The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price.

After 26 years locked at the same price, QQQ finally cut its fee, and it still costs twice as much as its closest rival. Whether that gap matters depends on a distinction most investors have never thought to make.

Amazon's shares have underperformed the S&P 500 index in recent months, setting up a very attractive buying opportunity. Its mix of double-digit percentage e-commerce/Ads/subscription net sales growth and accelerating AWS sales/custom silicon net sales bodes well for the future. Amazon concluded Q2 2026 with a net debt balance of $5.9 billion.

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Average investors can learn some valuable lessons from these two legends.

Form 13Fs allow investors to track which stocks Wall Street's smartest fund managers have been buying and selling. Aug. 14 was the deadline for thousands of institutions and asset managers, including several well-known billionaire investors, to file their 13Fs covering second-quarter trading activity.

Stanley Druckenmiller ran Duquesne Capital for 30 years, generating phenomenal average annual returns in the process. Druckenmiller sold two big winners in the second quarter and piled into two companies viewed as leaders in robotics.

Elon Musk just publicly declared Delta's Wi-Fi strategy a slow-moving disaster, and 50,000 people agreed. But the real question is whether angry posts on X translate into something Delta's finance team actually has to worry about.