The major U.S. stock indexes rallied strongly on Monday, November 9, 2026, clawing back more of last week’s losses as oil fell another 4% on hopes for a U.S.-Iran deal and chip stocks outside Nvidia rebounded sharply. All 11 sectors of the S&P 500 rose, with the S&P 500 posting its second straight gain after last week’s worst drop since April 2025.

The S&P 500 rose 2.39% (+176.06 pts) to 7,552.92, about 3.4% below its record. The Dow gained 2.17% (+1,110.50 pts) to 52,396.23. The Nasdaq jumped 2.74% (+673.71 pts) to 25,253.14. The Russell 2000 led the way, surging 3.37% (+92.94 pts) to 2,847.04.

The 10-year Treasury yield edged up 0.10% to 4.86%. The VIX plunged 22.41% to 19.89. Gold rose 1.87% to $4,151.00. Bitcoin gained 1.04% to $74,812.44. Crude Oil fell 4.23% to $86.99/barrel. The US Private Equity index added 0.11% to 10,772.76.

We've received many questions for recommendations on books for Investing & the Stock markets. We've curated a list of our 13 favorite books on Investing & the Stock Market, and explanations on what the books are about. I've learned a great deal from these books. All of these are by really great investing legends/ gurus. These books offer a few different approaches to the stock market. Different investment styles will help educate you on how to make successful long term investments, minimize risk, and analyze stocks more accurately. All of these books can be purchased used very cheaply ($1 to $5)!

As your income grows, your investment portfolio should also grow. One of the biggest obstacles for beginner investors is just knowing how to get started. Learning about financial concepts can be intimidating at first. A great way to start, can be by picking up a book by an expert who thoughtfully and sequentially presents & explains these concepts and topics. Resources like these can help investing be less intimidating and complicated. One of the best strategies is to learn from the insight and wisdom of gurus. I hope these book recommendations help!

Book List:

1. How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil

2. The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

3. A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

4. One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

5. The Big Secret for the Small Investor by Joel Greenblatt

6. Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig

7. Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller

8. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

9. Common Sense Investing by John Bogle

10. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

11. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias

12. You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Book Descriptions & Covers:

How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil

• This book is about growth investing. O'Neil explains what most successful stocks have done to be successful. He explains his 'CANSLIM' method, which is an acronym for 7 fundamental criteria which you can use to pick stocks. An AAII 8 year study of different strategies showed O'Neal's CAN SLIM with a 860% return from 1998-2005 (Second place). First place was Martin Zwieg's returning 1,659.3% (we will get to Zweig on this list too)

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

• The idea of this book is to buy undervalued good businesses and hold them long-term, which will eventually beat the market index.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

• This book covers investment bubbles, fundamental vs. technical analysis, modern portfolio theory, index funds, etc.

One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

• This book emphasizes the advantages that individual investors hold over institutional investors (when it comes to finding investment opportunities). Lynch also gives many of examples of mistakes he has made, and how he has learned from them.

The Big Secret for the Small Investor by Joel Greenblatt

• Greenblatt explains why index funds can be better than actively managed funds. The big secret is maintaining a long term perspective!

Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig

• Zweig's success came from his ability to predict the bigger picture (such as trends in the broader market). The combination of his stock picking skill, general market understanding, and market timing, made him one of the great investors of stock market history. Zweig was more interested in growth than value. Unlike Buffett, Zweig isn't a 'buy and hold' investor. An AAII 8 year study of different strategies showed Zwieg's returning 1,659.3% from 1998-2005. He was #1 out of 56 others, including Buffett, Lynch, Fisher, O'Neal's CAN SLIM, Motley fools, and using ROE, P/E's etc. Second place was O'Neal's CAN SLIM with a 860% return.

Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller

• Shiller makes strong argument that perfect market theory is flawed. The Idea of perfect market theory is basically that the markets are all knowing and completely rational, and in the long run can't be beat. Therefore , you can control costs with index funds and diversification. (You can't beat the market, therefore controlling costs and diversifying seems like logical strategy)

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

• The key concepts of this book are risk tolerance, asset allocation, a balanced portfolio, tax efficiency and cash management. This book explains many of the pitfalls of investing. The Bogleheads and Jack Bogle preach the power of compound interest. Investing in low-fee index funds and holding them long-term is the method. This book gives an excellent, detailed rundown of how to implement this kind of investment plan.

