4 days ago
If you're trying to choose between the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) and the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY), it might seem they're essentially interchangeable. They're both huge and track the same index.
At a high level, that's probably true. But if you want to dive deep and get picky, a few factors set them apart.
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The State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF has an expense ratio of 0.0945%. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF charges just 0.03%. Given that the index has historically returned about 10% per year, this fee difference may seem immaterial. But I will take any advantage I can get.
Because of their sizes, trading spreads (the difference between the buying (ask) price and the selling (bid) price of a stock) are virtually nothing, so spreads aren't really a consideration here. But if you can own the exact same index for a third of the cost, why not?
#index #same
At a high level, that's probably true. But if you want to dive deep and get picky, a few factors set them apart.
Missed AI's "Act 1"? Act 2 Could Be 15x Bigger. Most investors think they missed the AI boat because they didn't buy Nvidia in 2005. But according to our **** ysts, we're only at the end of "Act 1"—the R&D phase. "Act 2" is the global rollout. Continue »
The State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF has an expense ratio of 0.0945%. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF charges just 0.03%. Given that the index has historically returned about 10% per year, this fee difference may seem immaterial. But I will take any advantage I can get.
Because of their sizes, trading spreads (the difference between the buying (ask) price and the selling (bid) price of a stock) are virtually nothing, so spreads aren't really a consideration here. But if you can own the exact same index for a third of the cost, why not?
#index #same
4 days ago
A $10,000 SPY investment at its 1993 launch would have compounded to $312,667 today, representing a 3,027% gain without adding a single dollar.
SPY's 0.0945% expense ratio costs roughly three times more than VOO or IVV, a gap that quietly compounds against long-term buy-and-hold investors.
RSP owns the same 500 stocks as SPY but weights each equally, cutting megacap dominance and serving as a hedge against a leadership rotation.
Two retirees, same $1 million, same 4% rule, buy one finished with $1.4 million, the other hit $0 in 12 years. Our free reader guide explains the flaw that separated them, and the income-first method built to avoid it.
A $10,000 stake placed in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) on its opening day in January 1993 would be worth roughly $312,667 today. That works out to a 3,027% **** ulative gain, or about 10.8% a year compounded across 33 years. No stock picking, no market timing, no additional contributions.
#roughly #years #january
SPY's 0.0945% expense ratio costs roughly three times more than VOO or IVV, a gap that quietly compounds against long-term buy-and-hold investors.
RSP owns the same 500 stocks as SPY but weights each equally, cutting megacap dominance and serving as a hedge against a leadership rotation.
Two retirees, same $1 million, same 4% rule, buy one finished with $1.4 million, the other hit $0 in 12 years. Our free reader guide explains the flaw that separated them, and the income-first method built to avoid it.
A $10,000 stake placed in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) on its opening day in January 1993 would be worth roughly $312,667 today. That works out to a 3,027% **** ulative gain, or about 10.8% a year compounded across 33 years. No stock picking, no market timing, no additional contributions.
#roughly #years #january
4 days ago
Experienced investors know the advantages of buying and holding S&P 500 index funds like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY). Not only are they super simple, but statistically speaking, you're likely to get better performance from them than you are by picking individual stocks or by owning an actively managed fund.
Nevertheless, given its long-term (and often market-beating) track record, even the most disciplined of investors might have the itch to step into a stake in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB). But is it actually the better buy?
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate consisting of several dozen reliable cash-producing businesses as well as a portfolio of hand-picked stocks. Brought to prominence by Warren Buffett, the company's flexible structure has enabled its shares to consistently outperform the S&P 500 since Buffett first took the helm in 1965.
It hasn't beaten the market every year since then, to be clear. Some years it did. Other years it didn't. It typically achieved the feat in five-year time frames.
#signal #years #buffett #flashing
Nevertheless, given its long-term (and often market-beating) track record, even the most disciplined of investors might have the itch to step into a stake in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB). But is it actually the better buy?
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate consisting of several dozen reliable cash-producing businesses as well as a portfolio of hand-picked stocks. Brought to prominence by Warren Buffett, the company's flexible structure has enabled its shares to consistently outperform the S&P 500 since Buffett first took the helm in 1965.
It hasn't beaten the market every year since then, to be clear. Some years it did. Other years it didn't. It typically achieved the feat in five-year time frames.
#signal #years #buffett #flashing
5 days ago
On average, investors generally expect the market to provide roughly a 10% return each year. In fact, if you look at the long-term history of the S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), that's about what you get, ******* uming you reinvest dividends. So what should an investor make of the fact that the first six months of 2026 saw the S&P 500 index advance 9.5% on a price-only basis and nearly 10.2% with dividends reinvested?
The first issue to address regarding market returns is that it includes bull and bear markets. A bull market is when the market goes up 20%, while a bear market is when it falls 20%. Bull and bear markets represent moves much larger than 10% and highlight that the market does not just go up at a steady, comfortable pace. The markets can be, and often are, quite volatile.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
To be fair, if you bought and held the S&P 500 index over the long term, you would have seen the value of your portfolio rise dramatically. You can easily buy the index with a low-cost exchange-trade fund like Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO). But you have had to hold on through some pretty trying periods. For example, since the turn of the century, SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY), the oldest ETF tracking this index, is up roughly 400% on a price-only basis, with reinvested dividends bringing the total return up to just over 700%.
SPY data by YCharts
#market #bull #bear #markets
The first issue to address regarding market returns is that it includes bull and bear markets. A bull market is when the market goes up 20%, while a bear market is when it falls 20%. Bull and bear markets represent moves much larger than 10% and highlight that the market does not just go up at a steady, comfortable pace. The markets can be, and often are, quite volatile.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
To be fair, if you bought and held the S&P 500 index over the long term, you would have seen the value of your portfolio rise dramatically. You can easily buy the index with a low-cost exchange-trade fund like Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO). But you have had to hold on through some pretty trying periods. For example, since the turn of the century, SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY), the oldest ETF tracking this index, is up roughly 400% on a price-only basis, with reinvested dividends bringing the total return up to just over 700%.
SPY data by YCharts
#market #bull #bear #markets
5 days ago
Bonds should be an essential part of a well-balanced portfolio. Factual differences between the Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (NYSEMKT:SCHQ) and the State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEMKT:SPLB) center on credit quality, as the Schwab fund tracks government debt while the State Street fund targets investment-grade corporate bonds.
