It's officially Summer! Grab a cool beverage, put your feet up, and enjoy this week's SMI Money Roundup!
Chasing the biggest stocks (Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense). "It’s actually out of the ordinary for the biggest stocks in the index to outperform."
All of the world's trillion-dollar companies in one chart (Visual Capitalist). Nvidia moved to the top of the list this week. Here are the other "biggest of the big."
Did Fidelity just kill commission-free trading? (Charles Lewis Sizemore, Kiplinger). Related: Fidelity and ETF issuers clashed over fees. Here's why. (Barron's via archive.today).
Should you be investing in buffered ETFs? (Kiplinger). An article on a topic SMI has mentioned several times lately.
Deadly and wildly profitable, uranium fever breaks out (Bloomberg via archive.today). "The surge in the price of uranium is a testament to the magnitude, and speed, of [the] pivot back to nuclear [power]."
Soaring U.S. debt is a spending problem (Editorial, Wall Street Journal). This year's federal budget deficit will clock in at roughly $2,000,000,000,000. (Full report: An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034, Congressional Budget Office).
As Social Security faces looming fund depletion, there's fierce debate over whether a commission can help (CNBC). Passions are running high already and the real debate hasn't even started.
How IRAs impact Social Security (Kiplinger). "Some IRA distributions count as income that could lower your benefits."
The C word (Jonathan Clements, Humble Dollar). Man knows not his time.
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