggest contradictions. Monthly payroll reports continue to show employers adding jobs, while job openings remain well above pre-pandemic levels. Yet hiring has slowed, layoffs…
Former St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard, now Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, believes the Federal Reserve is likely to resume tightening later this year despite a likely…
An ESG-screened equity fund has quietly delivered a big year while sitting out one of the most-traded megacap names on the market. The iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF (NYSEARCA:DSI) climbed 22.29% in the…
Thirty years is a long time to live without a paycheck. If you retire at 62 and celebrate your 92nd birthday, your portfolio needs to fund groceries, property taxes, insurance premiums, and the occasional…
Two thousand dollars a month is the number you carry around in your head as the difference between a comfortable retirement and a stressful one. The catch is you want the check to arrive…
A semiconductor ETF has ripped higher in 2026 without owning one of the most recognizable chip names on the market. The VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMHX) is up 54.22% year to date through July…
You’re approaching retirement and have $300,000 parked in a savings account or a checking account earning close to nothing, while your bank’s own website advertises a 1.65% average on a 12-month CD. Meanwhile, the…
The JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) has become the default monthly paycheck for Nasdaq-100 investors who want income without abandoning megacap tech. Despite the headline calling it an ETN, JEPQ is an…
Robert Greifeld, who was NASDAQ’s CEO from 2003 to 2017, used a July 6, 2026, CNBC interview to flag what he calls the largest lockup expiration in the history of U.S. capital markets. His…
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee laid out a roadmap for where he saw the market going for the rest of the year on a CNBC Squawk Box interview on July 6, 2026, arguing the S&P 500…
Bitcoin’s slide has tested even the most patient bulls, and Fundstrat’s Tom Lee recently appeared on CNBC on Monday morning to argue that Bitcoin’s long-term story remains intact. His viewpoint is that Bitcoin has…
