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The total value of companies in the private credit market has increased over the last year but the quality of much of the debt they have issued has declined, according to an analysis by Lincoln International, an investment bank advisory service that monitors that market.
The new data sheds some light on a $3 trillion market that has recently been unnerved by Blue Owl Capital’s decision to ban retail investors from cashing out of one of its private debt funds,
Meanwhile, at ICICI Prudential Dividend Yield Equity fund, which has been among the top-performing funds in this category over the past year with a gain of 16%, the focus is on buying companies that pay dividends consistently, even if they don’t have the highest dividend yield. “Rather than looking at one past dividend,
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) CEO Jensen Huang runs the world’s largest company and his placement on the ‘Mount Rushmore’ of tech leaders is all but secured. Yet, what we’re seeing across the past six months might be his greatest work to date,
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I’ve been saving up questions I’ve gotten from readers about benefits for spouses. It’s an issue I’ve covered a hundred times in this column. But the questions still keep coming. So, here is column No. 100 — one about benefits paid to wives and widows — and occasionally, husbands and widowers.
Q: I am about to turn 63 and am thinking of starting my Social Security then.
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1. Which are the best AI-resistant stocks right now?
Some of the strongest AI-resistant software stocks right now include Cloudflare, AppLovin, and MongoDB. These companies are not easily replaced by AI because they provide core infrastructure, advertising networks, or data platforms. Large firms like Microsoft and Oracle are also seen as safer bets because they supply the cloud systems that AI depends on every day.
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President Trump said in a press briefing on Friday that his administration will be placing a “10% global tariff … over and above the normal tariffs already being charged” now that the Supreme Court has struck down his wide-sweeping tariff regime.
In a 6-3 vote on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not give the president the authority to levy tariffs,
Brian Donnelly almost gave up on competing for US retail options order flow a little over a year ago. Volant Trading, the global market making firm Donnelly founded in 2006, struggled for three years …
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CME Group will launch 24/7 crypto futures and options trading on May 29, responding to record client demand and volumes.
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