The S&P 500 Just Hit 6,000 Again (And Why That’s Actually a Big Deal)

Well, well, well. Look who decided to show up to the 6,000 party again. The S&P 500 just closed at exactly 6,000 on Friday, and honestly, it feels like watching your friend finally get their life together after a really messy breakup with economic uncertainty. This is the first time we've seen this level since February, which in market years feels like approximately seventeen lifetimes ago. Between then and now, we've had tariff tantrums, inflation anxiety, and enough economic drama to ...
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Your Designer Bag Just Beat Your Stock Portfolio (And It’s Not Even Close)

Remember when your friend dropped $36,000 on a tiny Hermès bag and you thought they'd lost their mind? Plot twist: they might be the smartest investor you know. While you've been stress-watching your tech stocks do the cha-cha, luxury handbags have been quietly demolishing the S&P 500 like it's amateur hour. We're talking about the Mini Kelly II handbag returning over 300% from 2022 to 2025, starting at $9,200 and climbing to $36,980. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 managed a respectable but ...
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Your Portfolio Wishes It Was a Purse: How Hermès Bags Are Schooling the S&P 500

While you've been obsessing over whether to buy more NVIDIA or finally diversify into something boring like bonds, there's been a quiet revolution happening in the world of luxury accessories. And no, I'm not talking about crypto wallets—I'm talking about actual wallets. Well, handbags. Really expensive handbags. Here's the plot twist that would make even the most seasoned Wall Street trader do a double-take: Hermès bags have been absolutely demolishing the stock market. We're talking about purses that cost more than ...
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A US Strike on Iran Could Send Oil Past $100 — Markets Aren’t Ready

The Strait of Hormuz. Three words that should be on every trader's watchlist this week. President Trump signaled Thursday that he'll decide within ten days whether to launch strikes against Iran. The U.S. military has deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group within striking distance. Vice President JD Vance says "certain red lines" remain in nuclear talks. And Iran's Revolutionary Guard has already partially closed the strait for military exercises — a flex that sent oil prices up 5% on the ...
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Gold Hit $5,000 and Mining Stocks Are Still Cheap — Here’s Why

There's a paradox unfolding in precious metals that should have every value investor paying attention. Gold has shattered $5,000 per ounce. Silver blew through $100 and is trading near $110. Yet the companies that pull these metals out of the ground are trading at a 15% to 17% discount to the underlying bullion. This valuation gap is the kind of setup that legendary investors dream about — and it's already starting to close. The numbers tell the story. All-In Sustaining Costs for ...
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Grail’s Cancer Blood Test Just Failed Its Biggest Trial — Stock Cut in Half

Grail just learned what happens when the most anticipated clinical trial in cancer diagnostics misses its mark. The stock lost nearly half its value on Friday. The company's Galleri blood test — designed to detect multiple types of cancer from a simple blood draw — was supposed to be the future of early screening. England's National Health Service ran a three-year trial involving 142,000 participants to test whether adding Galleri to standard screening could shift cancer diagnoses to earlier, more treatable ...
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This Defense Giant Has a $268 Billion Backlog and Nobody Cares

While everyone argues about AI valuations and tariff chaos, one company is quietly stacking $268 billion in orders and barely making headlines. RTX Corporation — the company formerly known as Raytheon Technologies — just reported 2025 results that should make growth investors sit up and pay attention. Full-year turnover came in at $88.6 billion, with adjusted earnings per share of $6.29. Both figures beat the January guidance of $83-84 billion in sales and $6.00-6.15 in EPS. The stock barely budged. But ...
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Nvidia Reports Wednesday and the Options Market Has It Wrong

Nvidia reports fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings on Wednesday, February 25th, after the bell. The stock is the single most-watched event on every trader's calendar this week. But if you're thinking about buying the earnings straddle, the data says you should think again. The at-the-money options straddle expiring February 27 — the market's best real-time gauge of how much it expects Nvidia to move — is priced at roughly 7%. That sounds reasonable for the world's largest company by market cap ($4.44 ...
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