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#sampp-500-ftm-eps

"I'm surprised by how neutral the rule was, when you think about the massive amount of lobbying there's been around it. It doesn't say certain assets are good or bad. Instead, it really focuses on making a rules-based framework instead of a litigation-based one."

The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) is the most widely held energy ETF in the U.S., with roughly $38 billion in net assets, spanning the full energy value chain.

Citi's concern is mainstream DDR5 16GB DRAM prices have fallen 6% since Micron's earnings report, driven by fears that TurboQuant, an algorithm-based memory compression technology, will structurally reduce memory demand. Citi isn't buying it.

Under the surface of soaring crude prices is the realization that the likelihood of Fed cuts later this year is quickly dwindling. Oil dominated the session. WTI crude has surged 33% over the past week, and Thursday added another 9.7% as Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.

The fund blends high yield corporate bonds, senior loans, and debt tranches of U.S. collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) into a single actively managed portfolio, aiming to deliver income that beats the broad bond market while keeping volatility lower than any single segment on its own.

MORT holds shares in mortgage real estate investment trusts, companies that borrow at short-term rates and invest in mortgage-backed securities or originate real estate loans. The income MORT distributes comes from the dividends paid by the underlying mREITs to their shareholders.

Among the S&P 500 companies that pay dividends, the vast majority of them distribute cash payments to the shareholders once every three months. Only a few of them pay dividends on a monthly basis. I discovered three monthly-paying S&P 500 dividend stocks with something special in common. Notably, all three of them have recently outperformed the S&P 500 index in terms of share-price gains.

Fidelity Fundamental Large Cap Growth ETF (FFLG) returned 27% over the trailing twelve months, while Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) returned 25% and Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG) returned 21% over the same stretch.

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF (NYSEARCA:EFA) tracks the MSCI EAFE Index, covering large- and mid-cap equities across developed markets in Europe, Australasia, and the Far East, explicitly excluding the US and Canada. The fund has been running since August 2001, carries $77.8 billion in assets, and charges 32 basis points annually. For a fund of this size and history, that cost is competitive.

AIRR concentrates specifically on small- and mid-cap U.S. companies that build, move, and maintain physical infrastructure - contractors, electrical services firms, regional freight carriers, and specialty manufacturers that benefit most when domestic industrial activity accelerates.

Druckenmiller founded Duquesne Capital Management in 1981, which went on to deliver average annual returns of 30% without a single losing year. Every other major investor you know today has had at least some losses, but not Druckenmiller.

The S&P 500's performance in 2025 marked yet another blockbuster year after performing well in both 2023 and 2024. Many analysts thought that double-digit gains for a third straight year would be too unlikely, but the market ended up proving them wrong. 2026 is off to a great start for the S&P as well, though a correction is certainly overdue at this stage. But can the market prove bears wrong yet again?

With $9.6 billion in net assets and a 0.15% expense ratio, the fund provides institutional-grade access to systematic value investing at a fraction of active management costs. The timing matters now because value has sharply outpaced growth in recent months. VLUE posted a 38.25% one-year return through February 17, 2026, more than tripling the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( NYSEARCA:SPY)'s performance.

The S&P 500 has a concentration problem. At the start of 2026, the top seven stocks account for roughly a third of the market-cap weighted index, leaving investors heavily exposed to a handful of mega-cap technology companies. Invesco S&P 100 Equal Weight ETF ( NYSEARCA:EQWL) offers a different approach: it takes the 100 largest companies in the S&P 500 and gives each equal weight, capping even giants like Apple Inc. ( NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft Corporation ( NASDAQ:MSFT) at roughly 1% of the portfolio.