Stock market’s ‘sugar rush’ makes for a good time to purchase protective puts, Jeff Kilburg says

KKM Financial CEO Jeff Kilburg said the stock market’s latest record rally marks a good time for investors to turn to options to protect their portfolios in case of a downturn.

What’s next for Oracle’s stock? This upcoming event will offer clues. October 9, 2025
Next week’s analyst day is Oracle’s most anticipated in decades. These are the big questions investors have.
Christine Ji
Paramount has its eyes on Warner Bros. — but the big question is how to pay for it October 9, 2025
Paramount is reportedly looking for private-equity help with a possible $60 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, suggesting a deal may take longer than initially expected.
Lukas I. Alpert
Delta stock jumps as travel demand accelerates, leads to record revenue October 9, 2025
Customers tend to keep buying more expensive seats once they trade up, as the carrier’s full-year outlook improves and its load factor snaps a seven-quarter streak of misses
Tomi Kilgore
I’m having brain surgery. Will my heirs or the creditors get my money if I die? October 9, 2025
“I’m 47 and have a small amount of investments totaling about $45,000, and I also have the same amount in debt.”
Quentin Fottrell
Here are the 2026 capital-gains-tax rates for each income level. See where you fit in. October 9, 2025
The IRS on Thursday released a batch of annual tax-code adjustments, including the income ranges needed to notch the preferential tax rate on capital gains.
Andrew Keshner
I’m about to go on Medicare, but I had big capital gains last year. How long will I be stuck paying IRMAA surcharges? October 9, 2025
Nobody likes paying Medicare subsidies, but the pain is sometimes temporary.
Beth Pinsker
Can Nvidia reach $7 trillion? One of Wall Street’s biggest bulls now thinks so. October 9, 2025
The AI infrastructure build-out is still in its early stages, Cantor analysts say, as they see hundreds of billions of dollars in demand still ahead and believe Nvidia’s opportunity in the market has more to run.
Britney Nguyen
People pay a lot for insurance. Sometimes it’s not enough to protect them from disaster. October 9, 2025
Even as premiums are rapidly rising, critical gaps in coverage mean having insurance doesn’t guarantee financial protection.
Venessa Wong
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is in U.S. regulator’s sights. The stock is dropping. October 9, 2025
The probe centers on Tesla vehicles allegedly running red lights and violating other traffic laws.
Claudia Assis
What Treasury and the Fed are doing to limit how high bond-market yields can go October 9, 2025
The Treasury Department’s use of short-term bills to finance government spending, along with the Federal Reserve’s signal of more rate cuts in 2025, are keeping bond-market yields steady. And this should enable officials to finance the $1.8 trillion budget deficit for fiscal 2025, which ended Sept. 30.
Vivien Lou Chen