For much of the last two decades, investors enjoyed a powerful but often overlooked tailwind. Corporate America was shrinking the supply of publicly traded shares through massive stock buyback programs. According to JPMorgan, companies…
Waste Management (NYSE:WM | WM Price Prediction) is the name every defensive-sector screener is spitting out this June as macro volatility sends investors scrambling for recession-proof cash flows. But here’s what you should actually…
If you’ve only invested in U.S. equities in the past two decades, you’ve likely won big, at least compared to non-U.S. stocks. Narrow that down to two years, and you may have wished you’ve…
Converging forces are pushing rates higher in 2026. The Iran conflict closed the Strait of Hormuz, spiking crude oil prices and raising production and transport costs. This energy shock drove inflation higher, with the…
Few companies have arrived on the public markets with more momentum than SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX | SPCX Price Prediction). After raising over $85 billion in the largest IPO ever last Friday, SpaceX wasted little time…
Earned income disappears the moment you stop showing up. Dividend income does not. That asymmetry is why so many investors over the past two years have shifted serious capital into companies that mail a…
A pre-revenue nuclear startup just told the market it will have a commercially licensed, power-producing reactor running by 2030, and it has the NRC paperwork to back up the claim. Whether that promise holds…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed as we hit the midweek point, as the Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX | SPCX Price Prediction) or SpaceX IPO rush is starting to fade somewhat. The…
Monthly income is having a moment. Retirees and active income investors are pulling cash from money-market funds yielding less than before, and the ETF industry has responded with options-based and high-dividend products that pay…
For much of the past several months, the Federal Reserve appeared to be running out of room to stand still. Inflation was accelerating again, unemployment remained relatively low historically, and financial markets were beginning…
Investors holding Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:VEA) own one of the cleanest, cheapest ways to gain exposure to developed markets outside the United States. VEA tracks a broad cap-weighted basket of Europe, Japan,…
Goldman just named its next-wave AI winners, and the picks go far beyond the usual chip suspects. Five stocks sit directly in the blast radius of a trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout, and the numbers coming…
For most index investors, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is the default core holding: cheap, liquid, and broadly representative of U.S. large caps. SPY tracks the S&P 500 Index at a 0.0945%…
Holding only NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) has been the easiest trade in markets for the better part of three years. The case is hard to argue with: a $5.06 trillion market cap…
Holders of the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:SGOV) own one of the simplest cash-equivalent products on the market. SGOV holds U.S. Treasury bills maturing in three months or less, yields 3.57% on…
