7 Best Tech ETFs to Buy in 2025 These exchange-traded funds are top picks if you want to invest in the technology industry. Coryanne HicksJan. 21, 2025 7 Best International Stocks to Buy Diversification could help investors hedge against a challenging global economy in 2025. ...
The Fed is expected to cut rates again, but for now these money market funds are yielding up to 4.7%.
One of the more successful investing strategies has been the“dogs of the Dow”method, in which an investor chooses the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the 30-stockDow Jones Industrial Averageat the end of each year. TheALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF(NYSEARCA:SDOG) tweaks the strategy by selec...
The Fidelity Total Bond Index is a great index fund to buy right now, and is very much like the Vanguard option above. Alternatively, the FTBFX has strong flexibility, and can balance reward and risk well. It can hold many more high yield bonds, and can potentially capture far higher ret...
Best Investments for 2025 1. High-yield savings accounts 2. Certificates of deposit 3. Government bonds 4. Corporate bonds 5. Money market funds 6. Mutual funds 7. Index funds 8. Exchange-traded funds 9. Stocks 10. Dividend stocks ...
Tracing the SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) back to when VTEB, our best-performing Treasury ETF from above, went IPO, we see that it posted an annualized total return of 4.5% per year, so quite a bit better. That’s the result of taking on extra risk. And remember, that ...
Money committed to a CD could end up earning a lackluster yield if rates rise substantially. The early withdrawal penalty may negate any benefit of switching to a higher-yielding CD, however. You could potentially earn better rates of return in the stock market or by investing in other securit...
(below investment grade) muni outperformance. The lower quality asset class climbed 2.40% higher for the month, according to the Bloomberg Barclays Muni High Yield Index. While higher yielding municipals have outpaced the broad market in recent times, lower quality paper remains behind year-to-...
EMBIGC stands for the Emerging Markets Bond Index Global Core. It’s a cut-down version of the EMBIGD. ZXcompares EMBIGCto its premium counterpart like this: This [EMBIGC] excludes many less liquid, higher yielding countries, and knocks around 70bp off the yield. ...
bond funds. Further, money funds are yielding between what stock and bond funds are returning. Money funds this year are yielding 4.7% on average, compared with the 7.2% total return (appreciation and dividends) for theS&P 500 stock indexand 3.4% for theBloomberg Agg bond index. “...