UK’s booming fried chicken market can grow further, says Popeyes boss
Financial Times M&A
JANUARY 26, 2025
Tom Crowley predicts further buyout interest in fast-growing segment of the quick service restaurant sector
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South African Insurtech Naked Raises $38M in BlueOrchard-Led Round
Africa Capital Digest
JANUARY 26, 2025
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HUGO Meme Coin Unveils AI-Driven Transparency Tool as Multi-Chain Expansion Begins
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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African Climate-Tech Firm Insight Terra Closes Series A Extension
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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Brazilian airline merger would boost aviation sector, says Azul boss
Financial Times M&A
JANUARY 26, 2025
John Rodgerson defends potential tie-up with rival Gol despite concerns about competition and ticket pricing
Norfund Invests Another $40M in CrossBoundary Energy
Africa Capital Digest
JANUARY 26, 2025
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SGS and Veritas end talks to create €32bn testing specialist
Financial Times M&A
JANUARY 26, 2025
Companies say talks ended without agreement despite belief in value of consolidation
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UK-listed lobby group strikes US deal in consolidation play
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ACW Buys Significant Minority Stake in Education Platform
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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Should You Buy Tesla Stock Before Jan. 29?
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JANUARY 26, 2025
It feels like the investing world took the spotlight off of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) in 2024. Investors were enamored with artificial intelligence (AI) stocks such as Nvidia and Palantir. Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has been focused on other endeavors -- both business and political -- over the last few quarters. With the excitement around electric vehicles (EVs) fizzling out and growth stalling in the industry, Tesla shareholders (and perhaps the CEO himself) seem to have lost enthusiasm for the company.
African Climate Funds Secure Backing from Heading for Change
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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Warren Buffett Sold Over $134 Billion Worth of Stock in 2024, But His Most Recent $200 Million in Purchases Are Sending a Clear Message to Investors
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Warren Buffett is one of the most widely respected investment managers in the world. His track record, dating all the way back to the 1950s, is hard to argue with. As the manager of Buffett Limited Partnership, he produced compound annual returns over 25% for investors. And since taking over Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) in 1965, he's produced a compound annual return of 20% over the last 59-and-a-half years.
MoneyHash Lands Pre-Series A for MEA Payment Solutions
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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Part-Time Workers Need to Know About This Important 2025 Retirement Account Law Change
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Part-time work offers greater flexibility than traditional, full-time employment, but it comes with its own challenges. Part-time workers typically earn less than full-time workers. This, and the fact that they often don't qualify for employee benefits, can make it more difficult for them to save for retirement. These barriers aren't easy to overcome.
EBRD Acquires Stake in Morocco’s Dislog Group
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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All It Takes Is $3,000 Invested in Each of These 3 Ultra-Safe Dividend Stocks to Help Generate Over $280 in Passive Income in 2025
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. See the 10 stocks Passive income may not be at the top of one's mind when the broader indexes are posting jaw-dropping gains. But dividend-paying companies can be a perfect fit for investors looking to help supplement income in retirement, or anyone searching for more value-focused stocks in 2025.
Moniepoint Exit Helps Oui Capital Return Maiden Fund
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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If You Invest $1,000 Per Month in the S&P 500, Here's How Much Dividend Income You Could Have in 30 Years
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JANUARY 26, 2025
I'm a big fan of investing in individual stocks. At the time of this writing, I own about 35 individual stocks in my portfolio, and I believe it's entirely possible for active investors to beat the market over long periods of time. However, that doesn't mean you need to own individual stocks to create wealth over time. In fact, although I own a bunch of individual stocks, I have a large portion of my portfolio in low-cost index funds , including the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO).
Language matters: Increase client retention and income
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JANUARY 26, 2025
By Amy Wakem During the 20 years of being a financial advisor, my agency has gone through a lot of transitions. And I’ve been asked a few times, At what point did your numbers start becoming consistent and you were making MDRT regularly? Our production became more consistent when we started becoming deliberate with the words we use when interacting with prospects or clients.
Where Will Domino's Pizza Stock Be in 3 Years?
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Investors don't seem to know what to make of Domino's Pizza 's (NASDAQ: DPZ) business these days. The stock was essentially flat in the three years that ended in mid-January, despite a few sharp rallies -- and subsequent slumps. Holding through that period would have provided shareholders a 2% return compared to the 38% rally in the S&P 500 index.
Margin of Too Much Safety
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Institutional investors made a huge push into hedge funds following the bursting of the dot-com bubble. It was the perfect environment because you had a situation where expensive stocks crashed while cheap stocks were a wonderful hedge. Going long cheap and short expensive allowed them to win in both directions.1 The S&P 500 got clobbered so it wasn’t hard to sell hedge funds to all of the pensions, endowments a.
Potential Stock Splits in 2025: 2 AI Stocks Up 115% and 350% in 2 Years to Buy Now, According to Wall Street
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Savvy investors are drawn to stock splits because they are often roundabout indicators of quality businesses. To elaborate, stock splits are only necessary after substantial share price appreciation, which rarely happens to bad businesses. In the past year, several artificial intelligence companies completed stock splits to reset their soaring share prices, as detailed below: Arista Networks has returned 324% in the last two years.
ShopMy Raises $77.5M in Funding
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JANUARY 26, 2025
ShopMy, a NYC-based platform transforming creator marketing into a performance channel, raised $77.5M in funding. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures and previous investors Inspired Capital, AlleyCorp, Jeremy Levine, Bessemer Venture Partners, Scott Friend, Bain Capital Ventures, Amy Wu, Menlo Ventures, and strategic investors including Geoff […] The post ShopMy Raises $77.5M in Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.
