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QQQ delivered higher returns while SPY sports lower fees and a higher dividend yield.

SCHG, VUG, and QQQ each take a different structural approach to large-cap growth, and those differences compound into a significant performance gap over ten years. One fund has a defensible claim as the best vehicle for the AI era, but the case involves real tradeoffs most investors overlook.

QDTE built its reputation on a weekly paycheck that once turned heads, but the volatility environment driving those payments has shifted dramatically, and the gap between what the fund used to pay and what investors are actually receiving keeps widening.

Cooling demand is rapidly changing the interest-rate debate

Broad Market Indicators Broad-market exchange-traded fund IWM rose and IVV edged lower. Active

Cooling inflation and weaker job data ease Fed hike bets, but Hormuz tensions increase oil risks. See how QQQ, IWM and TLT may respond.

Michael Burry is doubling down on bets against Micron and the QQQ even as those positions bleed, convinced a larger market collapse is coming. With Wall Street overwhelmingly on the other side, the question is whether he is a contrarian genius or a cautionary tale in slow motion.

When the Nasdaq tumbled and the VIX spiked toward 21, three covered-call ETFs started collecting bigger premiums than they had all year. Which one you own depends on a tax and upside tradeoff most income investors never think to ask about.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.1%, and the actively tra

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index falls Friday after surprise retail sales data. AI chip giant Applied Materials dives on earnings.

Anthropic filed confidentially for a US initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 2026, reportedly targeting a Nasdaq listing in September or early October at a valuation near $965 billion, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley reportedly leading an offering aiming to raise more than $60 billion. If that ... Millions of 401(k) Holders Could Be Forced to Buy Anthropic Stock. Forced Buying of SpaceX Has Already Cost Retirement Accounts $500 Million.

Retail sentiment on Stocktwits remained improved to ‘bullish’ on SPY and remained ‘bearish’ on QQQ.

Monthly distributions from QYLD have been hitting accounts for over a decade, and the yield still turns heads. But investors who ran the actual numbers on a six-figure position found something waiting at the end that no factsheet bothered to warn them about.

‘The Big Short’ investor is cutting overall exposure and shifting his portfolio as a recent market rally pushes his short book into the red.

Index funds were supposed to bury active management, yet one fund with $360 billion in assets keeps writing checks to private AI companies that indexers cannot touch. What Capital Group built inside AGTHX defies the obituary Wall Street already wrote.

Broad Market Indicators Broad-market exchange-traded funds IWM and IVV rose. Actively traded I

One of China’s top AI labs that rattled markets last year shipped stronger benchmarks Thursday, but SPY and QQQ never flinched.

In this MoneyShow MoneyMasters Podcast episode, I sit down with Tom Bruni, director of community and content for the CMT Association, and Sid Mokhtari, executive director at CIBC World Markets, to break down the current market environment in the US and Canada — and where investors should focus next.

JEPQ and QQQI both sell Nasdaq-100 call exposure to fund big monthly payouts, but the structure underneath each fund creates a hidden fork in the road that sends different investors toward completely opposite conclusions.

Washington is floating brand-new tax cuts at the exact moment the federal deficit is blowing past levels not seen since the pandemic, and bond markets are already reacting. Here is what the latest Treasury numbers reveal about where fiscal policy could push interest rates next.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.2%, and the actively tra

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Thursday after surprise key inflation data. Cisco and AI stock Cerebras plunge on earnings.

Cooling inflation and a weakening labor market could boost growth ETFs as rate-hike risks fade and AI spending supports earnings growth.

<p>Exchange-traded funds hold more than $14 trillion in assets and have become the default way millions of people invest. But if you're just getting started, one question comes first: how do ETFs actually work? This complete beginner's guide breaks it down in plain English — what an ETF is, the clever mechanism that lets it trade like a stock while holding hundreds of them, what it costs, how it compares to stocks and mutual funds, and how to buy your first one.</p>

A covered-call ETF on the Nasdaq-100 sounds like a way to collect income without sacrificing much growth, but a $300,000 position tells a more complicated story about what that monthly check actually costs during a bull market.

Watching the AI rally from the sidelines felt responsible when retirement loomed, but playing it safe has a price tag too. Three ETFs now offer a way to get back in the game without handing your future to a single stock.

GAIQ launches into one of the most contested trades in the market, and two specific variables will determine whether it outperforms a passive tech benchmark or lags badly over the next 12 months. Most investors tracking the fund are only watching one of them.

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, advanced 0.2% last month, with the overall annual inflation rate landing at 3.4%.

Constellation Software (TSE:CSU) used its second-quarter conference call to outline its approach to artificial intelligence, vertical-market organization and acquisitions, while executives addressed recent organic-growth pressure tied to several acquired businesses and comparison effects. President

<p>While U.S. ETF assets under management and flows rose to record levels in the first half of 2026, asset managers split the field with inflows from each constituency. Some continue to compete on price, but others are betting that investors will pay a premium for stellar short-term performance.</p>