At an internal Meta town hall on July 2, 2026, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that AI agent development over the prior four months “hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” per…
The stock market has broadened in a way many investors have been waiting years to see. While artificial intelligence has helped create more than a dozen trillion-dollar companies and kept mega-cap technology stocks in…
Micron insiders have sold more than $100 million in company stock over the past 24 months, and they’re not slowing down. Per the Oppenheimer desk, as cited by CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla on Bluesky this…
Dividend Aristocrats, the S&P 500 companies that have raised payouts for 25 or more consecutive years, remain the bedrock of income portfolios heading into the second half of 2026. Three of them stand out…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed, with the Nasdaq getting hammered after a gangbuster start to the first full trading week of the third quarter. All of the major indices finished the day…
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…
