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The S&P 500 is on track to end its third consecutive year of double-digit gains, which could mean more gains next year. Despite seeing significant volatility throughout 2025, the broad index remains on track to end the year up about 17%. This comes after rising more than 24% in 2023 and more than 23% in 2024. “If the index registers at least a 15% annual price increase, returns over the next year average around 8%,” Adam Turnquist, chief technical strategist at LPL Financial, said in a note. “The average maximum drawdown in recent years has been about 14%, which serves…
Starbucks will undergo a major transformation in 2026. Shares of coffee giant Starbucks are struggling to find their footing after a difficult 18 months marked by slowing U.S. foot traffic, inconsistent execution, rising labor and restructuring costs, and sustained weakness in China. Still, we believe Starbucks is one of the top five club stocks poised for a strong recovery in 2026. Starbucks Year-to-date performance: Down 8% Forward price-to-earnings ratio: 33.3 vs. 5-year average 27.8 Our rating: Buy 1 rating Our price target: $100 per share SBUX YTD Mountain SBUX’s year-to-date price performance. The turnaround is still on track with CEO…
Beijing — Welkin Ray does calculations on paper napkins in his spare time. A 30-year-old man from Beijing and his wife are considering whether to have a second child and are facing resource issues. Taking care of their 3-year-old son requires hiring a daycare center while working, and the couple, who are both only children, are also anticipating when they may need to balance the costs and time of raising a child and caring for an aging parent. These considerations are not uncommon around the world, but they are unique because they are also at the heart of the biggest…
The S&P 500 ended 2025 with a new all-time high just a few days ago. But more importantly, how did the index reach its peak on October 27th? Over the past two months, the S&P 500 has absorbed its largest drawdown since spring (about 6% from high to low) without any lasting technical damage. More importantly, the structures formed during this period stand out. As the chart shows, this consolidation can be classified as a bullish chart formation. This is not a textbook inverted head and shoulders pattern, but the underlying shape is clear and constructive. The index managed to…
Little People, Big World’s Matt Roloff and Caryn Chandler break up and end engagementMatt Roloff and Zach Roloff are putting their differences aside. A year after they clashed in the Little People, Big World finale, the father-son duo reunited for a holiday celebration with the rest of their family, including Zach’s brothers Jeremy Roloff and Jacob Roloff. A recent video posted by Jacob’s wife Isabelle Roloff shows Matt, 64, sitting on a couch wearing a coordinating blue Christmas sweater with his three sons and ex Amy Roloff’s husband Chris Marek. The group smiled and posed for photos as Jeremy sat…
Investor Dan Niles has named Cisco Systems and Apple as his top stocks heading into 2026. The founder and portfolio manager of Niles Investment Management appeared on CNBC’s “Money Movers” on Wednesday to share his top five stocks heading into the new year. Niles highlighted Cisco as the only stock he repeated from last year’s list of favorites. Niles praised the stock as a way for investors to “keep riding the AI wave.” He added that AI-related revenue from major hyperscalers has boosted Cisco’s revenue from an average growth of 1% over five years to as much as 5% in…
The Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWest Texas dust, iron-tinged and orange-red, rides the wind and sticks like a film to everything you touch. It clings to skin and the inside of your mouth, a fine grit that turns every breath into a reminder of where you are. This is the landscape where OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is orchestrating something called Stargate — a fast-expanding constellation of data centers, backed by partners including Oracle, Nvidia, and SoftBank.Six thousand workers’ vehicles pour into the site each morning.…
Nicola Peltz Beckham reportedly shed tears as wedding guest Marc Anthony shouted Victoria BeckhamMore recent flashpoints in the wedding drama fire: The newlyweds’ first dance didn’t go as expected, but it’s reportedly very unclear why it went wrong. “Brooklyn and Nicola thought Marc Anthony had gifted them their first dance,” a source told E! News for May 2025. Instead, the singer “announced, ‘Welcome to the stage the most beautiful woman in the room, Victoria Beckham.'” Ms. Brooklyn was left in an awkward situation, with no idea what to do. ” The source added: “Nicola left the room in tears. She…
After a lackluster performance in 2025, Eaton is a club that could be better off. Stocks have trended modestly down this year, lagging far behind the S&P 500’s industrial sector, which has risen more than 19%. The electrical equipment supplier failed to impress Wall Street’s lofty expectations. President Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t helped sentiment either. Still, Eaton is one of five stocks in our 35-stock portfolio poised for a rally in 2026. Year-to-date performance: Down about 3% Forward price-to-earnings ratio: 23.3, compared to the five-year average of 23.5, according to FactSet data. Our Rating: Hold Equivalent 2 Rating Our Price…
Iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously did not graduate from college, but they have conducted multiple studies. Shows that the majority of successful startups have founders with bachelor’s or graduate degrees degree. Despite this data, venture capitalists’ enthusiasm for “no-degrees” is far from constant, but the appeal of dropout founders continues. It’s a phenomenon that comes and goes, and we’re certainly having a moment right now in the midst of the AI boom. This trend is especially evident during Y Combinator Demo Day, where founders increasingly advertise their dropout status in one-minute pitches. “While we…