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Business Insider
20 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Now Expects Three Rate Cuts from the Fed in 2025
The top economist at JPMorgan Chase (JPM) now expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates three times in 2025, starting with a 25-basis-point reduction in September. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. The new outlook on interest rates comes after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Stephen Miran, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, to fill a vacant seat on the Fed's board of governors. Michael Feroli, JPMorgan's chief U.S. economist, previously forecast only one rate cut this year, in December. However, Feroli now expects the central bank to start cutting rates in September, and to do so again at each of the Fed's subsequent three meetings in October, December, and January 2026. Trump's Fed The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by one full percentage point in the second half of 2024 but has been on the sidelines ever since, citing economic uncertainty as a need to be cautious on rates. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly said that the central bank is waiting to assess the impact of President Trump's tariffs on inflation before acting. This approach has not sat well with President Trump, who has repeatedly criticized Powell and threatened to fire him before his term ends in May 2026. The president has also said he wants to remake the Fed in his own image and appoint a political loyalist to be the next central bank governor. JPMorgan's Feroli said this all begins with President Trump's decision to pick Miran to fill a recently vacated seat on the Fed's board. Let's look at the performance of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), which tracks the benchmark U.S. stock index. As one can see in the chart below, the S&P 500 has gained 9% this year.
Business Insider
21 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Heartflow Stock (HTFL) Jumps 50% in Market Debut as IPOs Heat-Up
The stock of medical imaging and diagnostics software company Heartflow jumped 50% in its market debut on Aug. 8; the latest sign of red-hot demand for initial public offerings (IPOs). Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Heartflow, which trades on the Nasdaq Composite exchange under the ticker symbol 'HTFL,' raised $317 million from the sale of 16.7 million shares at a price of $19 each. Demand for the share issuance was stronger than expected on Wall Street. However, the company's shares began trading on the Nasdaq at $28, nearly 50% above their offering price. The company is worth about $2.5 billion at its current share price. Bain Capital and Wellington Management are top shareholders of Heartflow. Losing Money Heartflow is the latest in a string of IPOs that have been oversubscribed and risen sharply on their first day of trading. Other hot IPOs in recent months have included AI start-up CoreWeave (CRWV), stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL), and space exploration firm Firefly Aerospace. Heartflow's IPO looks to be a success despite the fact that the company is not yet profitable, and its losses widened in both 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. But the company's sales have grown at a brisk pace, rising 44% last year and 39% in the first three months of 2025. Analysts say the IPO market is reawakening after being dormant for the past three years. Is HTFL Stock a Buy? It's too early for any analyst to cover Heartflow's stock. So instead, we'll look at the performance of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), which tracks the benchmark U.S. stock index. As one can see in the chart below, the S&P 500 has gained 9% this year.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
U.S. Equity ETF Demand Surged Last Week Despite Market Selloff
ETFs across various categories raked in $25 billion in capital last week. Investor appetite was broad-based. U.S. equity ETFs led the way with $16.3 billion in inflows. U.S. fixed income ETFs attracted $4.3 billion in capital while international equity ETFs saw $3.5 billion in inflows. iShares Core S&P 500 ETF IVV, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, Vanguard S&P 500 ETF VOO, Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ and ARK Innovation ETF ARKK dominated the top creation list last three major indices posted losses last week with more than 2% declines. A weaker-than-expected jobs report and Trump's new tariffs fueled the economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, well below the 104,000 expected. Job gains for the prior two months were revised sharply lower by a combined 258,000, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. Manufacturing activity contracted, factory hiring fell to its lowest level since 2020, and consumer confidence weakened. The sluggish performance in the services sector, coupled with a decline in new orders, further fueled concerns about a potential economic slowdown or even a recession. The combination of weak data has raised the odds for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates when it next meets in September (read: Should You Ignore Soft Jobs Data & Bet On Wall Street ETFs?). Meanwhile, President Trump issued new executive orders announcing tariffs on dozens of countries, raising the U.S. effective tariff rate to 18%, the highest since the 1930s. The tariffs are set to take effect on Aug.???7, affecting imports from roughly 70 nations, spooking investors due to trade disruption have detailed the ETFs Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)iShares Core S&P 500 ETF is the top asset creator, pulling in $4.7 billion in capital. It tracks the S&P 500 Index and holds 503 stocks in its basket, with each accounting for no more than 8.2% of the assets. iShares Core S&P 500 ETF is heavy on the information technology sector, while financials and consumer discretionary round off its next two spots with a double-digit allocation each. iShares Core S&P 500 ETF charges investors 3 bps in annual fees and trades in an average daily volume of 4.7 million shares. It has an AUM of $633 billion and a Zacks ETF Rank #1 (Strong Buy) with a Medium risk S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY)SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust has pulled in $4.7 billion in capital. It tracks the S&P 500 Index and holds 503 stocks in its basket, with each accounting for no more than 7.8% of the assets. