Dividend Safety Check: S&P 500 Covered Call Income ETFs (JEPI, SPY, SPYI)
JEPI and SPYI mail fat monthly checks without fail, but the real question is what investors quietly give up to cash those checks every month compared to simply holding SPY.
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Live Nasdaq Composite: Tech Stock Strength Buoys Market Sentiment Despite Hawkish Fed
Live Updates Amazon's AI Chip Expansion12:20pm ETAmazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) shares are climbing 2.1% after Bloomberg reported the company is in talks to sell its custom-built AI chips for use in other…
Why Paying Off Your House Before Retirement May Leave You Poorer
A paid-off house delivers something every retiree values: certainty. No monthly mortgage payment, no lender, and one less bill to worry about. What it does not do is eliminate the opportunity cost of the…
How Zuckerberg Paid $1 Billion for Zero Revenue and 13 Employees to Save Facebook
In 2012, Meta (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) was still called Facebook, had just crossed a billion users, and was preparing for one of the most hyped IPOs in history. The business looked invincible.…
Intel Soars 10% After Trump Says Apple Will Partner With Intel on U.S. Chip Production
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction) stock is ripping higher Thursday morning, up 10% to around $133 in early trading. The catalyst is a high-profile announcement out of Washington that ties the chipmaker to…
Satya Nadella’s $200 Billion Dilemma: Why Microsoft Must Compete With Its Own Best Investment
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) and its legendary CEO, Satya Nadella, stand to win when OpenAI does, given its stake and evolving relationship. As OpenAI readies for an IPO that could be oversubscribed…
The Magnificent 7 Is Dead. These 10 Stocks Are the New Market Favorites
For nearly three years, investors could explain much of the stock market with a single phrase: the Magnificent 7. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Meta…
Back-Loading Your Inherited 401(k) After 56 Could Save You Nearly $140,000 in Lifetime Taxes
A 58-year-old reader on a Bogleheads thread last month described the moment her mother’s $1.5 million traditional 401(k) landed in an inherited IRA. Her first instinct was to spread the distributions evenly over the…
Retail Sales Surge 0.9% in May, Strongest in Three Months as Consumers Rebound
Rick Santelli read the May retail sales tape from the CME floor on Wednesday morning and the number that printed was better than the consensus wanted. Headline retail sales rose 0.9% versus the 0.6%…
Stop Investing Until You Do This First: Your S&P 500 Returns Are Losing to Your Credit Card
Vivian Tu, the former Wall Street trader who built Your Rich BFF into one of the largest personal finance brands online, made a claim on her Networth and Chill podcast. “Credit card debt, unfortunately,…
Suze Orman Just Said the Medicare Surcharge Can Add Up to $578 a Month and Most Pre-Retirees Have Never Heard of It
On her September 15, 2022 podcast episode Ask Suze & KT Anything: Diversification, The 5 Year Rule and IRMAA, Suze Orman walked listeners through one of the most expensive surprises in retirement: “IRMAA stands…
Why AI CapEx Could Become ‘Money Down the Toilet’ According to One Strategist
Hyperscalers are pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure, but one strategist thinks the technology itself will make those data centers obsolete before they pay off. The historical precedents he points to should make…
Jim Cramer Is Watching Marvell After Jensen Huang Called It the Next Trillion-Dollar Stock
Jim Cramer told Mad Money viewers on June 16 that Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL | MRVL Price Prediction) is the AI hardware name he is tracking most closely, after NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang publicly…
Forget Big Tech: Nancy Pelosi Just Poured Millions Into This Under-the-Radar Dividend Stock
Nancy Pelosi filed a Periodic Transaction Report earlier this year, disclosing a purchase of AllianceBernstein (NYSE:AB | AB Price Prediction) units in the $1,000,001 to $5,000,000 range, with a transaction date of January 16, 2026. That…
Boomers Need the Safest Dividend Stocks. We Asked Claude and Found 5 That Yield 5% or More
Investors love dividend stocks because they provide dependable passive income streams and an excellent opportunity for solid total return. Total return includes interest, capital gains, dividends, and distributions realized over time. In other words,…