The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Why did markets around the world drop sharply on Monday? What does it have to do with the Bank of Japan? And what is a carry trade? It turns out those questions are all closely related. Read on for the answers. Why a carry trade may be responsible for the market's current turmoil For months, market observers have been talking about a popular trade in which investors borrowed in Japanese yen at very low interest rates, and then invested the borrowed money in high-growth investments like the " Mag

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

stabble, a Dubai, UAE-based provider of a Solana-based protocol established to minimize financial loss by reducing operational costs, raised $2.5M in a combined pre-seed, seed, and private funding round. The round was led by Masterblox with participation from Dynamic Labs, Founder Heads, Spicy Capital, DuckDAO, Marshland Capital, and ZEMU VC. The company intends to use the funds for product development, marketing, security […] The post stabble Raises $2.5M in Funding appeared first on FinS

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Among Wall Street's billionaire investors, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is, arguably, in a class of his own. In a world where investors are using advanced charting software and artificial intelligence (AI) in an effort to gain a competitive edge, Buffett and his team have relied on old-school fundamental metrics and detective work to locate amazing businesses.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

Hyperbolic, a New York-based provider of GPU resources and AI services through a cloud platform, raised $7m in seed funding. The round was led by Polychain Capital and Lightspeed Faction with participation from Chapter One, LongHash, Bankless Ventures, Republic Digital, Nomad Capital, CoinSummer Labs, Third Earth Capital, and angel investors like Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, […] The post Hyperbolic Raises $7M in Seed Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Warren Buffett's understanding of how the stock market works is still second to none. That's the chief reason why -- after a short hiatus during and because of the COVID-19 pandemic -- Berkshire Hathaway is once again outperforming the overall market. You'd be wise to poach a few of Buffett's picks when you can. To this end, here's a closer look at three of the top Buffett picks to start with sooner rather than later.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

Skillfully, a San Francisco, CA-based company which specializes in simulation-driven hiring solutions, raised $2.5M in seed funding. The round was led by Better Ventures, with participation from Silicon Valley Quad, American Student Assistance, Strada Education Foundation, FN Fund, and Inventus Capital Partners. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development […] The post Skillfully Raises $2.5M in Seed Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

Cartridge, an infrastructure provider for provable onchain games and autonomous worlds, raised $7.5M in Series A funding. The round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures. StarkWare, Fabric Ventures, Dune Ventures, Primitive Ventures, and Ergodic Fund also participated. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. Led by CEO Tarrence van […] The post Cartridge Raises $7.5M in Series A Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Despite its focus on its LLaMa large language model and new devices like Ray-Ban smart glasses, discussions revolving around investments in top artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have mostly excluded Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). Instead, Nvidia is considered the clear leader in AI hardware, while the financial media has portrayed Microsoft and Alphabet as battling for supremacy in user-facing AI, including chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, cloud infrastructure, and productivity software.

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Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 5, 2024

Executives fear ‘years of legal challenges’ if they split its TV and movie studio businesses

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

You might not know it, but Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is one of the best-performing stocks in the history of the stock market. The home improvement retailer went public in 1981 just three years after the company was founded. At the time it had just six stores, but it grew quickly in its early years. Today, it has more than 2,000 stores, primarily in the U.S.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

AUGUST 5, 2024

Protection against currency swings is expensive for investors in emerging markets

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

There's panic on Wall Street and around the world today, and it's not bad economic news or a terrible earnings report that's at fault. Instead, it's a highly leveraged yen "carry trade" that has led to billions of dollars in selling and liquidations starting in the crypto market on Sunday night. Very few assets are up today, but the notable moves are the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) falling 2.99% and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) losing 3.7% as of 10:00 a.m.

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Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 5, 2024

Executives at Abu Dhabi’s $300bn fund lead restructurings and management changes as valuations sink

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dividend Kings are companies that have paid and raised their dividends for at least 50 consecutive years. This is no small feat, as a larger dividend expense has to be backed by earnings growth, implying the business is doing well. Some folks choose to invest in Dividend Kings for their stability. But they can also be used to hit a passive income goal.

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Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 5, 2024

French bank is slimming down under chief executive Slawomir Krupa

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian reveals the nine best growth stocks to buy now in August. *Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Aug. 1, 2024. The video was published on Aug. 3, 2024. Should you invest $1,000 in Nvidia right now? Before you buy stock in Nvidia, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Nvidia wasn’t one of them.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

Graceview, a Melbourne, Australia-based provider of a generative AI platform for compliance, raised $1.5M in funding. The round was led by Patrick Linton, who will be joining Graceview’s Board of Directors, added: The company intends to use the funds to support its revenue growth expansion in the Asia-Pacific and UK/European markets. Led by CEO Simon Quirk, Graceview […] The post Graceview Raises $1.5M in Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) roared higher in the first half of the year, reaching a record high and confirming the presence of a bull market. But it didn't stop there. The index went on to reach new highs multiple times and delivered one of its best first-half performances in the past 25 years. In fact, it was the fifth-best performance during that time period, a J.P.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

