1 ETF Set To Beat The Market in 2025?
2024 was another banner year for the US stock market, with the S&P 500 notching a gain of 23%. Dwarfing even this return, though, was that of the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF), which has delivered a 29.7% return over the last 12 months.
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Ominous Signal Strikes for First Time in 90 Years
If one key indicator is to be trusted, the U.S. economy may be headed either for choppy waters or over a cliff, and the fallout for stocks may be enormous.
While there is no doubt that the forces of money supply creation and consequently inflation drive nominal prices higher over the long-term, the short-term is less easy to forecast with the same degree of accuracy.
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Will This Silicon Valley Darling Topple The Market?
Silicon Valley darling, Salesforce, saw its stock fall 16% following last night’s fiscal Q1 2025 earnings report. Growth moderated to an 11% year-over-year increase, which was the lower end of the guidance and that was enough to spook investors.
Yet the woes continued when full-year revenue guidance of $37.7 billion to $38 billion was reported because it reflected a growth projection of just 8% to 9%.
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10,000 Bitcoin for 2 Pizzas
When Laszlo Hanyecz forked over 10,000 bitcoin in exchange for 2 Papa John pizzas fourteen years ago, he couldn’t possibly have imagined what the future would hold. Today, those bitcoin would collectively be worth close to $700,000,000. And if the current halving cycle echoes history, there is a good chance they will be worth a cool $1 billion in the not too distant future.
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Forget AI, The Next Massive Trend Is Starting In 3,2,1…
In the early days of e-commerce, few could have imagined just how quickly video-driven, real-time product demonstrations would reshape global retail. But here we are: In China alone, live streaming e-commerce revenue soared from a roughly $64 billion market in 2019 to more than $300 billion by 2021, according to data compiled by Deloitte.
This shift,
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75 Billion Reasons To Own Google
Alphabet (Google’s parent) has significantly ramped up research and development spending in recent years. In 2022, Google spent about $39.5 billion on R&D, which jumped to $45.4 billion in 2023. This ~15% increase was driven largely by higher personnel costs (adding thousands of engineers) and one-time charges like office space consolidation.
R&D now represents roughly 15% of Google’s annual revenue,
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Will This AI Stock Be the Ultimate Comeback Story?
SportRadar first came to the attention of most investors when the firm debuted on the public markets amid much fanfare a few years ago.
Then the hype surrounding the company was rooted in SportRadar’s role as a leader in sports data intelligence, which is key to the sports betting industry.
The company had formed a series of partnerships with major sports leagues and provided data to sportsbooks.
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Venture capital firm Bullish eyes Aggieland
Texas A&M is the starting point for many young professionals who go on to excel in professional fields, with some even starting their own businesses after graduation. This Aggie excellence has caught the eye of Bullish, a venture capital firm stationed in New York City, who has been trying to tap into the entrepreneurial and investment opportunities in Texas.
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