The Strait of Hormuz carries more than a quarter of all seaborne oil trade on a normal day. When the conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran erupted on February 28, 2026, that corridor…
FFLG has returned 44% over the past year, beating both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 over the same stretch. That kind of outperformance from an actively managed fund with $521 million in assets…
Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (NYSEARCA:PDBC) attracts income-focused investors with a structure that sidesteps the dreaded K-1 tax form while offering exposure to broad commodity markets. But the fund’s dividend…
The ceasefire that was supposed to quiet the Middle East lasted exactly two weeks. After a marathon 21-hour negotiating session in Islamabad collapsed over the weekend, the U.S. announced it would begin a naval…
International developed market stocks have beaten the S&P 500 by a wide margin year to date, and one Fidelity ETF is quietly riding that wave while paying investors roughly 3% in dividends. Fidelity Enhanced…
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) just had its best week in a while. Rakuten listed XRP as a payment method for 44 million users in Japan, Ripple partnered with Kyobo Life in South Korea, and Bitcoin’s…
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) hit $1.50 on April 17, its highest level since the March 17 spike to $1.60 that followed the SEC’s commodity classification. That rally gave everything back as the XRP price dropped…
Some investors’ hearts start racing when they hear real estate, but that’s unwarranted in 2026, especially if you’re investing in an ETF like the iShares MBS ETF (NASDAQ:MBB). This is an ETF that actually gained…
KraneShares China Internet and Covered Call Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:KLIP) pays a 29% yield by selling call options on Chinese internet stocks, a strategy that generates real monthly income but caps upside and depends on…
The artificial intelligence revolution runs on data, and data runs on memory. Companies building massive AI systems need faster, higher-capacity chips to train models and serve results in real time. Their insatiable appetite for…
Gladstone Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:GAIN) pays shareholders $0.08 per share every month, an annualized rate of $0.96. At a share price near $15.36, that works out to a yield just above 6%. The question income…
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is currently trading near $87 after a rough start to 2026, where it recorded a 33% decline in Q1. However, according to the Solana Foundation, SOL led the market in real…
A nearly 6.4% yield from a bond fund is genuinely attractive for income investors. For holders of the SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:JNK), that yield is real, but it comes with specific…
BloombergNEF’s latest forecast paints a clear picture of AI’s inexorable force: global data center power demand will quadruple over the next decade, driven by AI data center training and inference that run nonstop. Energy…
If there’s one announcement seniors on Social Security tend to wait eagerly for each year, it’s news of a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. Social Security benefits are eligible for a COLA each year. And…