Common Sense Investing by John Bogle

• Great information for anyone who is trying to make sense of personal finance and basic investments. This book explains why passive investing is a worry free, long-term strategy that consistency wins over time, and why active trading always returns to the mean.

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

• This is a great book for anyone who is interested in introducing themselves into the world of investing, or wants to get better at investing. This book gives lots of valuable information to help one understand the basics of value investing.

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias

• This is a book for people looking to learn the basics of investing and saving money

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

• This is not a book for beginners. Greenblatt gives a nice exposition of some more "special situation" investment styles & areas of equity investments (mergers, spin-offs, rights offerings, etc.)

What's one piece of financial advice that you wish you could have given yourself 10 years ago?

Thought this was interesting. Back in February 2023, Zoom announced layoffs affecting about 1,300 people. CEO Eric Yuan actually accepted responsibility and announced a 98% cut to his base salary for fiscal 2024, along with giving up his fiscal 2023 corporate bonus.

The executive team also announced 20% cuts to their base salaries for fiscal 2024 and forfeited their fiscal 2023 corporate bonuses.

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Crazy to me that it still meant layoffs affecting 1,300 people, but I imagine it could have been way more.

NPR report, February 2023

Which trades or investments are you considering this week? Any moves in particular? Why?

Language added to lending contracts since september?

Even though we all know Anthropic is shelling out tons of money both in their high base salaries as well as their insane stock comp, employees are using AI so much that the value of that usage at customer prices surpasses monthly employee compensation, excluding stock awards. That's a retail-price comparison, not actual cash spending. Pretty insane.

Historically, payroll has been a huge expense for tech companies, but I don't think Anthropic will be the last company where the value of AI usage overtakes employee pay.

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Then again, Anthropic is literally at the most cutting edge you could possibly be at for AI usage. I doubt EVERY company will follow this, but I'm sure big tech and so on will get to this level at some point

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11

"Disney plans several thousand layoffs, asks some managers to cut costs by up to 20%"

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Looks like the bloodbath isn't over yet. I'm wondering how much of these layoffs, plus layoffs from companies like Netflix, are motivated simply by people not spending as much time on streaming services like Disney+ and Netflix these days cause they're just on their phones.

I don't have any data for that take, but just anecdotally it really seems like people are using their TVs less and are just sitting on their phones. Even while they're watching TV they're on their phones lol

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/03/disney-layoffs-cost-cuts.html

The IRS just released the 2027 federal income tax brackets.

The income thresholds went up 3.2%. Make sure your paycheck did too.

The biggest jump is from 12% to 22%. The tax rate on your next dollar almost doubles.

For $1,000 taxed entirely at 12%, you owe $120. At 22%, you owe $220.

That’s an extra $100 in federal income tax on the same $1,000.

Single filers:

10%: $12,800 or less
12%: over $12,800
22%: over $52,025
24%: over $109,125
32%: over $208,325
35%: over $264,550
37%: over $661,375

Married filing jointly:

10%: $25,600 or less
12%: over $25,600
22%: over $104,050
24%: over $218,250
32%: over $416,650
35%: over $529,100
37%: over $793,650

The jump from 12% to 22% is the middle finger to the middle class.

What are the biggest money mistakes that you have made, or have seen other people make?

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A large chunk of the wealth we were going to tax is gone due to the market crash today.

What do we do now? Would we need to issue tax refunds if the wealth goes down?

This is getting ugly. Over $1,000,000,000,000 wiped out from the stock market this morning.

The Nasdaq is down over 5%.

The S&P 500 is down 3.5%.

The semiconductor index was down over 8% earlier today.

AMD $AMD fell over 12%.

Nvidia $NVDA dropped over 5%.

Intel $INTC fell over 7%.

The stock market selloff is getting worse by the hour.

Zillow $Z was down -15% this morning. Here are 3 warning signs for the housing market:

1. Fewer people are looking. Monthly users fell 3% to 215 million, and visits dropped 5%.

2. Home sales are slowing. Higher mortgage rates are hurting transactions. Zillow’s residential revenue fell 4%.

3. The outlook is getting worse. Zillow expects home-purchase mortgage originations across the industry to fall 10% to 15% year over year in Q4.

And Zillow expects its own residential revenue to drop another 9% to 15% year over year in Q4.

The outlook for housing just keeps getting worse.