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With news breaking recently of a drone attack by Ukraine on Moscow, it appears the stakes have risen and tensions escalated.

Amid the backdrop of war, defense contractors are a natural play on the markets. And they don’t necessarily even need the US to get involved to benefit.

Reportedly, President Biden stated that many of the so-called aid packages to Ukraine are in fact funds that never leave US shores but instead land in the coffers of defense contractors,

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When Warren Buffett first started to snap up shares of Kraft Heinz in 2013 and closed a deal to acquire 26.6% of the firm in 2015, it seemed like a masterstroke from the Oracle of Omaha.

Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) had all the elements,

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I’m old enough to remember when Oracle was $13 per share in 2003 and by 2006 it was still $13 per share.

The company seemed as old and boring and stodgy as any tech company could become. It was almost like an IBM relic that would gather dust, selling software to enterprises and producing a boatload of cash flow but really doing nothing to excite investors or innovate.

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In spite of recent share price turbulence, NVIDIA has been on an astonishing run over the past 5 years with the stock gaining a remarkable 2,317%.

To give you a sense of the magnitude of the bull run, NVIDIA’s revenues were $10 billion in 2020, but have soared to $60.9 billion in the intervening years.

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Prospect Capital Advisors isn’t a big name fund but it’s put almost 10% of its fund into a single stock, Silicon Motion Technology.

For a fund overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars, this is quite a bet. Why risk it all on a little-known stock when you can follow the herd into Apple,

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Deep down in the filings of an $8 billion money manager is a holding that has the potential to rise by as much as 41%.

William Jones isn’t a name familiar with many investors as Warren Buffett or Ray Dalio may be but the enormous assets under management demand a closer look as to what he’s picking and why.

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Buffett may be richer than Stan Druckenmiller, but he can’t claim a perfect trading record without a single down year as the founder of Duquense Family Office can.

And in its latest filings, Duquense has snapped up a company that is so far under most radars, it likely is invisible. That company is GE Vernova (GEV) and it’s got some bullish catalysts that may well be worth spending a little time on to see if they compel you to buy as they did Stan.

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While the market has generally been trending higher this year with various bumps in the road, Starbucks has had an altogether different journey and remained largely flat over the past 12 months. Worse still, until its recent CEO switchover, it had been decidedly under water.

The fundamentals have been fairly underwhelming for some time as earnings reports have revealed.

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As ever more customers are turning to online retail, global e-commerce revenue is projected to grow at an annual growth rate of 9.5%, reaching an astonishing volume of $6.48 trillion by 2029.

Among the most promising e-commerce firms now is arguably one of the original pioneers in the space, eBay. Here’s why.

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Today, music streaming accounts for 84% of music industry revenue, and the sector is still growing. Revenue is expected to reach $30 billion by 2025, and the popular audio-streaming Europe-based platform Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) is leading the way.

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