8/8/2026, 6:34:54 PM
JEPQ promises softer Nasdaq landings and a 10% yield, but the real question is whether those monthly checks and price cushions actually hold up when the index starts bleeding. The answer from two very different market storms might surprise income investors.
8/8/2026, 6:08:06 PM
VOO is closing in on a milestone no ETF has ever reached, and the race to a trillion dollars quietly exposes a structural flaw that SPY holders have been paying for since 1993.
8/8/2026, 6:08:06 PM
VOO is closing in on a milestone no ETF has ever reached, and the race to a trillion dollars quietly exposes a structural flaw that SPY holders have been paying for since 1993.
8/8/2026, 5:00:51 PM
VGT has quietly turned into a three-stock concentration problem for long-term holders, and selling to fix it means handing the IRS a check. There is a pairing strategy that rebalances the exposure without triggering a single taxable event.
8/8/2026, 4:27:05 PM
For three years, Greg Abel sat on one of the largest cash piles in corporate history while the market ran without him. Something just changed, and the new portfolio bets reveal exactly where Berkshire is placing its next big wager.
8/8/2026, 3:17:00 PM
ChatGPT went from generating roughly $10 million a month on Apple's App Store in Jan. 2024 to more than $275 million in July 2026. Apple did not build ChatGPT. It does not train it, run it, or market it. But every time someone subscribes, Apple collects a commission. That dynamic is playing out ...
8/8/2026, 12:34:58 PM
Apple has published a guide explaining how eligible Mac users in mainland China can connect Alibaba's Qwen artificial-intelligence service to the U.S. tech giant's Siri digital assistant and Writing Tools feature. The Mac-specific arrangement could help Apple compete in China's AI PC market, where it has been losing market share as domestic manufacturers such as Lenovo have promoted locally developed AI features. • Qwen is Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's family of generative-AI models, which can create text and images and analyse documents, photos and other material in response to user prompts.
8/8/2026, 9:04:00 AM
Buying Nvidia on the dip in the past has always paid off. It could do so again.
8/8/2026, 3:15:40 AM
ISPY markets a generous yield, but the real cost of that income does not appear anywhere on the fund's marketing page. Before you chase the payout, you need to see what the strategy quietly takes back.
8/8/2026, 3:15:40 AM
ISPY markets a generous yield, but the real cost of that income does not appear anywhere on the fund's marketing page. Before you chase the payout, you need to see what the strategy quietly takes back.
8/8/2026, 2:05:40 AM
Retirement catches most people off guard, arriving not as a planned milestone but as a phone call, a diagnosis, or a layoff. The portfolio you build today either answers that moment or forces you to sell at the worst possible time.
8/8/2026, 1:30:18 AM
iPhone revenue surged 22% as Apple navigates supply constraints and memory cost inflation.
8/8/2026, 1:13:29 AM
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has reached a major milestone in India. The company generated $10 billion in annual sales for the first time while continuing to deliver double-digit growth and expand its retail presence in one of its fastest-growing markets. The achievement underscores Apple’s long-term opportunity in the region. Despite that progress, the market’s attention has […]
8/7/2026, 11:00:02 PM
Intel suspended its dividend in 2024 after a brutal stretch. Now the stock is up 389% over the past year, a real turnaround, and investors are asking whether the payout is finally coming back.
8/7/2026, 9:24:45 PM
Nonfarm payrolls fell 23,000 last month, following substantial downward revisions to the prior two months, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed on Friday.
8/7/2026, 9:24:45 PM
Nonfarm payrolls fell 23,000 last month, following substantial downward revisions to the prior two months, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed on Friday.
8/7/2026, 9:00:03 PM
Table below reflects daily flows on August 6, 2026 and asset totals as of that date.
8/7/2026, 8:43:00 PM
Thursday evening, MP Materials reported second-quarter Ebitda of $28.5 million, Wall Street was looking for $27.1 million.
