Will the Stock Market Crash in 2025? 4 Risk Factors
Talk of a 2025 recession abated this summer, but economists noted a sense of instability among consumers, who were spending less, and among businesses, which were hiring less. Now, with the Federal Reserve pivoting back to interest rate cuts, and with even lower rates expected on the horizon before 2026, talk of a recession is back on the front burner.
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Read MoreMalaysia has seen 4 times more foreign capital outflow from stock market this year. What’s at play?
Bursa Malaysia is dominated by large companies, particularly financial institutions and plantation companies, that are majority owned by government-linked institutions, a feature that investment analysts noted dilutes the exchange’s appeal with foreign investors who like markets with high levels of liquidity and robust trading.
Another major challenge facing the stock market is concerns over corporate governance and regulation that industry executives noted has been compromised in the past when alleged transgression of market rules involved politically well-connected companies and stock controlled by government-linked entities.
Read MoreLenskart IPO: These Mutual Funds Have Subscribed And These Haven't
Twenty-one domestic mutual funds have applied through 59 schemes, the eyewear firm said in an exchange filing on Thursday. They have collectively netted 35.34% of the anchor portion.
SBI, Kotak, ICICI Prudential, HDFC and Axis were among the major fund houses in this category.
The IPO anchor book had received bids worth Rs 68,000 crore on Wednesday,
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Read MoreWarren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Was Just Downgraded to Sell by a Wall Street Analyst — but He Somehow Missed the Biggest Risk Factor
The Oracle of Omaha’s retirement at the end of this year isn’t the biggest concern for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
Though investing on Wall Street offers no certainties, seeing Berkshire Hathaway‘s (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) billionaire CEO Warren Buffett run laps around the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) in the return column over long periods has been pretty close to a guarantee.
Why Sprouts Farmers Market Stock Crashed Today
Cash-strapped shoppers are searching for savings on food and other expenses.
Shares of Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM 26.11%) plunged 26% on Thursday after the natural and organic grocer warned of a slowdown in its same-store sales growth.
People are looking for bargains in a challenging economic environment.
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Read MoreThe Burst
Chevron’s Sky High Dividend Yield to Outlast Energy Transition
Chevron isn’t the kind of stock that makes headlines every week. It doesn’t have the flash of a Tesla or the cult following of a Nvidia. But that’s exactly why dividend investors have built fortunes with it. It’s a business you can own, forget about, and still let it steadily build wealth over time.
The question is whether now Chevron is an old relic to be forgotten in a new age or a stock set to thrive as energy demands power AI?
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Why Nvidia Could Still Be in the Early Innings of a Historic Run
Nvidia didn’t just ride the AI wave, it built the surfboard thanks to the graphics processing unit that evolved from powering video games to becoming the computational engine of the AI revolution.
Today, roughly 92% of all AI data center processing runs on Nvidia chips, according to IoT Analytics. That kind of market share is virtually unheard of in hardware.
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The Best-Kept Secret in AI Infrastructure? Hint: It’s Not Nvidia
DigitalOcean (NASDAQ: DOCN) just pulled off something few small-cap tech companies have achieved in this market: record revenue, soaring profits, and a guidance hike that caught Wall Street flat-footed. The stock popped by almost a third after Q2 results, and yet, shares remain roughly 12% below where they started the year.
That gap between operational performance and valuation might be the opportunity hiding in plain sight.
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