About 2.09 million Americans collect Social Security on their spouse’s work record. Their average monthly benefit is $987. That number has been creeping upward for years, but has been just shy of $1,000 for quite some time. The 2027 COLA could be the one that pushes the number there. Analysts are projecting the annual cost-of-living
Apple’s first product event under John Ternus just wrapped up. Wall Street has a verdict. The products impressed. The pricing did not land where analysts expected. Bank of America’s Wamsi Mohan had to update his model to reflect both. The result is a price target that moved lower on a day when Apple launched something
SpaceX (SPCX) has already convinced investors that rockets can be a serious business. Now it has to prove they can behave more like airplanes. Pivotal Research Group analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak initiated coverage of Elon Musk’s space company with a Buy rating and $220 year-end 2027 price target, representing roughly 48% upside from SpaceX’s Sept. 11
Stocks are trading in their historically weakest month, even as the S&P 500 remains up roughly 22% from its March lows. The rally masks a severe imbalance has opened between the buying power systematic funds have left and the forced selling they could unleash if prices drop. Bank of America estimated the size of that
The car sitting in your driveway already does a lot of things you probably never told it to do. It checks for software updates, reports its own diagnostics, and talks to networks you never think about. The next thing it might do is spend your money, and a growing number of companies are building the
Wall Street just handed SpaceX a new price target, and the case behind it comes down to a single technical challenge rather than the company’s rockets, satellites and AI ambitions combined. If Elon Musk solves it, the upside case gets much bigger. If he does not, so does the risk. The call adds another data
Guidewire Software (GWRE) just reported a strong final quarter. The company beat both earnings and revenue expectations, and is still hiring steadily. Yet on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, its stock dropped about 20% in a single session, closing near $162.42. That contrast is worth noticing. The company is hiring like business is strong, but investors
Wall Street rarely changes its mind about a stock on the day a new phone gets announced. The number an analyst publishes is a bet on earnings two or three years out, and a keynote does not move that math on its own. That’s why analyst notes pile up in the days before an Apple
Warren Buffett spent his final stretch as Berkshire Hathaway’s chief executive building the largest corporate cash reserve in American history. He sold more stock than he bought for 14 consecutive quarters and effectively froze share repurchases across his final six, CNBC reported. By the time he handed the role to Greg Abel on January 1,
A $40 billion institutional trade cycles through Vanguard’s S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (VOO) every quarter, affecting retirement account holdings, Bloomberg reported. Foreign institutions are behind the quarterly movement, exploiting a scheduling gap between VOO and BlackRock’s iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) to sidestep U.S. dividend taxes. The two funds track the same index and