As I see it, “diversification” has become a casualty of the indexing age. But that hasn’t stopped investors from pursuing it. I’ve sat quietly for a while, not really pressing my case. But that’s over. Here it is, an obituary of sorts for portfolio diversification.
If you own the five biggest tech-focused ETFs — QQQ,
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Barbara Corcoran was an extremely successful real estate investor before co-starring on the show “Shark Tank.” She’s grown her net worth to over $100 million in the years since. So when she offers investing advice, people tend to listen.
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With that in mind,
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The Iran war is starting to hit the homefront.
Home mortgage rates have risen 60 basis points since the U.S. began its bombing campaign against Iran one month ago, with the average interest rate on the 30-year fixed loan jumping from 5.99 percent on Feb. 28 to nearly 6.5 percent today,
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The root of the issue threatening Social Security’s solvency is an aging population and lower birth rate. Today’s seniors are living longer, while fewer Americans are having children who enter the workforce and pay taxes to finance the system. That imbalance has been building for decades.
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U.S. stock index futures edged lower on Friday as investors assessed prospects of de-escalation in the Middle East after another postponed deadline for U.S. strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure.
At 06:57 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis fell 190 points, or 0.41%, S&P 500 E-minis lost 29 points, or 0.44%, and Nasdaq 100 E-minis were down 154 points,
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8:55 am — NFLX +1.1% in pre-market trading
Netflix (NFLX +1.94%) increased subscription costs across all tiers Thursday,
Cathie Wood is doing some spring cleaning. The co-founder and CEO of Ark Invest lightened her stakes in more than three dozen stocks across her ETF family’s holdings on Thursday. It was her busiest day of selling — in terms of the number of companies she unloaded — in months.
Some of the more intriguing names on that list of positions are Netflix (NFLX +1.13%),
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For a while after COVID, the playbook felt simple. If you wanted to beat the S&P 500, you just leaned harder into what was already working. That meant piling into the Magnificent Seven and other mega-cap tech growth names that dominated index returns.
But that kind of concentration doesn’t last forever.
Tom Lee is a Wall Street analyst with over 25 years of experience. He currently serves as the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, but previously was chief equity strategist at JPMorgan Chase between 2007 and 2014.
Lee manages the Fundstrat Granny Shots ETF (NYSEMKT: GRNY),
Although artificial intelligence has been the hottest trend on Wall Street in recent years, it’s not the only game-changing technology that’s turning heads and enticing investors to open up their wallets. The advent of quantum computing has definitely intrigued investors.
As of mid-October 2025, quantum computing stocks IonQ (NYSE: IONQ),
