The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (BATS:IGV) is down 10.5% year to date while the S&P 500 is up 10.8% and the Technology Select Sector SPDR is up 26%. That gap reflects the market…
The AI trade everyone talks about is silicon. The AI trade almost nobody talks about is the copper that moves electrons from a substation to a GPU rack, and the Global X Copper Miners…
The AI infrastructure story has been about chips, but the actual bottleneck is electricity, and that shift has done more for the Global X Uranium ETF (NYSEARCA:URA) than any fund marketing team could have…
The pitch for the Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF (NASDAQ:BOTZ) has quietly changed. For years BOTZ was sold as a niche automation bet, a fund for people who wanted factory-floor exposure without…
The setup for iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) in 2026 only looks obvious in hindsight. Brazil’s central bank spent much of last year holding the Selic at 15%, one of the highest real rates…
The math on retirement saving punishes late starters in ways most people underestimate. A 25-year-old who sets aside $300 a month and earns a 7% average annual return finishes at age 65 with roughly…
The iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (BATS:ITA) has climbed 35% over the past year and nearly 17% year to date, and the reflexive retail question is whether the run is exhausted. The more…
European stocks are having their loudest year in a decade, and the Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (NYSEARCA:VGK) is the vehicle most retail investors will consider. VGK trades around $90, up 18% over the past…
Momentum investing sounds like a physics law and behaves like a mood ring. The iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (BATS:MTUM) has ridden the AI-chip surge to a 29% year-to-date gain through July 6,…
Dividend funds pulled in $24.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, their strongest opening quarter in four years, and a lot of that cash went looking for a boring place to hide from…
Bitcoin clawed back from $57,717 on July 1 to $63,600 by this morning, and the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT) is finally showing green after a brutal stretch. The question for anyone holding IBIT,…
A retiree who starts with a 10% dividend yield can collect far more income on day one than someone earning 3.5%. Twenty years later, the tables may have turned. One income stream stayed flat…
Gold miners just got taken to the woodshed. The VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX) shed 21% in the second quarter of 2026, sliding from $96 in early April to roughly $75 by June 30,…
The Woodlands can look like the best of both retirement worlds: an upscale master-planned community north of Houston in a state with no income tax and a reputation for lower costs. But retiring there…
She is 70, retired, on Medicare, and her monthly Social Security check lands like clockwork. Years ago she bought gold coins and bullion as a hedge, tucked them in a safe, and mostly forgot…
