Will Ashworth

If you roam financial websites enough, you’ll frequently see “Magic Number” articles published with a scary headline suggesting you need millions for a happy and fulfilling retirement.

Morningstar published its list of the top 10 undervalued stocks to buy for October on Sept. 30. These companies are selected from its list of the Best Companies to Own.

As interest rates increased considerably in the past few years, dividend stocks lost some of their cachet with income investors. Now that they’re coming back down, investor interest has picked right up.

As I write this, the markets are just opening. Early results suggest investors liked what they saw from this morning's jobs report.

Many utilities stocks have taken off in 2024 due to the increased demand for electricity to power AI data centers. This thirst cannot seem quenched, so that’s great news if you own or are considering buying one or more utilities stocks or ETFs.

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Palantir's (PLTR) options volume Wednesday was 866,998, almost double its 30-day average.

The current S&P 500 dividend yield is 1.24%. The highest it’s ever been at the end of a calendar year from 1933 through 2023 was 8.11% in 1941. The highest since 2000 was 3.23% in 2008 during the financial crisis. If you’re an income-focused investor, the index won’t even beat tamer inflation. The five-year Treasury […]

Last November, I recommended three unusually active options for the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) . At the time, the Russell 2000 was trading around 1,793.