Brown & Brown has increased its dividend payments for 32 consecutive years, including a 10% dividend increase announced on Oct. 23, 2025. Brown & Brown is a member of the exclusive Dividend Aristocrats list thanks to its long dividend growth streak.

Markets are mostly range-bound, but precious metals and semiconductors remain "berserk" at record highs.

The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled what it called the “Great Healthcare Plan,” a broad framework aimed at addressing healthcare affordability, drug prices, and insurance transparency.

Success in the NQ requires identifying key levels (like the 62) and trusting the immediate response. A 50-handle move shouldn't be sweat; it should be execution.

MSFT announced 2 new multi-year carbon credit purchase deals, representing nearly 3 million tonnes of carbon removal, with the new agreements expanding the tech giant’s already substantial lead as the largest corporate purchaser of carbon removal.

Super Micro could eventually be a good tech stock to own again, and it's tempting to build positions in SMCI at under $30 a share. Still, investors may need more reassurance that Super Micro’s growth will indeed continue

Gold and Silver hit record highs, but valuation and technicals suggest a near-term pullback. Despite "metals mania mayhem," the long-term forecast remains 5546 as prices revert to value before the next climb.

The Australian dollar continues to see a lot of choppy behavior as we continue to hang around the 0.67 level, which is an area that I think has been like a magnet and an area that I think a lot of people will be paying close attention to.

American tech heavyweights do not report their December quarter until the week after. Ahead of this, the Nasdaq 100 continues to act lethargic.

Intel stock gains analyst upgrades from Citigroup and TD Cowen to $50 targets as foundry business and server CPU demand drive renewed Wall Street interest.

The idea is not higher returns at all costs but instead to have a portfolio that "behaves more predictably" when markets get hit.

We discuss whether indeed a Great Rotation is underway, 2026 outlook for GDP growth, bonds, inflation, the U.S. dollar and the Federal Reserve.

The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 now account for roughly 40% of the index’s total market capitalization. From 1880 to 2010, the top 10 averaged about 24% of the index.

It appears likely we will soon see a string of months where annual inflation is running 2.5% or below. That’s within shouting distance of the Federal Reserve’s target and may raise the odds of more rate cuts this year.

Market breadth has been strong and the overbought small caps are leading the way upward.

The realization that you can have an idea, a new idea, or a different idea, and you can be right, and the market, in general, can be wrong, is the single most powerful lesson.

Best of all, smallcaps behavior is the result of slow and steady market breadth broadening while S&P 500 isn't making much upside progress, and Big Tech is seeing relative setbacks.

Western Digital capped 2025 as one of the S&P 500's top-performing stocks, surging an astounding 282% and outpacing the index's 16% gain.

Donald Trump started 2026 by announcing a plan to increase annual military spending by $600 billion for next year – meaning that the military budget would reach a total of $1.5 trillion.

Markets entered the week at record levels and were challenged by a wave of political and geopolitical headlines that tested investor confidence. Policy rhetoric weighed on the financial sector, and geopolitics continued to influence energy stocks.