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Five Small Caps Paying Super-Sized Yields Up To 15.3%

Small-cap stocks are the cardiac kids of the market. They can bring high risk, and with that high risk can come high reward.

ByBrett Owens,

Contributor

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This Small-Cap Manager Is Up 94%, Betting On Hidden Drivers In The New Economy

Needham’s John Barr is trouncing the market investing in overlooked companies powering AI, defense and national infrastructure.

BySergei Klebnikov,

Forbes Staff

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Software Was The Safest Bet In Leveraged Loans. AI Fear Changed That

For two decades software was the loan that big credit investors wanted most. In 2026 the funds that buy those loans started treating it as a liability.

ByDara-Abasi Ita,

Contributor

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Where The ‘Boring’ Asset Class Crowd Meets AI In 2026

A guide to the 2026 conferences where investors in fixed income, securitized credit, municipal bonds, private credit and cash are working out what artificial intelligence actually changes.

ByDara-Abasi Ita,

Contributor

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AI Debt Floods The Bond Market, And Fidelity Is Backing Away

Hyperscalers will sell hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds to build data centers this year. One of the country’s largest bond managers says the math no longer favors buyers.

ByDara-Abasi Ita,

Contributor

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2 Tech Funds With Momentum, Discounts And 6.1%+ Dividends

One of the best things about high-yielding closed-end funds (CEFs) is that they can post big gains and be strong bargains at the same time.

ByMichael Foster,

Contributor

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The Quiet Bet Investors Are Making On The Unglamorous Side Of AI

Venture money chased AI security in 2025 and fled cloud security. The split shows how investors now price the cost of running AI, not the payoff.

ByDara-Abasi Ita,

Contributor

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The Real Reason AI Doesn’t Show Up In The GDP Statistics

GDP does not need to be redefined for the AI age. The harder measurement problem is how price indexes account for rapidly changing quality and falling prices.

ByJames Broughel,

Contributor

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Fear Inflation? Now Is A Great Time To Buy TIPS

The real yield on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities is close to an all-time high. Good news for retirees and anyone worried about the 3.8% increase in the CPI.

ByWilliam Baldwin,

Senior Contributor

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Oil Prices End The Week Lower On U.S.-Iran Diplomatic Moves

Oil prices fell on Friday on diplomatic overtures to bridge differences between Washington and Tehran, as the global inflationary impact of the Iran War continues.

ByGaurav Sharma,

Senior Contributor

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Buy Or Sell Oracle Stock At $230?

Indeed, Oracle is priced at a noticeable premium. When examining the multiples, its price-to-sales ratio is at 9.9, compared to the S&P 500 average of 3.2.

ByTrefis Team,

Contributor

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Why Did Broadcom Stock Shed 15% After Bookings Tripled?

In reality, the CEO was discussing acaccelerating growth in AI semiconductor revenue and demand that is simply unquenchable.

ByTrefis Team,

Contributor

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Payroll Growth Up In May As Labor Market Strengthens - What’s Going On?

payroll growth, unemployment, labor force, inflation, oil prices, interest rates

ByHarry Holzer,

Contributor

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International Equities Are Outperforming — But Is The Rotation Real This Time?

The best bet is not to treat this as binary. The structural arguments for diversifying away from full U.S. concentration are valid regardless of which direction the next 90 days go. What has changed in 2026 is that those structural arguments have been joined by cyclical support — fiscal stimulus, dollar weakness, valuation discount — in a way that makes the near-term risk-reward for international equities genuinely more attractive than it has been in years. That is not a guarantee of outperformance, but it is a real shift in the probability distribution.

ByJason Kirsch,

Contributor

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Making Sense Of The AI IPO Tsunami Heading For Wall Street

The AI IPO wave will reveal whether OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX can turn private-market valuations into durable public-market demand.

ByPaulo Carvão,

Contributor

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Hot IPO Market, Led By SpaceX, Is Making Economy More Fragile, Unstable

AI-IPOs are exciting but arriving at a moment when AI‑infrastructure spending is rising so quickly that it is reshaping the U.S. economy’s vulnerability to shocks.

ByHersh Shefrin,

Contributor

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The Modern Homestead: Why $100 Billion Can’t Build Starter Homes Yet

Working families are priced out as investors dominate starter homes. This analysis shows how Opportunity Zones could rebuild ownership in distressed U.S. neighborhoods.

ByJonathan Tower,

Contributor

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Is Corning Stock The Ultimate Hidden AI Gem?

While the S&P 500 achieved a commendable +30% increase, GLW greatly surpassed both the overall market and its industry competitors.

ByTrefis Team,

Contributor

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The Dollar’s Slow Bleed And What It Means For Your Portfolio

The U.S. dollar index has fallen below 97.0, reaching a four-year low against a basket of major currencies.

ByJason Kirsch,

Contributor

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The 3 Bets On AI Coming For The Operator Economy

In April, a self-storage roll-up hired AI’s first chief from Nvidia. The choice operators make next is a wager on one of three rival theses about how agentic AI actually reaches the back office.

ByDara-Abasi Ita,

Contributor