Revived from the defunct 1950s-era Frontier in 1994 by former United Airlines pilot Rick Brown with his wife and business partner, Denver-based low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines quickly found a market flying to smaller cities overlooked by mainstream airlines and offering a rock-bottom base fare that it then compensated for by charging for baggage and seat
If your portfolio has been riding the same cluster of mega-cap technology stocks since 2023, Morgan Stanley has a timely warning. The S&P 500climbed about 20% from its April low to a record high near 7,620 on June 2, fueled by optimism over the U.S.–Iran ceasefire and persistent enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. Since then, the
For most of the past two years, investors bought nearly every company tied to semiconductors, from chip designers to equipment makers, and those stocks rose across the board. Enterprise software, on the other hand, got treated as collateral damage, priced as though large language models would eventually make the whole category redundant. That assumption is
International Business Machines (IBM) CEO Arvind Krishna has spent the past 10 days apologizing. On July 14, he told shareholders his company had faltered. Eight days later, he opened the second-quarter earnings call by admitting that IBM fell short on execution. Krishna then told CNBC on Thursday, July 23, that only 2% of IBM’s software
Quantum computing is one of the most talked-about emerging technology themes on Wall Street right now. The Trump administration revealed plans to invest more than $2 billion into the sector on May 21. Stocks across the space surged. Investors poured in, massively. But Jim Cramer confirmed that he’s not one of them. On the Wednesday,
A closer look at brokerage holdings reveals how the S&P 500’s composition has shifted considerably. The index once seen as a broad measure of American markets now carries a heavier technology weighting than at any point in the past two decades. Technology stocks made up close to 40% of the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF by
Most people build their investing rules out of their own mistakes. You hold something too long, you sell something too early, and you learn what a wash sale is sometime around the first week of April. Nobody hands you the rulebook in advance. You write it after the fact, usually at your own expense. Congress
Affordability keeps hitting home, and hitting hard, across the country this summer. Inflation-weary Americans once again are looking in disbelief at rising gasoline prices and the eye-popping costs of even the cheapest cuts of beef to toss on their grills. Meanwhile, Kevin Warsh has said very little since taking over as chairman of the Federal
AT&T has made it very clear this year that it isn’t afraid to raise prices as it notices a major shift in customer behavior. In April, the carrier hiked prices for its retired unlimited plans that were active before July 24, 2025. Customers with a single phone line on one of these wireless plans saw
The third-busiest airport in the United States, O’Hare International (ORD) in Chicago serves as a major hub for the Midwest and those traveling through to smaller cities in the region from all over the world. More than 40.6 million travelers passed through O’Hare in 2025, and the airport also serves as a hub for both