8/7/2026, 8:39:00 PM
A legal battle between Apple and OpenAI over the ChatGPT-maker's secretive device project escalated this week when the artificial intelligence (AI) developer called the iPhone-maker's allegations "baseless" and asked for the lawsuit's dismissal. Apple sued OpenAI last month in San Jose, California, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker's trade secrets via former employees as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device.
8/7/2026, 8:38:10 PM
On July 30, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its fiscal third-quarter 2026 report, and the company’s shares dropped as much as 10% in the sell-off. This was a striking reaction to a quarter that produced record earnings per share and beat Wall Street’s revenue estimates. The drop says less about what Apple just did and more […]
8/7/2026, 8:36:44 PM
Downward revisions make July's slowdown harder to dismiss
8/7/2026, 8:20:00 PM
Yahoo Finance Tech Editor discusses reports that OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) is developing a $300+ puck-sized smart home device designed to compete directly with Amazon (AMZN) Alexa and Google Home
8/7/2026, 8:13:15 PM
Firefox developer Mozilla is warning that it could be forced to "exit the browser and browser engine markets" if it can no longer receive payment from Google for distributing its search engine.
8/7/2026, 7:46:09 PM
VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.
8/7/2026, 7:46:09 PM
VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.
8/7/2026, 7:46:09 PM
VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.
8/7/2026, 7:40:02 PM
The American economy shed 23,000 nonfarm payrolls in July. Wall Street answered with its best week since April. That is not a contradiction. It turns on the fact that has defined 2026 and that many investors still find uncomfortable: the Federal Reserve’s next move was supposed to be up. A shrinking payroll count took it off the table. The reversal lifted almost everything with a pulse. The Labor Market Did The Fed’s Work For It The U.S. forecast for July jobs was a gain of roughly 80,000. But g
8/7/2026, 7:04:21 PM
Canaccord Genuity Group (TSE:CF) shareholders approved all matters presented at the company’s fiscal 2026 annual general meeting, including the election of six directors, the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditor and an advisory vote on the company’s executive compensation approach. Dan D
8/7/2026, 6:50:00 PM
Walmart gets $2.4 billion, Apple $2.2 billion. And you? Nothing.
8/7/2026, 5:59:00 PM
Can the Nasdaq's tech-led rally continue in 2H 2026? Here are the key catalysts, risks and ETFs to watch.
8/7/2026, 5:24:15 PM
Broad Market Indicators Broad-market exchange-traded funds IWM and IVV edged higher. Actively
8/7/2026, 5:22:04 PM
Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, and Alphabet together account for $222.3 billion of the conglomerate's holdings
8/7/2026, 5:08:21 PM
Bank of America says investor optimism has reached its most extreme level since 2021.
8/7/2026, 5:07:43 PM
Company veteran John Ternus, who also worked under Steve Jobs, will succeed Cook this September. This is what’s at stake for the incoming executive.
8/7/2026, 4:30:51 PM
Apple has surged nearly 50% in a year and just posted its ninth straight earnings beat, so the $400 question is back on the table. Our model has a clear answer, and it might surprise the bulls.
8/7/2026, 4:16:33 PM
Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL) has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging misappropriation of confidential AI and hardware technology trade secrets. The complaint seeks a preliminary injunction that Apple says is needed to prevent irreparable harm to its core AI and device development work. The case could bring internal details of Apple's AI research, product security practices, and development processes into public view. Legal and competitive risks around AI intellectual property are back in focus...
8/7/2026, 3:47:00 PM
The tech sector is chock-full of companies with high-quality earnings growth.
8/7/2026, 2:54:26 PM
Three software stocks are posting some of the biggest single-day gains in the sector this year, and the catalysts driving them higher suggest the rally could be just getting started.
8/7/2026, 2:27:00 PM
Headline -23K new jobs was more than -100K below the +83K analysts were expecting.
8/7/2026, 2:27:00 PM
Headline -23K new jobs was more than -100K below the +83K analysts were expecting.
8/7/2026, 1:53:44 PM
Turning SPYI into a $2,000 monthly paycheck requires a commitment most investors underestimate, and the fund's own structure quietly works against anyone who treats that income as guaranteed.