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is heavy on the information technology sector with a 33.9% share, whereas financials and consumer discretionary round off the next two spots with a double-digit allocation each. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust charges investors 9 bps in annual fees and trades in an average daily volume of 71 million shares. It has an AUM of $639.7 billion and a Zacks ETF Rank #2 (Buy) with a Medium risk outlook (read: ETFs in Focus as S&P 500 Hits Record Highs in a V-Shaped Recovery).Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has gathered $1.8 billion in its asset base. It tracks the S&P 500 Index and holds 505 stocks in its basket, each accounting for no more than 7.3% of the assets. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF is heavy on the information technology sector, while financials and consumer discretionary round off the next two spots with a double-digit allocation each. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF charges investors 3 bps in annual fees. It has an AUM of $700.4 billion and trades in an average daily volume of 5.6 million shares. VOO sports a Zacks ETF Rank #1 (Strong Buy) with a Medium risk QQQ Trust (QQQ)Invesco QQQ Trust raked in $1.1 billion in capital. It provides exposure to the 101 largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq by tracking the Nasdaq 100 Index. Invesco QQQ is one of the largest and most popular ETFs in the large-cap space, with an AUM of $354 billion and an average daily volume of 43.2 million shares. QQQ charges investors 20 bps in annual fees and has a Zacks ETF Rank #1 with a Medium risk outlook (read: Tech ETFs at the Forefront of the Market Rebound on Monday).ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) ARK Innovation ETF has gathered $913.6 million in its asset base. It is an actively managed fund investing in companies that benefit from the development of products or services, technological improvements, and advancements in scientific research related to the areas of DNA technologies and genomic revolution, automation, robotics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, next-generation Internet and Fintech innovation. In total, the fund holds 42 securities in its basket. ARK Innovation ETF has gathered $7 billion in its asset base and charges 75 bps in fees per year from investors. It trades in an average daily volume of 12 million shares. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Invesco QQQ (QQQ): ETF Research Reports SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY): ETF Research Reports Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO): ETF Research Reports iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV): ETF Research Reports ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK): ETF Research Reports This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Want $1 Million in Retirement? 4 Simple Index Funds to Buy and Hold for Decades
Key Points U.S. large caps as a whole are reliable, but not necessarily the best, long-term performers. There's one sector in particular you can safely make a point of overweighting. Deglobalization is slowly but surely restoring the need for one category of stocks. 10 stocks we like better than Vanguard S&P 500 ETF › Picking stocks can be a lot of fun. But it can also be constant work. The irony? The more active a portfolio is, the higher the odds of it underperforming. Something simpler and far more passive like buying and holding exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the long haul is far more likely to build real wealth. To this end, if you're ready to make such a strategic shift, here's a rundown of four complementary index ETFs that could make you a millionaire. You just need to be willing and able to leave them alone long enough to let them. Start with the basics It should come as no surprise that this list starts with ETFs meant to mirror the S&P 500. It's the quintessential buy-and-hold equity investment. After all, this index reflects about 80% of the U.S. stock market's collective market capitalization and boasts a long-term average annual gain of about 10%. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) or the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) are your easiest and most liquid choices here. Vanguard's version of the index fund is technically cheaper to own with an annual expense ratio of only 0.03%. But both are a cost-effective enough way of plugging into the index's long-term upside. You can afford to be a little speculative Exchange-traded funds don't exactly lend themselves to speculation -- at least not in the same way that investors speculate on individual stocks. But that doesn't mean you can't successfully use strategic exposure to certain kinds of ETFs. You could deliberately hold an oversized stake in the technology sector via the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEMKT: XLK) or a similar fund. After all, just as they have for the past three decades, technology companies are likely to introduce the most game-changing and lucrative innovations for the next 30 years. But wouldn't the popular Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) do the job just as well, if not better? Maybe, but not necessarily. While it is true that the underlying Nasdaq-100 includes many of the market's best-performing technology tickers of the past several years (like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple), this may not always be the case. Remember, the Nasdaq-100 isn't inherently meant to be a technology index -- it just so happens that most of the market's top tech names right now are Nasdaq listings. As time marches on and new companies grow bigger than the market's biggest players right now, these new titans might not be technology outfits, or even Nasdaq-listed names! They could be listed on