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2 2022 5.9% 2 2022 5.9% The big challenge for retirees is that they're still reeling from the high inflation experienced in 2021 and 2022, which was reflected in the COLAs for the following years. It ranks as the 12th highest COLA since 2001 and sits just under the 2.58% average of the past 25 years. Rank Year COLA 1 2023 8.7%

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January 2024 2022 291.901 8.7% January 2022 2020 253.412 1.3% Here are the third-quarter CPI-W numbers and the following year's COLA: Year Average Third-Quarter CPI-W COLA Effective Date 2024 308.729 2.5% January 2025 2023 301.236 3.2% January 2023 2021 268.421 5.9% January 2021 Data source: Social Security Administration.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

raises in 2022 and 2023, respectively), there is a silver lining: it means inflation is slowing down. The COLA is tied directly to shifts in inflation, which is why the adjustments were so high in 2022 and 2023 when costs were skyrocketing. in June 2022. in June 2022.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

SoundHound's revenue grew 47% in both 2022 and 2023, and it anticipates 79%-85% growth in 2024 and 86%-110% growth from that midpoint estimate in 2025. Its revenue more than doubled in fiscal 2021, fiscal 2022, and fiscal 2023 (which ended in January 2023). Cloudflare's revenue soared 50% in 2020, 52% in 2021, and 49% in 2022.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, its growth cooled off in 2022 and 2023 as those tailwinds dissipated, more competitors fragmented the market, and the macro headwinds curbed consumer spending and drove more companies to rein in their digital ad campaigns. Period 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Active Accounts (Millions) 19.3 Streaming Hours (Billions) 14.8

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

When OpenAI's ChatGPT-3 was released to the public in late 2022, it started a firestorm of interest in all things artificial intelligence (AI). With all that's happened since late 2022, here are two AI stocks that can deliver. PwC -- one of the "big four" accountants -- estimates the technology could add $15.7 Can the ride continue?

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

The last couple of years have been strong for the stock market, with the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) surging by just over 70% since late 2022, as of this writing. For example, say you invested in an S&P 500 index fund in January 2022, immediately before the market began its descent that would last until October of that year.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

That's why Zillow (NASDAQ: Z) and Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN) both shut down their own iBuying platforms in 2022. Metric 2021 2022 2023 1H 2024 Revenue $8.0 Its own AI algorithms also sometimes caused it to overpay for its properties, and supply chain constraints made it tough to renovate all of those homes. billion $15.6 billion $6.9

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022 (Oct. 1, 2022), Warren Buffett and his top investment aides, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, began paring down their company's investment portfolio in a meaningful way. 1, 2022 and June 30, 2024. 1, 2022 and June 30, 2024. economy over the long run.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

billion in fiscal 2022 (ended July 31) to $2.2 billion in fiscal 2022 (ended Jan. million in fiscal 2022 to $885.1 With more organizations shifting their operations to the cloud, Zscaler's services are more in demand than ever. The company saw its revenue nearly double from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2024. billion in fiscal 2024.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

At that peak, Rivian's market cap hit $153 billion, which was 92 times higher than the revenue it would generate in 2022. Ford also ditched its plans to co-develop an electric pickup with Rivian in 2021 and liquidated most of its stake in the company in 2022. before touching a record high of $172.01 just a week later.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

In 2022, for example, when the S&P 500 fell by more than 18%, this ETF generated total returns (including dividends) of 1%. In 2022 amid the turmoil in the markets, this ETF was down just 0.5% It did a great job of preserving value for investors at a time when the market was in a free fall. after factoring in its dividend income.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

However, an effort to expand merchant services into logistics brought about high expenses and ongoing losses, which contributed to a massive stock price decline in 2022. Indeed, the stock has grown considerably since it briefly fell below $24 per share in the 2022 bear market.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

The crypto industry went through a challenging bear market in 2022 following the collapse of a number of high-profile projects and exchanges. In 2022, a Shiba Inu metaverse was in the works which promised to give enthusiasts a way to spend their tokens within the digital realm, but it still hasn't launched.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

For that matter, what up-ended the stock so dramatically between the latter half of 2021 and the first half of 2022? A funny thing happened beginning in 2022 though. It's only clear that the stock's sellers overshot their target back in 2022. At the heart of those extreme swings was timing. The dust began to settle.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

In 2022, the WEP affected roughly 2.05 In 2022, the GPO applied to roughly 734,600 beneficiaries. According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), Congress passed the WEP so that workers couldn't get higher benefits from being low-earning workers over a long period and also getting non-covered pensions.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Late 2018, early 2020, and 2022 saw drastic declines in top growth names. It's easy to forget now, but 2022 was an especially brutal year for growth investors. Referring back to the chart above, you can see that the Vanguard Growth ETF has suffered some sizable sell-offs.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Then, in 2022, Berkshire went big into the integrated oil major, with the stake peaking at about 165 million shares in third-quarter 2022. After soaring in 2021 and 2022, Chevron's stock price has cooled off. Since then, Berkshire has adjusted the position, trimming and adding here and there. That's well above the 1.3%

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

The index recently surged to new highs, but some of its component companies haven't yet recovered from the 2022 bear market and are trading at rock-bottom share prices that could potentially set up a sharp rebound over the next year. Here are two timely buys right now.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The stock's up more than 300% since its early 2022 pandemic-prompted low, and higher to the tune of 700% for the past decade. As the image makes clear, Apple's smartphone business has indeed been stagnant since early 2022. The past few years have been very rewarding ones for patient Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shareholders. Chart by author.