This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovator Could Be Sitting on a $100 Billion Opportunity That Could Send Shares Soaring 67%
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) hold the potential to unlock billions of dollars in value for businesses through more effective and efficient work assisted by AI. Some of the biggest early winners in AI are the companies that make it possible to develop and train large language models , the core technology behind generative AI. But longer-term winners could be the companies that are best able to use AI to improve their businesses while helping other businesses improve their own o
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at risk, corruption and policy failures: High Interest Rates Are Hammering Investors. What Lies Ahead Could Be Worse. Rising rates would be bad news for bondholders and borrowers of all stripes, particularly the U.S. government. They cast a shadow over stocks, too. ( Barron’s ) First-Time Homeownership Became Less Affordable Across Most of the United States in Recent Years : New homeownership became less affordable across much of the United States
Investing $10,000 in Each of These 5 Closed-End Funds Could Make You Over $4,700 in Passive Income in 2025
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JANUARY 26, 2025
What's a way to generate significant passive income that many investors don't know about? Closed-end funds (CEFs). They're similar to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in that they trade like stocks on public exchanges. The main difference is that CEFs have a fixed number of shares whereas ETFs can issue new shares. If you're an income investor, CEFs might be especially attractive.
NextEra Energy Continues to Deliver Supercharged Growth
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JANUARY 26, 2025
NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) recently closed the book on 2024 by reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results. The utility had an excellent year. It delivered strong earnings growth and set another record for originating renewable energy development projects. Those projects and other growth drivers set the stage for the company to continue to deliver supercharged earnings growth compared to its utility sector peers.
Walmart Stock Beat the Market in 2024. Can It Repeat in 2025?
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Shares of retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT) were up a whopping 72% in 2024. To put the magnitude of this move in perspective, this was the best year for Walmart stock since 1998 -- you read that right. And its 72% return handily outperformed the S&P 500 's otherwise stellar gain of 23%. It's been 25 years since Walmart's shareholders had this good of a time.
Where Will Luminar Technologies Stock Be in 3 Years?
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ: LAZR) , a producer of automotive lidars, has burned a lot of investors since its public debut on Dec. 2, 2020. Its stock opened at $354.75, set a record high of $627 five days later, but now trades at about $6. Like many other start-ups backed by special purpose acquisition companies ( SPACs ), Luminar overpromised and underdelivered.
Verizon's 6.8%-Yielding Dividend Continues to Grow Safer
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) pays a monster dividend. At 6.8%, it's one of the 10 highest-yielding dividend stocks in the S&P 500. That's not exactly a good thing, as higher-yielding dividend stocks tend to have a higher risk profile. However, Verizon's big-time dividend is very safe. That's abundantly clear from the telecom giant's financial results for 2024 and outlook for 2025.
The Smartest Oil Stocks to Buy With $200 Right Now
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Oil is a volatile commodity, a fact that needs to be taken into consideration when buying an oil-related stock. However, there are different ways to view this fact from an investment perspective. Chevron (NYSE: CVX) , Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) , and TotalEnergies (NYSE: TTE) offer three very different ways to dip your toes into oil stocks if you have $200, or more, to put to work.
2 Drop-Dead Bargain Stocks to Buy in 2025
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JANUARY 26, 2025
You can say a lot of things about the stock market right now, but one thing's clear: It ain't cheap. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 28, and an even more expensive 37 on the CAPE ratio , a measure favored by Nobel-winning economist Robert Shiller that takes into account the last 10 years of earnings. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently described the stock market as "kind of inflated," and he's one of the few Wall Street titans with the credibility to
3 Dividend Growth ETFs to Buy With $1,000 and Hold Forever
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Do you like the idea of ever-growing dividend income, but aren't interested in keeping tabs on a portfolio of individual stocks? There's a simple solution: Own a handful of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead. Not only will you need fewer total holdings, but you may never need to swap these investments out with different ones. The companies managing these funds will handle this work as needed on your behalf.
1 Move to Avoid at All Costs if the Stock Market Crashes in 2025
The Motley Fool
JANUARY 26, 2025
The stock market continues to reach new heights, with the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) soaring by a staggering 71% since its low point in late 2022 as of this writing. However, many investors are anxiously awaiting the next downturn. According to a mid-January survey from the American Association of Individual Investors, more than 40% of investors have a bearish outlook on the market.
Is It Too Late to Buy Palantir Stock in 2025?
The Motley Fool
JANUARY 26, 2025
It has been quite the roller-coaster ride for Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) shareholders in the past few years. After going public in 2021, the stock experienced an 80% drawdown in the 2022 bear market. Since then, it has clawed its way back with a vengeance. Shares have risen close to 500% in the past three years, making Palantir one of the best-performing stocks in the market.
Want Decades of Passive Income? Buy This Index Fund and Hold It Forever.
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JANUARY 26, 2025
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Cathie Wood Says Software Is the Next Big AI Opportunity -- 2 Ark ETFs You'll Want to Buy if She's Right
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JANUARY 26, 2025
Cathie Wood is the founder of Ark Investment Management, which operates several exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focused on innovative technologies. In 2023, she predicted software companies would be the next big investment opportunity when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), saying they could generate $8 in revenue for every dollar they spend on chips from suppliers like Nvidia.
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