Top US universities raced to become global campuses. Under Trump, it's becoming a liability
Harvard’s undergraduate foreign population increased by about 100 students from 2013 to 2023, while graduate numbers increased by nearly 2,000. Part of that growth can be explained by increasing global competition at the graduate level, said William Kirby, a historian at Harvard who has written about the evolution of higher education.
Trump’s attacks on international student enrollment could ultimately shake the economy
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The Trump administration’s statements and actions aimed at curtailing the number of international students in the US have sent a chill of uncertainty through higher education institutions.
These American schools have become more reliant on the higher tuition paid by international students as state and federal support has waned.
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Tesla shares plummeted as much as 18% on Thursday — its biggest intraday drop since September 2020 — before closing 14% lower, the largest closing loss since March.
The declines came amid a spat that has been unfolding between the president and the world’s richest person over the budget bill moving through Congress.
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Nvidia (NVDA -1.44%) is the world’s leading supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs) for data centers, which are the key pieces of hardware for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Since the beginning of 2023, Nvidia’s market value has grown by an eye-popping $3 trillion thanks to soaring demand for those chips,
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Champion Trader vs Cathie Wood: Who Wins?
A battle between a great trader and a prominent money manager has taken place in recent years. Mark Minervini, 2x US trading champion, has taken shots at billion dollar money manager, Cathie Wood of ARK Invest.
His primary critique appears to be based in a rule that he has observed over time. A stock that has fallen 80% can decline by another 50%.
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4 Stocks Behind Bill Gates $45 Billion Portfolio
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a philanthropic powerhouse that lists among its accomplishments the total eradication of two types of polio virus, improving agricultural outcomes in impoverished countries and delivering health services to millions worldwide.
Making these initiatives possible is a $45 billion investment portfolio that generates the money needed to fund the foundation’s efforts.
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Palantir Soared 20.5% But Is It Just The Start?
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has been in business for 20 years but it’s only recently that it’s accomplished one of its most impressive feats to-date, tripling the number of users of its artificial intelligence platform in a single quarter.
That spike in demand translated to a spectacular Q3 that blew away Wall Street’s expectations.
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