Three S&P 500 covered-call ETFs promise income from the same underlying index, but their wildly different strategies produce returns that would shock anyone who chose a fund based on yield alone.
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The US Federal Reserve goes into a key rate-setting meeting this week with markets expecting policymakers to pull the trigger on a rate hike to tackle persistently high inflation —
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Claiming Social Security at 70 instead of 67 requires living to age 82.5 to break even on lifetime benefits.
Dying at 80 after delaying Social Security to 70 leaves you $14,400 worse off than claiming at 67.
The one exception: higher-earning spouses should consider delaying to boost their partner’s survivor benefit.
Cathie Wood has bought and sold the stock a lot, so don’t follow her blindly.
The company posted a loss in its last quarter, but revenue is growing robustly.
Ionis is pivoting to bringing its treatments to market on its own.
The era of easy money is over. Since the global financial crisis of 2008 until mid-2022, the US ten-year yield ranged between 2% and 3%. In the last six months alone, the yield increased from 4% to nearly 5%. The ten-year rupee bond yield also increased in the last six months,
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The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets next week. It directs one of the Fed’s biggest tools – that’s the interest rate. Raise the interest rate, it can act as a brake on the economy. Lower it, and it can act as an accelerator. It is so powerful that Fed chairs traditionally manage it with care,
Twenty-five years ago, I sat at my computer in my home office in Toronto, researching a New York-based, publicly traded toy company. Its name escapes me. Not important.
In those days,
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Artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure spending has been growing at an incredible pace, and the good news is that major hyperscalers, AI companies, and neocloud specialists are expected to continue investing more money in this space.
Nvidia recently noted that the combined capital expenditure of the top five hyperscalers is poised to reach $800 billion in 2026.
Ethereum ETFs pulled in $216 million on September 11 while Bitcoin ETFs bled outflows for a fourth straight day, losing $13 million.
Bitcoin’s swing from a $987 million inflow week to four consecutive outflow days marks the sharpest reversal to watch across crypto ETFs.