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Jim Cramer just refused to bless a portfolio built almost entirely on his own stock recommendations, and no question that the lesson is worth pausing on. On the May 22 episode of Mad Money, a caller named Jerry laid out a tech-saturated portfolio diversified across tech retail sales, software, semiconductors, data center, and advertising, noting ... The One Thing Jim Cramer Demands From Tech-Only Investors Before He’ll Bless the Strategy

On a recent episode of the Money Guy Show titled Even Smart People Make These Massive Money Mistakes, co-host Bo Hanson shared a truly painful reality about personal finance. He explained how trying to time the market can completely gut a portfolio, noting that missing just fifty of the best days can wipe out a ... The 5-Day Trap: How Missing Less Than a Week Wiped Out $154,000

The host of Retire SMART Podcast opened Episode 416 with a number that should stop every income-focused retiree in their tracks. The S&P 500’s dividend yield has fallen to roughly 1.1%, an all-time low going back to the 1800s. His framing was blunt: “The dividend usually fluctuates between 2 and change, and sometimes up to ... S&P 500 Dividends Just Hit an All-Time Low Going Back to the 1800s — Here’s What Retirees Need to Know

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Strip AI infrastructure and energy from the S&P 500’s forward earnings picture and growth collapses to zero. That’s the single most uncomfortable number from Lance Roberts’s recent appearance on Adam Taggart’s Thoughtful Money, and it reframes everything about market risk right now. Roberts, chief investment strategist at RIA Advisors, walked through what he called the ... S&P 500 Other Than AI Infrastructure Is Growing at 0%. Lance Roberts Warns What Happens if the AI Boom Stumbles.

Here is the data point that should make every passive index investor pause. On Retire SMART Podcast Ep 416, the host laid out the math: “If we removed the Nvidias, the AMDs, so AI chips, these are the chipmaking companies, the storage companies, and the companies that are facilitating AI that are publicly traded. And ... The Math That Should Terrify Index Investors: AI Chips Account for Nearly All S&P 500 Gains

While Equinix stock has lagged the broader S&P 500 Index, it has still managed to outperform many of its sector peers. Meanwhile, analysts remain upbeat about the stock’s growth prospects.

The iShares Core Growth Allocation ETF (NYSEARCA:AOR) is the kind of fund a financial advisor recommends when they want to give a client one ticker and never think about it again. AOR holds roughly 60% equities and 40% bonds through a stack of underlying iShares funds, charges 0.15%, and manages around $3 billion in assets. ... AOR’s 60/40 Allocation Has Lagged a Simple S&P 500 by 60 Points Over a Decade, And Built In Rebalancing Did Not Help

Clare Flynn Levy, author of Stock Market Maestros, recently appeared on the Afford Anything podcast and delivered what may be the most deflating advice a long-term investor can hear: stop trying to be clever. “If you’re being long-term, and you are actually being it, that’s all you need to do,” she told host Paula Pant. ... The ‘Stock Market Maestros’ Author Has a Brutally Simple Rule for Long-Term Investors

The VIX ripped to 31.05 in late March before settling back near 18, and anyone who watched their growth holdings whip around during that stretch is probably re-reading the case for boring stocks. That is the backdrop for three utility ETFs that get mentioned in the same breath whenever income investors want defensive exposure: The ... After Years of Watching Volatility Spikes These Are the 3 Utility ETFs Built for Investors Who Want Income Without Sleepless Nights

A 69-year-old couple with $850,000 in investable assets faces a specific problem: they want equity exposure without the risk of a bear market gutting their principal in the first years of retirement, and they want predictable income they can spend. The pairing strategy splits that problem in two. $400,000 goes into buffered S&P 500 ETFs ... How a $450,000 Portfolio Could Deliver $31,500 a Year While Limiting Market Drawdowns

On a recent Rich Habits Podcast Q&A, co-host Robert Croak gave a 40-year-old listener named Angela a blunt answer about the $175,000 she and her spouse netted from a recent home sale. They were weighing whether to throw it at their $475,000 mortgage at 5% or invest it. Robert’s verdict: “I would definitely not pay ... Why This Couple Shouldn’t Pay Off Their $475K Mortgage (Even With $175K Cash)

YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:MSTY) sells investors on a single promise: harvest unusually rich option premiums on Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) shares and pay them out monthly. At a distribution rate that has ranged from roughly 60% to 100% annualized since launch, MSTY has become one of the most discussed single-stock income ETFs in the ... Covered-Call ETF MSTY Caps Your Gains While You Ride All the Losses

