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If you’re investing in traditional value or growth index funds, you might be unknowingly holding stocks that are neither value nor growth—and they’re likely dragging down your returns. A recent paper from Research Affiliates reveals a structural flaw in how the investment industry constructs style indices and proposes a compelling alternative. What the Researchers Examined

Image source: Getty Images Investors who expected the Iran war to trigger a stock market crash may be surprised by its relative calm. What’s happening out there? First, let’s get technical here. A crash is defined as a drop of 20%, in a relatively short space of time. A drop of 10% is a correction.

You might not realize it, but investors have enjoyed history-making gains since 2019. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.35%) has rallied at least 16% over three consecutive years three times since its inception. Two of these three occurrences have been since 2019 (2019-2021 and 2023-2025). On top of the S&P 500’s success, the mature-stock-driven Dow

As oil flirts with $100 again, investors are falling back on a familiar script: higher crude, higher inflation. That reaction is not wrong. Higher crude oil (CL=F, BZ=F) raises the odds of higher prices flowing through the economy. But oil shocks rarely stay boxed inside the inflation story. They spread. “There is always a release

If you want to make $1 million from stock investing, one of the simplest strategies is to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks and keep buying into the stock market over many years. And you don’t have to stick to U.S. stocks to become a millionaire. The Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (VYMI +0.83%)

Oracle‘s (ORCL +0.50%) stock price jumped 9.2% on March 11 in response to its third-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings and updated guidance. But the stock is still down big year to date and is over 50% off its all-time high from last September. Here are three reasons why Oracle could be worth buying now, and one

It has been a tough year for Plug Power (PLUG +4.19%) stock. At one point, shares were down in value by nearly 20%. But in recent sessions, shares have recovered strongly. In fact, Plug Power stock outperformed the S&P 500 index by 7% last week alone. What is behind the company’s resurgence? One catalyst in

The Morning Bull – US Market Morning Update Tuesday, Mar, 17 2026 E-mini S&P 500 futures are pointing higher this morning, up about 0.4%, as investors juggle mixed US factory data and rising pressure from the bond market. The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index sits at -0.2 in March, which means activity in New York

HYDERABAD, India, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — According to the latest report by Mordor Intelligence, the rolling stock market size is progressing steadily, growing from USD 33.97 billion in 2025 to USD 35.25 billion in 2026, and is projected to reach USD 42.44 billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 3.78% during 2026–2031. Growth is primarily

For more than three years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the attention and capital of investors. Analysts at PwC foresee this technology creating more than $15 trillion in global economic value by the turn of the decade. While Wall Street’s largest publicly traded company and the face of the artificial intelligence revolution,

Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. The latest update to the Compañía Cervecerías Unidas model lifts the fair value estimate from CLP6,098.75 to CLP6,104.38, a small move that still matters if you are tracking price targets closely. Recent Street commentary, including

Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St’s investing ideas for FREE. IDP Education’s fair value price target has shifted slightly, from A$6.80 to A$6.85, after recent adjustments to the valuation model. That modest move sits alongside a split in analyst views, with some highlighting long term potential

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares wavered in Asia on Tuesday after a drop in oil prices helped send the U.S. stock market to its best day since the war in Iran began. The reprieve in prices for crude was short-lived, with Brent crude climbing nearly 3% early Tuesday to $103.17 a barrel. U.S. benchmark crude also

Packaged foods company General Mills (NYSE:GIS) will be reporting results this Wednesday before market open. Here’s what investors should know. General Mills beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.86 billion, down 7.2% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and

An investment in crypto company BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR +13.44%) is one of the top sideways plays on the value of Ethereum. So when the currency does well, as it has lately, investors tend to welcome any move BitMine makes to expand its holdings. Sure enough, the company’s regular Monday update indicated exactly that, and

Warren Buffett once wrote about interest rates: “These act on financial valuations the way gravity acts on matter.” In other words, how much a stock is worth is directly affected by the risk-free rate investors can receive in the bond market. If they can get a higher risk-free return from U.S. Treasuries, investors aren’t going

Is the Great Software Stock Rout over? It’s too soon to say, but some titles in the category enjoyed a bit of a comeback Monday. One was ServiceNow (NOW +1.18%), a specialist in optimizing IT workflows in businesses. Investors traded the company up by more than 1.1%, which was just good enough to beat the

While Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has dominated the conversation as the top artificial intelligence (AI) computing unit provider for years, Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) is becoming a force to be reckoned with. Broadcom’s approach to AI computing is more specialized than Nvidia’s, but with AI workloads starting to become more mature, this specialized approach is gaining momentum.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Building materials group CRH is leaving the London Stock Exchange entirely, dealing another setback to the UK’s position as an equities trading hub. The move comes two-and-a-half years after CRH moved its primary listing to