Stock Market Today: Stock Futures Rise as Tech Stocks Gain Ground Amid Easing AI Fears
Futures were pointing to a higher open for the major stock indexes on Wednesday as the AI rally found its footing after a string of volatile sessions colored by concerns about AI-driven disruption.
Futures contracts connected to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 were up 0.5% in premarket trading Wednesday, while S&P 500 futures rose 0.4% and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 0.2%.
Leveraged ETFs Are Not Long-Term Holdings. Here's Why.
Leveraged ETFs promise supercharged gains. The math tells a different story.
Imagine you’re at a casino, and someone offers you a deal: every time the roulette wheel lands on black, you win double. Sounds amazing, right? But there’s a catch. Every time the ball lands on red, you lose double too.
That’s basically a leveraged exchange-traded fund (ETF) in a nutshell.
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Read MoreBillionaire's Prediction: The Market Is Wrong, Fed Will Conduct 'Substantially More' Than 2 Rate Cuts
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David Einhorn has now run Greenlight Capital for about three decades.
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The prominent value investor believes incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is likely to push for interest rate cuts.
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Warsh has long been known as a hawk,
8 States Where Social Security Goes the Furthest in 2026
In January 2026, the Social Security Administration (SSA) enacted a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for benefit recipients, boosting payouts by 2.8%. This increased the average retiree payment by about $56 per month, from roughly $2,015 to $2,071.
But that amount goes much further in certain states than others,
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Read MoreNASDAQ Index, SP500, Dow Jones Forecasts – NASDAQ Rallies As Trump Plans To Impose 10% Global Tariff
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Will Historic Lows in Market Breadth Trigger a Stocks Crash?
Market concentration refers to periods when a few stocks or a single sector dramatically outperform the rest of the market, driving a disproportionate share of index gains. In such times, market breadth is “narrow” meaning the rally relies on a small cluster of leaders while the majority of stocks lag.
Over the past 50 years,
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1 EV Stock Is Racing Against the Clock
If you’re kicking the tires on ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT), you might come away thinking the company is finally turning a corner. After all, its fiscal 2025 results came with plenty of upbeat language around improving margins and leaner operations.
But scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll see a company still bleeding cash,
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Market Precariously Perched at Key Level
As the end of the quarter approaches, how do the markets fare? Zooming out, we can see that the S&P 500 is precariously perched on an uptrending resistance line.
While doomsayers have been lining up to predict the market’s demise for months, it has defied all skeptics and continued its march higher. But now it sits once again at a key threshold level.
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