ETFs, listed companies worth watching and the trends shaping how individuals invest.
The Dow gained 1.7% in October while the Nasdaq lost 5.3%. Now comes the November to April stretch that history favours, in a midterm year, which raises the stakes on a famous statistic.
Record revenue at Robinhood hid a sharp change in what its customers do: crypto income fell by more than half while event contracts, options and borrowing surged.
A nerve repair company beat revenue forecasts by less than 4% and its shares rose by almost a third. The arithmetic of that reaction says more about valuation than about the quarter.
Hartford's International Equity Fund now trades as the ACIN exchange-traded fund. The cheaper wrapper came after a repositioning that its own filings expected to crystallise sizeable gains.
One bank has retired a quarter of its shares in two years and is now slowing down. A builder's hardware maker just lifted its authorisation fivefold. The arithmetic behind both deserves a closer look.
Cboe and NYSE opened pre-market and late sessions in options on the busiest stocks. Tesla and Meta results gave retail traders the first real test of what those extra hours offer.
Fidelity International's new Dynamic Buffer ETFs promise softer falls without a fixed cap or reset date. That flexibility changes what the protection is, and how investors should judge it.
SpaceX's third-quarter results beat forecasts and, under its prospectus, start the clock on its largest lock-up release yet. Retail holders should know how staged unlocks work.
IBIT took in $665.2m on October 19 while every rival lost money or stood still. The flow data say more about where crypto fund money is concentrating than about the price of bitcoin.
MSCI will treat companies that mostly hold assets like funds and drop them from its benchmarks. Strategy and Metaplanet are the obvious test cases, and index funds will do the selling.
Traders put about $6.1bn into Direxion's triple-leveraged semiconductor ETF in a week when it fell by a quarter. Its own prospectus explains why that combination is costly.
Medtronic swapped its entire 90% stake in MiniMed for its own shares in an exchange offer subscribed 5.4 times over. The structure changes who ends up holding the stock, and why.
Four new Market Sector SPDR funds give Nvidia, Amazon and Exxon their full index weight. They cost half as much again as the capped originals they are built from.
Tor Olav Trøim has added 10.1m Borr Drilling shares since mid-August. Decades of research say such purchases carry information, but less than headlines imply.
Nasdaq Ventures has taken a stake in One Trading, which offers round-the-clock leveraged futures on US shares to European clients. The weekend stock market is arriving through derivatives first.
Gold fell 8.5% in September, yet physically backed funds added 67 tonnes and a record $31bn in the quarter. British savers, not American ones, did much of the buying.
A Nasdaq SPAC that began trading this week raised the share fraction on its rights from a tenth to three quarters before pricing. What the units really contain for anyone buying them on screen.
A security scare at MetaMask's staking arm pushed Ethereum's exit queue to a 2026 high. For funds that stake their ether, the episode shows where daily liquidity meets protocol limits.
JEPQ trimmed its monthly distribution by about 17% and JEPI paid its smallest amount in over a year. The fact sheets show what the yield has cost holders in return.
US-listed ETFs passed their annual inflow record on September 30th. The money behind it went to short-dated Treasuries, overseas equities and active funds, and it quietly left momentum.
