24/7 Wall St. Quick Read VXUS returned 21% through mid-December 2025 versus 17.7% for the S&P 500. Royal Bank of Canada (the fund’s largest holding at 0.54%) posted 29% year-over-year earnings growth. Forward P/E ratios for MSCI EAFE markets expanded from roughly 12x to 14x during 2025. A recent study identified one single habit that doubled Americans’ retirement savings and moved retirement from dream, to reality. Read more here. While most investors obsess over SPY and VOO, Vanguard Total In ...

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Joining us now is Pimco, global economic adviser, former Federal Reserve vice chair Richard Clara. It's great to have you here. Welcome back.>> Yeah, always enjoy it. >> So, how much do you read into this inflation print. >> I think there's some good news here.Obviously, distortions with the shutdown and some seasonals. Uh uh but I think you take the good news when you can can get it. Um and I think it reinforces the message out of the Fed last week, which is inflation is still pretty stubborn, but it's it' ...

Kalaris Therapeutics, Inc. ( KLRS ) is set to raise $50 million in a private placement by selling about 4.2 million shares at $10 each. Now, these sales also come with pre-funded warrants for 800,000 shares. The proceedsI hold a Master’s degree in Cell Biology and began my career working for several years as a lab technician in a drug discovery clinic, where I gained extensive hands-on experience in cell culture, assay development, and therapeutic research. That scientific foundation gave me an appreciation ...

This live blog is refreshed periodically throughout the day with the latest updates from the market.To find the latest Stock Market Today threads, click here. Happy Wednesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Dec. 17, 2025. You can follow the latest updates on the market here in our daily live blog. Update: 11:34 a.m ET In Focus: S&P 500 An astonishing 70.3% (3,912) U.S. issues are rising today against 26% (1,445) in decline. For a moment though, we turn our attention to the S&P 500(+1.04%) - ...

Key Takeaways Low P/S ratios highlight discounted valuations for companies with improving revenues and fundamentals.The screen favors stocks where strong sales show clearer value than earnings, mainly in early growth phases.Combining low P/S with solid balance sheets helps identify growth potential without paying a premium.Investing in stocks based on valuation metrics is a proven strategy for identifying opportunities with strong upside potential. While the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is a popular tool f ...

SLYV, by contrast, holds 454 stocks and maintains a similar sector weighting, with Financial Services at 23%, Consumer Cyclical at 16%, and Industrials at 15%. Its top holdings -- Borgwarner , Hecla Mining , and Lincoln National -- carry slightly higher portfolio weights. SLYV’s much larger assets under management may appeal to those prioritizing liquidity, but both ETFs avoid leverage, currency hedging, or environmental, social, and governance screens.ISCV tracks a broad collection of small-cap U.S. value ...

Camp at one of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects, in Alaska’s Ambler Mining District. (Image courtesy of Trilogy Metals.The 50/50 joint venture between Trilogy Metals (TSX, NYSE-A: TMQ) and South32 (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32) — sees 2026 as a pivotal year for the development of the Ambler mining district of northwestern Alaska.On Wednesday, Trilogy announced that Ambler Metals, the joint venture, recently approved a $35 million work program next year aimed at advancing the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (UKMP), which ...

Google now working on a new initiative that would challenge one of Nvidia's biggest advantages in AI. It's proprietary software. Dearra Bosa has more in today's tech check segment.Morning Dearra. Hey, good morning Sarah. So Google's chip challenge to Nvidia.It's moving from hardware to software. The main knock against those custom AI chips, TPUs, is that they're hard to adopt. Nvidia's e advantage is its ecosystem.So that's its chips and its CUDA software. If Google can crack the software and the adoption p ...

Electric air taxi company Joby Aviation aiming to double its US domestic production capacity with the goal of producing four aircraft every month by 2027. Joining us to discuss this morning first on CNBC [music] is the company CEO Joben Bever. Jobin, welcome back.Good to have you. >> Uh thank you so much. It's great to see you both.>> So what led to this uh this production forecast. So we're seeing unprecedented demand uh around the world and uh also with the president's ex executive order here in the US an ...