The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s investment in Waste Management (NYSE:WM) may seem surprising at first glance. After all, the foundation is known for its focus on global health and development, not trash removal.
The rise of financial technology (fintech) in Brazil has been a major force for change in the country’s economy. Driven by technological innovation and fierce market demand, fintech has made financial services more accessible and efficient for millions of Brazilians.
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Sometimes you look at a chart and just get giddy with excitement about the prospects of selling the tippity top or buying the absolute low.
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Have you ever been to a public restroom and wondered how the company that runs the soap dispensary fares? If not, let me lift the veil. If so, you may already be familiar with the name Cintas.
Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ:CTAS) is a leading provider of restroom supplies,
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It really sucks missing a big move, but it’s happened us all. The question is how do you profit from it after the fact, when it seems like the ship has already sailed. Below, I’ll show you a way that has the potential to 2x your money over time, even if you think you have missed out.
Some indicators aren’t well known or understood but can be highly effective when used by proficient traders. SKEW is one such indicator; it measures the perceived tail risk of the distribution of S&P 500 investment returns over a 30-day horizon.
Recently, I stumbled across a little-known New York investment manager, called Wall Street Access Asset Management. What intrigued me about their portfolio is that it holds about 25 positions, however 53.4% of the portfolio is concentrated in just the top 7 holdings.
Buying stocks is easy but when should you sell them? Today we’ll take a look at a specific example of precisely when to take profits, and move to the next best trading idea.
We’re going to use Upstart for our case study. In the chart below, you can see Upstart was in a a bullish trend since early May.
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On June 6, we featured IONQ. If you’re not familiar with it, IonQ is a quantum computing company that develops and operates trapped ion quantum computers.
The technology uses individual atoms as qubits, which are the basic units of information in a quantum computer. IonQ’s computers are designed to solve the world’s most complex problems,
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Rates are going up everywhere, at least that’s what the financial press would have you believe. On July 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell oversaw a rate hike that placed interest rates at 22 year highs, pegging them at 5.25-5.50%.
The market had largely priced in the rate hike and so the S&P 500 fell just 0.17% on the day.
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