The Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF (NYSEMKT:SCHB) and the iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (NYSEMKT:ITOT) are nearly identical in cost and performance, making the choice largely a matter of issuer preference or brokerage availability. Investors seeking to capture the entirety of American corporate growth often turn to total market funds as a one-stop solution. By holding the Schwab fund ...
The Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF (NYSEMKT:SCHB) and the iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (NYSEMKT:ITOT) are nearly identical in cost and performance, making the choice largely a matter of issuer preference or brokerage availability. Investors seeking to capture the entirety of American corporate growth often turn to total market funds as a one-stop solution. By holding the Schwab fund or the iShares fund, one can avoid the need to pick individual sectors or stocks, instead relying on the market's own weighting system to drive returns. This comparison examines how these two low-cost giants stack up in terms of portfolio composition and historical volatility. Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year monthly returns. The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. Dividend yield is the trailing-12-month distribution yield. Continue reading
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Apple Inc (Symbol: AAPL), where a total volume of 629,160 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 62
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Apple Inc (Symbol: AAPL), where a total volume of 629,160 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 62
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Microsoft Corporation (Symbol: MSFT), where a total volume of 641,415 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of appr
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Microsoft Corporation (Symbol: MSFT), where a total volume of 641,415 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of appr
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in NVIDIA Corp (Symbol: NVDA), where a total volume of 4.3 million contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximat
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in NVIDIA Corp (Symbol: NVDA), where a total volume of 4.3 million contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximat
DOJ Sues DC Bar Over Its Prosecution Of Former Trump Lawyer, Calls It "Partisan Arm Of Leftist Causes" Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint on May 13 against the D.C. Bar, alleging it has acted as a “partisan arm of leftist causes.” The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on April 27, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Time...
DOJ Sues DC Bar Over Its Prosecution Of Former Trump Lawyer, Calls It "Partisan Arm Of Leftist Causes" Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint on May 13 against the D.C. Bar, alleging it has acted as a “partisan arm of leftist causes.” The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on April 27, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times According to the DOJ, the agency seeks to advance President Donald Trump’s directives to end the weaponization of the federal government while nullifying the D.C. Bar’s prosecution of former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark. D.C. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox III, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, the D.C. Court of Appeals, the District of Columbia itself, the D.C. Bar, and others are named as defendants and accused of unlawfully prosecuting Clark based on his internal deliberations of potential fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The Epoch Times reached out to the D.C. Bar for comment and was referred to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Clark wrote a draft letter for his litigation on potential fraud, which was never issued, and the D.C. Court of Appeals’ disciplinary authorities punished him over it, according to the complaint. The D.C. Bar and others’ investigation and discipline of Clark were improperly based on “their disagreement with Mr. Clark’s performance of his discretionary Executive Branch duties, particularly with respect to a predecisional and deliberative document about potential election fraud in Georgia, which remains the subject of criminal investigation and civil litigation years later,” the complaint said. Allowing proceedings against Clark to continue would mean state bar authorities can exert control over the executive branch, the DOJ said, adding, “That is not the law.” The DOJ cited the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, or preemption, as a cau...
Shares of Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) fell for the second straight day, trading 4% lower as of 2 p.m. ET Thursday. At least one analyst raised their price target on Oklo today, but the nuclear energy stock is facing a continued sell-off following its first-quarter earnings report and a significant new regulatory filing that has spooked some investors. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Shares of Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) fell for the second straight day, trading 4% lower as of 2 p.m. ET Thursday. At least one analyst raised their price target on Oklo today, but the nuclear energy stock is facing a continued sell-off following its first-quarter earnings report and a significant new regulatory filing that has spooked some investors. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Feldman , who literally grew up on the campus of Stanford University, was already involved in selling three companies and taking another public. But none of that compares with Thursday’s debut of his AI-chip manufacturer. Shares of Cerebras Systems Inc. , a company he co-founded in 2015, soared about 72% in Nasdaq trading at 3 p.m. in New York. It’s the ye...
Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Feldman , who literally grew up on the campus of Stanford University, was already involved in selling three companies and taking another public. But none of that compares with Thursday’s debut of his AI-chip manufacturer. Shares of Cerebras Systems Inc. , a company he co-founded in 2015, soared about 72% in Nasdaq trading at 3 p.m. in New York. It’s the year’s biggest initial public offering and gives the company a market value of roughly $69 billion. Read More: AI Chipmaker Cerebras Surges 81% After Year’s Biggest IPO That put Feldman’s stake at $3.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index , which is valuing his fortune for the first time. Co-founder Sean Lie’s holding, meanwhile, is worth $1.7 billion. “Pretty good day, huh?” Feldman, 56, the company’s chief executive officer, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “It’s one of the biggest tech IPOs in history, and it’s the biggest semi IPO in history. We couldn’t be more proud.” AI chipmakers have been among the hottest stocks since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, with Nvidia Corp. the clear market leader. The company has soared to become the world’s largest by market value, while making its co-founder, Jensen Huang , the seventh-richest person globally with a $186.7 billion fortune. Cerebras is differentiating itself from incumbents like Nvidia through its development of a much larger chip that promises faster performance than those that have so far been the backbone of AI development. Engineering constraints have long limited chipmakers’ pursuit of size: As chips gets physically larger, the energy needed to power them can also potentially damage them. Cereberas’ chips — about the size of a sheet of printer paper — have proven popular for inference tasks, or the process of running AI models as opposed to training them. “There’s just an extraordinary demand right now for fast inference,” Feldman said in the BTV interview. “As AI becomes useful,...
The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—the result of a Nevada utility company saying it needs the power capacity in part for new data centers. The resulting energy crisis impacts 49,000 California residents who live near Lake Tahoe, nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada. Lake Tahoe’s local e...
The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—the result of a Nevada utility company saying it needs the power capacity in part for new data centers. The resulting energy crisis impacts 49,000 California residents who live near Lake Tahoe, nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada. Lake Tahoe’s local electricity provider, California-based Liberty Utilities, has been obtaining 75 percent of its power from the Nevada-based company NV Energy. But the latter has said it will stop providing power to the Lake Tahoe region by May 2027, according to extensive reporting by Fortune . Nevada's fast-growing data center development is one of the main reasons given by NV Energy for ending its energy supply agreement with Liberty, according to a Liberty filing with California regulators. Fortune highlighted data from NV Energy’s own planning documents showing that a dozen data center projects in northern Nevada could drive 5,900 megawatts of new demand by 2033. Read full article Comments
In trading on Thursday, shares of First Merchants Corp's 7.50% Dep Shares Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock Series A (Symbol: FRMEP) were yielding above the 7.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.8752), with shares changing hands as low as $24.73 on the day.
In trading on Thursday, shares of First Merchants Corp's 7.50% Dep Shares Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock Series A (Symbol: FRMEP) were yielding above the 7.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.8752), with shares changing hands as low as $24.73 on the day.
In trading on Thursday, shares of SL Green Realty Corp's 6.50% Series I Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (Symbol: SLG.PRI) were yielding above the 7.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.625), with shares changing hands as low as $21.56 on the day. Th
In trading on Thursday, shares of SL Green Realty Corp's 6.50% Series I Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (Symbol: SLG.PRI) were yielding above the 7.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.625), with shares changing hands as low as $21.56 on the day. Th