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Ingredients for a Happy Retirement

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Flutter Entertainment 's share count and debt load. Microsoft is at the point where its market cap is worth $428 for every single person on the planet. The Magnificent Seven is now about 30% of the US stock market. It issues a lot of debt. I mean, what is the market thinking about this company?

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Jerome Powell on "60 Minutes" & Spotify's Latest

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Markets, they want the rates to be cut sooner because look, theoretically lower rates mean that debt, it costs less so corporate earnings can rise. See that the value of future money is actually going to be worth more that gets reflected in stock price. Are we crediting Jerome Powell and the Fed? Is that a lucky break?

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Aswath Damodaran on the Difference Between Pricing a Company and Valuing One, and More

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Perhaps most seminally, he wrote two books, the first of which was, You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, which I put on the rankings as the best named book of all time. Then another, The Little Book That Beats the Market. 2019, accountants finally come to their senses and say leases are debt. They've always been debt.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q1 2023

Pension Pulse

Early Friday, Jamie Chrisholm of MarketWatch reports stocks are rallying, but investors say they’re miserable and that’s a good thing: Futures on Friday suggest the S&P 500 may pop its head through the 4,200 level again, looking to decisively break above the 400-point trading range in which it has twitched for nearly seven months.

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Reflecting on Financial Freedom

The Motley Fool

On to Number 7, still here in the Foolish Moves category, smarter moves made by people who are already active investors. Plus it's a fun way to gamify an otherwise boring activity, slowly paying off my house early. I was fortunate to take an investing class as part of the curriculum and began to understand the stock market.

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A Conversation With John Graham on CPP Investments Fiscal 2023 Results

Pension Pulse

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. Invested R$200 million (C$52 million) in the debt facility of Rio Energy alongside Lumina Capital Management.

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Better Investment: Stocks or Real Estate?

The Motley Fool

You can also in the act of doing that, experienced tax benefits and amortization of debt if it was used to finance the purchase. Matt Argersinger: All right, I guess I'll do the stock side. But generally, I think of real estate investing as more entrepreneurial than buying equities and buying stock. That was nice and succinct.

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