Investors seeking exposure to long-dated fixed income typically choose between government-backed securities and corporate credit. While both funds focus on maturities exceeding 10 years, they offer significantly different risk-reward profiles based on their underlying debt issuers and the credit risk investors are willing to accept for higher income.
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SPLB
SCHQ
#nysemkt #state
Investors seeking exposure to long-dated fixed income typically choose between government-backed securities and corporate credit. While both funds focus on maturities exceeding 10 years, they offer significantly different risk-reward profiles based on their underlying debt issuers and the credit risk investors are willing to accept for higher income.
Metric
SPLB
SCHQ
#nysemkt #state
5 days ago
Wall Street pays a huge amount of attention to the price movements of the S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). If stocks are in a bull market, everyone wants to know when the next bear market will arrive. If there's a bear market, everyone keeps an eye out for the sign that the next bull market has come along. History shows you should ignore Wall Street and focus on a long-term plan of saving and investing, no matter what the market is doing.
World-famous investor and Wall Street icon Warren Buffett has often said that most investors would be better off buying an S&P 500 index fund, such as SPDR S&P 500 Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) or Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO), than trying to buy individual stocks. The real purpose of this is to create a simple, diversified portfolio that allows the investor to focus their attention on saving money and, frankly, living a happy life.
Missed AI's "Act 1"? Act 2 Could Be 15x Bigger. Most investors think they missed the AI boat because they didn't buy Nvidia in 2005. But according to our ****** ysts, we're only at the end of "Act 1"—the R&D phase. "Act 2" is the global rollout. Continue »
That said, a key part of Buffett's investment advice is that you should keep buying the S&P 500 no matter what is happening with the market. That's called dollar-cost averaging. You should also reinvest your dividends, which allows the dividends to compound over time. Both are simple, but powerful wealth-building tools.
SPY data by YCharts
#stocks
World-famous investor and Wall Street icon Warren Buffett has often said that most investors would be better off buying an S&P 500 index fund, such as SPDR S&P 500 Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) or Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO), than trying to buy individual stocks. The real purpose of this is to create a simple, diversified portfolio that allows the investor to focus their attention on saving money and, frankly, living a happy life.
Missed AI's "Act 1"? Act 2 Could Be 15x Bigger. Most investors think they missed the AI boat because they didn't buy Nvidia in 2005. But according to our ****** ysts, we're only at the end of "Act 1"—the R&D phase. "Act 2" is the global rollout. Continue »
That said, a key part of Buffett's investment advice is that you should keep buying the S&P 500 no matter what is happening with the market. That's called dollar-cost averaging. You should also reinvest your dividends, which allows the dividends to compound over time. Both are simple, but powerful wealth-building tools.
SPY data by YCharts
#stocks
6 days ago
XLE's put/call ratio hit 2.57, with the most crowded trade being a one-month put that only pays off if energy stocks drop 12%.
USO has surged 126% YTD, but $6 diesel and freight earnings warnings of 5 to 10% signal that high crude is becoming an economic drag.
If energy breaks, defensive rotation candidates XLP (up 10% YTD) and XLV (up 25% over one year) stand to benefit.
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Energy is the year's best-performing sector, and on Wednesday the options market bet heavily that it is about to break. Volume in Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSEARCA:XLE) options ran roughly 70% above normal, with more than twice as many puts as calls changing hands and nine of the ten busiest contracts on the day being puts. The single most crowded trade was a 57-strike put expiring one month out, a structure that only pays off if XLE falls roughly 12% from here. Our own full-chain read on XLE puts a live put/call ratio at 2.57, with ratios above 16 at the Sept. 23 expiration and above 13 at Sept. 25.
#above #call #ratio #trade
USO has surged 126% YTD, but $6 diesel and freight earnings warnings of 5 to 10% signal that high crude is becoming an economic drag.
If energy breaks, defensive rotation candidates XLP (up 10% YTD) and XLV (up 25% over one year) stand to benefit.
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Energy is the year's best-performing sector, and on Wednesday the options market bet heavily that it is about to break. Volume in Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSEARCA:XLE) options ran roughly 70% above normal, with more than twice as many puts as calls changing hands and nine of the ten busiest contracts on the day being puts. The single most crowded trade was a 57-strike put expiring one month out, a structure that only pays off if XLE falls roughly 12% from here. Our own full-chain read on XLE puts a live put/call ratio at 2.57, with ratios above 16 at the Sept. 23 expiration and above 13 at Sept. 25.
#above #call #ratio #trade
6 days ago
Coherent jumped 6% and Lumentum climbed 5% with no catalyst, driven by short covering after both stocks fell sharply over the prior month.
SOXX gained only 2% and SPY just 0.3%, making the optics group's surge a positioning-only bounce confined to the sector, not a broad re-rating.
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Optics stocks are rebounding Wednesday morning without a fresh headline to point to, and the size of the group's move relative to the broader market is the story. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) is at $508.59, up 2%, while the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is at $759.69, up just 0.3%. The three optics names running today are outpacing both benchmarks by a wide margin.
Coherent Corp. (NYSE:COHR) stock is up 6% to $287.21 in Wednesday morning trading. The bounce arrives after a rough stretch. Coherent shares had fallen 12% over the past month heading into today's session, and that drawdown is the part of the setup that hasn't been undone.
#optics
SOXX gained only 2% and SPY just 0.3%, making the optics group's surge a positioning-only bounce confined to the sector, not a broad re-rating.
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Optics stocks are rebounding Wednesday morning without a fresh headline to point to, and the size of the group's move relative to the broader market is the story. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) is at $508.59, up 2%, while the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is at $759.69, up just 0.3%. The three optics names running today are outpacing both benchmarks by a wide margin.
Coherent Corp. (NYSE:COHR) stock is up 6% to $287.21 in Wednesday morning trading. The bounce arrives after a rough stretch. Coherent shares had fallen 12% over the past month heading into today's session, and that drawdown is the part of the setup that hasn't been undone.
#optics
7 days ago
Steel and materials markets fluctuated between rallies and pullbacks as the US-Canada trade relationship shifted from near agreement to open dispute. Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) and Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE:CLF) rose on August 25, after discussions between the two countries broke down, a turnaround from the week before, when several of the same stocks fell on hopes that a new deal would decrease steel and aluminum tariffs. The VanEck Steel ETF gained 1.6% on the day, while the State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR reached an intraday high. The rise didn't last: by the end of the week, the materials ETF had slipped to negative territory, while the steel ETF was about flat, though, both remain substantially up for 2026.
