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Singapore tops Southeast Asia in private capital investment with $3.7bn

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Singapore led Southeast Asia in private capital investment last year, with US$3.7bn secured, comprising 41.1% The internet and tech sector, which has been accounting for more than half of all deals in the region since 2018, continued to receive the most private equity investment in 2023. billion, which is 37.8%

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Warren Buffett's Latest $2.6 Billion Buy Brings His Total Investment in This Stock to More Than $77 Billion in Under 6 Years

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Approximately three years of reduced capital investment from energy majors due to pandemic-related uncertainty has constrained the global supply of oil. Prior to midpoint of July 2018, buybacks could only be undertaken if the company's stock fell to or below 120% of book value.

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Billionaire Bill Ackman Has 45% of His Hedge Fund's $13.4 Billion Portfolio Invested in Just 3 Stocks

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His hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, invests in high-quality businesses with stocks that Ackman feels have become mispriced relative to their intrinsic value. But he had another opportunity in 2018, and he built a significant position in the hotelier. Bill Ackman likes to focus on just a few companies at a time.

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This Vanguard ETF Just Hit an All-Time High as It Continues to Outperform the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Over the Last 5 Years

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1, 2018 and Christmas Eve 2018, mainly due to U.S.-China In Microsoft's case, there's a snowball effect with capital investments that can benefit multiple aspects of the business. Given the pace of value creation by big tech, it may seem like a slowdown is bound to happen at some point. China trade-war tensions.

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2 Unstoppable Dividend Stocks Yielding More Than 9% That Income-Seeking Investors Will Want to Buy in October and Hold Forever

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PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is another BDC with a diverse portfolio and an attractive dividend. With a brief exception in 2018, it's been making monthly dividend payments that have risen or remained steady since 2011. At recent prices, it offers a 10.7%

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Why Nvidia Fell Today

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The value one derives from a DCF analysis is based on several factors: growth, margins, capital investments needed to achieve that growth, the length of the high-growth period before "maturity," and the discount rate one uses on future cash flows. of sales for every dollar of capital spent over that time.

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Energy Transfer Sees a Growth Reacceleration Ahead

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Energy Transfer 's (NYSE: ET) growth capital sending has fallen off a cliff in recent years. It only invested $1.9 billion last year and expects capital spending to be around $2 billion this year. billion it spent in 2018. Reduced capital spending is slowing its growth. That's a lot less than the $4.9

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