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MARCH 2, 2024

Despite the fact I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the stock market, I have no idea what the market is doing at any given time -- nor do I want to know. ETFs are traded like stocks, but your money is pooled. I invest because doing so can help me to earn the kinds of returns I need to grow my wealth.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

of invested assets) As has been the case for many years , tech stock Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) remains Berkshire's top holding. However, the Oracle of Omaha and his team have dumped a significant percentage of their company's stake in Apple over the prior three quarters. global economy or the stock market. Apple: $90.42

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The stock market appears to be headed for solid returns in 2023. Historically, the market tends to perform well during presidential election years. With ETFs, you don't have to try and pick individual stocks that could be winners. If small-cap stocks are cheap historically, small-cap value stocks are dirt cheap.

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MAY 22, 2024

Based on Berkshire's 13F for the quarter ended in March, Warren Buffett and his top investment aides, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, are overseeing 44 stocks across the company's roughly $378 billion portfolio. It also doesn't hurt that Apple has repurchased a jaw-dropping $674 billion worth of its common stock since 2013 began.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

People are living longer than they used to, and perhaps worse, the stock market is much more volatile than prior to 1994. As market analytics outfit DataTrek explains, "From 1958-1979, the standard deviation of daily returns was 0.72 Sometimes, the market simply doesn't cooperate. It rose to 0.89

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the best aspect of owning a lot of Apple stock for Warren Buffett might be its unbeatable capital-return program. billion annually in dividends to its shareholders, and has repurchased in excess of $600 billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. Apple is returning $14.8

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

It's been a great couple of years for the stock market. During this bull run, stock prices have bounded forward much further than earnings from their underlying businesses. AbbVie is one of the more attractive dividend-paying stocks in the pharmaceutical industry, with a 3.6% At recent prices, the stock offers a 3.6%

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Furthermore, Apple has repurchased around $600 billion worth of its common stock since kicking off its buyback program in 2013. Buffett has always favored companies that increase Berkshire's ownership stake through regular share repurchases. The company is also delivering steady growth from its subscription services segment.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2024

The world's largest public company by market cap is doling out $15 billion annually in dividend payments, and has repurchased over $600 billion of its common stock since the start of 2013. economy and stock market. The one knock against Apple is its valuation. If the U.S.

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MAY 23, 2024

Since initiating a buyback program in 2013, it's repurchased $674 billion of its own stock. However, billionaires have very different outlooks for these seven stocks. But unlike Nvidia, I believe billionaires will regret paring down their stakes in Meta.

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APRIL 5, 2024

As it turns out, the wealthier people are, the less likely it is that their investments will mostly consist of conventional stocks. They're more likely to own real estate and stakes in privately owned companies. Ares is publicly traded, just like the stocks you likely already own. like the overall stock market.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

That's why it was alarming when Berkshire started selling a lot of stocks -- including half of its stake in Apple and all of its shares of HP and Snowflake -- during the past year. Visa faces macro and antitrust challenges Berkshire started to buy Visa's stock in the third quarter of 2011. billion stake accounts for 0.7%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bitcoin 's (CRYPTO: BTC) undoubtedly one of the best financial assets to have owned in the past decade, as its price has shot up about 20,000% since September 2013. That translates to a ridiculous compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 70%, which trounces what investors in the stock market would have been able to achieve.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

While the stock market generally goes up over time -- due mainly to rising sales and earnings of businesses -- there are some companies that are best kept out of one's portfolio. annualized rate between 2013 and 2023. That's particularly true if one is trying to outperform the broader indexes over the long term.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, CEO Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway , and Chase Coleman of Tiger Global Management all have built considerable wealth through the stock market. Tepper doubled his stake in Alibaba in the first quarter to over 11 million shares. Here are three of their largest holdings in 2024.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 I’ve had some pretty good market timing calls in my career, and I attribute my success in that space to three factors: 1) Instinct; 2) Low Stakes; 3) Luck. Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk. It’s utterly laughable.

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JULY 27, 2024

When it released its Falcon platform in 2013, it was viewed as one of the pioneers of cloud-native solutions powered solely by artificial intelligence (AI). Since its initial public offering ( IPO ) on June 12, 2009, CrowdStrike's stock has increased by around 320%. Should you invest $1,000 in CrowdStrike right now?

