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Travelers' Profit Jumped 46% and Its Stock Popped 9% While Chip Stocks Crashed. Here's What Drove It.
Travelers (NYSE: TRV) earned $2.2 billion in the second quarter, up 46% year over year, and its stock jumped about 9% on Friday to close at $368.98. The biggest driver was straightforward
Bloom Energy vs. Constellation Energy: Which Industrials Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?
The search for reliable power in an AI-driven world has pushed Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) and Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG) into the spotlight, but which stock better serves your portfolio in 2026?
The 1 AI Chip Stock I'd Buy Hand Over Fist in This Sell-Off -- and It Isn't Nvidia.
The AI chip trade has cracked this month. Micron Technology has dropped about 32% in three weeks. Broadcom sits roughly 24% below its 52-week high. Even Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), which has held up
CrowdStrike vs. Snowflake: Which Technology Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?
In an era where data is the new oil and security is the vault, choosing between CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) represents a classic debate for growth investors. Both companies
SpaceX Stock Just Quietly Fell to $124 a Share -- and It's Still Not a Buy
While investors spent the week focused on a brutal sell-off in chip stocks, rocket maker and satellite internet company SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) quietly kept falling. Shares slid 5.4% on Friday to
The White House Is Renewing Its Push for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Here's What That Could Mean for Bitcoin.
Anyone who has priced Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as if Uncle Sam were about to start hoarding it at scale might be in for a bit of an unpleasant surprise. Sixteen months after President Donald Trump
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Other Hyperscalers Face a Major Bottleneck. Here Are 2 Industrial Stocks That Will Benefit
In October 2025, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta (NASDAQ: META) announced plans to build a 2-gigawatt data center. By July 2026, that data center's capacity had been upgraded to 5 gigawatts. Meta isn't the
Chubb Trades at Just 12 Times Earnings, Well Below the Broader Market. Is One of the World's Biggest Insurers a Bargain?
Chubb (NYSE: CB), the world's largest publicly traded provider of property, supplemental health, and casualty insurance, is a reliable blue chip stock. It's based in Switzerland, and it does
IHE vs IXJ: Which Popular Healthcare ETF Is the Better Buy for Investors?
Investors comparing the iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF (NYSEMKT:IHE) and the iShares Global Healthcare ETF (NYSEMKT:IXJ) must choose between concentrated U.S. pharmaceutical industry exposure and
Prediction: Lemonade Stock Will Reach $100 in 2027. Here's Why.
Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) stock isn't having a great year. The insurance technology company's stock is down 7% year-to-date after skyrocketing 341% between 2024 and 2025.
But I think it could reach
VC Investors Just Valued This Company at $1 Billion. Does That Make Venice (VVV) the Best AI Crypto to Buy Right Now?
Right now, it seems almost impossible to find any cryptocurrency that's up big for the year. But there's actually a top-100 cryptocurrency that's up 530% this year.
That cryptocurrency is Venice
Prediction: This Stock Will Hit an All-Time High By the End of the Year
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is currently down by more than 10% from its all-time high, but it's bound to recoup all those losses by the end of the year. The company is too deeply integrated into the
Here's How Much Income You Can Get With a $100,000 Annuity
Do you need to turn a lump sum of money into a reliable income? Dividend stocks are one option. Bonds are another. The former can't outright guarantee income, or, for that matter, that your
Which "Magnificent Seven" Stock Has the Best Risk/Reward Right Now?
Are the "Magnificent Seven" dead?
The seven trillion-dollar-plus tech stocks that produced market-crushing returns for years have had a rough year. Only two are outperforming the Nasdaq Composite so
A PayPal Vice President Sold Nearly 4,000 Company Shares. Here's What That Means for Investors.
Aaron Webster, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Risk Officer at PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL), disposed of 3,883 shares on July 15, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.
How Buying SpaceX Today Could More Than 10X Your Net Worth
Let's cut to the chase. An investment in Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) today could very well grow your net worth tenfold if -- stay with me -- annual revenue grows at an average rate
Billionaire Investor Jeremy Grantham Calls Bitcoin a Useless, Speculative Asset. Here's Why He's Wrong.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is 48% below its October 2025 all-time high of $126,080, and the drawdown has, quite predictably, been rocket fuel for crypto skeptics. One critic, Jeremy Grantham, the
3 AI Stocks That Can Outperform Nvidia Next Year
Nvidia went on an incredible run to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, but its 11% year-to-date return looks pedestrian compared to some of the other AI stocks that have been
3 Reasons a Phased Retirement Is Smarter Than Going All-In
A lot of people go from working full-time to suddenly not working at all. That doesn't mean they rush into retirement rather than plan for it. Rather, it means they set a retirement date, give
Netflix Stock's Last Decade Was Spectacular. But What Will the Next Decade Look Like?
On July 18, 2016 (about ten years ago to the day), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) shares closed at a split-adjusted $9.88. A $10,000 investment at that price would have bought about 1,010 shares, and with
Why Intuitive Surgical Stock Dropped This Week
Shares of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) fell this past week on concerns that the robotic surgery leader's growth is slowing.
Image source: Intuitive Surgical.
Intuitive saw a 16% year-over-year
The Social Security Cut Everyone Fears Is Not the Biggest Threat to Your Retirement
Social Security is facing a funding shortfall -- and, therefore, retirees are facing a possible reduction in income. It may not happen because there are ways to bolster the program, but right now
What Do SpaceX, AMD, and Palantir Have in Common?
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) may seem like an odd grouping of companies. But I have a good reason to consider them
Robinhood CFO Shiv Verma Sells 3,982 Shares for $457,000 -- Here's What it Signals for the Stock
Shiv Verma, Chief Financial Officer of Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD), reported a sale of 3,982 shares of Class A Common Stock on July 15, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.
Watch Out, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk: Viking Therapeutics Just Started Testing a Weight Loss Drug That Goes Beyond GLP-1
The human appetite has more than one off switch, and drugmakers like Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) are doing their darndest to identify and develop a medicine to target every