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Howard Marks sees cautionary signs of bubble, says investors shouldn’t ignore today’s high valuation
Howard Marks, one of the most respected value investors who famously foresaw the dotcom bubble, is pointing out a handful of red flags in the market like valuation that could mean poor returns over the long term or a sizable decline nearer term. In his latest memo to clients, the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree […]
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MicroStrategy trades like a meme stock these days. What investors need to know
Investors have compared MicroStrategy to meme stocks in recent weeks as the data visualization and reporting platform piled into bitcoin at the end of last year, even as the cryptocurrency hit record after record. MicroStrategy, seen as a proxy for the price of bitcoin, benefited in the post-election bitcoin rally. Fueled by its five-year-old strategy […]
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway beats S&P 500 in 2024, posts 9th straight up year
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway outperformed the S & P 500 in 2024 and pulled off its best year since 2021. Class A shares of the Omaha-based conglomerate rallied 25.5% last year, beating the S & P 500’s 23.3% return. Berkshire shares topped $700,000 during the year and posted their ninth positive year in a row. […]
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Grayscale’s Zach Pandl reveals how politics and the economy are driving bitcoin’s bull run
The crypto market has the wind in its sails as 2025 kicks off, especially given the current macro and political backdrop, according to Grayscale’s Zach Pandl. “It was an excellent year not only for crypto, but for many other assets,” the firm’s managing director of research told CNBC’s Tanaya Macheel in this special Pro Talks […]
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Tech stocks ruled 2024, but hopes for a big market rotation in the new year are uncertain
We are closing out 2024 with a bit more volatility than normal, but the overall trend remains up. To everyone who stops me on the street and asks me, “Why is the stock market up so much?,” I give a fairly simple answer: It’s because the overall profits and margins remain at near record levels. If […]
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The new hottest trade on Wall Street: Quantum computing stocks
Investors looking for the next big technology trend may want to keep an eye on quantum computing stocks. The group skyrocketed Tuesday after Google announced Willow , a chip it said “can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits” and performed better than its 2019 predecessor. A qubit, or quantum bit, is […]
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How much holiday cheer is too much? Investor enthusiasm on stocks running high into year-end
Is it possible to be too merry and bright heading into the holiday season? The question is timely, given the unmistakable upwelling of investor enthusiasm toward equities in recent weeks and a reignited impulse by traders to grab for the raciest assets. The trick, though, comes in trying to distinguish between a bull market feeding […]
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This is the biggest AI winner two years after ChatGPT’s debut — and it’s not Nvidia
In the two years since the launch of ChatGPT, stocks have soared to new highs, megacaps have ballooned in size and AI chipmaker Nvidia has become the second-largest stock in the U.S. by market value. But the biggest winner has in fact been a little-known Ohio-based cooling technology stock named Vertiv Holdings. Vertiv has benefited […]
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Deutsche Bank sees the S&P 500 hitting 7,000 in 2025 on the back of rising risk appetite
The bull market is poised to extend through 2025, boosted by solid demand for stocks from investors as well as strong corporate activities, such as buybacks and other spending, according to Deutsche Bank, which is calling for the S & P 500 to rise as high as 7,000. Binky Chadha, Deutsche Bank chief global strategist, set a year-end 2025 […]
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Welcome to the mullet market: Steady benchmarks in the front, crypto party in the back
This market is starting to summon the lighthearted take on a mullet haircut: business in the front, party in the back. The headline benchmark stock indexes have been all business, remaining calmly firm in an orderly uptrend, barely laying an errant step for weeks. After a post-election pop that lasted a few days and took […]
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