The S&P 500 has been climbing in recent years, reaching multiple record highs, and the momentum has generally continued in 2026. If we look at the past three calendar years and add in the performance this year so far, the gain totals 100%. And one thing in particular has fueled this movement: investors’ excitement about

Quick Read Lumentum (LITE) turned a $1,000 investment into $22,715 over 10 years, a 2,171% return dwarfing the S&P 500’s 262%. AI hyperscalers replaced Apple (AAPL) Face ID as Lumentum’s growth engine, pushing Q4 revenue up 109% year over year to $1.01 billion. Nearly all decade-long gains arrived in the past 12 months, yet the

Oura IPO oversubscribed Wall Street stock market trading floor. Photo by BeInCrypto Warburg Pincus CEO Jeffrey Perlman, whose private equity firm backs more than 200 portfolio companies, says investors see public markets as one concentrated, correlated bet. He argues that pushes capital toward private assets. The pitch comes from a firm that calls the initial

Bond yields are going up. Along with a recent Federal Reserve hike in short-term interest rates in September, longer-term U.S. Treasury bond yields recently reached their highest levels in decades. Yields for the 10-year and 30-year bonds are both at their highest since 2002, at well over 5%. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal

Image from Pixabay Shares of Cipher Digital (CIFR) fell 12.8% on October 13, 2026, on a day the S&P 500 finished flat. Investors were evaluating a plan to raise $850 million through convertible notes that could eventually become shares. Cipher is taking on this debt to fund data center construction. During the second quarter of

The firm believes the sector’s tough year will continue and does not “see the trend reversing anytime soon.” The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund has gained just 0.76% year-to-date, while the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust has surged nearly 14% higher in the same time. However, the analyst said the market has likely overreacted to

CCC Stock Surges 8% on “Advanced” Buyout Talks With GTCR and Elliott ©@Melpomenem from Getty Images via Canva; @metamorworks from Getty Images via Canva Key Takeaways CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCC) shares surged 8.1% on October 12, closing at $7.59 following reports of advanced acquisition talks involving GTCR and Elliott Investment Management. Copart (CPRT), previously linked

CoreWeave (CRWV) stock fell 15% on Wednesday, a day after a chart of its rising borrowing costs gained traction on X. Bloomberg, citing an internal memo, reports that the AI cloud company’s CEO stated in a memo that the market is acting “irrationally.” “When you are building a new type of technology company, there will

Shares of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) fell hard on Wednesday, down as much as 8.7%, before recovering and ending the trading day with a 4.7% decline. Bank of America reported earnings this morning, missing on both the top and bottom lines. On top of that, after market close yesterday, government regulators announced it was fining

Quick Read HOOD has lost 11% in 2026 to roughly $101, with selling pressure intensifying even as the broader market climbed, pointing to company-specific weakness. IBKR surged 31% while BULL fell 24% this year, bracketing Robinhood between its most established and newest rivals in 2026 performance. Robinhood’s new 24-hour weekend trading could lift transaction revenue,

Stock Preachers News Commentary VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Stocks skidded midweek as the Nasdaq Composite dropped 449 points, or 1.65%, to 26,755.24, pulling its weekly loss to 2.23%. The S&P 500 fell 1.10% on the day and 1.18% for the week, while the Russell 2000 tumbled 1.70% and now carries an RSI

Quick Read Burry consolidated his bearish exposure into Nasdaq-100 and VanEck Semiconductor ETF puts, forecasting a major market peak within nine months. The semiconductor ETF surged 67% year-to-date, with Nvidia, TSMC, and AMD together comprising 34.5% of the fund, making it a concentrated chip bet. Put options can expire worthless even when the directional call

CoreWeave (CRWV) stock fell as much as 15% in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after a chart of its rising borrowing costs gained traction on X . On Tuesday, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya posted a chart showing that the yield on $1.25 billion of CoreWeave bonds due in 2032 “touched 15% today, then closed

Quick Read A 3-bucket system across dividend growers, REITs, and BDCs generates $13,000 monthly using $3.5 million versus $6.2 million for an all-conservative portfolio. J&J and P&G raised dividends over 64% in a decade, meaning the conservative bucket’s $52,000 could grow to $87,000 without adding new capital. Place REITs and BDC holdings inside an IRA

U.S. equity investors have been rewarded mightily over the past 20 years. In the past decade, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has generated an average annual total return of 15.7%. You might be less impressed by the index’s 20-year average annual total return of around 11.2%, but keep in mind that this period began right