The early part of 2025 has not been kind to semiconductor stocks. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) is down more than 9% year to date. Over the past month, it has lost about 11%. This comes in stark contrast to the fund’s performance of the past two years. SMH rallied 38.5% in 2024 and 72.3% in 2023, as investors loaded up on semiconductor stocks to capitalize on the artificial intelligence craze. This year’s moves have led to a bearish chart pattern for the SMH. The fund’s 50-day moving average this week fell below its 200-day counterpart, forming a dreaded death…
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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office, on the day he signs executive orders, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 6, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration would not consider stock market reaction when hammering out the details of its tariff policy.When asked whether the decision to pause tariffs on many products from Canada and Mexico for one month was due to the stock market, Trump said the decision had “nothing to do with the market. I’m not even looking at the market, because long term the United States…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Doors open for Beach Night with a feels-like temperature of 7 degrees and purple aloha shirts for the first 250 students through — a true commitment to the bit. But the party is on inside, already. Crudites and chicken skewers are disappearing apace; an open bar is working like a bug light. Decades of St. Thomas men’s basketball alums are filing into a private reception, sorting through rosters and info sheets for a soon-to-open $175 million arena, warming up the space for one of their own.Johnny Tauer, Ph.D., walks in at 6:26 p.m. The four-shot almond…
Senior State Department officials have drawn up plans to close a dozen consulates overseas by this summer and are considering shutting down many more missions, in what could be a blow to the U.S. government’s efforts to build partnerships and gather intelligence, American officials say.The department also plans to lay off many local citizens who work for its hundreds of missions. Those workers make up two-thirds of the agency’s work force, and in many countries they form the foundation of U.S. diplomats’ knowledge of their environments.The shrinking is part of both President Trump’s larger slashing of the federal government and…
State Street has teamed up with Bridgewater Associates for an ETF that will give regular investors a chance to buy a version of one of the massive private investment firm’s longstanding strategies. The SPDR Bridgewater All Weather ETF (ALLW) launched Wednesday and is based off an investing approach of Bridgewater’s created in 1996. All Weather is an example of what is often called a risk-parity strategy, combining multiple assets in an attempt to lower the volatility of the overall portfolio. The ETF will be actively managed, with the goal of taking advantage of changes in the macroeconomic environment. ALLW will…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market moves: Stocks are getting hit Thursday on concerns about economic activity, trade policy, and the pace of artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. Tech stocks are especially weak, and a Nasdaq close below 18,157 would send the index into correction territory, down 10% or more from its record-high close of 20,173 back on Dec. 16. Investors did get some hope earlier after President Donald Trump said he would delay tariffs until April…
Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024.Noah Berger | Getty ImagesAmazon’s cloud unit said Thursday that it’s launching a service to allow video game publishers to stream their games online. GameLift Streams will deliver games to any device with a browser that supports the WebRTC standard, Amazon said in a blog post. That includes smart TVs, phones, tablets and PCs. One way the service can be used is to rapidly distribute titles in development to testers, and then securely remove access later.”Lots of AAA…
They didn’t have much, but they could create. Money was tight for the family, so they built their own board games growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada. One year, Matthew Fehr’s father created his own little golf board game out of huge bristle boards with holes drawn in and different clubs tapered off. They rolled dice to see where the ball went, with sand traps and water hazards and trees along the way.It lit a spark in Matthew. Sure, he liked golf as a game, but there was more pulling him in — he could create new worlds this way. Soon…
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, speaks during an Economic Club of New York (ECNY) event in New York, US, on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Sanctions on Russia “will be used explicitly and aggressively for immediate maximum impact” at President Donald Trump’s guidance, Bessent said Thursday. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of the White House’s position on tariffs, insisting that trade policy has to be about more than just getting low-priced items from other countries.”Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream,” Bessent said during a…
As you may have heard, international markets have been leading the global performance landscape in 2025. Of the 45 global ETFs we track closely, 22 are up at least 10% year-to-date, and seven have already gained more than 20%. Those are impressive numbers for an entire year—let alone just a few weeks. The key question now is: Are these moves sustainable? And for investors, is it still a good time to buy? While many ETFs have shown remarkable strength, today we’re focusing on the iShares MSCI Germany ETF (EWG) for two key reasons. First, it’s among the top performers, already…