8/7/2026, 1:31:52 PM
A brutal earnings miss sent one ad-tech giant into freefall while its closest rivals barely flinched, raising urgent questions about whether the company faces a temporary stumble or a much deeper structural breakdown.
8/7/2026, 1:19:28 PM
The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.3%, and the actively tra
8/7/2026, 1:19:28 PM
The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.3%, and the actively tra
8/7/2026, 10:39:04 AM
In an interview with Punchbowl News, President Trump said expanding data center infrastructure is critical to supporting AI growth.
8/7/2026, 10:39:04 AM
In an interview with Punchbowl News, President Trump said expanding data center infrastructure is critical to supporting AI growth.
8/7/2026, 9:50:00 AM
Some of America's largest growth stocks had a sluggish start to 2026, but they're bouncing back.
8/7/2026, 9:47:00 AM
The share prices of even the most valuable businesses can be highly volatile during earnings season.
8/7/2026, 4:15:53 AM
Goldman's covered-call ETF promises fat monthly checks from the same 500 stocks you can own for a fraction of the price elsewhere, but the fine print on where that income actually comes from changes the math entirely.
8/7/2026, 3:45:31 AM
XDTE promises weekly paychecks and a yield that turns heads, but the fine print buried in Roundhill's own factsheet raises an uncomfortable question about where those payments actually come from.
8/7/2026, 3:15:01 AM
VTI promises exposure to thousands of American companies, but the math behind its ten-year returns tells a very different story about where your money actually ends up.
8/7/2026, 1:52:05 AM
WTI crude crossed $78 as uncertainty over an Iran-Oman shipping agreement fueled inflation concerns.
8/7/2026, 1:52:05 AM
WTI crude crossed $78 as uncertainty over an Iran-Oman shipping agreement fueled inflation concerns.
8/7/2026, 12:51:53 AM
Two retirees, identical average returns, wildly different retirement outcomes. The culprit is a timing quirk that turns an ordinary market drop into a permanent loss, and most people heading into retirement have no idea how exposed they are.
8/6/2026, 9:27:17 PM
A fragile breakthrough could reshape inflation and rate expectations
8/6/2026, 9:04:39 PM
Dow ended lower following five consecutive sessions of gains.
8/6/2026, 9:04:39 PM
Dow ended lower following five consecutive sessions of gains.
8/6/2026, 7:30:00 PM
Most SCHD investors quit before the moment that changes everything: when their dividends start buying more shares each year than their own contributions do. Running the full 20-year projection reveals why that crossover point matters more than the starting yield.
8/6/2026, 6:55:53 PM
SPYI promises what covered-call ETFs almost never deliver: a fat monthly income check without quietly draining your principal. Three years of live NAV data finally exist to hold that promise accountable.
8/6/2026, 6:15:09 PM
A single ETF charging roughly four cents per $100 turned a modest investment into a small fortune over a decade, and the fee structure is the part of the story most investors never think to examine.
8/6/2026, 5:34:01 PM
The Fed's next decision is suddenly far less predictable
8/6/2026, 5:26:07 PM
One reassuring trend still faces a crucial employment test
8/6/2026, 5:15:58 PM
Joby Aviation just surged while its eVTOL rivals barely twitched, and the reason goes beyond a single earnings beat. Here is what the guidance raise, the new Texas hub, and the Toyota production ramp reveal about which players in electric aviation are pulling ahead.
8/6/2026, 2:19:44 AM
EWJ is up 18.5% this year, outperforming both the U.S. and international stocks broadly.
8/5/2026, 8:31:00 PM
These lowest-cost ETFs are an excellent tool for building long-term wealth.
8/5/2026, 6:27:09 PM
The S&P 500 is the single most popular investment in the world, and ETFs are the easiest, cheapest way to own it. You can get started with as little as $1, pay just a few dollars a year in fees, and own a stake in about 500 of America's leading companies in a single trade. Here's a complete beginner's guide to investing in the S&P 500 with ETFs — what the index is, how ETFs track it, and which funds to consider.