The volatility traces a rapid escalation. On August 19, Bloomberg reported that the US and Canada had tentatively agreed to reduce tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 25% and vehicle charges to 15%. That optimism was dashed within days: on August 22, the US imposed 50% tariffs on a wide variety of Canadian exports, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded by declaring Canada officially "at war" with the United States, saying "You're at war when you're attacked, and we got attacked."
On August 25, Ottawa announced counter-tariffs of C$27.6 billion on American goods, which took effect on September 8 at rates ranging from 15% to 50%. The dispute has continued to escalate since then, with Washington announcing additional restrictions and tariffs on Canadian goods in September, reinforcing the view that a quick resolution remains unlikely.
Atsi Sheth, Moody's chief credit officer, put it bluntly: "Expect much more of this uncertainty for some time to come." Investors initially welcomed tariffs as good news for US steelmakers facing less Canadian competition, but the back-and-forth negotiations, as well as Canada's reaction, have made predicting a steady outcome difficult.
The more intriguing story is how differently the aforementioned companies are positioned. Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) relies primarily on scrap-based electric arc furnace steelmaking, while Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE:CLF) operates a vertically integrated model with internally sourced iron ore, scrap and other raw materials. Both have meaningful domestic raw-material exposure, although their production models differ substantially. Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) is up more than 50% year-to-date, while Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE:CLF), despite similar structural insulation, remains negative for 2026, which **** ysts attribute to balance sheet stress rather than tariffs.
#august #nucor #corporation #cleveland
The volatility traces a rapid escalation. On August 19, Bloomberg reported that the US and Canada had tentatively agreed to reduce tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 25% and vehicle charges to 15%. That optimism was dashed within days: on August 22, the US imposed 50% tariffs on a wide variety of Canadian exports, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded by declaring Canada officially "at war" with the United States, saying "You're at war when you're attacked, and we got attacked."
On August 25, Ottawa announced counter-tariffs of C$27.6 billion on American goods, which took effect on September 8 at rates ranging from 15% to 50%. The dispute has continued to escalate since then, with Washington announcing additional restrictions and tariffs on Canadian goods in September, reinforcing the view that a quick resolution remains unlikely.
Atsi Sheth, Moody's chief credit officer, put it bluntly: "Expect much more of this uncertainty for some time to come." Investors initially welcomed tariffs as good news for US steelmakers facing less Canadian competition, but the back-and-forth negotiations, as well as Canada's reaction, have made predicting a steady outcome difficult.
The more intriguing story is how differently the aforementioned companies are positioned. Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) relies primarily on scrap-based electric arc furnace steelmaking, while Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE:CLF) operates a vertically integrated model with internally sourced iron ore, scrap and other raw materials. Both have meaningful domestic raw-material exposure, although their production models differ substantially. Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) is up more than 50% year-to-date, while Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE:CLF), despite similar structural insulation, remains negative for 2026, which **** ysts attribute to balance sheet stress rather than tariffs.
#august #nucor #corporation #cleveland
7 days ago
I don't make the news, I just report it, albeit through a lens biased by 40 years of charting.
So when I look at what's happening with the S&P 500 Utilities Sector SPDR (XLU), the most prominent ETF devoted to the utilities sector, I simply translate what I see.
Goldman Sachs Expects Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to Raise Rates This Week — But Not Because of Oil Prices.
Billionaire Charlie Munger, Who Died at 99, Skipped Insurance on His Mansion Since He Could Just Write a Check to Rebuild — 'All Intelligent People Do It My Way'
The EV Bubble Has Burst. How to Play Rivian Stock Now.
#spdr #sachs #expects #chair
So when I look at what's happening with the S&P 500 Utilities Sector SPDR (XLU), the most prominent ETF devoted to the utilities sector, I simply translate what I see.
Goldman Sachs Expects Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to Raise Rates This Week — But Not Because of Oil Prices.
Billionaire Charlie Munger, Who Died at 99, Skipped Insurance on His Mansion Since He Could Just Write a Check to Rebuild — 'All Intelligent People Do It My Way'
The EV Bubble Has Burst. How to Play Rivian Stock Now.
#spdr #sachs #expects #chair
7 days ago
ARK Invest sold over 142,000 CRCL shares Monday across ARKK and ARKW, pushing Circle Internet down 8% despite a 25% monthly gain.
COIN and BMNR each slid 5% as the Senate's Clarity Act vote threatens to open stablecoin markets to better-funded bank competitors.
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Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) stock is falling on Tuesday after ARK Invest trimmed its position ahead of a U.S. Senate procedural vote on the Digital ******* et Market Clarity Act. Circle Internet stock is down 8% to $89.56 in midday trading. The move stands out among crypto-linked equities because the same manager cut several crypto positions but concentrated the sale in Circle Internet.
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) shares are down 5% to $181.06. Also lower, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSEAMERICAN:BMNR) stock is sliding 5% to $24.38. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is down 0.5% to $757.09, so the selling is concentrated in crypto-linked names.
#crcl #coin
COIN and BMNR each slid 5% as the Senate's Clarity Act vote threatens to open stablecoin markets to better-funded bank competitors.
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Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) stock is falling on Tuesday after ARK Invest trimmed its position ahead of a U.S. Senate procedural vote on the Digital ******* et Market Clarity Act. Circle Internet stock is down 8% to $89.56 in midday trading. The move stands out among crypto-linked equities because the same manager cut several crypto positions but concentrated the sale in Circle Internet.
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) shares are down 5% to $181.06. Also lower, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSEAMERICAN:BMNR) stock is sliding 5% to $24.38. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is down 0.5% to $757.09, so the selling is concentrated in crypto-linked names.
#crcl #coin
8 days ago
Nokia stock surged 6% to $10.39 after its AI-RAN platform advanced to live field trials with eight global operators, delivering 20%+ spectral efficiency gains.
Ericsson's near-flat 0.7% move signals markets aren't pricing AI-RAN as a category-wide event, keeping today's rally a Nokia-specific story.
