West Texas Intermediate crude started 2026 at $57 a barrel and now trades near $112, a near-doubling driven by Iran-related tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and a sustained geopolitical risk premium on seaborne…
The Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF (NYSEARCA:FIDU) is a low-cost ETF that gets you exposure to some of the premier industrial and defense stocks in the market. Most investors view it as a solid…
Walmart (NYSE:WMT | WMT Price Prediction) just delivered a quarter that makes the bull case for 2030 hard to ignore. Q1 FY27 revenue hit $175.68 billion, up 6.08% YoY, with global eCommerce climbing 26%…
I have a soft spot for the iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS: GOVT), and clearly a lot of investors do too given that it now sits at roughly $41 billion in assets under…
For years, investors treated artificial intelligence as a GPU story. Buy the chipmakers, ride the boom, and call it a day. But AI data centers have evolved into something much bigger — sprawling digital…
If you are looking for investing discussion a little more sophisticated than what you typically find on Reddit, I would suggest checking out the Bogleheads forum. It is populated largely by adherents of John…
Most retirees own a passive bond index fund without thinking twice. The PIMCO Multisector Bond Active ETF (NYSEARCA:PYLD) is the alternative that has quietly pulled in $8.07 billion in net flows over the past…
The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:VYM) addresses a specific retirement problem: drawing income from stocks without concentrating the outcome in any one company. VYM holds roughly 605 dividend-paying companies, which makes it a…
For most Americans, Memorial Day weekend is supposed to mark the unofficial start of summer — backyard cookouts, packed highways, beach trips, and family gatherings. Instead, consumers are entering the holiday weekend staring at…
A 68-year-old retiree with $400,000 in equities heading into 2026 has a real problem: SPY ran up 27% in the past year, but the VIX still spiked to almost 31 in late March, and…
Income investors holding the VictoryShares US Large Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (NYSEARCA:CDL) own a fund built around one premise: large American companies with stable share prices tend to pay reliable dividends. CDL…
Holding a high-yield dividend portfolio in a taxable account at the 24% federal bracket means writing the IRS a $14,400 check every year on $60,000 of income that should have been yours. It repeats…
I think the Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA: VGT) is the poster child for why investors should let winners run. If you were able to hold this ETF through the sizable volatility that comes…
Although the benchmark S&P 500 has clawed back to record territory and the VIX has settled into a sleepy 16.7 reading, Wall Street’s memory is shorter than its history would suggest. The Dow and…
I have never really been a fan of certificates of deposit (CDs). Yes, the principal is guaranteed and insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), but the lockup period is extremely inflexible. If…