8/8/2026, 6:34:54 PM
JEPQ promises softer Nasdaq landings and a 10% yield, but the real question is whether those monthly checks and price cushions actually hold up when the index starts bleeding. The answer from two very different market storms might surprise income investors.
8/8/2026, 6:08:06 PM
VOO is closing in on a milestone no ETF has ever reached, and the race to a trillion dollars quietly exposes a structural flaw that SPY holders have been paying for since 1993.
8/8/2026, 6:08:06 PM
VOO is closing in on a milestone no ETF has ever reached, and the race to a trillion dollars quietly exposes a structural flaw that SPY holders have been paying for since 1993.
8/8/2026, 5:00:51 PM
VGT has quietly turned into a three-stock concentration problem for long-term holders, and selling to fix it means handing the IRS a check. There is a pairing strategy that rebalances the exposure without triggering a single taxable event.
8/8/2026, 4:27:05 PM
For three years, Greg Abel sat on one of the largest cash piles in corporate history while the market ran without him. Something just changed, and the new portfolio bets reveal exactly where Berkshire is placing its next big wager.
8/8/2026, 3:17:00 PM
ChatGPT went from generating roughly $10 million a month on Apple's App Store in Jan. 2024 to more than $275 million in July 2026. Apple did not build ChatGPT. It does not train it, run it, or market it. But every time someone subscribes, Apple collects a commission. That dynamic is playing out ...
8/8/2026, 12:34:58 PM
Apple has published a guide explaining how eligible Mac users in mainland China can connect Alibaba's Qwen artificial-intelligence service to the U.S. tech giant's Siri digital assistant and Writing Tools feature. The Mac-specific arrangement could help Apple compete in China's AI PC market, where it has been losing market share as domestic manufacturers such as Lenovo have promoted locally developed AI features. • Qwen is Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's family of generative-AI models, which can create text and images and analyse documents, photos and other material in response to user prompts.
8/8/2026, 9:04:00 AM
Buying Nvidia on the dip in the past has always paid off. It could do so again.
8/8/2026, 3:15:40 AM
ISPY markets a generous yield, but the real cost of that income does not appear anywhere on the fund's marketing page. Before you chase the payout, you need to see what the strategy quietly takes back.
8/8/2026, 3:15:40 AM
ISPY markets a generous yield, but the real cost of that income does not appear anywhere on the fund's marketing page. Before you chase the payout, you need to see what the strategy quietly takes back.
8/8/2026, 2:05:40 AM
Retirement catches most people off guard, arriving not as a planned milestone but as a phone call, a diagnosis, or a layoff. The portfolio you build today either answers that moment or forces you to sell at the worst possible time.
8/8/2026, 1:30:18 AM
iPhone revenue surged 22% as Apple navigates supply constraints and memory cost inflation.
8/8/2026, 1:13:29 AM
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has reached a major milestone in India. The company generated $10 billion in annual sales for the first time while continuing to deliver double-digit growth and expand its retail presence in one of its fastest-growing markets. The achievement underscores Apple’s long-term opportunity in the region. Despite that progress, the market’s attention has […]
8/7/2026, 11:00:02 PM
Intel suspended its dividend in 2024 after a brutal stretch. Now the stock is up 389% over the past year, a real turnaround, and investors are asking whether the payout is finally coming back.
8/7/2026, 9:24:45 PM
Nonfarm payrolls fell 23,000 last month, following substantial downward revisions to the prior two months, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed on Friday.
8/7/2026, 9:24:45 PM
Nonfarm payrolls fell 23,000 last month, following substantial downward revisions to the prior two months, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed on Friday.
8/7/2026, 9:00:03 PM
Table below reflects daily flows on August 6, 2026 and asset totals as of that date.
8/7/2026, 8:43:00 PM
Thursday evening, MP Materials reported second-quarter Ebitda of $28.5 million, Wall Street was looking for $27.1 million.
