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A weaker dollar and rising Treasury yields could create opportunities across inverse-dollar, gold, commodity, emerging-market and large-cap ETFs.

KLA Corporation just reported its fifth consecutive earnings beat and raised its outlook, yet the stock sits nearly 40% below its 52-week high. Something is driving that gap, and understanding it separates a value opportunity from a value trap.

DIVO built a $5.25 billion following by pairing blue-chip dividends with a covered-call overlay, but the same manager running the same strategy on a different continent is quietly making DIVO holders ask uncomfortable questions about where their money should be sitting.

SPY's quarterly dividend barely registers as income, but a lesser-known fund holding the exact same 500 companies has quietly rewired the payout structure in a way most income investors have never considered.

JEPI built its reputation on fat monthly checks and a 0.35% fee, but a newer BlackRock fund matches it on both counts while doing something JEPI's covered-call structure quietly prevents its holders from achieving.

Solo retirees face a math problem no cost-of-living adjustment can fix: one income source with zero backup when markets turn ugly. Four income ETFs can wire a second paycheck directly to your account, but only if you weight them the right way.

DIVO promises smoother drawdowns and monthly income, but the comfort of a covered-call strategy comes with hidden costs that compound quietly into five-figure territory on a half-million-dollar position over five years.

Vanguard's VTV carries one of the lowest expense ratios in the ETF universe, yet a quarter-million dollar investment has quietly fallen far behind a basic S&P 500 fund over the past decade for a reason the fee disclosure never mentions.

The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield climbed for the second straight week.

The retirement industry insists you need seven figures before you can quit working, but a trio of overlooked ETFs rewrites that assumption in a way most financial advisors never mention to their clients.

State Street runs two S&P 500 ETFs that hold the exact same stocks in the exact same weights and pay the exact same dividends, yet most investors park their money in the one that costs significantly more.

Several hated assets could benefit if consensus starts cracking

Crowded positioning could make the next pullback sharper

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.38% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.69%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up by +0.09%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.37%, and September E-mini...

State Street quietly renamed a flagship ETF and gave it a ticker that looks almost identical to the world's most famous fund, and the fee difference between the two could reshape how millions of retirement savers think about index investing.

UBS Global Wealth Management, part of UBS Group AG (NYSE:UBS), expects the S&P 500 as measured by the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NASDAQ:SPY) to finish 2026 at 8,100, roughly 6% above Thursday’s close of 7,641. Prediction market...

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.37% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.67%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up by +0.10%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.30%, and September E-mini...

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

A prominent venture billionaire declared AI has nothing to do with the biggest companies' earnings growth, and then eight minutes later cheered a milestone from an AI startup. Nvidia reports in days, and the numbers will settle the argument.

Tired of collecting the S&P 500's paltry 0.9% dividend? Prepare to take your money overseas. The rising weight of low-yielding tech giants in the S&P 500 — and rising stock prices — are pushing the index's yield lower.

Two hundred billion dollars drained out of the private banking system in a single month, and markets celebrated like nothing happened. Someone is either very calm or very wrong.

President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post, threatened Iran with “economic warfare.”

Semiconductor exposure is the most concentrated bet most retirement investors already own without realizing it, because chipmakers dominate the top of both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. That reality is what makes sizing the First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:FTXL) a genuine portfolio decision rather than a simple allocation. FTXL is designed for investors who ... How Much of Your Portfolio Should Actually Be in FTXL

The decade-long data on active fund managers is damning enough, but the real problem starts the moment the industry uses that data to sell you something.

We were wrong about SCHD, and the margin of error is impossible to ignore. Here is what actually flipped the script and what it means for every portfolio that followed our advice.

<p>Five weeks of data from ETF.com’s AI assistant: 568 investors, 1,257 questions, 74% in their own words — and a clear pattern of screening, comparing and portfolio-building that goes far beyond a search box.</p>

American households are sitting on record stock wealth while simultaneously absorbing a national debt obligation that has never been larger, and the math between those two numbers is not as comfortable as the market's calm exterior suggests.

A viral JPMorgan chart promises a powerful Q4 surge in midterm election years, but the historical setup it requires looks nothing like what the market has actually done in 2026, and that contradiction has serious implications for anyone counting on a seasonal rescue.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is down by -0.20% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.63%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down by -0.24%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are down -0.24%, and September E-mini...

Walmart's stock cratered Thursday morning while Target and Costco barely flinched, and the gap between those reactions reveals something important about where retail's real pressure points actually sit.