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The post Will Fed Chair Pick Kevin Warsh Kill the Trump Bull Market? 1 Decision Matters More Than Anything Else appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read The S&P 500 has risen more than 900% since March 2009 largely due to ultra-loose monetary policy and quantitative easing that expanded the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet from $900 billion to nearly $9 trillion, though critics like incoming Fe

The post A 60-Year-Old With $1.7 Million in a 401(k) Has Three Years to Execute the Most Consequential Tax Move of Retirement appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read $310,000 Roth conversion at 17% effective rate before age 63 beats 24% RMD tax plus IRMAA surcharges. Execute three annual $103,350 conversions by December 31 of age 62 to e

The post This Indicator Just Did Something It Hasn’t Done in 75 Years. Is It the Biggest Risk to the Bull Market Before Midterms? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read The S&P 500 hit all-time highs and employers added 115,000 jobs in April, but the University of Michigan’s preliminary May consumer sentiment index fell to 48.2, the lowest level in the survey’s 75-year history dating b

The post A $185,000 Portfolio That Covers Your Groceries, Utilities, and Phone Bill Every Month appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read A $185,000 portfolio yielding 6.4% covers essential expenses at $990 monthly, but Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) requires $324,000 at conservative 3.7% yields. Realty Income (O) and Verizon (VZ)

The post The AI Threat Google Couldn’t Mount: Why This Expert Says Microsoft’s $70 Billion Cash Cow Is Vulnerable Now appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Microsoft (MSFT) faces structural risk to its $70B Office profit pool if generative AI reduces the per-seat subscription model’s core assumption: that one license covers each human doing cognitive work. Microsoft 365 Copilot paid

The post A $730,000 Portfolio That Pays More Than What Most Americans Earn at Work appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) yields 3.4% but needs $1.46M to replace median U.S. wages through dividends alone. Realty Income (O) hits the $51K target at 7% yield with $730K—but sacrifices growth that conse

The post A $500,000 Earner’s 401(k) Strategy That Builds $2.7 Million Tax-Free by 65 appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read $72,000 IRS 415(c) limit minus $39,000 employer funding leaves $33,000 after-tax Roth headroom yearly. Verify plan SPD explicitly permits after-tax contributions and in-plan Roth conversions before executing

The post Generational Risk: AI Is Making Kids 55% Dumber appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Students using AI tools for homework experience a 55% reduction in cognitive engagement during the task, with impairment effects that compound even after the tool is removed, distinguishing the measurement from permanent intelligence loss but raising concerns about how a generation develops learning capacit

The post Chip Stocks Are Soaring While Software Slows. Is a Reversal Looming? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read NVIDIA (NVDA) generated $68.13B in Q4 FY26 revenue, up 73% year over year with Data Center networking surging 263% and free cash flow of $96.58B, while AMD (AMD) rallied 91% in one month carrying a stretched P/E of 141 despite Q1 revenue growth of 38% to $10.25B. Salesforce (CRM) trades

The post Uh-Oh! President Trump’s Landmark Tax Cuts Bill Could Be What Kills the Trump Bull Market appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read S&P 500 trades near 23 times forward earnings while Nasdaq-100 trades at 25 times earnings, but Trump’s tax cut law included a fast-track IPO rule allowing mega-IPOs like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic to enter major indexes almost immediately, forcin

The post Before Your 401(k) RMDs Start at 73, Make Sure You Execute This Tax-Saving Move in Your 60s appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Converting $77,000 yearly at 13.5% costs $124,700 tax; RMDs after age 73 face 22-24% rates on $4M balance. Execute conversions before age 63 to avoid Medicare IRMAA surcharges; fund taxes from broke

The post Retirees With Over $1.2 Million in a Traditional 401(k) Are Being Warned About This Tax Bomb at 73 appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read $1.2M traditional 401(k) generates $52K first RMD, pushing taxable income to $93K and federal tax to $11K-$13K. Execute $135K-$150K Roth conversions ages 70-72 before RMDs begin to avoid $109

The post The Dollar’s Next Move Will Make or Break Your EDIV Returns Over the Next 12 Months appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (EDIV) — 7% year-to-date gain driven by yield-weighted emerging market dividend strategy. EDIV concentrates 70% of assets in five countries, creating outsize

The post How Your 401(k) Is Quietly Adding $3,500 a Year to Your Medicare Premium appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read $175K MAGI triggers tier 4 IRMAA, adding $385/month ($4,600/year) to 2026 Medicare premiums via two-year lookback. File Form SSA-44 immediately if income drops legitimately; run Roth conversions before age 63, not aft

The post Paul Tudor Jones Warns Trump-Era Market Boom Could End in a 35% Crash. Here’s Why He’s Still Buying Stocks appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), and Apple (AAPL) are the primary beneficiaries of AI infrastructure spending, as hyperscalers are investing at least $710 billion in capital expenditures on AI infrastructure this year. Paul Tudor Jones, the le

The post XRP Price Prediction: Can XRP Hit $20? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read XRP trades near $1.40 today with a market cap of roughly $87 billion and a circulating supply of 61.8 billion tokens. For XRP to reach $20, its market cap would need to grow to approximately $1.23 trillion. XRP ETFs led all crypto fund inflows the wee

The post What Chevron’s CEO Just Said About Global ‘Supply Outages’ Could Derail Trump’s Economic Momentum appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Chevron (CVX) CEO warned of potential “supply outages” in Europe, Asia, and Australia tied to the Iran conflict, which could raise global oil prices and push U.S. gasoline prices higher despite domestic production strength; a $0

The post The Goldman Sachs Retirement Survey Reveals That Americans with a Personalized Retirement Plan Have 27% More Savings appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Goldman Sachs Asset Management survey shows retirees with written personalized retirement plans have a 5.92x savings-to-income ratio versus 4.68x for those without plans, and 83% of working respondents with a plan believe they are on track

The post BlackRock’s Larry Fink Says AI Is Creating a New Trillion Dollar Asset Class — And Trump’s Policies May Accelerate It appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Nvidia (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), and Constellation Energy (CEG) are positioned closest to AI infrastructure trends, with Nvidia dominating AI GPUs while utilities like Constellation command premium valuations as data-center electrici

The post Goldman Sachs Retirement Survey 2025: People with High Financial Grit Retire with 49% More Savings appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Quick Read Goldman Sachs’ 2025 retirement survey shows that savers with high Financial Grit hold 49% more in retirement savings than low-grit savers earning identical incomes, driven by three habits: automated contributions on schedule, staying invested through