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APRIL 19, 2024

The business performed well for more than a decade, and the stock performance was sensational going into the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. However, from the year 2000 until 2013, the business languished, and the stock dropped roughly 75% in value. At one point, Dell was valued at around $100 billion. Why Dell 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Now we're a stock market podcast so these are stock stories. Visiting me around the campfire this week, are five talented Motley Fool contributors, each of whom has a story to tell, five stock stories to make you smarter, happier, and richer. Because when stocks go down, the dividend reinvestment buy more shares.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

As I referenced at the start, we do spend about a third of our time on the stock market and investing, and a third of our time on business, so we're going to be getting into that some. I think I started working on Wingspan really in like 2013, 2014. Which is a very high-stakes game tournament. David Gardner: Not bad.

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MARCH 30, 2024

The date was June 30th of 2013. The market has tripled since then, the S&P 500, but Walker and Dunlop has quintupled. David Gardner: You know, when we think about stock market plays on this trend that is now here and that you're here for Bill, the most obvious is probably DraftKings ticker symbol DKNG, which is not stock Number 5.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 15, 2023

He also held roles as the head of private equity at the Pivotal Group, as a portfolio manager in CalPERS’ private equity program from 2013 to 2016 and was a former consultant at McKinsey & Co. “We I know, the stock market is climbing the wall of worry but with a nasty recession ahead, it's only a matter of time before it implodes.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

So if you think about some of the trends within wealth management, it’s not just about the personalization bespoke solutions, although that is something that has certainly gained a lot of popularity and grounded and is almost becoming table stakes. And you can see some of the trends just from the digital world, right, and that comparison.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets. CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

There’s probably more volatility on tap for stock markets, Graham said, adding he’s “cautiously optimistic” about what lies ahead for the fund this year as certain sectors in some parts of the world appear ready to soar. LSEG is a global market infrastructure, data and analytics provider. Leduc, who said about 9.8

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Despite paring down two-thirds of Berkshire's stake in Apple, Warren Buffett continues to appreciate consumers' love for the Apple brand, as well as Tim Cook's top-notch leadership. billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. It's bought back $700.6 American Express $45.5 billion (15.1%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2024

As one 2013 poll from the Pew Research Center found, 88 percent of Americans said they admired people who get rich by working hard. Teresa Wrights, I met the specter of the RMD in the 457 account in 2013 when I turned 70. Working hard gives us table stakes to have enough income to support ourselves over the course of our lives.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. The stock market becomes a casino.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is really a fascinating conversation, not just because of his acumen as a venture investor, but one of the things that Brad is passionate about is making every child in America feel like they have a stake in the country. And we sold our stake in the business to Barry Diller in 2001. I became co CEO of the business. Is it a bubble?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And right now we throw it into the stock market and we effectively use a tokenized system, right? But it’s also incredibly powerful because if you imagine that world where instead of it being this closed ecosystem in Germany, it’s just sort of how global markets work. There’s real truth to that.

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DECEMBER 22, 2024

5, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) straddles two massive stock market hype cycles: generative AI and the Trump presidency. The Trump effect Palantir's high-stakes business model makes it easy to hype it. Judging by the stock's 41% rally since Nov. With shares up by 41% since Nov. billion this year.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It was literally a decade ago, October, 2013 when Silk Road got busted when the founder Ross Albright got busted. And a lot of these guys, so I was spent a long time taking ’em out for, you know, stakes at, at Harry’s or whatever downtown. 00:07:23 [Speaker Changed] Yeah. 00:20:29 [Speaker Changed] Yeah.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

has bearing on the stock market, the economic proposals that are, ultimately, put into place by the incoming president and Congress will help shape the landscape for corporate America in the coming years. Since the start of 2013, Apple has repurchased $700.6 Four weeks from today, on Nov. per share in the current fiscal year.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

economy or stock market, the lawmakers voted into public office help to shape the fiscal policy that affects corporate earnings. During Trump's first term in the White House, the stock market thrived. The stock market often thrives, regardless of which poliitcal party is in power. DJI data by YCharts.

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