Markets almost never price what just happened. They price the story they expect to read next. That distinction has cost people real money this year, and it is about to cost a few more. For five months, your household budget has been hostage to a waterway most Americans could not find on a map. The
Decades of research from J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Vanguard’s investor education materials point to the same finding: long-term wealth building has historically relied less on stock-picking or market timing than on holding a low-cost index fund and contributing consistently across market cycles. The Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF (VONG) has delivered a 16% annualized
With the challenges around booking flight tickets, hotels and other aspects of a trip mostly eliminated by technology, most travel agencies operating in 2026 either serve niche markets or organize travel for larger groups. Many companies selling organized travel have also not been able to survive in a shifting market and rising operational costs. In
Paramount Skydance had been pushing to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of September. It picked the wrong month to be optimistic. A coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued to block the deal on July 13, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order days later, and now
A single exchange-traded fund that pays you $1,000 a month in dividends sounds almost too clean, and one fund keeps landing at the center of that conversation. The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) holds more than $102 billion in total net assets as of July 2026, according to Schwab Asset Management’s fund page. A
Alphabet reported earnings on July 22 and the stock dropped more than 7% in a single session. The numbers weren’t bad. Cloud grew 82% year over year. Advertising held up. EPS beat. What rattled investors was the spending. Capital expenditure guidance for 2026 came in at $195 billion to $205 billion. Free cash flow went
Nvidia(NVDA) investors have no shortage of reasons to remain bullish. The AI chipmaker posted record revenue of $81.6 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2027, up 85% from a year earlier. Data center revenue surged 92% to $75.2 billion. Nvidia forecast second-quarter revenue of about $91 billion and gross margins of about 75%. That
With jet fuel prices continuing to sit at decades-old highs over the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, almost every airline has reworked its network to optimize high-traffic routes and cut any underperforming ones. United Airlines and American Airlines both trimmed approximately 5% of their flight capacity for the rest
Seagate Technology (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) supply high-capacity hard drives used by cloud providers to store the growing volumes of data produced by artificial intelligence workloads. The companies have become two of the market’s most closely watched AI infrastructure stocks as hyperscalers expand data-center capacity and reserve hard-drive supply years in advance. Both stocks
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung flew to San Francisco on July 24 for a summit with the most powerful names in artificial intelligence. Jensen Huang was there. Sam Altman was there. The heads of Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor and Naver flew in. By the end of the day, roughly $950 billion in new