On Thursday, Amazon unveiled its first-ever quantum computing chip. This follows similar announcements from Microsoft and Google.
Research into quantum computing, which could speed up some computing tasks by orders of magnitude, used to happen largely within academic labs. But private sector investment in quantum computing has grown 10-fold in the past decade.
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There are plenty of ways to categorize stocks. Some investors think of growth stocks versus value or dividend stocks. Or megacap, large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap if you sort by market capitalization. There’s also a more formal organization technique based on stock market sectors.
According to the most commonly used classification system,
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Kinder Morgan (KMI) is a blue-chip energy payer that boasts 79,000 miles of pipelines, which transport crude oil,
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Not so long ago, Reserve Bank (RBNZ) Governor Adrian Orr often appeared intent on pulling the rug out from under the financial markets.
Now, he’s rolling out the red carpet for them.
Often times, particularly during the monetary policy tightening of 2021-2023 Orr and the RBNZ’s Monetary Policy Committee produced Official Cash Rate (OCR) decisions and commentaries that seemed aimed at blindsiding financial markets.
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A choppy February for investors was punctuated by a poor reading on consumer confidence, a soft report on consumer spending, and a sell-off across many of the momentum trades that had defined the market action this year.
“The fear here among a lot of investors now [has] become that the economy could be slowing down faster than the Fed is willing to react,
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US consumer spending fell for the first time in nearly two years in January and the goods trade deficit widened to a record high as businesses front-loaded imports to avoid tariffs, setting up the economy for weak growth or even a contraction this quarter.
While the data from the Commerce Department on Friday also showed a moderation in annual inflation last month,
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When it comes to securing a comfortable retirement, few tools are as powerful as a well-managed 401k plan. These employer-sponsored retirement accounts offer tax advantages, employer matches, and long-term growth potential.
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‘Where these things usually end is with Trump making some kind of announcement that he won,’ says Western University’s Matthew Lebo
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As the current bull market rages on, now midway into its third year, some investors are beginning to worry that the tides are turning. According to the most recent weekly survey from the American Association of Individual Investors, a whopping 60% of U.S. investors feel bearish about the market’s future — the highest that figure has been in the last 12 months.
The S&P 500 has soared in the double digits over the past two years as investors have piled into growth stocks and bet on their successes in a lower interest rate environment. Growth companies generally outperform when they can more easily borrow to develop and expand, and a stronger economic backdrop means consumers have more money to spend on these players’