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Nokia (NYSE:NOK) stock is rising in early Wednesday trading, up 6% to $10.39 after the company said its artificial intelligence-powered radio access network (AI-RAN) platform is moving from evaluation to live field trials at eight global operators. The list spans North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, and it reframes AI-RAN as a shared industry priority rather than a single-vendor pilot. That geographic reach is what today's move is paying up for.
The move is Nokia-specific. The iShares U.S. Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:IYW) is unchanged at $250.08, and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is up 0.4% to $760.33. Nokia stock is climbing while U.S. technology sits still and the broad benchmark is only marginally higher, which frames today as a name-specific catalyst.
#trials
Ericsson's near-flat 0.7% move signals markets aren't pricing AI-RAN as a category-wide event, keeping today's rally a Nokia-specific story.
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Nokia (NYSE:NOK) stock is rising in early Wednesday trading, up 6% to $10.39 after the company said its artificial intelligence-powered radio access network (AI-RAN) platform is moving from evaluation to live field trials at eight global operators. The list spans North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, and it reframes AI-RAN as a shared industry priority rather than a single-vendor pilot. That geographic reach is what today's move is paying up for.
The move is Nokia-specific. The iShares U.S. Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:IYW) is unchanged at $250.08, and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is up 0.4% to $760.33. Nokia stock is climbing while U.S. technology sits still and the broad benchmark is only marginally higher, which frames today as a name-specific catalyst.
#trials
10 days ago
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the other major stock indexes traded lower Monday as oil prices surged amid the U.S.-Iran conflict. The Nasdaq took the brunt of the pain as Nvidia (NVDA) and other artificial intelligence stocks sold off on the stock market today after industry leaders urged a slowdown in AI model development.
Ahead of Monday's open, Dow futures dropped 0.4% while S&P 500 futures fell 0.7%. Nasdaq-100 futures tumbled 1.7% in early morning trading.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures advanced more than 4%, to roughly $104.40 a barrel after Saudi Arabia closed a key pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. The 10-year Treasury yield edged higher to 4.98%. Also, bitcoin rose to roughly $77,600.
Among exchange traded funds, the Invesco QQQ (QQQ) was down 1.8%, as the State Street SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) fell 0.7% before Monday's opening bell.
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#jones
Ahead of Monday's open, Dow futures dropped 0.4% while S&P 500 futures fell 0.7%. Nasdaq-100 futures tumbled 1.7% in early morning trading.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures advanced more than 4%, to roughly $104.40 a barrel after Saudi Arabia closed a key pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. The 10-year Treasury yield edged higher to 4.98%. Also, bitcoin rose to roughly $77,600.
Among exchange traded funds, the Invesco QQQ (QQQ) was down 1.8%, as the State Street SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) fell 0.7% before Monday's opening bell.
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#jones
13 days ago
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Barclays raised its year-end S&P 500 target to 7,950 Wednesday, betting stronger earnings and continued artificial intelligence spending can keep the rally going.
The bank lifted its target from 7,800 and raised its 2026 earnings-per-share forecast to $365 from $337, Reuters reported. The S&P 500 was trading around 7,625 Wednesday, leaving Barclays' target about 4% above current levels. The index is tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY).
Even after the upgrade, Barclays is still one of the more cautious voices on Wall Street. HSBC raised its target to 8,100 Tuesday, while UBS, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup also see the index finishing at or above 8,000.
Prediction traders are more skeptical. Polymarket puts roughly 40% on an S&P 500 finish above 8,000, while its contracts put more combined weight on the index ending below 7,500 than above 8,000.
#below
Barclays raised its year-end S&P 500 target to 7,950 Wednesday, betting stronger earnings and continued artificial intelligence spending can keep the rally going.
The bank lifted its target from 7,800 and raised its 2026 earnings-per-share forecast to $365 from $337, Reuters reported. The S&P 500 was trading around 7,625 Wednesday, leaving Barclays' target about 4% above current levels. The index is tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY).
Even after the upgrade, Barclays is still one of the more cautious voices on Wall Street. HSBC raised its target to 8,100 Tuesday, while UBS, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup also see the index finishing at or above 8,000.
Prediction traders are more skeptical. Polymarket puts roughly 40% on an S&P 500 finish above 8,000, while its contracts put more combined weight on the index ending below 7,500 than above 8,000.
#below
16 days ago
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has risen by 13% thus far in 2026. The broad index is on track for another above-average performance; historically, its annual gains are around just 10%. However, with many stocks continuing to perform well, the index, which tracks the leading companies on U.S. markets, has thrived.
Gold, meanwhile, which investors typically turn to when they're worried about the stock market, has been going in the opposite direction. Its value has been diminishing, a sharp turnaround from earlier in the year, when gold was hitting record levels. The SPDR Gold Shares(NYSEMKT:GLD) fund, which tracks gold, is up only 3% this year.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
However, with no shortage of economic and political uncertainty ahead, will this pattern continue? Is tracking the S&P 500 still the ideal move for investors, or is it time to buy SPDR Gold Shares?
Image source: Getty Images.
#NVIDIA
Gold, meanwhile, which investors typically turn to when they're worried about the stock market, has been going in the opposite direction. Its value has been diminishing, a sharp turnaround from earlier in the year, when gold was hitting record levels. The SPDR Gold Shares(NYSEMKT:GLD) fund, which tracks gold, is up only 3% this year.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
However, with no shortage of economic and political uncertainty ahead, will this pattern continue? Is tracking the S&P 500 still the ideal move for investors, or is it time to buy SPDR Gold Shares?
Image source: Getty Images.
#NVIDIA
19 days ago
Winnie the Pooh probably isn't the investment guru that first comes to mind when you think about Wall Street. And yet he has offered some pretty sage investing advice: "Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something." The history of investing over the past 50 years very clearly shows that this fictional, honey-loving bear could be on to something. Here's why.
Turning to a real person, iconic investor Warren Buffett, the former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB), has said that "Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing."
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
The issue of temperament is where Buffett and Pooh intersect. That's because the S&P 500 index's (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) history shows that Wall Street switches between bull and bear markets in a zigzag fashion, while generally moving higher over time. The chart below shows that simply buying and holding the S&P 500 index would have yielded a positive long-term outcome if you had the temperament to do nothing while it gyrated in the short term.
In fact, Warren Buffett has actually suggested that most investors would be better off just buying the S&P 500 index and... doing nothing. That's not entirely true; Buffett would likely recommend continuing to regularly buy an S&P 500 index ETF, such as SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY) or Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO), regardless of market conditions.
