When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.
Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.
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People walk by the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Trades of tariff refunds have ballooned since the Supreme Court struck down many of President Trump’s tariffs.
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When the Supreme Court struck down a huge portion of President Trump’s tariffs last month,
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The conflict raging in the Middle East will test the resilience of a global economy buffeted by tariffs and other trade disruptions over the past year.
Barely a week into the latest turmoil in the region, there are already signs of strain along the carefully orchestrated arteries of global trade: from rice exports stuck at ports in India to spikes in the price of fertilizer critical to food production.
The investing strategy of famous investor Cathie Wood and her Ark Invest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) centers around disruption and innovation. Ark states explicitly on its website that “Innovation should displace industry incumbents, increase efficiencies, and gain majority market share” — hence the firm’s approach.
For the most part, such disruptive businesses plow their free cash flow back into keeping the innovation train running rather than funneling it toward shareholder remuneration.
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Global X Defense Tech ETF (SHLD) is up 70.68% over the past year. A $1,000 inception investment grew to $2,480.51.
SHLD holds Palantir at 5.26% and sits over 51% in Industrials including Lockheed Martin, RTX and General Dynamics.
The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks.
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Royal Caribbean Cruises, like all cruise operators, is deeply concerned about rising oil prices resulting from the Iran war. In yesterday’s options trading, RCL had two unusually active options in the …
On Jan. 5, 2025, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA) into law, repealing two onerous Social Security provisions: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) – or the “Evil Twins,” as the late columnist Mike Causey dubbed them. The law restored full Social Security benefits to millions of retired public service workers,
More and more individual investors are turning to artificial intelligence for stock research and investing to gain an edge over the market.
A Reddit user recently said he used AI startup Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 large language model to build a stock-picking system based on Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
