Investors worried about another dot-com crash may be asking the wrong question. Jim Cramer argues that pockets of speculation do not make the entire stock market a bubble. Compared with the late 1990s, many of the companies leading the current rally generate substantial revenue, earnings, and cash flow. And that distinction matters. Not only promises
The S&P 500 has been hitting all-time highs this year. Retail traders are piling into Micron and the SpaceXIPO. One-day options trading is at record levels. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are pulling in money alongside traditional stocks. By almost every measure, people are enthusiastic about putting money to work right now. Warren Buffett
Microsoft has not been an easy stock to own in 2026. It’s down more than 20% year to date and nearly 23% over the past year, a run that’s frustrated a lot of investors who expected the company’s AI push to show up in the share price by now. The spending has been enormous, Azure
International airlines are gradually restarting some flights to the Middle East, but the volatility set off by the U.S. strike on Iran continues to make establishing any kind of timeframe challenging. Delta Air Lines recently extended the suspension of its flight between Atlanta and Tel Aviv until November 2026. American Airlines also confirmed that it
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed on July 4, 2025, introduced two new restrictions on charitable deductions that apply for the first time this tax year. Vanguard’s charitable giving guidance, authored by Taylor Turner, CFP, a senior financial advisor with Vanguard Personal Advisor Services, notes that retirees who continue giving under the pre-2026 rules
Gold climbed from about $2,600 per ounce in early 2025 to a record $5,589 by January 2026, setting more than 50 all-time highs in a single calendar year, the World Gold Council reported. The rally has fueled aggressive marketing by precious metals dealers, with retirement investors responding in record numbers. Gold exchange-traded fund holdings grew
Draft night in the NBA is one of those moments that looks perfect from the outside. The suit, the handshake, the jersey, the number that flashes on the screen. For a lot of these kids, it’s the moment their entire life has been building toward. Then the first paycheck arrives and some of them do
Netflix (NFLX) spent the past two years defending its lead with price hikes and a password-sharing crackdown. The next phase looks different. The streaming giant is among several companies in early talks to acquire Letterboxd. Letterboxd is a social platform where film fans connect and review movies. That single detail tells investors something the company
For most of 2026, the market’s story has mostly been on semiconductors and artificial intelligence. Jim Cramer just told investors to look somewhere else. On his CNBC show, the “Mad Money” host called biotechnology the hottest group in the market right now. Coming from someone who admits he had not made that call in years,
A dividend is one of the few promises a company cannot quietly fake. Guidance gets walked back. Buybacks get paused the moment a quarter turns ugly. But a cash payment wired to shareholders every 90 days is a firm putting real money behind its own story, quarter after quarter, with nowhere to hide. That is