1 Big Reason to Avoid Energy Stocks in 2026
A global oil glut is sending oil prices lower, and oil stocks with them.
If your portfolio is energy-heavy right now, or if you’re thinking about putting additional funds into energy stocks, you may want to reconsider.
Because there’s one very important reason to avoid holding or buying energy stocks going into the new year: a growing global oil glut.
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Read MoreStock Market Today, Dec. 22: Tech Stocks Rise as Nvidia Anchors AI Rebound
On Dec. 22, 2025, AI and semiconductor leaders lifted U.S. stocks as a holiday-week rally extended across major indexes
The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.64%) rose 0.64% to 6,876.49, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +0.52%) added 0.52% to 23,428.83,
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Read MoreBlackRock pins Bitcoin ETF as major theme alongside T-bills, tech stocks
BlackRock says its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund was one of its three biggest investment themes in 2025, putting it alongside Treasury bills and the largest US tech stocks.
The asset manager named its iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) alongside its ETF tracking Treasury bills and another tied to the “Magnificent 7” tech stocks,
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Read MoreStock Market LIVE Updates: GIFT Nifty indicates a muted start; Asian markets trade higher
Sudeep Shah, Head – Technical and Derivatives Research at SBI Securities
Nifty faced strong resistance in the 26,230–26,235 zone, which coincides with the previous session’s high area and gradually drifted lower as the day progressed to close at 26,142 down 0.13%. For the second consecutive session,
The Burst
Sports Betting’s $25 Billion Future: How DraftKings Is Dominating the Market
It seems like right now is a good time to bet on sports betting companies. More than half of the U.S. states have opened their doors to sports betting by legalizing it in one form or the other. This has quite really opened floodgates for companies engaged in the segment, including today’s main star,
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What If You’d Invested $2,000 in O’Reilly Automotive in 1993?
Imagine putting $2,000 into a stock and forgetting about it. No fiddling, no panic-selling, no checking your account every day. You look up a few decades later and you discover your modest investment has ballooned into more than $1 million.
That’s not a fantasy. That’s what actually happened if you invested in O’Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ: ORLY) when it went public 32 years ago.
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How To Blow $3 Billion
Among the many rules of business is be careful in whose playground you are competing. Gaming companies learned this the hard way a few years ago when they built their businesses on top of the Facebook platform. So too did media companies like PopSugar. When Facebook decided to focus more on surfacing individual posts over corporate ones,