The Vanguard S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ETF) held roughly $1.76 trillion in total net assets as of Aug. 31, 2026, and anchors retirement portfolios nationwide, Vanguard reported. Most holders treat it as a broadly diversified position across 500 companies, with an expense ratio of 0.03% that makes the cost nearly invisible. A $500 monthly contribution
Half the people asking about one British automaker’s newest car have never owned that brand. A lot of them already drive electric vehicles. They are not coming from other luxury marques. Many of them already own a Tesla. The luxury segment has spent years watching Tesla pull buyers away from traditional premium brands. Now some
There was a time when carrying a BlackBerry was almost a status symbol. Its small physical keyboard, flashing notification light and BlackBerry Messenger service helped define an age before Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system had changed the smartphone sector. Eventually the smartphones vanished from the pockets of most customers. The corporation didn’t do
The late Vanguard founder Jack Bogle launched the first publicly available index fund in 1976, and the investing framework he built around it now shapes how millions of Americans save for retirement, college, and every financial goal in between. A $100 monthly contribution to the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) at its trailing 16-year annualized
Micron is up more than 270% year to date. The stock just did a 35% round trip from its prior high down to a July low and back. And Citi just raised its price target anyway. Analyst Atif Malik lifted Citi’s target to $1,300 from $1,150 on September 23, keeping his Buy rating intact. Micron
When fuel gets expensive, it’s tempting to try to keep more of it at home. One of the oldest ideas in energy policy, it’s also one the fuel industry has fought every time it’s suggested. You can see why the strategy keeps resurfacing. Filling a 15-gallon tank with regular gas now costs about $67, roughly
Meta generated $59.36 billion in advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2026. That was nearly all of its $60.80 billion in total revenue. For 20 years, the company has run almost entirely on ads. Zuckerberg just said that’s about to change. Speaking at Meta Connect in Menlo Park on Sept. 23, Zuckerberg laid out
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has bought roughly $212.4 million worth of Lennar (LEN) shares across three trading days in September, right after the homebuilder posted one of its weakest quarters in years. The purchases took place between Sept. 17 and Sept. 21. Berkshire picked up 2.74 million shares across both Class A and Class B
For most of the past three years, OpenAI has set the pace in artificial intelligence while everyone else played catch-up. Now, rivals SpaceX and Meta, long written off in the AI conversation, have built products that do something ChatGPT still struggles to sell to ordinary consumers: get real work done without being asked twice. A
For most of a century, Volkswagen (VLKAF) sold German engineering. The badge was a promise that the hardware underneath had been drawn up in Wolfsburg, signed off in Wolfsburg, and shipped out to whoever wanted it. That promise held in China for roughly 40 years. Volkswagen was the family sedan, the taxi, the first car