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Most high-yielding dividend stocks tend to be slower-growing companies. Because of that, the income stream makes up the bulk of the return you’ll earn on the investment.
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Contributing analyst to the iREIT+Hoya Capital investment group.
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Amidst the ongoing market turbulence, small-cap mutual fund schemes have emerged as one of the most impacted equity fund categories, experiencing the sharpest declines in their Net Asset Values (NAVs). For instance, for the 1-year SIP ended on February 18, 2025, the small-cap funds category delivered an XIRR returns of -18 per cent while the large-cap,
Navneet Munot, AMFI Chairman and HDFC Asset Management MD/CEO, stressed that India needs to move from being a nation of savers to investors.
He noted that a lot of Indians aren’t investing their savings properly, creating an opportunity for programs like ‘Chhota SIP.’
Munot said, “A typical Indian doesn’t look at saving as income minus expenditure.
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Warren Buffett wrote to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2014 that most investors shouldn’t try to pick individual stocks to buy because they couldn’t “predict their future earnings power.” Instead, he recommended that the typical investor buy a “low-cost S&P 500 index fund.”
Berkshire’s portfolio included two low-cost S&P 500 index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for several years: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY -0.42%) and the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO -0.42%).
A relatively small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up created a large language model (LLM) generative-AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But this isn’t the major story. The major story is the bomb the company dropped in January: that it reportedly trained its model using just $6 million and a couple thousand Nvidia (NVDA 0.63%) graphics processing units (GPUs).
Stock futures were struggling to find direction early Friday after dropping on Thursday. Earnings from Walmart, which competes with Amazon as the country’s biggest retailer, have cast a pall over the outlook for consumer spending—the biggest part of the economy.
The question now is whether stocks can bounce back.
The cryptocurrency market experienced mixed movements on February 21, with Bitcoin (BTC) crossing the $98,000 threshold while Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) posted modest gains.
The total global crypto market capitalization stood at $3.23 trillion, marking a nearly 1% rise from the previous day.
Meanwhile, total market volume surged by 8% to $90.13 billion,
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Kash Patel, the newly confirmed Federal Bureau of Investigation director, has significant exposure to Bitcoin BTC/USD, according to a financial disclosure.
What happened: Patel reported holding between $50,001 and $100,000 in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF GBTC and up to $15,000 in its “spin-off,” the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF BTC.
