1 Overlooked AI Monster
Most investors think they need to hunt down small, speculative companies to ride the artificial intelligence wave. But the truth is, one of the best AI plays has been sitting in plain sight all along, Alphabet.
AI is here to stay, and Alphabet may be the most complete way to gain exposure.
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Alphabet builds chips,
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3 Dividend Stocks Worth Buying Now?
Thanks to surging stock prices over the past two years, dividend yields on major stock indices have fallen to fairly low levels. The S&P 500, for instance, currently carries an average yield of just 1.3%.
The mature companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average fare a bit better, and some of them offer yields that exceed the S&P 500 several times over.
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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.
There is lots of speculation that the new President will be supportive of the financial sector so can XLF beat the market again in 2025,
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1 Rare Stock Buffett Is Buying
Warren Buffett has spent 2024 stockpiling cash, even going so far as to sell off sizeable pieces of some of his largest investments. Recently, though, Berkshire Hathaway announced that it had made some modest acquisitions, including the addition of nearly 388,000 shares of domain name registry service Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN).
These purchases brought Berkshire Hathaway’s holdings in Verisign to 13.2 million shares,
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The Giant at the Intersection of AI, Networking and Software
Broadcom isn’t just another chipmaker riding the semiconductor cycle, it’s a carefully assembled portfolio of some of the stickiest, most profitable businesses in tech.
At its core, Broadcom has mastered the art of acquisition, folding niche leaders into its empire, stripping out inefficiencies, and using the resulting free cash flow to fuel dividends,
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Why Realty Income May Be Standing on the Edge of a Major Comeback
Over the past decade, the S&P 500 has rocketed more than 4x but Realty Income, a mere 2x and change. Not disastrous, you’d still have more than doubled your money, but far from spectacular. Yet this may be exactly where the story gets interesting.
After years of lagging, the company known as “The Monthly Dividend Company” could be sitting at an inflection point,
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Vanguard’s Hidden Opportunity in a Beaten-Down Sector
Vanguard is known for its low-cost, no-fuss ETFs and when it comes to equity investing, they offer a lineup of about 50 stock-focused funds that make it easy to diversify with a single ticker.
One of the more cyclical areas of the market is consumer discretionary and it’s been getting hit hard in 2025.
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US economy grew much faster than expected in the third quarter, delayed report shows
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Apex Group Vice President Heather Zumarraga gives her forecast for the economy and markets for 2026 as well as other sectors to invest in outside of A.I. on Varney & Co.
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the third quarter,