Yes, an online bank is as safe as a branch bank when it carries Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation coverage. The FDIC does not care whether you opened your account by walking into a lobby…
The host of the Retire SMART Podcast put it plainly. “They are trading on things that they’re regulating.” The context was an analysis of congressional stock disclosures showing that 56% of trades involved companies…
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,…
