(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — Sean posted a mystery chart in our internal research chat without any labels and asked my group “Would anyone buy this?” It looked good and we all said yes. We were surprised to find out it was the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF , more commonly known as IEMG (Disclosure: we own this for client accounts at Ritholtz Wealth Management): Up until recently, the emerging markets equity asset class has been fast asleep, but now,…
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The U.S. stock market is underperforming the rest of the world this year but that doesn’t mean American exceptionalism is dead, according to Apollo Global CEO Marc Rowan. The S & P 500 is a little more than 4% higher in 2025, underperforming other overseas markets that have surged this year as investors diversifed away from the U.S. The iShares MSCI ACWI ex US exchange-traded fund (ACWX) has rallied almost 17% year to date. Individual stock exchanges have performed even better. German stocks have soared more than 30% this year. China stocks are up more than 18%. But the U.S.…
US President Donald Trump gestures towards the new flagpole on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Ron Sachs | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is set Thursday afternoon to host a group of working-class Americans at the White House, as he cranks up pressure on Senate Republicans to quickly pass his massive tax-and-spending agenda.The event in support of Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” will feature a collection of what his administration describes as “everyday Americans” poised to benefit from the legislation’s tax cuts and…
I was asked about selling covered calls on Nvidia (NVDA) , which just hit all-time highs and an eye-watering $3.765 trillion market capitalization. Selling covered calls is an investment strategy that maintains some upside exposure while generating income from selling option premiums. When contemplating the sale of covered calls, an investor must answer two key questions: Is one’s thesis regarding the anticipated price behavior neutral to mildly bullish, which is generally the ideal setup for covered call selling? If it is, what call provides a suitable balance of risk and reward? I’ll try to address the second, more general question…
(L-R) Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Dia Dipasupil | Filmmagic | Getty ImagesOscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve will direct the next “James Bond” film, Amazon’s MGM Studios said on Wednesday, taking charge of one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic spies and longest-running movie series.Villeneuve, the Canadian film director and writer, has earned critical acclaim for films such as “Sicario,” “Dune,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Blade Runner 2049,” and “Arrival”.He was nominated for Best Director at the 2017…
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBCSalesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workloads, according to CEO Marc Benioff.”All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that before, we were doing, and we can move on to do higher value work,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, noting that the technology currently accounts for about 30% to 50% of the company’s work.Technology companies are hunting for…
The annual QS World University Rankings saw Britain’s elite Oxford (above) and Cambridge universities drop one place to fourth and sixth, respectively.Halbergman | Istock | Getty ImagesTop British universities fell in global rankings last week, with experts raising red flags about the region’s ability to continue attracting international talent and nurturing innovation.The annual QS World University Rankings saw Britain’s elite Oxford and Cambridge universities drop one place to fourth and sixth, respectively. Meanwhile, 54 of 90 British universities fell in rankings. They include a number of leading ones, including the University of Edinburgh, which dropped seven places to 34th, and…
People check out an electric SUV Xiaomi YU7 at a Xiaomi Store in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province Thursday, June 26, 2025.Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is taking aim straight at rival Tesla with a new electric SUV.Xiaomi’s luxury YU7 SUV will start at 253,500 yuan ($35,322), CEO Lei Jun said Thursday, pointing out that the vehicle is 10,000 yuan cheaper than Tesla’s Model Y, which starts at 263,500 yuan in China.Prior to the official price announcement, a Citi report had listed expectations that the YU7 SUV would be priced around…
Analysts see a group of stocks that have helped drive the market higher in the past two months, potentially scoring even more gains from current levels. By now, the S & P 500 has recovered most of its losses since its low of the year back on April 8. Stocks plummeted in early April after President Donald Trump unveiled his universal tariff policy, but have bounced back as the United States delayed the tariffs and continued trade talks with major trading partners. The S & P 500 now trades less than 1% below its all-time closing high reached in February.…
AI reasoning models were supposed to be the industry’s next leap, promising smarter systems able to tackle more complex problems and a path to superintelligence.The latest releases from the major players in artificial intelligence, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet and DeepSeek, have been models with reasoning capabilities. Those reasoning models can execute on tougher tasks by “thinking,” or breaking problems into logical steps and showing their work. Now, a string of recent research is calling that into question.In June, a team of Apple researchers released a white paper titled “The Illusion of Thinking,” which found that “state-of-the-art [large reasoning models] still fail…
