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‘An Absolute Casino.’ The $500 Billion Leveraged ETF Craze Proving Buffett Right
Quick Read TQQQ’s $32 billion in AUM amplifies every Nasdaq-100 move 3x, turning a 10% index drop into a 30% single-day loss for holders. Leveraged ETF rebalancing drove Micron down 5% and SanDisk down 9% on quiet news days, despite both companies posting consecutive earnings beats. Joshua Brown warns no brokerage platform is incentivized to…
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US Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to co-lead new jobs and AI task force
The Federal Reserve just picked one of the more ironic candidates to help figure out the future of American employment. Asha Sharma, who became Xbox CEO in February 2026 and promptly announced roughly 3,200 job cuts at the gaming division, will co-lead the Fed’s newly formed Productivity and Jobs task force. She won’t be working…
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CBOE Global Markets to launch extended hours for single-stock options. Here’s why it wins when volatility spikes.
This stock thrives on volatility.
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Cboe Global Markets to Launch Extended Hours for Single-Stock Options. Here’s Why It Wins When Volatility Spikes.
This stock thrives on volatility.
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Nasdaq falls but Dow starts in green as oil prices rebound on fresh US-Iran fighting
10am: Dow opens higher but Nasdaq falls It’s a mixed open for Wall Street, with investors switching out of tech and buying more defensive names ahead of earnings season and some other market moving events later this week. The Dow Jones has opened up 0.3%, helped by gains from the likes of Salesforce, Chevron and…
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FTV Capital Ranks No. 3 in 2025 HEC Paris-Dow Jones Growth Capital Performance Ranking
NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced that it ranked third in the 2025 HEC Paris-Dow Jones Growth Capital Performance Ranking. FTV has been named among the top 20 firms in every edition of the ranking since its inception with the 2022 edition.…
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The stock market's big next test: A wave of bank earnings
The next big hurdle for stocks is coming this week. Earnings season is about to kick into high gear, with a handful of banking titans on deck to report results for the second quarter. Here are the big banks due to report earnings on Tuesday: Investors will be taking in the results alongside the critical…
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The Market Could Crack This Summer: 5 Defensive High-Yielding Dividend Stocks to Buy Now
Quick Read S&P 500 valuations at 26x trailing earnings, sticky inflation, and a historically turbulent July signal a potential 10% market sell-off this summer. MO yields 6% backed by Marlboro’s dominant 40% U.S. cigarette market share, while ENB has raised its dividend 31 straight years with 98% earnings under fixed contracts. VZ trades at just…
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Fed could bail out Wall Street after market crash, says ING chief
The Federal Reserve could be forced to step in and bail out Wall Street in the event of a stock market meltdown, an executive at the banking giant ING has said. Bob Homan, global chief investment officer, said the US central bank could mimic efforts by the Japanese government in 2002 and 2009 when it…
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Why the US economy stays strong even when its policies shock the rest of the world
The US economy is continuing to grow faster and generate more new jobs than Europe. Annual national income growth over the past five years has averaged 3.3% in the US against 2.6% in the EU. In the first quarter of 2026, the EU’s GDP was just 0.7% higher than a year before, while that of…