The first lesson I learned about investing at the age of 11 was to know which way the market was going. Is it going up or down? It sounds too simple, but it’s the last thing most people consider.

Happy New Year to all our regular readers! We’re kicking off 2025 with a countdown of what we think were the 10 most interesting charts from our blogs in 2024. As you’ll see, we covered a lot of ...

The S&P 500, the large cap index, is widely followed as a measure of the health of the U. S. economy. The Nasdaq-100 is widely followed as a measure mainly of the big tech and social media stocks that ...

Nvidia, Apple, and Adobe were dot-com-era winners and remain major tech players today, even though they are not in the current top 10. Appl ...

The Nasdaq Composite crashed when President Trump started announcing tariffs earlier this year, but the index promptly entered a new bull market in early April. Since 1990, the Nasdaq Composite has ...

I last rated the JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) on July 4 in an article titled “QYLD Vs. JEPQ: 2 Reasons To Go With JEPQ." The article compared two covered call funds and gave ...

Tracking an index through an exchange-traded fund can be an easy way for investors to diversify and gain exposure to many top ...

Stock markets are back on a happy ride after President Trump revealed that the US-Iran deal was in its final stages.

The news also points to a rotation from AI/growth into value/dividend-like cashflows, which SCHD is built for (energy, ...

As shown, the Nasdaq Composite returned an average of 281% during the seven bull markets since 1990, and it achieved those returns over an average of 1,817 days, which is approximately five years.

First, here's a quick summary of the elements that have driven the index's moves in recent times. As mentioned, concerns about the impact of Trump's tariffs set into motion the downward momentum. The ...