8/7/2026, 8:39:00 PM
A legal battle between Apple and OpenAI over the ChatGPT-maker's secretive device project escalated this week when the artificial intelligence (AI) developer called the iPhone-maker's allegations "baseless" and asked for the lawsuit's dismissal. Apple sued OpenAI last month in San Jose, California, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker's trade secrets via former employees as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device.
8/7/2026, 8:38:10 PM
On July 30, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released its fiscal third-quarter 2026 report, and the company’s shares dropped as much as 10% in the sell-off. This was a striking reaction to a quarter that produced record earnings per share and beat Wall Street’s revenue estimates. The drop says less about what Apple just did and more […]
8/7/2026, 8:36:44 PM
Downward revisions make July's slowdown harder to dismiss
8/7/2026, 8:20:00 PM
Yahoo Finance Tech Editor discusses reports that OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) is developing a $300+ puck-sized smart home device designed to compete directly with Amazon (AMZN) Alexa and Google Home
8/7/2026, 8:13:15 PM
Firefox developer Mozilla is warning that it could be forced to "exit the browser and browser engine markets" if it can no longer receive payment from Google for distributing its search engine.
8/7/2026, 7:46:09 PM
VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.
8/7/2026, 7:46:09 PM
VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.
8/7/2026, 7:46:09 PM
VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.
8/7/2026, 7:40:02 PM
The American economy shed 23,000 nonfarm payrolls in July. Wall Street answered with its best week since April. That is not a contradiction. It turns on the fact that has defined 2026 and that many investors still find uncomfortable: the Federal Reserve’s next move was supposed to be up. A shrinking payroll count took it off the table. The reversal lifted almost everything with a pulse. The Labor Market Did The Fed’s Work For It The U.S. forecast for July jobs was a gain of roughly 80,000. But g
8/7/2026, 7:04:21 PM
Canaccord Genuity Group (TSE:CF) shareholders approved all matters presented at the company’s fiscal 2026 annual general meeting, including the election of six directors, the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditor and an advisory vote on the company’s executive compensation approach. Dan D
8/7/2026, 6:50:00 PM
Walmart gets $2.4 billion, Apple $2.2 billion. And you? Nothing.
8/7/2026, 5:59:00 PM
Can the Nasdaq's tech-led rally continue in 2H 2026? Here are the key catalysts, risks and ETFs to watch.
8/7/2026, 5:24:15 PM
Broad Market Indicators Broad-market exchange-traded funds IWM and IVV edged higher. Actively
8/7/2026, 5:22:04 PM
Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, and Alphabet together account for $222.3 billion of the conglomerate's holdings
8/7/2026, 5:08:21 PM
Bank of America says investor optimism has reached its most extreme level since 2021.
8/7/2026, 5:07:43 PM
Company veteran John Ternus, who also worked under Steve Jobs, will succeed Cook this September. This is what’s at stake for the incoming executive.
8/7/2026, 4:30:51 PM
Apple has surged nearly 50% in a year and just posted its ninth straight earnings beat, so the $400 question is back on the table. Our model has a clear answer, and it might surprise the bulls.
8/7/2026, 4:16:33 PM
Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL) has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging misappropriation of confidential AI and hardware technology trade secrets. The complaint seeks a preliminary injunction that Apple says is needed to prevent irreparable harm to its core AI and device development work. The case could bring internal details of Apple's AI research, product security practices, and development processes into public view. Legal and competitive risks around AI intellectual property are back in focus...
8/7/2026, 3:47:00 PM
The tech sector is chock-full of companies with high-quality earnings growth.
8/7/2026, 2:54:26 PM
Three software stocks are posting some of the biggest single-day gains in the sector this year, and the catalysts driving them higher suggest the rally could be just getting started.
8/7/2026, 2:27:00 PM
Headline -23K new jobs was more than -100K below the +83K analysts were expecting.
8/7/2026, 2:27:00 PM
Headline -23K new jobs was more than -100K below the +83K analysts were expecting.
8/7/2026, 1:53:44 PM
Turning SPYI into a $2,000 monthly paycheck requires a commitment most investors underestimate, and the fund's own structure quietly works against anyone who treats that income as guaranteed.
