This ETF Owns 3,500 Stocks, Is It Better Than the S&P 500?
Vanguard’s Extended Market ETF (VXF) is a broad fund made up of thousands of stocks across essentially every part of the American business landscape. Like many ETFs, VXF attempts to give investors access to a broad selection of stocks without the difficulty and risk involved in picking individual companies.
Today, let’s take a deeper look at VXF to see if the fund is a good investment at the moment. » Read more about: This ETF Owns 3,500 Stocks, Is It Better Than the S&P 500? »
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Will This $20 Million Bet Pay Off?
A report just came out that one trader bet a massive $20 million on a single stock rising by 30% on its next earnings report. That stock is, drumroll, artificial intelligence favorite, Nvidia.
The bet was made by purchasing strike 1180 call options on Nvidia for the June expiration, meaning if NVDA share price rise were to rise above that level on expiration day,
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Why Does This Stock Predictably Go Up In April?
Over the past few days we’ve covered stocks that have strong histories of rising at this time of year, and apparently our readers really want to hear more about similar ideas, so here’s another nugget for you.
This time we turn our attention to the healthcare space where a well-known company, Quest Diagnostics,
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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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Palantir’s Path to $10 Billion: Can This AI Giant Keep Growing?
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has emerged from a growth slowdown into a phase of reaccelerating revenue and improving profitability in 2024-2025. After a modest ~17% revenue growth in 2023, Palantir’s top-line expanded by 29% in 2024 to $2.87 billion, buoyed by rising demand for its data analytics and AI platforms.
The company also achieved GAAP profitability,
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This Tiny AI Stock May Triple by 2030, Almost No One’s Watching
SoundHound AI isn’t the biggest name in artificial intelligence right now, not when companies like Nvidia and Microsoft are grabbing all the headlines.
But SoundHound may very well turn out to be one of the most surprisingly valuable small-cap AI stocks by the time 2030 rolls around. There’s a real story unfolding here and it’s starting to show up in the numbers.
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Time to Buy Leveraged NVIDIA? The Double-Edged Sword
NVDL is shorthand for the GraniteShares 2× Long NVDA Daily ETF, a leveraged fund that’s designed to return twice the daily performance of NVIDIA stock.
So, is NVDL a smart play or a high-voltage hazard?
Key Points
- NVDL delivers 2× NVIDIA’s daily returns, not long-term gains.
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Traders use NVDL to amplify short-term bets on NVIDIA without options or margin accounts.
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Why the Federal Reserve's independence matters
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week called on a Federal Reserve governor to resign over an accusation of mortgage fraud, the latest effort by his administration to exert greater control over one of the few remaining independent agencies in Washington.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook says she won’t leave her post.
Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed’s chair,
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