A CNBC commentator delivered the line of the week on the network’s market coverage: "Trump has been responsible for the five best and five worst trading days of his second term." Strip those five up days out of the index since inauguration and the broad market is essentially flat. Leave them in and you get ... CNBC Analyst Exposes the April 9 Pivot That Changed Everything for the S&P 500

For retirees who watched bonds fail to cushion equity losses in 2022, the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:DBMF) has changed the conversation by gathering roughly $3 billion in assets and delivering what the 60/40 portfolio failed to deliver then and is again outpacing in 2026: a return stream that does not move in ... DBMF Is Quietly Beating the 60/40 Portfolio in 2026, and This $3 Billion Fund Leads the Pack

YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:ULTY) pays weekly cash distributions that annualize to roughly 24% at recent rates. ULTY manages $2.48 billion by selling options against a concentrated basket of high-volatility names. The pitch is simple: a check every week. The risk most ULTY holders miss is the gap between those checks and what ... ULTY Paid 68.7% in Distributions While Its Stock Price Fell 47%

Broadcom joining Applied Materials’ EPIC platform adds another layer to the AI infrastructure story, as advanced packaging becomes more critical for custom accelerators, networking chips, and next-generation compute systems.

A 68-year-old retiree with $400,000 in equities heading into 2026 has a real problem: SPY ran up 27% in the past year, but the VIX still spiked to almost 31 in late March, and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment sits at 53.3, deep in pessimistic territory. The Innovator U.S. Equity Power Buffer ETF, July ... PJUL Caps Your S&P 500 Gains at 11% While Protecting Against 40% Crashes: The Math for Retirees

On the May 19, 2026 episode of The Clark Howard Podcast, Clay from Kentucky asked advisor Wes Moss whether to leave roughly $60,000 in a vested state law enforcement pension earning a guaranteed 4% annually, or roll it into the Roth Thrift Savings Plan he now contributes to in his new federal job. “This seems ... I left law enforcement with a $60,000 state pension earning 4%. Should I roll it to a Roth TSP instead?

IPO optimism, robust corporate earnings, and a $2 billion quantum computing push aided U.S. stock indices this week.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Friday closed up +0.37%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.58%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +0.42%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) rose +0.35%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

<p>Is rebalancing killing your gains? The ETF Zoo crew dives into Cathie Wood’s ARK strategy, hyper-growth tech inflows, the wildest new corners of the market, and why ETFs are officially eating the market. </p>

Convertible bonds sit in an odd corner of capital markets: corporate debt with an embedded equity option, paying coupon income while carrying upside tied to the issuer’s stock. The SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF (NYSEARCA:CWB) is the largest fund built around that hybrid, with roughly $5 billion in assets and a 0.40% expense ratio. CWB ... CWB’s 19% YTD Return Shows How Convertible Bonds Bridge Stock Gains and Income Floor

CNBC’s Dominic Chu opened Friday’s market coverage by noting that “the stocks are looking like they may open higher today, rounding out what could be the eighth straight winning week for the S&P 500.” That kind of streak does not happen by accident, and inside the Trump bull market it has become the defining rhythm: ... Dominic Chu: The Trump Bull Market’s AI Rally Is Powering the S&P 500 Toward an 8th Straight Winning Week

Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, used a CNBC Squawk Box appearance on May 22, 2026 to give Kevin Warsh an unusually full-throated endorsement before Warsh has even taken the Fed Chair seat. Warsh wants to drag the Fed back to monetary policy and away from everything else, and the White ... Hassett Backs Incoming Fed Chair Warsh’s Focus on Monetary Policy, Downplays Inflation Risks From Oil Shock

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The instinct to do something when markets convulse is almost universal, and almost always expensive. That tension was on full display in April 2026, when tariff announcements rattled global markets and brokerage inboxes lit up with panicked questions. Joe Saladino, speaking on Paula Pant’s Afford Anything podcast, offered a counterintuitive prescription: pick a date on ... Joe Saladino: “Touch Your Portfolio Just Once a Year. That’s It.”

Compare how these two S&P 500 giants stack up on long-term returns, dividend yields, and fund size beyond their headline expense ratios.

Utility stocks have been in the market limelight recently, and a big reason comes down to rising electricity demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) build-out. Data centers consume an enormous amount of power, and as hyperscalers race to expand infrastructure, investors have started piling into utility companies expected to benefit from rising electricity demand, transmission ... Boring Beats Brilliant: How a Utilities ETF Has Quietly Trounced the S&P 500 in Every Recession This Century

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.50%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.63%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.73%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are up +0.47%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...