Category: 📊 MARKETS

What’s the investment I’ve recommended most often for most people? A low-fee exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the S&P 500 index, such as the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO +0.55%) or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY +0.55%). I suspect many of my colleagues would say the same. Even Warren Buffett has recommended it. In […]

Earlier this month, the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.70%), benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.50%), and tech-stock-dependent Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +0.31%) all ascended to fresh record highs. The stock market producing outsize annualized returns under President Donald Trump is nothing new. The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq skyrocketed 57%, 70%, and 142%, respectively, […]

© pixelfit / Getty Images On the June 11, 2026 episode of Suze Orman’s Women & Money, titled “Caution, Caution, Caution!”, a 54-year-old caller laid out a problem many pre-retirees face. She has $600,000 to invest: $400,000 in a Roth IRA and $200,000 in a traditional IRA. She is weighing two firms, Fisher and TMG […]

Even as the S&P 500 has risen 20% over the past year and sits near an all-time high, many of my favorite consumer goods stocks haven’t joined in on this run. In fact, three of them look like incredible buying opportunities thanks to their once-in-a-decade low valuations. While tech, AI-adjacent, and semiconductor stocks continue to […]

Despite the S&P 500 climbing and routinely breaking its all-time highs recently, the U.S. consumer sentiment survey just printed 44.8 in May, the lowest reading in its history, undercutting even the gloom of the mid-2022 inflation scare. When shoppers feel this battered, they typically trim their purchases of discretionary goods first, and the textbook response […]

Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St’s easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Speculation around Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) joining the S&P 500 is picking up as the company now meets key index criteria on size, liquidity, and profitability. At the same time, clarity has improved on its […]

This past week was a busy one for the markets with the latest inflation numbers coming out and, of course, the big SpaceX IPO coming on Friday. Thus far, the stock market has continued to do well in 2026, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.50%)‘s gains sitting at around 9% as of June 12. It’s […]

The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI +0.56%) and the Vanguard Value ETF (VTV +0.94%) are both strong investments that can help protect against risk, but they differ in their underlying portfolios. While one provides comprehensive exposure to the entire U.S. market, the other tilts toward stable, dividend-paying stocks. Here’s how these ultra-popular ETFs compare […]

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND 0.12%) offers broad exposure to taxable investment-grade bonds at a lower cost, while iShares National Muni Bond ETF (MUB 0.01%) focuses on tax-exempt income with historically lower volatility. Fixed-income investors often choose between taxable and tax-exempt strategies to manage risk and income. This comparison evaluates how BND, a massive […]

Pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY +0.40%) is offering investors a 4.5% yield. That is well above the 1% you’d collect from the S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) and the 1.6% average for the drug sector. While the yield looks relatively attractive, given how high it is, prudent investors will wonder if the dividend […]

Drugmakers are only months into introducing GLP-1 pills and navigating huge changes in how patients pay for weight-loss drugs. Even so, they’re already outlining their visions for the future of obesity drugs. At the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in New Orleans last week, drugmakers pitched doctors and investors on the idea of new shots […]

The stock market had a wild but winning week. Comfort Systems and Viavi lead stocks making bullish rebounds. The SpaceX IPO took off. Source link

LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil told CNBC Tuesday that as a funding cliff approaches, the organization has to trust Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will back the golf venture through the rest of the season as it has promised. “I can say they’ve been terrific partners so far, and you have to take an incredible […]

SpaceX (NASDAQ: spcx) stock has had its hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), and the company’s share price is seeing strong bullish momentum out of the gate. The stock was up 23% from the fixed IPO price set by the company as of 3:10 p.m. ET on Friday. At the same point in the daily […]

The shockwaves of the Covid-19 pandemic are still hitting the U.S. car market and pushing prices up, even for exceptionally old cars. The pandemic dealt a severe blow to the total supply of new cars, which has rippled down to the used market. About 8 million vehicles that would have been made for U.S. buyers […]

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The board of directors of Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today declared a quarterly common dividend of 63 cents per share. This marks the 410th consecutive quarterly dividend to be paid by Abbott since 1924. The cash dividend is payable Aug. 17, 2026, to shareholders of record at the […]

Key Points Global credit activity among lenders as well as overall competitiveness of loan terms reached an all-time high in April, according to JLL. The month saw strong refinance demand and large loan placements. Data centers are driving much of the activity as the massive buildout fuels the real estate industry as well as the […]

Wall Street had one job Friday: watch Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) take off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.73%) rose 0.4% by noon ET, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.47%) added 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +0.31%) index dipped 0.1%, weighed down by some familiar names making room for the new kid on […]

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. With SpaceX opening on the Nasdaq at $150 a share Friday, his stake in the company is worth more than $766 billion. Combined with his Tesla stake, which is worth $280 billion, Musk’s net worth from both companies as of Friday is roughly $1.05 trillion. The SpaceX […]

eBay has had an impressive run over the past six months as its shares have beaten the S&P 500 by 21.5%. The stock now trades at $109.19, marking a 27.9% gain. This was partly thanks to its solid quarterly results, and the run-up might have investors contemplating their next move. Is now the time to […]