The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

For nearly two years, Wall Street has been entrenched in a sensational bull market. In recent weeks, the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average , broad-based S&P 500 , and innovation-fueled Nasdaq Composite all ascended to fresh record-closing highs. While there are a number of catalysts responsible for pushing the broader market to new heights, including a resilient U.S. economy and better-than-expected operating results for Wall Street's most-influential businesses, the rise of artificial in

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A Wealth of Common Sense

AUGUST 2, 2024

I enjoy reading and writing but I’m a visual learner. I like charts. Here are some crazy charts I’ve been thinking about lately. Torsten Slok shared a chart of gas prices going back to 2004: The average price over this 20+ year timeframe is around $3/gallon which isn’t too far from current levels. And $3.50/gallon today is not the same thing as $3.50/gallon in 2008.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Image source: The Motley Fool. Xponential Fitness (NYSE: XPOF) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Aug 01, 2024 , 4:30 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Greetings and welcome to the Xponential Fitness, Inc. second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 2, 2024

Type One Energy, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based provider of sustainable fusion power, closed its $82.4m seed financing round. Backers included Centaurus Capital, GD1, Foxglove and other funds from Australia. In addition to bringing new investors into the fusion sector, Type One Energy received commitments from long-time investors in the industry, including Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) co-founder […] The post Type One Energy Group Closes $82.4M Seed Financing Round appeared first on FinSMEs

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Practically everyone building an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model relies on Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) for its high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). Big tech companies like Alphabet , Microsoft , Amazon , Meta Platforms , and others have been committing billions of dollars to Nvidia just to get their hands on the next batch of chips.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 2, 2024

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 2nd August 2024, Chainwire The post Sharpe AI Announces $SAI Token Listing on Gate.io appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Bank stocks are ending the trading week on low note, down across the board much more than the broad market's setback of around 2.2%. As of 3:07 p.m. ET shares of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) are lower to the tune of 5.1% and 6.9%, respectively, leading the charge lower in addition to setting an industrywide bearish tone. The prompt behind the selling?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

The stock market had a terrible end to the week, and very few companies were spared from the carnage. Three that were up are in the telecom industry and probably aren't on your list of top stocks right now. But maybe they should be. Despite the S&P 500 trading down 2.2% at 3 p.m. EDT, shares of Verizon (NYSE: VZ) have been up as much as 2.7%; AT&T (NYSE: T) was up 2.6%; and T- Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) was up 3.6% at its peak.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Federated Hermes Private Equity has promoted Brooks Harrington, previously Deputy CIO and Head of US Investment, to CIO, Private Equity. In his new role, Harrington is responsible for the investment team and investment performance. He joined in 2015 from GE Capital, where he served as Associate. Harrington replaces Peter Gale, who held the role of CIO and Head of Private Equity for over 15 years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Semiconductor company and artificial intelligence (AI) darling Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) might just be the most well-known company on the planet right now. Considering the enormous role Nvidia plays in the AI movement, it seems like the entire technology sector hinges on how Nvidia's business is performing. So far in 2024, Nvidia has grown its market cap by 127% -- currently hovering around $2.8 trillion.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cryptocurrency has transmuted from what was once considered a niche to being a significant asset class. Many people also have concerns about the negative impacts on the environment through the mining process in cryptocurrency, thus looking for a more sustainable approach. Based on the above analysis, Chia Coin takes the stand as the epitome model […] The post Investing in Green Crypto: The Case for Chia Coin appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Image source: Getty Images Last year, my husband and I had to replace our 17-year-old Prius with a newer vehicle. We knew we weren't ready to take the leap into a full-fledged EV, but we wanted a car that would offer comparable gas mileage to our Prius, only with more room. We landed on the Toyota RAV-4 Prime, a plug-in hybrid SUV. It seemed like a good middle ground solution, given that a full-fledged EV wasn't what we wanted.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Eurazeo, through its mid-large buyout team and co-investors, has completed its acquisition of Eres Group for over €350m, marking the fifth transaction for its ECV fund, which is now more than 40% deployed. Eurazeo is investing alongside the management, employees and founders of Eres Group. Founded in 2005 and based in Paris, Eres Group provides consulting and structuring, asset management and distribution of employee savings plans, retirement plans and employee share ownership plans.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

For much of the past year, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) enjoyed the esteemed title of the world's most valuable public company. An artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled boost -- and underperformance from Apple -- helped propel Microsoft into the top spot, but a recent sell-off erased more than $300 billion in market cap over the past month (as of July 29).

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

San Francisco-based investment firm Knox Lane has held the final close of its second institutional fund, KLC Fund II, with $1bn in total capital commitments, exceeding its target of $850bn and hitting its hard cap. The oversubscribed fund received support from existing and new investors and saw a 46% increase in fund size over Knox Lane’s first fund, which was $610m.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Image source: Upsplash/The Motley Fool There's a lot of weird information on the internet about a lot of stuff. But boy, does it love get-rich-quick schemes that promise you'll make a bunch of money while doing almost nothing. The truth, of course, is a lot different. What you end up with is a system that doesn't work, an extra job that wastes your precious time, or a con job that just sucks in your money like a reverse firehose.

