The near assassination of former President Donald Trump plunged the country into a perilous situation. It’s unclear what the reaction would have been had Trump been struck lethally but as you can see, the proximity to death was a hair’s breath away.
Some estimate the final turn of his head, a 0.05 second movement was what saved his life.
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Diversify is the name of the game. Spread your eggs across a lot of baskets. That’s what the professionals say, but why then do the rich do the exact opposite so often?
Take Bill Gates, for example, he’s got 65% of his portfolio allocated to just 3 stocks. Billions upon billions of dollars are invested in less than a handful of stocks and one of them in particular is likely to really surprise you.
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Famously, a common pitfall of ordinary traders is to buy the dip and ignore the stocks going from strength to strength. It’s just so tempting to buy stocks that have sold off in the hopes of making the big returns while ignoring those powering higher from one day to the next.
If we turn our attention to those stocks that have been going higher this year,
In a move that has piqued the interest of many investors, Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently purchased call options on Broadcom.
Her stake, valued at somewhere between $1 million and $5 million, is a significant vote of confidence from a well-connected political figure. It also raises the question,
Riddle me this. If a stock is so awful why does the CEO keep buying so much of it? That’s precisely the situation with SoFi. The share price is down an astonishing 33% year-to-date and yet the boss keeps acquiring stock at a furious pace, and Motley Fool just ranked it one of the safest banks in America.
Spruce Point Capital has earned a reputation for highlighting companies with high downside risks that are potential shorts. Remarkably, they have spotted a highly bearish opportunity in Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway portfolio.
Their attention has honed in on Floor & Decor, which Spruce Point believes has expanded too aggressively and is now entering markets with lower median incomes that will not sustain current margins.
Weirdly enough, Roku started out as a project within Netflix, when the streaming giant decided it didn’t want to compete with Apple and Amazon in the TV hardware market.
Since then Roku has gone on to become a leading player in the connected TV market, featuring sports, live news, movies and a vast array of content.
Buffett seems to know something about where energy prices are going, but what is it? Why is he taking such a large stake in Occidental Petroleum when the share price has been drastically underperforming the broader-based market?
Up just 9.4% in the past 12 months and 4.3% so far this year, OXY is a laggard relative to the S&P 500,
Last quarter the third largest buy in one billionaire’s portfolio was Natera. If you haven’t heard of it don’t fret, most people haven’t.
The fact that the stock has largely flown under the radar is very much to your advantage, in fact. It means that potentially the word isn’t fully out yet and so the upside opportunity is still substantial.
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A lot of hoopla surrounds AI companies but remarkably Amazon has not been swallowed up by the tidal wave. At least not yet.
That may be about to change because Claude, its proprietary AI, has the potential to integrate into the Amazon ecosystem to drive efficiencies, accuracy, customer satisfaction, and most importantly financials.
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