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Read MoreWhy South Korea's stock market is driving wild Wall Street swings
South Korea’s stock market is becoming one of the world’s most important gauges for the AI trade, with its sharp swings increasingly spilling over into Wall Street and beyond.
On Tuesday, the country’s benchmark Kospi index closed 3.6% higher following a program trading halt, extending another volatile stretch that began when a record-setting rally earlier this year gave way to a sharp pullback in recent weeks.
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Read MoreWarren Buffett Credits Luck For His $147 Billion Fortune, Says He’s Among World’s 10 Luckiest People
“I have been lucky and healthy to get to 95…and, fortunately, I got exposed, partly accidentally, to what I liked to do very early on,” Buffett said, referring to his father’s ownership of a stock brokerage that gave him early investing lessons. “That was just an accident. If my father had been a plumber,
Read MoreKevin Warsh implements his first major Federal Reserve overhaul
This has been a history-packed year for Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 0.59%), S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.19%), and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.05%) hitting new highs and the largest-ever initial public offering taking shape.
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Read MoreSocial Security Spousal Benefits Can Add Up to $10,000 a Year. Most Couples Never Claim Them Correctly
Most married couples think about Social Security as two separate decisions. Each spouse files when the time is right, takes what the statement says they will receive, and moves on. What gets left on the table is often pretty substantial, and for couples who understand how spousal benefits interact with their own claiming strategy,
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Best AI Stock That’s Not Nvidia?
While the buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently centered around companies like Nvidia, which boasts a trillion-dollar market cap, investors may be overlooking a potential gem in the tech landscape—NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI).
Despite its more modest market performance, NXP brings a unique approach to AI that could make it an intriguing investment opportunity.
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36 Stocks Up 30% Year-to-Date
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,
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