As the equity market makes new all-time highs and the implied risk for equities is hovering near record-highs as well, it is prudent for investors to reduce risk. There are different ways to achieve that – from portfolio rebalancing and focusing on more defensive areas of the market to better…

Nvidia’s blistering rally will force a major tech fund to acquire more than $10 billion worth of shares of the chip giant while dumping Apple.The index that the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) follows will soon rebalance, based on an adjusted market cap value from Friday’s close. The new…

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were flat Monday as both stock indexes hovered near all-time highs. After closing at a record Thursday,…

A market hooked on a handful of mega-cap stocks is a precarious place to be. The Russell 2000, which tracks the smallest 2000 stocks in the Russel 3000, fell 1.6% on Friday, was in the red year-to-date, was back where it had first been in January 2021, and was down…

Back in February, used electric vehicle prices dipped below used gasoline-powered vehicle prices for the first time ever, and the pricing cliff keeps getting steeper as car buyers reject any “premium” tag formerly associated with EVs.The decline has been dramatic over the past year. In June 2023, average used EV…

Meme stocks are back, with the investor Keith Gill (better known as “Roaring Kitty”) back on Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) promoting GameStop (GME). Though news of this broke after the close of Reddit’s first quarter, we were already seeing tremendous traffic growth from the company, which has helped to boost revenue growth…

Investors worried about concentration risk in the market may want to consider value-oriented investments.Avantis Investors chief investment strategist Phil McInnis suggests taking a more diversified approach than simply looking at index funds such as the S&P 500. He thinks his firm’s exchange-traded fund strategy can provide better returns in the…

When my husband Brian first told me he’s from Laguna Beach, it took everything in me to play it cool. “Oh, is that near Los Angeles?” I asked. Like most elder millennials, I knew exactly where Laguna Beach was. I’d seen every episode of the reality show (I was an LC…

Introduction As other central banks (in Canada and the Eurozone) have started to reduce their benchmark interest rates, I’m not quite confident the interest rates on the financial markets have peaked. That’s why I’m still expanding my fixed income portfolio as I’d like to further increase my exposure to that…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Adobe — The software stock surged 14% on stronger-than-expected quarterly results. Adobe posted adjusted earnings of $4.48 per share on $5.31 billion in revenue and boosted its full-year guidance. JPMorgan also upgraded shares to overweight from neutral. RH — The luxury…