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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed up +1.08%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +1.31%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +1.66%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) rose +0.96%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:ULTY) distributes weekly amounts in the $0.37 to $0.52 range through 2026, an annualized run rate the fund’s marketing has pinned at 77%, 104%, even 117%. Those distributions land in your account on schedule. Whether they have made ULTY holders richer is a separate question, and the answer across ... ULTY’s Weekly Distributions Look Generous Until You See What Happened to the Share Price

Most retirees who own an S&P 500 index fund hold a portfolio dominated by mega-cap technology, with mid-sized businesses getting almost no weight despite making up a meaningful share of corporate America. That gap is the reason the Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:VO) exists, and with roughly $94 billion in assets and a 0.04% expense ratio, ... Vanguard’s $94 Billion Mid Cap ETF Is Quietly Beating the S&P 500 With a Fifty Year Old Strategy

The YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF (NASDAQ:MSTY) trades near $24, and the trap in that number is what it has done while bitcoin spent most of the last year doing something else. MSTY launched in February 2024 as a way to monetize the option premium on MicroStrategy shares and hand investors a triple-digit distribution ... MSTY Holders Face a Risk That Has Nothing to Do With Bitcoin Falling

John Rowland, CMT, takes a look at what Bollinger Bands, gap levels, and Fibonacci retracements are saying about the S&P 500 Index right now.

The pitch for the SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF (NYSEARCA:CWB) is simple: collect a coupon, keep equity upside, sit between stocks and bonds. CWB has rewarded holders nicely on the way up. The risk most owners do not price in is that when equity markets crack, CWB stops trading like a bond fund and starts ... CWB’s Convertible Bond Strategy Looks Like Bonds Until the Equity Markets Fall, And Then It Trades Like Stocks

Small-cap stocks are bouncing off a make-or-break level.

Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF offers a target-maturity approach to investment-grade U.S. corporate bonds maturing in 2027.

The entire financial complex is currently hanging by a thread. Or rather, a microchip.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.78%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.75%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +1.24%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are up +0.70%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.27%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.09%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.55%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are up +0.26%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.4% and the actively trad

At $223.15, Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) screens as attractive to accumulators, with research desks pointing to the $210 to $215 range on any pullback as a favored entry zone. The stock has rebounded sharply from a steep first-quarter drawdown, and the post-earnings story has fundamentally changed what Arm is selling to Wall Street. Arm designs the ... Arm Holdings Is Up 104% and Smart Money Is Waiting for One Specific Level to Buy More

With contrasting approaches to risk, income, and portfolio composition, these two ETFs play distinct roles in a diversified investment strategy.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Wednesday ahead of the Fed minutes. Nvidia stock rallied ahead of earnings.

Dylan from New Mexico asked Dave Ramsey a fair question on a recent episode of The Ramsey Show: if active funds rarely beat the index, why bother with Ramsey’s four-fund split across small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, and international? Ramsey’s answer cut past the math and landed on something most investors underweight: their own behavior. The Behavior ... Dave Ramsey on Why Index Funds vs. Mutual Funds Misses the Real Point About Building Wealth

Although Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) has compiled the single best long-run track record in modern markets, the man who built it spends most of his shareholder letters telling you not to try this at home. On Wall Street, that contradiction has hardened into one of investing’s most durable patterns. From 1965 to 2025, Berkshire posted a ... Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Delivered a 39,000x Return Since 1965. He Still Tells Most Investors to Buy Index Funds Instead.

The setup sounds almost too clean. A 38-year-old Montana teacher with 8 years of service has exactly $50,000 in a rollover IRA, which happens to be the exact amount needed to purchase 5 years of service credit. Buying those years would accelerate him to 30 years of service and increase his pension by about $1,000 ... The $50,000 Pension Trap: Why This Teacher Should Keep Their IRA Invested

Investment banker and researcher Jeff Hook went on the Rational Reminder Podcast and offered one of the bluntest assessments of private equity any practitioner has put on tape this year. "If [fiduciary obligation] was enforced like it should be enforced, there would be very little private equity and private real estate outstanding. Most of the ... Jeff Hook’s Blunt Warning: Private Equity Fees Are Destroying Returns for Retail Investors

<p>Table below reflects daily flows on May 18, 2026 and asset totals as of that date.</p>

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Tuesday closed down -0.67%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.65%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.61%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -0.70%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

If the market maintains its all-time highs, DIA is poised to catch up as investors seek out the relatively cheaper pockets of the large-cap universe.

Just because the VIX is falling does not mean there is no volatility. It is just hiding where traders are not looking now.

A retiree holding $200,000 of Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:VYM) collects roughly $5,800 in annual income at the fund’s 2.9% distribution yield, with no rebalancing and no concentration risk to monitor. That is the quiet pitch behind VYM, a roughly $100 billion fund that retirees routinely skip in favor of louder, higher-yielding products on ... Most Retirees Skip Over Vanguard’s $100 Billion VYM Despite Its 2.9 Percent Yield and Almost Zero Maintenance

For much of the post-2008 era, Wall Street treated zero interest rates as a permanent feature of the landscape, a kind of monetary gravity that pulled every asset price higher. Stocks ran. Bonds ran. Private credit ran. The benchmark S&P 500 vaulted off its 2009 low while the technology-packed Nasdaq Composite did even better. But ... Former Fed Official: The Fed’s Biggest Mistake Wasn’t Rate Cuts. It Was Keeping Them Low Too Long.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) at $420.99 screens as a compelling research setup. The stock pulled back 8.24% in the last week into a window where the AI infrastructure thesis is still gaining altitude. That dip toward the $410 to $415 zone marks a notable level, and the latest results reinforce the underlying setup. AMD designs ... Be Cautious With AMD at $420 and Consider Your Options

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.68%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.34%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.95%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.75%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Vail Resorts operates 37 mountain destinations and luxury properties, generating revenue from lift tickets, lodging, and real estate.

Before you sue me, I’d take a look into the Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF‘s (NYSEARCA:SPMO) history and compare it with the S&P 500. Of course, you cannot judge the future based off of historical performance alone, but this is the only ETF that has managed to outperform the S&P 500 while losing less during ... This Is the Only ETF That Gets You More Gains With Less Risk

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.35%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.19%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.45%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.40%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...