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US stocks traded mixed on Tuesday as a milder inflation reading supported bets that the Fed will hold rates steady, while JPMorgan (JPM) results kicked off the fourth quarter earnings season. The blue chip-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) swung into the red, down roughly 0.6%, while the S&P 500 shed about 0.1%. Moving the…

Have you been searching for a Large Cap Blend fund? You might want to begin with Vanguard Institutional Total Stock Market Plus (VITPX). VITPX has no Zacks Mutual Fund Rank, but we have been able to look into other metrics like performance, volatility, and cost. We note that VITPX is a Large Cap Blend option,…

© PeopleImages / Getty Images Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock has been up and down over the past year. It plummeted from $428 in early 2025 to $217 in April, as Elon Musk spent time trying to fix the federal government. When he convinced the market that Tesla was a robotics and artificial intelligence company,…

A high degree of exposure to the technology sector continues to propel this ETF to market-beating returns. The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.16%) is a stock market index made up of 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy. It climbed 17% in 2025, which was comfortably above its long-term average annual return of 10.6%…

Mutual fund investments through systematic investment plans (SIPs) surged to a record ₹3.34 lakh crore in 2025, underscoring growing investor preference for disciplined, long-term wealth creation, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).  The latest inflows mark a sharp rise from ₹2.68 lakh crore in 2024 and ₹1.84 lakh crore…

US stock futures turned higher on Tuesday as a milder inflation reading kept bets that the Fed would hold rates steady intact, while JPMorgan (JPM) results kicked off the fourth quarter earnings season. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) pared losses and floated above the flat line, while those on the S&P 500 (ES=F) added…

Retail investors frequently find themselves in a dilemma over which mutual funds to invest in and which ones to overlook. Among a wide range of categories, such as flexi-cap, ELSS, value, multi-cap and contra funds, one category that is quite popular is thematic mutual funds. What are thematic funds? Those who are not aware, thematic…

Segall Bryant & Hamill operates as an investment firm that manages $30.5 billion in assets under management through its actively managed mutual funds that include equity and balanced investment options. The company creates mutual funds through research-driven methods that combine risk management systems with market spread investment approaches under different market conditions. These factors make…

Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett had a lot of hits in his illustrious career, but there were some misses, too. Longtime Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.03%) (BRK.B 0.09%) CEO Warren Buffett retired his post at the end of 2025 as one of the greatest investors of all-time. Over the past 60 years, since Buffett became…

US consumer prices rose 2.7% annually in December, closing out a year that saw slight progress on inflation but continued affordability concerns for many Americans. The latest Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change in prices for some commonly purchased goods and services, showed that the annual pace of inflation was unchanged from November,…