#sp-500-index-rebalancing

#sp-500-index-rebalancing

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF offers pure market beta at an expense ratio of 0.03%, with top holdings like NVIDIA and Apple making up over 36% of the fund.

At 7:46 a.m. Monday, Doornbos had posted on X that Iranian officials were still considering a U.S. proposal to end the war, 'centering around uranium enrichment.'

Annaly's dividend coverage is tight but intact. The company paid $0.70 per share quarterly throughout 2025, and its non-GAAP earnings available for distribution covered that payout in every quarter, ranging from $0.72 to $0.73 per share.

NDIV generates income from two sources: dividends from energy and natural resources companies and a covered call strategy that sells call options on its holdings, collecting upfront premiums.

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.

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.

If you are using this as a fixed income substitute, you're going to have some really mad clients if and when there is an actual bear market.

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.