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Created in 1974, the Wilshire 5000 Index was intended to be a market-weighted index of the combined NYSE, NASDAQ, and American Stock Exchange (since merged with NASDAQ in 1998). The “5,000”...
It’s no surprise that inflation over the past four years have sent the prices of goods and services steeply spiraling upwards.  With certain food staples rising over 40-50%, gas and electricity...
It’s no secret that high inflation-elevated costs for basic necessities have been devastating to household savings across the nation. Not only have a large majority of Americans been forced to live...
24/7 Wall Street Insights Dividend Kings are companies with an unbroken track record of dividend increases spanning a minimum of 50 consecutive years. Some of these companies have been in business...
24/7 Wall Street Insights NASDAQ was founded in 1971 as an automated quote stock exchange alternative to the New York Stock Exchange, and now has more listings than the NYSE. China’s announcement...
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was created by credit agency Standard & Poor’s in 1957. While the index is not specifically the top 500 U.S.  companies per se, it does represent a good...
Recognizing that one day “Magnificent 7” stocks like Apple were once small cap stocks (those with market caps between $250 million and $2 billion), FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock...
In recent years, many conservative investors relying on fixed-income securities for their income needs have found their buying power cut anywhere from 15% to over 100% on some items, due to...
24/7 Wall St. Insights Exchange-traded funds offer a stock market type platform to invest in various indexes. VTI is an ETF that tracks an overall stock market index from the Center for Research in...
24/7 Wall Street Insights American Depositary Receipts (ADR) are official US certificates representing shares in foreign companies that can trade as stocks in the US on American stock exchanges....
According to the US Inflation Aggregate Index, the US dollar has lost 25% of its buying power since 2020. Regardless of statistics on inflation, which only refers to the speed rate of price...
24/7 Wall Street Insights The Federal Reserve’s rate cut to calm market speculation may potentially re-fuel higher inflation and possibly trigger a recession. Dividend stocks offer one of the most...
The huge surge of inflation since 2021 has not been seen since the Carter Administration’s 1970’s oil crisis. Inflation is a de facto hidden tax, since the net result still leaves taxpayers with...
At the time of this writing, Wall Street awaits a lower than expected Fed Funds rate cut from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Due to disappointing PPI numbers and the continued threat of inflation, a 25...
Few people would dispute the fact that Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) has captivated Wall Street this year with GPU chips that are some of the most coveted in the industry. Nvidia saw an incredible...