Meta stock is on the rise.
Shares of Meta Platforms (META), the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, jumped early Thursday, rising more than 4%. The shares remain off 2025 highs, but have jumped out of the hole into which they’d stumbled in April.
The stock is being driven higher by quarterly financial results and related executive commentary,
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NEW YORK — Microsoft and Meta Platforms led Wall Street higher Thursday after the Big Tech companies reported profits for the start of the year that were even bigger than analysts expected.
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% for an eighth straight gain, its longest winning streak since August. The Dow Jones industrial average added 83 points,
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PepsiCo just kicked off 2025 on the wrong foot, posting disappointing first-quarter results and slashing its full-year guidance. The market didn’t take it lightly. Shares tumbled to a fresh 52-week low, and are now down over 19.8% over the 6 months, approaching levels not seen in nearly five years.
But here’s the twist,
Bipartisan support for banning U.S. senators and representatives from buying and selling stocks while they’re in office is picking up momentum. President Trump recently stated that he would “absolutely” sign legislation to that end if it comes to his desk.
If you’re hoping to get great investing ideas from Capitol Hill,
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Social Security recipients depend on cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to keep up with rising prices. Absent those annual pay increases, benefits would fall behind inflation and lose purchasing power over time.
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NEW YORK, May 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Guggenheim Investments today announced that certain closed-end funds have declared their distributions. The table below summarizes the distribution schedule for each closed-end fund (collectively, the “Funds” and each, a “Fund”).
The following dates apply to the distributions:
Record Date May 15,
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Retirement investing used to mean picking between stale index funds, overpriced mutual funds or praying your target date fund didn’t flatline. But what if you could use that same 401(k) or IRA to invest in a business you believe in or better yet, your own?
New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): The Indian mutual fund industry recorded net inflows of approximately Rs 25,000 crore in the last quarter, according to a report by Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company.
The inflows were largely driven by equity-oriented schemes, even as debt funds saw outflows.
The report said,
By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the stock market was climbing in January 2024, Donald Trump knew exactly who deserved credit: He did.
Nearly a year before his return to the White House, he declared on his Truth Social platform that investors were celebrating his lead in the polls against President Joe Biden.
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Analyst and trader Kevin Svenson is leaning bullish on Bitcoin (BTC) amid the flagship crypto asset rising by over 15% over the past month.
Svenson tells his 82,800 YouTube subscribers that, based on the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator, a tool used to identify changes in market trends and sentiment,
