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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.
Industrial stocks have gotten expensive, but here are some with the most attractive growth prospects.
<p>Small-caps lagged their large-cap peers for over a decade in an environment dominated by the Fed put, failing to manifest any long lasting outperformance. With so much now changed, can small-cap performance this year manage to establish a longer-term trend or will it too prove to just be a temporary rotation? Find out what the industry experts think in this episode of<em> ETF Zoo</em>. </p>
Rising oil prices and sticky inflation are fueling demand for income, putting high-yield dividend ETFs offering more than 5% in the spotlight.
Many S&P 500 investors don't pay much attention to the number of letters in their stocks' symbols. But maybe they should.
Two funds chase the same short-Treasury yield, but one sends a tax bill every single month while the other lets gains sit untouched until you decide to sell. For high-bracket investors with taxable accounts, that timing difference is worth more than it looks.
S&P 500 investors can't decide if they should be bullish or playing it safe. But corporate profit guidance for next year can provide a clue.
The producer price index rose 4.7% in July 2025 after a 5.5% annual increase in June.
One inflation trend could keep policymakers on the sidelines
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.
Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, advanced 0.2% last month, with the overall annual inflation rate landing at 3.4%.
For diversification in the stock market, there are actively managed alternatives to index funds.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up +0.25%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.07%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.85%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.38%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26...
Buying call options that expire soon after the central bank’s late-August symposium is a simple bet that stock prices will keep rising.
SK Hynix staged one of the largest tech IPOs in history, then promptly handed investors a brutal loss within weeks. Now one Wall Street analyst is betting the selloff created exactly the kind of gap that turns patient buyers into big winners.
Intel’s stock dropped 4%, weighing on the Nasdaq after announcing a $15 billion stock offering.
Weary bulls have a bull call spread as one option on the State Street SPDR S&P 500 exchange traded fund.
DraftKings just posted its worst margin quarter in years while simultaneously launching a business growing five times faster than its core sportsbook ever did. One of those stories is going to dominate the next 90 days, and the NFL season will decide which.
Investors have braced for the second-quarter earnings for months — hoping for signs of how the S&P 500 is absorbing inflation. So far the answer is — very well.
Nonfarm payrolls fell 23,000 last month, following substantial downward revisions to the prior two months, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed on Friday.
The American economy shed 23,000 nonfarm payrolls in July. Wall Street answered with its best week since April. That is not a contradiction. It turns on the fact that has defined 2026 and that many investors still find uncomfortable: the Federal Reserve’s next move was supposed to be up. A shrinking payroll count took it off the table. The reversal lifted almost everything with a pulse. The Labor Market Did The Fed’s Work For It The U.S. forecast for July jobs was a gain of roughly 80,000. But g
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.37%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.89%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.44%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
There's been a rush for bullish stock bets this week. More than 10 million call options tied to the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust traded in a single session earlier this week, the highest one-day sum on record, according to Cboe Global Markets data.
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