If You Invest $200 per Month in the S&P 500 Right Now, Here's What You Might Have After 30 Years
Investing in the stock market can build lifelong wealth, and the S&P 500 (^GSPC +1.08%) is a powerhouse index with decades of history generating positive long-term returns.
To be clear, past performance doesn’t predict future returns, so there’s no way to know for certain how any investment will perform over time.
Read MoreUS Long Bond Yields Near Highest Level Since 2023
(Bloomberg) — Yields on 30-year US Treasuries hovered near the highest levels in almost three years as investors tried to balance their worries over inflation with optimism that the US and Iran will eventually make progress toward a deal to end hostilities.
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Read MoreHow Trade Reduces the Risk of War
This generates variation in bilateral trade that cannot be explained by political alignment, regime type, or reverse causation. Countries with little or no part in the birth of aviation suddenly saw this new technology dramatically change the distance between them and their partners. The result is reproduced under an entirely different natural experiment: The 1985 liberalization of Soviet airspace,
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Read MoreSingapore economy can overcome tariff and war risks as global trade continues to grow
SINGAPORE – Global trade may continue to flourish as companies across Asia rewire their supply chains and invest in their resilience in response to a series of shocks in the past few years from tariffs and wars.
Analysts believe the growth in goods trade will again defy pessimistic expectations, as it did in 2025,
Read More7 Best Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy
The renewable energy sector has had it tough the past few years.
Over the past half-decade, the Nasdaq Clean Edge Green Energy Index is down by 4%, while the S&P Global Clean Energy Transition Index is down by more than 7%. Over the same period, the broader market as measured by the S&P 500 is up more than 78%.
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Read MoreThe Burst
Forget Billionaire’s Amazon Buy, Time For This Mag 7 Stock?
Stanley Druckenmiller’s Q3 purchase of nearly half a million Amazon shares drew attention, but the move is more interesting when viewed in context.
Druckenmiller has a long habit of trading Amazon in cycles, buying heavily when sentiment softens and trimming when momentum returns. His last cycle didn’t produce much upside, making his decision to jump back in at a higher cost especially noteworthy.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Is This AI Stock a Buy Heading Into 2026?
CoreWeave sits in a new category analysts now call the neocloud. Rather than operating like traditional cloud providers built for broad, generalized workloads, neoclouds specialize in dense clusters of GPUs designed purely for AI training and inference.
In practical terms, CoreWeave is building industrial-scale AI factories, meaning customized data centers filled with Nvidia’s highest-end accelerators,
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Berkshire’s $9.7 Billion OxyChem Deal Means What?
Buffett’s firm has spent years amassing a giant stake in Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY), starting with a $10 billion preferred stock and warrant package in 2019 that helped Occidental fund its acquisition of Anadarko.
By mid-2025, Berkshire had built that into a 32.7% equity position, making OXY one of its six largest holdings.
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