Maybe you’ve noticed: stocks have been red-hot over the last few months.
Even accounting for some recent volatility in hot trades like memory stocks, since the March 30 low, the S&P 500 is up 18%. Soaring semiconductor stocks have led the way, with the iShares Semiconductor ETF rising as much as 106% from its recent trough.
Groww on Thursday clarified that direct mutual funds will continue to remain the core of its investment platform, seeking to dispel confusion over the launch of its new subscription-based mutual fund offering, MF Prime.
In a post on X, the company said direct mutual funds are, and will remain, “the heart of Groww”,
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U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $95 million on Thursday, per SoSoValue data, while ether ETFs shed about $52 million, ending a five-day inflow run that had been the steadier side of the market.
Fidelity’s FBTC drove the bitcoin outflow with roughly $63 million, followed by ARKB at about $40 million.
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Iran won’t give up the Strait of Hormuz, its “new nuclear weapon,” an analyst told CBS News on Wednesday.
Speaking soon after President Trump said the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was, in his view, “over,” Aaron David Miller, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and a former State Department adviser on Arab-Israeli negotiations,
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Major indexes finished higher, aided by chip and memory stocks, as investors monitored the latest military attacks between the U.S. and Iran.
The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) recorded $5.43 billion in net creations, expanding its assets under management to roughly $46.3 billion—an 11.73% single-day jump in AUM. That kind of one-day move is rare for an established fund and signals a decisive rotation of investor capital back into chipmakers.
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Retired Americans who worked all their life while paying into Social Security may assume that both men and women are entitled to the same amount. But that belief doesn’t appear to align with reality, as according to recent studies, women may receive significantly less in Social Security benefits than their male counterparts. Looming benefit cuts could widen the gap even more.
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