Groq, a Mountain View, CA-based company which specializes in fast AI inference, has secured a $640M Series D, at $2.8 Billion valuation. The round was led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners with participation from both existing and new investors including Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, and strategic investors including Cisco Investments, Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund […] The post Groq Raises $640M in Series D; Valued at $2.8 Billion appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Shares of RTX (NYSE: RTX) surged to a new all-time high following the release of its latest quarterly earnings. The defense and aerospace company beat expectations with management citing "unprecedented demand" across its product portfolio. Long-time investors have a lot to be cheering about with shares of RTX up about 39% this year. On the other hand, investors on the sidelines might be wondering if it's too late to climb aboard this rocket.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

AUGUST 5, 2024

On today’s Talk Your Book, we are joined by Mike Simonsen, Founder and President of real estate analytics firm Altos Research (a firm acquired by HousingWire Media) See here and here to learn more about Mike’s research on residential housing On today’s show, we discuss: The beginnings of Mike’s real estate research business How housing data has affected the behavior of real estate market participa.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Image source: The Motley Fool. Yum China (NYSE: YUMC) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Aug 05, 2024 , 8:00 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Yum China second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question-and-answer session.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

UK-based mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has exited its investemnt in Habit Health through a sale to Five V Capital, marking the sixth exit for its 2016 vintage fund, Livingbridge 6. Habit was founded in 2002 and provides rehabilitation and mental health services in New Zealand. Livingbridge first invested in Habit in 2018 — the second investment out of the firm’s Australian office — and has overseen the increase of the company’s employee numbers from 285 to 877.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

July was a pretty bad month for CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) investors. The cybersecurity company has found itself in both a product-oriented and public relations disaster following an identified bug in a recent software update. The glitch has affected tens of thousands of customers around the world, and induced widespread panic selling among investors.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe has made an investment in QuestGates, a UK provider of loss adjusting and claims services. QuestGates is headquartered in Birmingham and operates out of 12 offices across the UK and Ireland. Founded in 2003, the company offers loss adjusting, claims handling, surveying, engineering and legal services.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

If there are 41 states that don't tax your Social Security benefits, that means there are nine that do. (The District of Columbia does not, by the way.) The fact that the vast majority don't tax it is good news, and there's more good news -- that majority is growing. When I wrote about this topic just two years ago , only 38 states didn't tax Social Security.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Palico, a digital secondaries platform for trading smaller private capital fund stakes, has received regulatory approval from FINRA to become the first and only electronic trading system for LP-led secondary transactions. With this authorisation, US entities will be able to execute the buying and selling of private equity fund interests on a secondary basis.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

The world's most prominent technology companies, including Alphabet , Amazon , Apple , Meta Platforms , Microsoft , Nvidia , and Tesla , dominated the stock market over the past 18 months. This group, dubbed the "Magnificent Seven," collectively generated remarkable investment returns on their way to trillion-dollar market caps. These companies are leading some of the hottest growth trends, including artificial intelligence (AI).

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Vistra

AUGUST 5, 2024

New York, 5 August 2024 – Vistra, a leading provider of essential business services that help organizations to invest and grow efficiently and compliantly across the world, today announced its acquisition of the US-based…

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Shares in toolmaker and industrial products company Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) surged by 32.2% in July, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The move comes as the company reported well-received second-quarter earnings that helped support the bullish case for the stock and scatter the bears shorting it. Stanley Black & Decker builds a recovery It's no secret that consumer discretionary stocks are under pressure in 2024.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Investment management firm TowerBrook Capital Partners’ acquisition of a majority stake in IDAK Food Group from Invision and Nord Holding, with private credit firm Hayfin Capital Management providing debt financing. The acquisition is intended to support IDAK’s capital base and enable the company to pursue M&A across Europe. IDAK management team, led by CEO Christof Lehmann, will continue in their roles.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Nvidia is the go-to supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in the data center. Sales are soaring, with demand coming from some of the world's biggest tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon. But Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has emerged as a worthy competitor, and its new data center GPUs are attracting some of Nvidia's most prized customers.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

BrightNight, a renewable power company serving utility, commercial and industrial customers, has secured a $440m investment from the infrastructure business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Goldman Sachs’ investment, together with existing capital commitments, will fund BrightNight’s five-year business plan and the execution of its 31-gigawatt renewable power project portfolio, which is supported by its AI software platform, PowerAlpha.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

It's no secret that recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) helped drive the current market rally. Since the advent of generative AI early last year, the market has enjoyed the start of a remarkable bull run even as concerns about the broader economy persist. The combination of a carry trade and a rate hike by the Bank of Japan helped spark a worldwide sell-off that sent the major market indexes plunging.

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