8/7/2026, 1:31:52 PM
A brutal earnings miss sent one ad-tech giant into freefall while its closest rivals barely flinched, raising urgent questions about whether the company faces a temporary stumble or a much deeper structural breakdown.
8/7/2026, 1:19:28 PM
The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.3%, and the actively tra
8/7/2026, 1:19:28 PM
The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.3%, and the actively tra
8/7/2026, 10:39:04 AM
In an interview with Punchbowl News, President Trump said expanding data center infrastructure is critical to supporting AI growth.
8/7/2026, 10:39:04 AM
In an interview with Punchbowl News, President Trump said expanding data center infrastructure is critical to supporting AI growth.
8/7/2026, 9:50:00 AM
Some of America's largest growth stocks had a sluggish start to 2026, but they're bouncing back.
8/7/2026, 9:47:00 AM
The share prices of even the most valuable businesses can be highly volatile during earnings season.
8/7/2026, 4:15:53 AM
Goldman's covered-call ETF promises fat monthly checks from the same 500 stocks you can own for a fraction of the price elsewhere, but the fine print on where that income actually comes from changes the math entirely.
8/7/2026, 3:45:31 AM
XDTE promises weekly paychecks and a yield that turns heads, but the fine print buried in Roundhill's own factsheet raises an uncomfortable question about where those payments actually come from.
8/7/2026, 3:15:01 AM
VTI promises exposure to thousands of American companies, but the math behind its ten-year returns tells a very different story about where your money actually ends up.
8/7/2026, 1:52:05 AM
WTI crude crossed $78 as uncertainty over an Iran-Oman shipping agreement fueled inflation concerns.
8/7/2026, 1:52:05 AM
WTI crude crossed $78 as uncertainty over an Iran-Oman shipping agreement fueled inflation concerns.
8/7/2026, 12:51:53 AM
Two retirees, identical average returns, wildly different retirement outcomes. The culprit is a timing quirk that turns an ordinary market drop into a permanent loss, and most people heading into retirement have no idea how exposed they are.
8/6/2026, 9:27:17 PM
A fragile breakthrough could reshape inflation and rate expectations
8/6/2026, 9:04:39 PM
Dow ended lower following five consecutive sessions of gains.
8/6/2026, 9:04:39 PM
Dow ended lower following five consecutive sessions of gains.
8/6/2026, 7:30:00 PM
Most SCHD investors quit before the moment that changes everything: when their dividends start buying more shares each year than their own contributions do. Running the full 20-year projection reveals why that crossover point matters more than the starting yield.
8/6/2026, 6:55:53 PM
SPYI promises what covered-call ETFs almost never deliver: a fat monthly income check without quietly draining your principal. Three years of live NAV data finally exist to hold that promise accountable.
8/6/2026, 6:15:09 PM
A single ETF charging roughly four cents per $100 turned a modest investment into a small fortune over a decade, and the fee structure is the part of the story most investors never think to examine.
8/6/2026, 5:34:01 PM
The Fed's next decision is suddenly far less predictable
8/6/2026, 5:26:07 PM
One reassuring trend still faces a crucial employment test
8/6/2026, 5:15:58 PM
Joby Aviation just surged while its eVTOL rivals barely twitched, and the reason goes beyond a single earnings beat. Here is what the guidance raise, the new Texas hub, and the Toyota production ramp reveal about which players in electric aviation are pulling ahead.
8/6/2026, 2:19:44 AM
EWJ is up 18.5% this year, outperforming both the U.S. and international stocks broadly.
8/5/2026, 8:31:00 PM
These lowest-cost ETFs are an excellent tool for building long-term wealth.
8/5/2026, 6:27:09 PM
The S&P 500 is the single most popular investment in the world, and ETFs are the easiest, cheapest way to own it. You can get started with as little as $1, pay just a few dollars a year in fees, and own a stake in about 500 of America's leading companies in a single trade. Here's a complete beginner's guide to investing in the S&P 500 with ETFs — what the index is, how ETFs track it, and which funds to consider.