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Stocks will avoid suffering their worst December since the Great Depression provided that the S&P 500 closes above 2,594.56 Monday. Regardless of whether they do or don't, the issues that have plagued the stock market in the final few months of 2018 – such as the Federal Reserve's handling of...

Investors' optimism about a breakthrough in trade talks between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the G-20 summit in Argentina was short lived, with the major market indexes plunging over 3% Tuesday on an ominous signal from the bond market known as "inversion of the...

After a bumper year of returns in 2017, emerging markets have copped a battering in 2018. From slowing economic growth in China to Turkey's currency, the lira, collapsing – all occurring in the backdrop of volatile Latin American presidential elections, trade wars and a buoyant U.S. dollar that...

U.S. small-cap stocks received substantial inflows of cash between May and September 2018 as investors saw them as less immune to geopolitical tensions, trade tariffs and a stronger U.S. dollar. Small- and mid-cap companies were also primary beneficiaries of President Trump's tax reform plan...

S&P 500 ETFs The Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) is a market-capitalization-weighted index of some of the largest publicly-traded U.S. corporations. Most analysts see the S&P 500 as the best indicator of the U.S. equity market. This index is a commonly used benchmark for many portfolio managers...

While the ETF landscape is large and growing by the day, some funds can be considered the best—by a majority of investors—in their respective categories. Here is a comprehensive list of ETFs that are among the best funds across a wide array of asset classes. Best Technology ETF Technology is...

Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO) The Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO) delivers broad coverage of U.S. midcap equities by tracking the CRSP U.S. Mid Cap Index. 1 This benchmark was created by the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The index...

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR) The iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, created back in 2000, tracks the performance of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index. The fund achieves this by investing the majority of its massive $58 billion asset pool in securities that make up the benchmark index. These...

Range of Choices and Risks Luckily, there are a plethora of monthly dividend ETF funds offered by the major firms, including State Street Global Advisors, Vanguard Group, and BlackRock, Inc. However, there are also smaller firms such as the Global X Funds that have increased their presence in...

Index Funds Index funds are popular with both individual investors and financial professionals. They include exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds that are created to track a specific index like the S&P 500, the Russell 2000, or the EAFE. Index funds offer broad exposure to the market...