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You Sold Everything in a Panic and Never Got Back In? Sitting Out Has Cost More Than the Drop Did. These 3 ETFs Are a Way Back
Sitting in cash feels cautious, but every day you wait is still a market decision with real consequences. There is a way back in that accounts for the investor you proved you actually are when things got scary.
After-hours
$4.97
-6.75%open $5.33
A 6.75% slide to $4.97 pushes SoundHound AI back below $5 and trims its market value to roughly $2 billion. That $5 line is the level to keep an eye on from here.
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The optical names took the worst of it at the close, with Ciena down 10.49% and Lumentum and Applied Optoelectronics close behind. Shopify's gain led a much tamer move on the other side of the 382-stock board.
The Compounding Catch: How TQQQ’s 3x Daily Target Became a 5.93x Windfall
TQQQ targets a 3x daily return, nothing more, yet its decade-long results tell a stranger story than that modest promise suggests. Understanding why requires a closer look at what daily rebalancing actually does to your money over time.
After-hours
$11.54
-6.56%open $12.35
A 6.56% slide to $11.54 knocks C3.ai's market value down toward $1.8 billion, the kind of single-session damage this name rarely shrugs off quickly. Keep an eye on whether buyers defend the $11 handle.
CLOSING BELL
U.S. Markets
- S&P 500-0.09%
- Dow Jones Industrial Average+0.34%
- Nasdaq Composite-0.49%
Money rotated out of tech today: the Nasdaq gave back 0.49% while the Dow finished higher, leaving the S&P 500 essentially flat. Owning the index hid a split that mattered under the surface.
Nobody Will Warn This Couple That the Wife’s New $1,400-a-Month Social Security Check Will Make $7,100 More of Their Benefits Taxable
When a retired wife finally claims her own Social Security benefit, the couple expects a straightforward income boost. What they do not expect is how her first check quietly rewrites the tax math on every dollar already sitting in his IRA.
CrowdStrike Is Up 124% in 2026, Fortinet Is Up 142%: Take Profits, or Hold On for the Ride?
Cybersecurity stocks have surged past every benchmark this year, and investors holding triple-digit gains now face the hardest decision in a red-hot rally: stay positioned for more acceleration, or protect what the sector re-rating already delivered.
She’ll Live on Social Security and the Roth She Built in Her 60s. Her Taxable Income Will Be Nothing Every Year, and Not a Dollar of Her Social Security Will Ever Be Taxed
The IRS formula that taxes Social Security benefits has a blind spot, and one retiree found it before she ever filed her first retirement return. The account type she draws from changes everything.
High-Yield Savings, CDs, or T-Bills: Where Your Cash Belongs When Rates Are Rising
As of October 2, 2026, the upper bound of the federal funds target rate was 4.00%. That followed a mid-September increase from 3.75%. When rates are rising, the usual advice on where to keep cash changes. In a falling-rate cycle you lock in a term to hold onto a rate before it g…
America Needs 1.7 Million Skilled-Trades Workers a Year. At 64, He Retired in June, Then Took One $9,000 Job in October. Social Security Used a Different Test for That Month
He retired in June, started collecting Social Security in July, then took one emergency job in October. That single month triggered a rule most retirees never knew existed, and the math surprised him.
Broadcom Is Building an AI Business Unlike Nvidia’s. Here’s My Price Prediction
Broadcom competes with Nvidia without selling a single GPU to the general market, and that unusual strategy has locked in hyperscaler contracts stretching years into the future. Whether the stock has already priced in that advantage is the question worth answering.