#buffett #pooh #wall
Turning to a real person, iconic investor Warren Buffett, the former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB), has said that "Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing."
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
The issue of temperament is where Buffett and Pooh intersect. That's because the S&P 500 index's (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) history shows that Wall Street switches between bull and bear markets in a zigzag fashion, while generally moving higher over time. The chart below shows that simply buying and holding the S&P 500 index would have yielded a positive long-term outcome if you had the temperament to do nothing while it gyrated in the short term.
In fact, Warren Buffett has actually suggested that most investors would be better off just buying the S&P 500 index and... doing nothing. That's not entirely true; Buffett would likely recommend continuing to regularly buy an S&P 500 index ETF, such as SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY) or Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO), regardless of market conditions.
#buffett #pooh #wall
20 days ago
The 10-year Treasury yield touched 4.80% on Tuesday, its highest level since January 2025. The 30-year sits at 5.28%, close to levels last seen in 2007.
Every framework that has dominated market commentary in recent weeks says equities should be buckling under that.
The S&P 500 – tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) – is up roughly 11% for the year and trades at 19.6 times forward earnings, which is cheaper than it was on June 30.
Something in that chain of reasoning is broken.
The reason is hiding in a place that gets less attention than bonds: corporate earnings.
#spdr
Every framework that has dominated market commentary in recent weeks says equities should be buckling under that.
The S&P 500 – tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) – is up roughly 11% for the year and trades at 19.6 times forward earnings, which is cheaper than it was on June 30.
Something in that chain of reasoning is broken.
The reason is hiding in a place that gets less attention than bonds: corporate earnings.
#spdr
21 days ago
While the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT:XLK) and Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEMKT:VGT) both track the U.S. tech sector, the Vanguard fund offers significantly broader diversification through its multi-cap index.
These funds serve as foundational blocks for investors targeting the innovation-driven growth of the American tech sector, including exposure to the artificial intelligence boom. While they may appear identical at first glance, subtle differences in index construction and portfolio concentration can lead to different outcomes during various market cycles.
The Vanguard fund is larger, with $160.2 billion in ******* ets under management (AUM), compared to $119.3 billion for the State Street fund. This ******* ysis explores how their unique weighting methodologies influence risk and reward.
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#sector #technology #nysemkt
These funds serve as foundational blocks for investors targeting the innovation-driven growth of the American tech sector, including exposure to the artificial intelligence boom. While they may appear identical at first glance, subtle differences in index construction and portfolio concentration can lead to different outcomes during various market cycles.
The Vanguard fund is larger, with $160.2 billion in ******* ets under management (AUM), compared to $119.3 billion for the State Street fund. This ******* ysis explores how their unique weighting methodologies influence risk and reward.
Metric
XLK
#sector #technology #nysemkt
21 days ago
The cost of holding ETFs has fallen for years amid an intense fee war among issuers. Single-digit expense ratios are commonplace now, and in some cases even those look expensive, like the 0.09% charged by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), triple what some competitors charge for the same exposure.
All this is unequivocally great news for investors, but for ETF issuers, not so much. As expense ratios drop, so do the revenues those funds generate, and in most cases, there is little issuers can do about it. Failing to lower fees can lead to hefty outflows, as cost-conscious investors and fiduciary-bound advisors gravitate to cheaper funds.
Case in point: SPY has lost a lot of ****** ets over the years to the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) and the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), two cheaper funds tracking the same index. VOO has since grown into the largest ETF in the world, at more than $1 trillion in AUM.
Even in a price war, the victors take hits. The cheapest ETFs may gather the most ****** ets, but that is often more than offset by the decline in fees. On the list of the biggest ETF cash cows, only a handful of funds are ultra-cheap. Many more are expensive by ETF standards.
The table below lists the 20 ETFs with the highest implied revenue, an approximation of how much money a fund generates for its issuer, derived by multiplying ****** ets under management by the expense ratio.
#funds
All this is unequivocally great news for investors, but for ETF issuers, not so much. As expense ratios drop, so do the revenues those funds generate, and in most cases, there is little issuers can do about it. Failing to lower fees can lead to hefty outflows, as cost-conscious investors and fiduciary-bound advisors gravitate to cheaper funds.
Case in point: SPY has lost a lot of ****** ets over the years to the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) and the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), two cheaper funds tracking the same index. VOO has since grown into the largest ETF in the world, at more than $1 trillion in AUM.
Even in a price war, the victors take hits. The cheapest ETFs may gather the most ****** ets, but that is often more than offset by the decline in fees. On the list of the biggest ETF cash cows, only a handful of funds are ultra-cheap. Many more are expensive by ETF standards.
The table below lists the 20 ETFs with the highest implied revenue, an approximation of how much money a fund generates for its issuer, derived by multiplying ****** ets under management by the expense ratio.
#funds
22 days ago
Strategy (MSTR) broke its 10-week Bitcoin pause with a $370M buy, sending Strive (ASST) 6% higher even as Bitcoin fell.
With SPY down 0.6% and Strive already up 97% in a month, its beta of 13.19 signals extreme reversal risk.
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Strive (NASDAQ:ASST) shares are climbing this morning after peer Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) ended a 10-week Bitcoin purchase pause, a sentiment shift for corporate treasury names that arrives even as Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) itself trades slightly lower on the day. The divergence sets the tone for Monday's session.
Strive is up 7% to $23.20 in Monday trading. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is down 0.6% to $764.93. Bitcoin is down 0.5% to $78,397.57 over the past 24 hours, and that's the anchor ****** et for this entire trade.
#strive #strategy #mstr #even
With SPY down 0.6% and Strive already up 97% in a month, its beta of 13.19 signals extreme reversal risk.
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Strive (NASDAQ:ASST) shares are climbing this morning after peer Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) ended a 10-week Bitcoin purchase pause, a sentiment shift for corporate treasury names that arrives even as Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) itself trades slightly lower on the day. The divergence sets the tone for Monday's session.
Strive is up 7% to $23.20 in Monday trading. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is down 0.6% to $764.93. Bitcoin is down 0.5% to $78,397.57 over the past 24 hours, and that's the anchor ****** et for this entire trade.