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The company's robots have delivered more than 50,000 orders on behalf of 400 restaurants across Los Angeles since 2022. Nvidia, on the other hand, has invested in Serve since 2022, and now owns 8.4% They already use Level 4 autonomy, meaning they can drive on sidewalks in designated areas safely without human intervention.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

The bad news: Social Security benefits will receive a below-average COLA in 2025 Inflation has fallen from the four-decade high it reached in 2022, but the price increases that scorched the economy following the pandemic are still a source of hardship for many retired workers. in 2022, 8.7% Image source: Getty Images.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

Netflix's latest results were quite impressive Netflix fell off most investors' radars after it crashed in mid-2022. However, since it bottomed in July 2022, it has been on a steady march up to its new all-time high, set just a few days ago. After all, its business has been crushing it lately.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

in 2022, 9.9% British American Tobacco's volume decline in 2022 was 5.2%. Altria's cigarette volumes declined 9.7% in 2023, and 11.5% in the first half of 2024. In the first nine months of the year, the drop was 10.6%, but that period can't be compared to British American Tobacco because the European company only reports semi-annually.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Oracle of Omaha and his team began paring down Berkshire Hathaway's mammoth stock portfolio. Based on the Berkshire's third-quarter filing last weekend, this net-selling activity has extended for an eighth consecutive quarter: Q4 2022 : $14.64 billion in net-equity sales Q1 2023 : $10.41

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

At peak 2022 levels, that could result in enough additional cash flow to finance the entire CrownRock acquisition. Of course, oil prices are roughly $50 per barrel lower than they were in 2022. According to Occidental's management team, cash flow would rise by around $260 million for every $1 uptick in oil prices.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Gates' last major donation was in 2022 and worth about $20 billion. It appears that a large chunk of that donation came in the form of Microsoft shares, because the trust added about 38 million shares to its portfolio in 2022, worth about $8.9 Microsoft's stock has been on a tear since that donation in July 2022.

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Both companies split their stock 20-for-1 in 2022, when each traded for more than $2,000 per share. Tesla was a little higher when it announced stock splits in 2020 and again 2022, when it traded for $2,000 and $840 per share, respectively. This brought them down to more reasonable levels, at a split-adjusted $100 per share.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

Druckenmiller was early to recognize the growth potential of Nvidia in artificial intelligence (AI), moving aggressively into the stock in Q4 2022 after ChatGPT was released, but he acknowledged recently that he sold it too early, dumping all of it earlier this year. on Wednesday.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But as of 2022, a good 52% of Americans lived in a middle-class household, says Pew Research Center. However, on a national scale, as of 2022, middle-income households had incomes ranging from $56,600 to $169,800. Image source: Getty Images A lot of people think the U.S. middle class is shrinking.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

These cycles typically begin with a bear market (think 2022), where long-term believers accumulate Bitcoin at discounted prices. At this reduced rate, when measuring from its cycle bottom in November 2022, Bitcoin could reach $210,000. Next comes a year of modest recovery as momentum builds (2023).

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

To me, the real start of the AI frenzy was November 30, 2022. In the last two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted more investment interest than any other theme. That's the day OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world. This dynamic suggests that the Nasdaq should continue gaining in 2025.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Burry started buying those stocks in Q4 2022. All totaled, nearly a quarter of Tepper's holdings are Chinese stocks, and he first started buying the sector, starting with Alibaba, in Q2 2022. Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) made up 21.3% The past few weeks notwithstanding, it's hard to find a more unloved sector than China in recent years.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

ai's business as it managed through a sharp slowdown in 2022. However, the business got a nice boost in late 2022 with the release of OpenAI's revolutionary upgrade of its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot. With that said, should you buy the stock before C3.ai ai releases results for the recently completed quarter?

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It soared as high as $31 the following month but sank to about $3 by December 2022. Metric 2021 2022 2023 Pre-merger revenue estimate $5 million $15 million $34 million Actual revenue $3 million $11 million $22 million Data source: IonQ. 1, 2021, and its stock opened at $10.60 on the first day.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Berkshire began building a stake in early 2021, but the real jump came in the first quarter of 2022. But the subsequent boom in 2021 and 2022 was a huge win for Oxy, which was able to pay down debt thanks to higher oil prices. Data source: Berkshire Hathaway SEC Filings. to boost its Permian Basin exposure further.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Plug Power's revenue rose 40% in 2022 and 27% in 2023. It had a rocky start after its public debut in 2020: it broadly missed its original delivery targets, its founder Trevor Milton was convicted of securities and wire fraud in 2022, and a series of battery fires in 2023 forced it to recall all of its BEVs.

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