Isa investors are continuing to back the US stock market despite its recent wobbles, while also investing in gold, clean energy and UK shares.
US focussed funds make up four of the top ten exchange traded funds most held by Isa investors, on investment platform Trading 212.
US large caps,
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Paladin Energy (PALAF) has been served with a class action proceeding in the Supreme Court of Victoria. The company said, “The class action alleges that Paladin made misleading representations and contravened its ASX continuous disclosure obligations between 27 June 2024 and 11 November 2024. Paladin intends to strongly defend this claim.”
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This is all pretty embarrassing.
It’s been two weeks since President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff speech launched a global trade war,
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China is taking the trade war to a new battleground: America’s TikTok feeds.
Chinese suppliers have been flooding American social media this week, urging users to outflank President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs on Beijing by buying directly from their factories.
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The tech market took it on the chin on Wednesday as the trade war picked up steam and the Federal Reserve sounds like it’s not going to bail out the market.
Big tech in both the U.S. and China were hit hard today. Broadcom (AVGO -2.30%) fell as much as 6.7%,
US stocks tumbled on Wednesday as investors were reminded of the costs President Trump’s tariffs will have for major companies and the challenges these policies may present for the broader US economy.
The market sell-off intensified in the final hours of trading as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered perhaps his starkest warning yet on the potentially stagflationary effects of Trump’s tariff policies.
As markets digested implications of several fiscal policy changes over the past 2 months, a predictable trading pattern emerged. Stocks and interest rates moved lower together. This isn’t always the way things work, but it is typical during moments where investors are rapidly shedding risk and seeking safer havens.
The pattern broke down last week,
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Wall Street economists are tweaking their GDP growth estimates as new data trickles in, with Trump’s tariff whipsaw still firmly in the background.
The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tool, which uses already released data to forecast the quarterly pace of economic growth, now projects that GDP fell by 2.2% in the first three months of the year,
The sweeping tariffs enacted by President Donald this week are having huge impacts on the stock market and international trade. Joe Bert, certified planner and Chairman/CEO of Certified Financial Group in Altamonte Springs, joined FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer to discuss how these tariffs could impact your investments and retirement funds and the importance of staying away from emotional decisions when it comes to your accounts.
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As recession fears mount following Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, US media and internet companies face a potential multibillion-dollar hit to ad spending that could potentially deliver the death knell to traditional television advertising.
“Given the ongoing secular headwinds facing the linear TV ecosystem, we worry that television could mirror the fate of radio and newspapers during past recessions,”