#strive #strategy #mstr #even
22 days ago
Steel and aluminum stocks surged and then retreated last week as the escalating trade war between the United States and Canada sent investors scrambling to reprice exposure to North American metals supply chains.
SLX gained 1.6% on Monday, Aug. 25, following the breakdown of U.S.-Canada trade talks, and the State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR (XLB) reached a new intraday record that session, topping the peak it had set in February. Shares of Nucor, Steel Dynamics, Cleveland-Cliffs, and Century Aluminum all climbed. The gains proved short-lived, however: by Friday's close, XLB had slipped into the red for the week and SLX was essentially unchanged, according to CNBC. Through Aug. 28, Morningstar data show SLX has gained more than 28% on the year and XLB more than 18%.
The swing reflects the complexity of a trade war between two countries whose metals industries are deeply intertwined. Dan Luttner, who serves as managing partner of the supply chain consulting firm NEOS by Argon & Company, characterized the initial stock move to CNBC as a repricing reflex rather than a durable signal. "The stock pop is a headline reflex, honestly — mills reprice to replacement cost the second a 50% wall goes up, so of course Nucor and Cleveland-Cliffs jumped," Luttner said. "But that's not the interesting question. The interesting question is who controls their feedstock inside the wall versus who's still exposed to it?"
Luttner noted that both Nucor and Cleveland-Cliffs use electric arc furnace technology whose inputs have no dependence on Canadian ore or slab, positioning them to capture tariff-driven pricing benefits without the same exposure. Cleveland-Cliffs stock is nonetheless in negative territory for 2026 because of balance sheet stress. Century Aluminum is a more complicated case: because domestic primary aluminum production is thin, the raw inputs that sustain it — alumina and semi-finished material — largely still flow across the Canadian border, undermining the protection the tariffs were meant to provide.
Atsi Sheth, chief credit officer at Moody's Ratings, said uncertainty will persist. "Expect much more of this uncertainty for some time to come," Sheth said. She added that U.S. steel companies hold a modest edge over their Canadian counterparts because the U.S. market is larger, but said the auto sector has no clear winner given how deeply integrated cross-border production is.
#cliffs #nucor
SLX gained 1.6% on Monday, Aug. 25, following the breakdown of U.S.-Canada trade talks, and the State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR (XLB) reached a new intraday record that session, topping the peak it had set in February. Shares of Nucor, Steel Dynamics, Cleveland-Cliffs, and Century Aluminum all climbed. The gains proved short-lived, however: by Friday's close, XLB had slipped into the red for the week and SLX was essentially unchanged, according to CNBC. Through Aug. 28, Morningstar data show SLX has gained more than 28% on the year and XLB more than 18%.
The swing reflects the complexity of a trade war between two countries whose metals industries are deeply intertwined. Dan Luttner, who serves as managing partner of the supply chain consulting firm NEOS by Argon & Company, characterized the initial stock move to CNBC as a repricing reflex rather than a durable signal. "The stock pop is a headline reflex, honestly — mills reprice to replacement cost the second a 50% wall goes up, so of course Nucor and Cleveland-Cliffs jumped," Luttner said. "But that's not the interesting question. The interesting question is who controls their feedstock inside the wall versus who's still exposed to it?"
Luttner noted that both Nucor and Cleveland-Cliffs use electric arc furnace technology whose inputs have no dependence on Canadian ore or slab, positioning them to capture tariff-driven pricing benefits without the same exposure. Cleveland-Cliffs stock is nonetheless in negative territory for 2026 because of balance sheet stress. Century Aluminum is a more complicated case: because domestic primary aluminum production is thin, the raw inputs that sustain it — alumina and semi-finished material — largely still flow across the Canadian border, undermining the protection the tariffs were meant to provide.
Atsi Sheth, chief credit officer at Moody's Ratings, said uncertainty will persist. "Expect much more of this uncertainty for some time to come," Sheth said. She added that U.S. steel companies hold a modest edge over their Canadian counterparts because the U.S. market is larger, but said the auto sector has no clear winner given how deeply integrated cross-border production is.
#cliffs #nucor
23 days ago
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the other major stock indexes dropped Tuesday, as oil prices and Treasury yields jumped. Meanwhile, Nvidia (NVDA) and Micron Technology (MU) were early losers on the stock market today.
Ahead of Tuesday's open, Dow futures fell 0.5% as S&P 500 futures dropped 0.5%. Nasdaq-100 futures declined 1% in early morning trading.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures jumped more than 2%, to around $87.75 a barrel. The 10-year Treasury yield rose above 4.79%. Bitcoin fell to roughly $77,900.
Among exchange traded funds, the Invesco QQQ (QQQ) was down 1.1%, as the State Street SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) dropped 0.6% before Tuesday's opening bell.
Shares of artificial intelligence ****** an Nvidia declined more than 1% premarket Tuesday, threatening to erase Monday's 1.5% gain and fall further below a 227.92 cup-with-handle entry.
#futures #NVIDIA #Stock
Ahead of Tuesday's open, Dow futures fell 0.5% as S&P 500 futures dropped 0.5%. Nasdaq-100 futures declined 1% in early morning trading.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures jumped more than 2%, to around $87.75 a barrel. The 10-year Treasury yield rose above 4.79%. Bitcoin fell to roughly $77,900.
Among exchange traded funds, the Invesco QQQ (QQQ) was down 1.1%, as the State Street SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) dropped 0.6% before Tuesday's opening bell.
Shares of artificial intelligence ****** an Nvidia declined more than 1% premarket Tuesday, threatening to erase Monday's 1.5% gain and fall further below a 227.92 cup-with-handle entry.
#futures #NVIDIA #Stock
26 days ago
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite spent the entire session as the best-performing among major indexes Thursday as Wall Street reacted to big earnings reports, with Nvidia (NVDA), Salesforce (CRM) and CrowdStrike (CRWD) soaring on the stock market today. Nvidia broke out past a proper buy point.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw a mild gain get whittled during the final hour of regular-session trading. The blue-chip index closed up 105 points, or 0.2%, at 53,569. Gains were led by its tech components, including Nvidia, Salesforce, IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT).
The S&P 500 moved up 0.7% to 7,730, padding early gains. Yet technology served as the only one of its 11 sectors that gained ground. But the State Street SPDR S&P Metals (XME) exchange-traded fund sped 2.2% ahead, marking a two-month high. The Nasdaq accelerated its gain during the session and ended the session at 26,541, up 1.6%. The Nasdaq-100 index moved higher by nearly 1.4%.
