Beware: 1 Major Hit To Your Portfolio If You Sell Now?
Have you ever wondered how much short-term versus long-term taxes actually affect your net worth and portfolio over time?
Let’s imagine a $100,000 portfolio goes up 20% annually and is taxed at the end of the year at 33% due to short-term capital gains. What would the portfolio grow to after 10 years?
Now make a guess as to what it would grow to after 10 years if held long-term and a 20% tax applied at the end of the 10 year period? » Read more about: Beware: 1 Major Hit To Your Portfolio If You Sell Now? »
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The Horrifying Chart That May Forecast A Plunge
Technical charts are littered with examples of historical comparisons. Is the most recent bullish run-up in the S&P 500 similar to the 1929 peak? Is the hype around AI similar to the buzz around the internet in 2000? Is the soaring Nvidia stock chart akin to the bull run in Cisco 24 years ago?
It’s hard to tell looking at a stock chart alone whether history will repeat or simply rhyme,
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1 Healthcare Firm Billion Dollar Funds Bets On
Lantheus Holdings isn’t a healthcare firm that springs to the top of investors’ minds as say a United Healthcare might but it’s attracted the interest of one money manager who oversees almost $20 billion, Farallon Capital Management.
What is it that this astute asset manager sees in this off-the-radar firm which has sold off big time in the past 3 months?
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The Best Stock Over The Past 25 Years
You would probably assume that Apple’s rise to become a $3 trillion market capitalization company cements its holding on the title of the best performing stock over the past quarter century. If not Steve Jobs’s firm, surely Microsoft holds the top spot as the largest company by valuation in the S&P 500 today?
It turns out neither company has the title,
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Is This High Growth Stock Breaking Out?
Billionaire Stan Druckenmiller was once asked how he thinks about performance and his answer was quite insightful. Most traders might say something like “I aim to make 15% a year” or some other specific figure, but Stan’s answer was I like to “compare myself to the opportunity set” and beat it, meaning whatever the market is doing he likes to ensure he’s generating higher returns,
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1,432 Reasons to Buy This Healthcare Cloud Stock
Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV), a software solutions provider for the life sciences industry, has seen some weakness amid the slowdown in cloud market demand as organizations cope with macro woes.
While the company saw its shares slumping by around 32% over the past three years,
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Spotlight: Market Crash Incoming?
Some stock market indicators are better than others but have you heard of one being perfect for over a century? If the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, better known as CAPE, is to be believed, then the markets could be set for a rocky road this year.
Unlike traditional PE ratios, the CAPE figure factors in inflation and smooths the peaks and troughs of unforeseen or surprising events –
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UK-US trade deal announced: US cuts tariffs on UK car imports to 10%
The United States has agreed a trade deal with the UK – with tariffs on some car imports having been cut to 10% – but hopes tariffs would be lifted on most British goods imported to the US have been dashed.
Currently, most goods imported to the US from the UK face 10% tariffs,
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