the New York Stock Exchange instead. Since the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund is specifically built to reflect the performance of the S&P 500's technology stocks, though, you'll be plugged into the tech sector no matter where these tickers are listed. While the Invesco QQQ Trust has produced some amazing gains since its launch back in 1999, it has also missed out on many technology companies' growth that got them there in the first place. By including the smaller tech names found within the S&P 500, you'll be invested at key periods of their growth. You need international stocks more than you have in a long, long time Do you really need to own foreign stocks? It's a prudent question to begin asking again. International stocks were considered a must-have well before and a little after the turn of the century. Since then, though, so many U.S. companies have performed so consistently well and become so international on their own, there's been no meaningful benefit in specifically adding foreign exposure to your portfolio. But now that pendulum seems to be swinging back in the other direction. With most nations starting to back off on their pro-international trade policies and refocusing more on domestic trade, we're seeing foreign nations and regions' economies -- and stock markets -- start to perform independently of U.S. stocks. And in many cases, they're performing better than their U.S. counterparts. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, for instance, believes worldwide GDP growth averages will roll in at 2.9% this year and next. The United States' GDP is expected to grow by only 1.6% this year, however, before slowing to a growth pace of 1.5% next year. In this vein, foreign stocks have easily outperformed U.S. stocks so far this year largely because of these disparate outlooks. Sure, the domestic economy might perk up in the foreseeable future. Or it might not. That's the point -- nobody knows. We only know enough to know a stake in something like the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (NYSEMKT: IEFA) is a smart way of curbing some of the risk of betting on a less-than-certain U.S. economy. Better than U.S. large caps Finally, if you want your best shot at becoming a millionaire using ETFs at the core of your portfolio, add an often-overlooked dimension to your holdings. That is, make a point of buying more U.S. mid-cap stocks. The Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (NYSEMKT: VO) meant to mirror the performance of the CRSP US Mid Cap Index will do the job nicely. Does it really matter? Actually, it does. Given enough time, mid-cap stocks significantly outperform their large-cap counterparts. The S&P 400 Mid Cap Index, in fact, has nearly doubled the performance of the S&P 500 since the beginning of this century. What gives? Mid-cap names are often in their sweet spot of growth -- past their wobbly start-up years, but not yet in their prime. Sometimes mid-cap companies are recent spinoffs from large-cap outfits that recognize the entity in question would be more valuable as a stand-alone company. Whatever the case, these names clearly pay off in the long run. The only downside to consider here is that while these names collectively produce stronger gains, they also dish out for more volatility than large-cap stocks. You'll need to mentally plan on holding this mid-cap ETF for decades just to make these big swings bearable in the meantime. Should you invest $1,000 in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF right now? Before you buy stock in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $687,149!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,060,406!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 1,072% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 180% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of July 15, 2025 James Brumley has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Vanguard Index Funds-Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF, and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Want $1 Million in Retirement? 4 Simple Index Funds to Buy and Hold for Decades was originally published by The Motley Fool Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Insider
18-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
NFLX, MMM, AXP: U.S. Indices Turn Red as Trump Pushes 15% Tariff on European Imports
The leading U.S. indices have turned negative at midday on July 18 on reports that U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for a blanket 15% tariff on imports from the European Union (EU). Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 256 points, or 0.58%, while the benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.17% after hitting a record high earlier in the trading session, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost about 0.10%. Stocks have turned red as Trump demands a minimum tariff of 15%, and perhaps as high as 20%, in any trade deal with Europe. The EU is racing to reach a trade deal with the U.S. ahead of Trump's self-imposed Aug. 1 deadline, when the president has vowed to begin implementing 30% tariffs on the European trading and currency bloc. Tariffs Over Earnings New tariff concerns appear to have taken precedence for investors over bullish economic data and strong corporate earnings. Data released on July 18 found that consumer sentiment in America is steadily improving. This report comes a day after the latest retail sales data showed stronger-than-expected spending on the part of consumers. At the same time, second-quarter financial results continue to impress, with major companies such as Netflix (NFLX), 3M (MMM), and American Express (AXP) topping Wall Street forecasts. Unfortunately, news of the potential tariffs on the European Union is overshadowing the positive news. Is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust a Buy? The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) has a consensus Moderate Buy rating among 504 Wall Street analysts. That rating is based on 427 Buy, 71 Hold, and six Sell recommendations issued in the last three months. The average SPY price target of $679.22 implies 8.29% upside from current levels.