Small caps also made a minor gain, with the Russell 2000 up almost 0.3% to close at 3,014. Volume was 5% to 6% higher than on Wednesday on both the Nasdaq exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE composite fell 0.4% but traded off a session low of 24,596. It closed at 24,649, up 12% year to date.
The Nasdaq composite holds a 14.2% gain since Jan. 1.
#exchange #salesforce #gains
The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw a mild gain get whittled during the final hour of regular-session trading. The blue-chip index closed up 105 points, or 0.2%, at 53,569. Gains were led by its tech components, including Nvidia, Salesforce, IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT).
The S&P 500 moved up 0.7% to 7,730, padding early gains. Yet technology served as the only one of its 11 sectors that gained ground. But the State Street SPDR S&P Metals (XME) exchange-traded fund sped 2.2% ahead, marking a two-month high. The Nasdaq accelerated its gain during the session and ended the session at 26,541, up 1.6%. The Nasdaq-100 index moved higher by nearly 1.4%.
Small caps also made a minor gain, with the Russell 2000 up almost 0.3% to close at 3,014. Volume was 5% to 6% higher than on Wednesday on both the Nasdaq exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE composite fell 0.4% but traded off a session low of 24,596. It closed at 24,649, up 12% year to date.
The Nasdaq composite holds a 14.2% gain since Jan. 1.
#exchange #salesforce #gains
27 days ago
Bloomberg senior ETF ******* yst Eric Balchunas says the "debasement trade" is increasingly stealing attention from artificial intelligence, pointing to record demand for gold and Bitcoin exchange-traded funds.
"Gold and Bitcoin ETFs have combined for +$7b in flows in past week, by far a record for a 5-day period as debasement trade steals spotlight from AI," Balchunas wrote on X on Aug. 26.
He said SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) led the move, with both ranking among the 10 most-traded ETFs over the week.
Balchunas also noted that IBIT's year-to-date flows had turned positive after recovering from earlier outflows.
The latest comment builds on a post a day earlier, when Balchunas said GLD and IBIT had returned to the top 10 most-traded ETFs while semiconductor funds, which dominated much of the summer, slipped down the rankings.
#Bitcoin #traded #ibit
"Gold and Bitcoin ETFs have combined for +$7b in flows in past week, by far a record for a 5-day period as debasement trade steals spotlight from AI," Balchunas wrote on X on Aug. 26.
He said SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) led the move, with both ranking among the 10 most-traded ETFs over the week.
Balchunas also noted that IBIT's year-to-date flows had turned positive after recovering from earlier outflows.
The latest comment builds on a post a day earlier, when Balchunas said GLD and IBIT had returned to the top 10 most-traded ETFs while semiconductor funds, which dominated much of the summer, slipped down the rankings.
#Bitcoin #traded #ibit
28 days ago
Nasdaq futures jumped while the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased Thursday as Wall Street reacted to a number of big earnings reports, with Nvidia (NVDA), Salesforce (CRM) and CrowdStrike (CRWD) surging on the stock market today.
Ahead of Thursday's open, Dow futures were down 0.2%, while S&P 500 futures moved up 0.3%. Nasdaq-100 futures advanced 0.8% in early morning trading.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose to around $82.65 a barrel. The 10-year Treasury yield was flat at 4.66%. Bitcoin climbed to roughly $79,300.
Among exchange traded funds, the Invesco QQQ (QQQ) was up 0.8%, as the State Street SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) gained 0.3% before Thursday's opening bell.
Inside the Dow industrials, Caterpillar (CAT) and IBM (IBM) climbed roughly 0.5% apiece in early morning action.
#NASDAQ #street
Ahead of Thursday's open, Dow futures were down 0.2%, while S&P 500 futures moved up 0.3%. Nasdaq-100 futures advanced 0.8% in early morning trading.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose to around $82.65 a barrel. The 10-year Treasury yield was flat at 4.66%. Bitcoin climbed to roughly $79,300.
Among exchange traded funds, the Invesco QQQ (QQQ) was up 0.8%, as the State Street SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) gained 0.3% before Thursday's opening bell.
Inside the Dow industrials, Caterpillar (CAT) and IBM (IBM) climbed roughly 0.5% apiece in early morning action.
#NASDAQ #street
28 days ago
Moderna surged 11% while BioNTech gained just 2% on no catalyst, with MRNA's Reddit sentiment score of 88 flagging crowded retail positioning over fundamentals.
BioNTech trails XBI's 3% session gain and its 35% YTD return, while Moderna's 371% YTD run versus BNTX's 19% effectively ends the mRNA pair trade.
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Two names built on the same platform have stopped moving together this morning. Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock is up 11% to $154.15, a Tuesday morning session standing well apart from anything happening across the broader biotech sector. Meanwhile, BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) stock is up 2% to $115.10, a much lighter session for a name that's traded as Moderna's mRNA partner for years.
For sector context, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSEARCA:XBI) is up 3% to $168.45. That means BioNTech isn't only lagging Moderna today; it's trailing the sector fund that holds it. The comparison against the fund is what makes the gap inside the mRNA pair legible. Biotech is having a good session, and Moderna is having a different kind of session entirely, while BioNTech sits below the fund, making the split inside the mRNA pair even sharper than the headline figures alone would suggest.
#Biotech #pair #names
BioNTech trails XBI's 3% session gain and its 35% YTD return, while Moderna's 371% YTD run versus BNTX's 19% effectively ends the mRNA pair trade.
Act now: the ***** yst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Moderna didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today.
Two names built on the same platform have stopped moving together this morning. Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock is up 11% to $154.15, a Tuesday morning session standing well apart from anything happening across the broader biotech sector. Meanwhile, BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) stock is up 2% to $115.10, a much lighter session for a name that's traded as Moderna's mRNA partner for years.
For sector context, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSEARCA:XBI) is up 3% to $168.45. That means BioNTech isn't only lagging Moderna today; it's trailing the sector fund that holds it. The comparison against the fund is what makes the gap inside the mRNA pair legible. Biotech is having a good session, and Moderna is having a different kind of session entirely, while BioNTech sits below the fund, making the split inside the mRNA pair even sharper than the headline figures alone would suggest.
