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Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is officially joining the S&P 500 on July 9. Shares are up by more than 15% since the announcement, adding to what’s already been a stunning multi-year run. Since going public six years ago, Datadog has skyrocketed by over 4x, nearly triple the S&P 500’s return over the same period.

But even after that massive run,

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If someone told you the best way to invest in China’s booming AI ecosystem was through a 100-year-old South African media company, you’d probably do a double take. But here’s the thing that may actually be true, and it all comes down to Tencent and a few brilliantly timed decisions made more than two decades ago.

 » Read more about: The Best Way to Bet on China’s AI Boom Might Just Be in South Africa  »

It’s not every day you find a company bigger than Bank of America, American Express, and Goldman Sachs combined. Yet sitting near the top of the S&P 500 leaderboard is Mastercard (NYSE: MA), a payments powerhouse with a market cap hovering around half a trillion dollars.

In fact, Mastercard’s valuation puts it ahead of household names in finance and on par with tech icons,

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When it comes to generating passive income, it’s easy to fall for the lure of high-yield dividend stocks but there’s often a catch with those eye-popping yields. Sometime, they signal companies that have maxed out their growth potential and are simply returning excess cash because they don’t have better places to put it.

That’s why seasoned investors sometimes prefer a different route,

 » Read more about: Why This Dividend Growth ETF Might Be a Smarter Play Than Chasing High Yields  »

NVDL is shorthand for the GraniteShares 2× Long NVDA Daily ETF, a leveraged fund that’s designed to return twice the daily performance of NVIDIA stock.

So, is NVDL a smart play or a high-voltage hazard?

Key Points

• NVDL delivers 2× NVIDIA’s daily returns, not long-term gains.

• Traders use NVDL to amplify short-term bets on NVIDIA without options or margin accounts.

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Howard Marks has built his 50‑year reputation on buying what everyone else is overlooking and waiting patiently for the narrative to swing his way. So when Oaktree Capital’s first‑quarter 2025 filing revealed a brand‑new 18.8 million‑share position in Nokia (2 % of the equity book, at roughly $5 a share) many investors did a double‑take ,telecom hardware is hardly Oaktree’s home turf.

 » Read more about: Why This Billionaire Loaded Up Former Deadbeat Stock  »

When the rest of Wall Street was riding the AI-fueled tech rally last year, the Oracle of Omaha was quietly doing the opposite, selling more stocks than he bought and stacking cash to the tune of a staggering $347 billion. While the S&P 500 was hitting fresh highs and investors were throwing money at growth stocks,

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Imagine putting $2,000 into a stock and forgetting about it. No fiddling, no panic-selling, no checking your account every day. You look up a few decades later and you discover your modest investment has ballooned into more than $1 million.

That’s not a fantasy. That’s what actually happened if you invested in O’Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ: ORLY) when it went public 32 years ago.

 » Read more about: What If You’d Invested $2,000 in O’Reilly Automotive in 1993?  »

Stanley Druckenmiller who famously helped George Soros break the Bank of England in 1992 has just ditched one of Wall Street’s most hyped artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.

So, what did he sell? Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR). While most investors were busy chasing the AI boom, Druckenmiller was building a large position in a drugmaker.

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AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) isn’t exactly the comeback kid just yet, but you might want to keep it on your radar.

Over the past month, shares have quietly climbed 14.96%, a surprising twist for a stock that’s still down more than 39% from last year and worse from its meme stock mania highs,

 » Read more about: Is AMC Entertainment Staging a Monster Comeback?  »