The stock market has a way of turning heroes into villains overnight, and Block is a perfect case study. Just a few years ago, it was one of the hottest names on Wall Street, riding high on the wave of digital adoption.
Fast forward to today, and the stock is trading nearly 80% below its all-time highs.
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If you’re the kind of investor who wants steady income, especially the kind that drops into your account every month like clockwork, the JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI) is tough to ignore.
The headline number is eye-catching, an 8.6% trailing yield, paid monthly. That’s not just high, it’s more than four times the yield of the S&P 500 and well above what most high-grade corporate bonds are paying right now.
Merck has long been a pillar of stability in the pharmaceutical world, thanks in large part to the staggering success of its cancer drug Keytruda. But behind that success lies a quietly growing concern of what happens when the patents expire?
In a move that could reshape its future, Merck just announced a $10 billion acquisition of Verona Pharma.
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Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical giant behind weight-loss blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy, just let a key patent on semaglutide lapse in Canada because it forgot to pay a routine maintenance fee, the pharmaceutical equivalent of forgetting to renew your car registration.
As a result, generic versions of semaglutide, the active ingredient in both drugs,
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BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) has all the buzzwords that investors love these days AI, defense, government contracts but does that make it a great investment?
Some traders are hoping the stock will 3x but as any seasoned investor knows, hope isn’t a strategy. If you’re wondering what it would actually take to get there,
SoundHound AI isn’t chasing the same crowded lane as other AI giants. Instead of building general-purpose AI models or chasing flashy headlines, it has carved out a very specific, and potentially lucrative, niche, voice AI.
At its core, SoundHound builds sophisticated voice recognition and natural language processing software that enables real-time, conversational interactions between humans and machines.
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In the world of rideshare investing, Uber tends to get all the attention. And with autonomous driving hype swirling around Tesla, it’s easy to overlook the other major U.S. player in the space. But if you’re willing to dig deeper, Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) might just be one of the market’s most overlooked opportunities.
Lyft targets the $59.2B U.S.
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For retirees or anyone focused more on stability than swing-for-the-fences growth, the S&P 500 isn’t always the most comforting choice. It’s heavily weighted toward large-cap tech names, and when those names fall out of favor, the whole index can wobble.
That’s why many investors approaching retirement gravitate toward dividend-focused funds. And one ETF in particular has emerged as a go-to is the Schwab U.S.
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The artificial intelligence gold rush has created winners and wannabes. Two companies at the center of that storm, C3.ai and CoreWeave, have taken very different paths in the race to capitalize on enterprise AI demand. Both play crucial roles in the AI stack, one builds the software brains, the other supplies the computational muscle. But only one of them has the market’s full attention.
Nvidia has been the undisputed king of the AI hardware empire.
But even monarchs can be overthrown, especially when their biggest allies start eyeing the throne.
Who’s threatening NVIDIA now and will they win?
Nvidia still leads AI hardware, but growth is slowing and major clients are building their own chips.
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