#Biotech #pair #names
29 days ago
Investors just moved a record $7 billion into gold and Bitcoin (BTC) funds in five days. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan blames a flaw in the 60/40 portfolio, which is 100% exposed to fiat currency.
Bloomberg senior ETF ******* yst Eric Balchunas calls it the debasement trade, a bet on ******* ets no government can print. This week, that bet pushed AI funds out of the headlines.
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) took in $3.4 billion in the week through August 21. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) added just over $1 billion, data shows.
Meanwhile, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) bled $1.7 billion, more than any other fund. Money did not leave the market. It switched sides.
"DEBASER: Gold and Bitcoin ETFs have combined for +$7b in flows in past week, by far a record for a 5-day period as debasement trade steals spotlight from AI. GLD, IBIT leading, in Top 10 for week. Also notable $IBIT YTD flows are now positive, completely dug out of sizable hole," Balchunas shared.
#trade
Bloomberg senior ETF ******* yst Eric Balchunas calls it the debasement trade, a bet on ******* ets no government can print. This week, that bet pushed AI funds out of the headlines.
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) took in $3.4 billion in the week through August 21. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) added just over $1 billion, data shows.
Meanwhile, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) bled $1.7 billion, more than any other fund. Money did not leave the market. It switched sides.
"DEBASER: Gold and Bitcoin ETFs have combined for +$7b in flows in past week, by far a record for a 5-day period as debasement trade steals spotlight from AI. GLD, IBIT leading, in Top 10 for week. Also notable $IBIT YTD flows are now positive, completely dug out of sizable hole," Balchunas shared.
#trade
29 days ago
As the clichéd saying goes, past performance is no guarantee of future results. It is a pretty good indication of what's likely, though, if the underpinnings of that performance don't change.
To this end, ****** uming the stock market's long-term history repeats itself, what would, say, a $1,000 investment in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) made today be worth 25 years from now?
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
It's not too tough to figure out.
You can't invest in the S&P 500 index itself. But, you can buy an index fund like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) meant to mirror it. They both do a good job of matching the index's performance, too.
#performance #nysemkt #good #index
To this end, ****** uming the stock market's long-term history repeats itself, what would, say, a $1,000 investment in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) made today be worth 25 years from now?
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
It's not too tough to figure out.
You can't invest in the S&P 500 index itself. But, you can buy an index fund like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) meant to mirror it. They both do a good job of matching the index's performance, too.
#performance #nysemkt #good #index
29 days ago
Deciding between the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT:VOO) and the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT:SPY) typically involves weighing the Vanguard fund's lower costs against the SPDR trust's slightly higher trading liquidity and its long-standing history.
The S&P 500 serves as the primary benchmark for the United States stock market, representing 500 of the largest and most influential companies. Investors looking for broad equity exposure often choose between VOO and SPY, two massive funds that track the same index but differ slightly in cost, age, and legal structure.
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#nysemkt #spdr #state #united
The S&P 500 serves as the primary benchmark for the United States stock market, representing 500 of the largest and most influential companies. Investors looking for broad equity exposure often choose between VOO and SPY, two massive funds that track the same index but differ slightly in cost, age, and legal structure.
Metric
SPY
VOO
#nysemkt #spdr #state #united
29 days ago
Investors poured more than $56 billion into US-listed ETFs during the week ending Aug. 21, lifting year-to-date inflows past $1.3 trillion.
US equity ETFs took in about half the total at $25 billion. US fixed income added $12.5 billion, international equity funds gathered $5.6 billion, and international fixed income took in $2.5 billion.
Commodity ETFs were the notable standout, pulling in almost $5 billion, while currency funds at $2.2 billion and alternatives at $2.8 billion also had strong weeks.
The S&P 500 slipped a little over 1% last week, pulling back from the record highs it had set the week before. Bonds stayed under pressure even after the Treasury Department moved to support the market, announcing it would double the size of its long-dated debt buybacks.
Yields fell briefly on the news but quickly reversed, leaving the 30-year Treasury yield not far from the 19-year high above 5.3% it reached on Aug. 17.
The Treasury's attempts to keep long-term yields down revived the so-called debasement trade. The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) took in $3.4 billion and the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) added more than $1 billion as both gold and bitcoin spiked. Gold is now back in the green, up around 8% on the year after spending much of the summer underwater. IBIT remains down about 10% in 2026, though that is a marked improvement from the 33% loss it was nursing at its worst point in June.
On the other side of the ledger, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) led outflows, shedding $1.7 billion. Semiconductor stocks have been treading water lately, chopping up and down after starting the third quarter under pressure.
The broader AI trade remains intact, but it has grown increasingly volatile as investors go back and forth over whether the rally is sustainable and whether the group has already peaked.
For a full list of last week's top inflows and outflows, see the tables below
Ticker
Name
Net Flows ($, mm)
AUM ($, mm)
#etfs #year #took #down
US equity ETFs took in about half the total at $25 billion. US fixed income added $12.5 billion, international equity funds gathered $5.6 billion, and international fixed income took in $2.5 billion.
Commodity ETFs were the notable standout, pulling in almost $5 billion, while currency funds at $2.2 billion and alternatives at $2.8 billion also had strong weeks.
The S&P 500 slipped a little over 1% last week, pulling back from the record highs it had set the week before. Bonds stayed under pressure even after the Treasury Department moved to support the market, announcing it would double the size of its long-dated debt buybacks.
Yields fell briefly on the news but quickly reversed, leaving the 30-year Treasury yield not far from the 19-year high above 5.3% it reached on Aug. 17.
The Treasury's attempts to keep long-term yields down revived the so-called debasement trade. The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) took in $3.4 billion and the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) added more than $1 billion as both gold and bitcoin spiked. Gold is now back in the green, up around 8% on the year after spending much of the summer underwater. IBIT remains down about 10% in 2026, though that is a marked improvement from the 33% loss it was nursing at its worst point in June.
On the other side of the ledger, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) led outflows, shedding $1.7 billion. Semiconductor stocks have been treading water lately, chopping up and down after starting the third quarter under pressure.
The broader AI trade remains intact, but it has grown increasingly volatile as investors go back and forth over whether the rally is sustainable and whether the group has already peaked.
For a full list of last week's top inflows and outflows, see the tables below
Ticker
Name
Net Flows ($, mm)
AUM ($, mm)
#etfs #year #took #down