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AltAssets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Munich-based Golding Capital Partners has raised just over €100m for the first close of its latest co-investment fund. The post Golding grabs over €100m in first close of new co-invest fund first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

The airline sector is beginning to feel a squeeze, and no one is under more pressure than Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE). Shares of the discount airline lost 17.8% in July, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence , after a mid-quarter update prompted discussions about a potential bankruptcy filing. A bad situation could get worse Spirit has been flying through a lot of headwinds.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Jefferies Financial Group has completed the previously announced sale of Italian wireless broadband provider OpNet’s operations to Wind Tre, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings. Under the terms of the sale, which was disclosed in February, Jefferies will receive net cash proceeds of approximately $317m between the 1 August closing date and H1 2025.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

In a crypto bull market like the one we find ourselves in, it can be difficult to discern which asset is best for your portfolio. Perhaps the old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" could apply here. While dozens of new cryptocurrencies have launched since Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) became the world's first crypto, there is a compelling case to be made that it remains the best, thanks to tailwinds forming in 2024 and beyond.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

AUGUST 2, 2024

New initiative is welcome, but green investment in emerging markets needs to reach far greater scale

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

With August arriving, investors should assess whether their portfolios are missing any stocks. Despite the market's strong year, there are still plenty of stocks that are worth buying at today's prices. If you want to grow your portfolio in August, I've got four names that investors should consider. 1. Taiwan Semiconductor Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM) is probably one of the top five most vital companies in the world.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Global law firm Goodwin has added Thiha Tun as a partner to its private investment funds practice in London. Tun was most recently a partner at Dechert. He is the fourth partner to join Goodwin’s private investment funds practice, following the appointments of Virgine Leroy in Luxembourg; Alicja Biskupska-Haas in New York; and John Anderson in London.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Warren Buffett manages a massive portfolio for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). As of this writing, Berkshire's equity holdings total around $400 billion. By far the largest equity holding in the portfolio is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). The Oracle of Omaha poured tens of billions of dollars into Apple stock between 2016 and 2018, amassing a huge stake in the iPhone maker.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Global private debt fundraising totalled $50.4bn in the second quarter of 2024, marking a significant rebound from a below-average first quarter, according to the latest data from alternative assets data provider Preqin. The quarter’s performance places it fourth among the last eight second quarters, marking a return to more typical fundraising levels after a subdued Q1.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

After tumbling yesterday, shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) were heading south again today. Once again, weak economic data was the culprit, triggering another broad market sell-off. This morning, the Bureau of Labr Statistics reported that the unemployment rate jumped from 4.1% to 4.3% in July, and new jobs fell to just 114,000. The news has sparked fears that the economy could be headed for a recession and that the Federal Reserve should have lowered interest rates at its meeting on Wednesday.

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Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 2, 2024

Britain becomes largest market for Madrid-based group, which already owns Scottish Power

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Many seniors rely on Social Security for the bulk of their income. For some retirees, those monthly benefits are their only income source. That's why it's so important that Social Security be designed to keep up with inflation. And to that end, lawmakers decided back in 1975 that benefits would be subject to an automatic annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) pegged to inflation.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

UK financial services firms Phoenix Group and Schroders are to launch of a new private markets investment manager, Future Growth Capital (FGC), which will aim to deploy up to £2.5bn over three years from Phoenix Group, with an initial £1bn commitment. This strategic collaboration aims to tap into the growing demand for private market investments, offering a diversified range of opportunities across various asset classes.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is one of the most iconic automakers in the history of the industry. But its rich history has failed to generate investor riches. In fact, while the broader S&P 500 has moved 176% higher over the past decade, Ford's stock price has delivered a 36% decline. Once lauded for trudging through the Great Recession on its own dime, rebounding and producing record profits, its wheels have only spun in place for years.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 2, 2024

This week, we speak with Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute. Achuthan met his mentor, Geoffrey H. Moore, at Columbia University in 1990; they formed ECRI with Anirvan Banerji in 1996. He serves on the board of governors for the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. In 2004, he co-authored Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict and Profit From Turning Points in the Economy.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this video, I will explain why semiconductor stocks like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Intel , Arm Holdings, and Advanced Micro Devices all crashed on Thursday and talk about whether this presents a buying opportunity. *Stock prices used were from the trading day of Aug. 1, 2024. The video was published on Aug. 1, 2024. Should you invest $1,000 in Nvidia right now?

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 2, 2024

Blue Yonder, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based leader in digital supply chain transformations, closed the acquisition of Farmers Branch, FL-based One Network Enterprises, at an enterprise value of approximately $839m. The acquisition gives Blue Yonder customers the ability to collaborate and share data – from inventory levels to raw and finished goods materials movement – in real time across […] The post Blue Yonder Acquires One Network Enterprises appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Nvidia has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, due to its dominance in data center accelerators. The company's shares have surged 750% since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and it remains a foundational AI stock in many portfolios. But Nvidia has a market capitalization just shy of $3 trillion, so the odds of similar returns in the future are slim.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 2, 2024

Aviato, a San Francisco, CA-based data & analytics platform for private markets, received an investment from CerraCap Ventures. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Led by Eric Zhu, Aviato provides users with comprehensive insights, enabling the transformation of unstructured data for funds. The company offers advanced tools and insights that empower investors, analysts, […] The post Aviato Secures Investment from CerraCap Ventures appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Warren Buffett loves dividend stocks. The top holdings in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio all pay dividends, but that's just one common theme among those blue chip stocks. They're also big names within their respective industries, and they are solid investments that any investor can justify putting in a portfolio and hanging on to for years. The top five holds in Berkshire's portfolio are Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) , American Express (NYSE: AXP) , Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) ,

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2024

Sam Meredith of CNBC reports on whether it's the end of the ‘carry trade’ and if Japan’s yen could be ripping through US stocks: The key driver of global markets is the yen exchange rate , according to one financial historian, who warned the trend should concern those “entirely focused on U.S. domestic dynamics in trying to assess price outcomes.” Russell Napier, co-founder of the investment research portal ERIC, said in a recent installment of his “Solid Ground” macro strategy report that inves

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