Why Is Buffett Pouring Into This High Yield Bet
2024 has been a surprising year for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. The company became the first American business outside of the tech sector to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, and an unusually buoyant stock market has caused many of its holdings to gain substantially in value.
Despite these successes, Buffett personally appears to be turning bearish. » Read more about: Why Is Buffett Pouring Into This High Yield Bet »
Read MoreHow Do You Pick a Winning Stock?
Investors will often pour through dozens or even hundreds of stocks looking for the best investment options to add to their portfolios. Before doing this, however, it’s important to first understand what a good stock is.
Let’s take a look at some of the factors that define a good investment to understand what makes a potentially lucrative stock.
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Read More1 Stock Buffett Likes More Than Apple
Stocks have pulled back in the past month, as interest rates and inflation continue to dog the market. The AI excitement that gripped investors earlier in the year has abated somewhat, leading to recent pullbacks in stocks like Nvidia and Microsoft.
Apple has struggled to make an impact with investors because the company has lagged behind its competitors in launching AI-powered products.
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Read More10 Billion Reasons To Own This Recession-Proof Stock
With concerns of an impending recession looming large and Goldman Sachs pivoting away from momentum stocks to value stocks, one stock that may fit the bill is Procter & Gamble.
Although the share price has been somewhat volatile subsequent to fiscal Q4 2024 earnings results, P&G bounced back nicely to make an assault on all-time highs.
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Read MoreMajor European Fintech with 36% Upside?
Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ: EEFT) isn’t particularly well-known on US shores but it sits at the intersection of financial technology and the growing demand for cross-border transactions.
If you’re not already familiar with the firm it has a pretty diverse portfolio of financial technology services that encompass ATMs,
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Forget AI, The Next Massive Trend Is Starting In 3,2,1…
In the early days of e-commerce, few could have imagined just how quickly video-driven, real-time product demonstrations would reshape global retail. But here we are: In China alone, live streaming e-commerce revenue soared from a roughly $64 billion market in 2019 to more than $300 billion by 2021, according to data compiled by Deloitte.
This shift,
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Will This Spinoff Unlock Massive Wealth?
In a pre-holiday surprise announcement, management at FedEx (NYSE:FDX) released news of a plan to spin off FedEx Freight into a standalone entity that also would be publicly traded.
Given the headwinds the firm has faced from pricing to cost-sensitive customers, the spinoff offers a potential boon to existing shareholders. FedEx Freight handles less-than-truckload shipping for the company,
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Mortgage Predictions: What the Jan. 20 Presidential Inauguration Could Mean for Rates
On a normal day, it’s nearly impossible to predict which way mortgage rates will go. Now, with so much uncertainty in financial markets, mortgage rates could see more spikes and volatility, particularly following the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration.
Earlier this month, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage jumped above 7% and has yet to come down.