China's May industrial profits fall 9% amid economic stress & trade war with US
Amid slowing factory output, persistent economic stress, and ongoing trade war with the United States, Chinese industrial profits fell sharply in May by 9.1% compared to the same period last year.
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China’s industrial profits swung back into sharp decline in May from a year earlier,
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Read MoreBillionaires Sell Nvidia Stock and Buy a BlackRock ETF Wall Street Experts Say Could Soar Up to 12,160%
Nvidia (NVDA 0.52%) has been a shining star of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Its 912% return since January 2023 is the second best in the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.80%). Yet the following hedge fund managers listed sold Nvidia and bought the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT -0.07%) in the first quarter:
- Billionaire Ken Griffin of Citadel Advisors sold 1.5 million shares of Nvidia,
Investing in Space: NATO holds out its hand to the commercial space sector
- It’s been a big week for NATO-geared space players, as the military coalition increased its defense spending target to 5% and issued its commercial space strategy.
- Communication, navigation and surveillance stand out as immediate defense uses for space capabilities.
- Under its new commercial space strategy, NATO set out goals to leverage private solutions,
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Read MoreTop 5 Gold ETFs With Highest Return in 3 Years: No.1 exchange-traded gold fund has turned Rs 5,55,555 one-time investment into Rs 10,44,949
Top 5 Gold ETFs With Highest Return in 3 Years: Gold attracts most people in every form. Indians prominently use gold in its physical form. Investors prefer it in both physical and electronic forms. It is considered the strongest hedge against inflation and market fluctuations. Gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are gold’s electronic form that tracks the price of very high-purity physical gold.
Read MoreMutual Fund Summit 2025 Live: Crypto Fluctuates, Needs Self-Regulation — CoinSwitch’s Ashish
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CoinSwitch’s Ashish calls crypto a new asset class that fluctuates heavily. He observes rising GenZ interest, with some allocating 5% of their portfolio to it. With no clear regulations yet, Ashish emphasizes the need for self-regulation in the crypto space.
The Burst
1 Massive Advantage Retail Investors Have Over Hedge Funds
Retail investors are usually playing catch-up and it’s no surprise why. They don’t have a research department, a Bloomberg Terminal on every desk, or a network of analysts and insiders feeding them information in real time. Hedge funds, with their armies of research analysts, data scientists, and software systems, are optimized to gain any edge possible.
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What If You’d Invested $2,000 in O’Reilly Automotive in 1993?
Imagine putting $2,000 into a stock and forgetting about it. No fiddling, no panic-selling, no checking your account every day. You look up a few decades later and you discover your modest investment has ballooned into more than $1 million.
That’s not a fantasy. That’s what actually happened if you invested in O’Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ: ORLY) when it went public 32 years ago.
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Is Target Stock a Hidden Gem for Patient Value Investors?
Target (NYSE: TGT) hasn’t had the best run lately. In fact, shares have slid 29.9% so far this year, a sharp contrast to the broader market, with the S&P 500 flat on the year. It’s a tough pill to swallow, especially when you consider Target was already on the back foot coming into 2025.
But here’s the twist,
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