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Palantir Technologies Is Down 27% From Its All-Time High. Is It Still in a Bubble?

The Motley Fool

Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock appeared to be in a bubble at the start of the year. Investors' expectations were incredibly high, and the valuation looked inflated. Following the hefty sell-off that hit most artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, however, Palantir is down 27% from its all-time high. Some investors may see this decline as a sign the stock may be ready to roar again.

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Navigating the AI Revolution: What Financial Advisors Need to Know

XY Planning Network

If Im being honest, when AI first came onto the scene, I felt overwhelmed by it, so I used it very sparingly. Last September, I attended Hubspots annual conference, INBOUND. The overwhelming message throughout the event was that AI is the future (and the now), and we must embrace it. When used correctly, AI makes us better and more productive at what we do.

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New EY Report Shows Private Equity Strengthens U.S. Economy with More Jobs, Higher Pay, and Increased Investment 

American Investment Council

Includes State by State data on PE-backed jobs, companies, investment WASHINGTON, D.C. Private equity continues to play a crucial role in building the U.S. economy, fostering business growth, creating jobs, and strengthening industries across the country, according to the latest edition of a report released by the American Investment Council and Ernst & Young LLP (EY).

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Advanced search tips that improve M&A research outcomes

Private Equity Info

Enhance your search strategies on Private Equity Info with advanced tips for filtering, keyword use, Auto-Search optimization, exported data, and more.

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Silver Lake and Davidson Kempner face off over ecommerce start-up

Financial Times M&A

Vacation rental marketplace Vacasa is latest struggling tech group to be caught between Wall Street titans

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Central bank depository March 2025

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Policymakers riff on tariffs.

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Ari Emanuel cedes role as Endeavor chief after Silver Lake completes takeover

Financial Times M&A

Powerbroker takes step back at talent agency he founded in move that underscores changing of the guard in Hollywood

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Building companies huddle up to counter US housing chill

Financial Times M&A

Homebuilders, which began the year on an optimistic note, are now underperforming the broader stock

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Nvidia Is Down 23% From Its Peak. Here's How the Rest of 2025 Could Play Out for This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powerhouse.

The Motley Fool

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the biggest success story of the artificial intelligence (AI) era thus far with the stock jumping more than tenfold from the start of 2023, shortly after ChatGPT came out, to its recent peak. Nvidia's market capitalization, which now hovers around $3 trillion, topped out at close to $4 trillion a few months ago. No other company in the history of the stock market has created as much wealth as quickly.

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Big Law’s ‘existential crisis’

Financial Times M&A

Plus, how one of KKRs big investments in Europe turned sideways and Silver Lake completes a Hollywood mega-deal

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Why Palantir Technologies Stock Rallied on Monday

The Motley Fool

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock charged higher on Monday, climbing as much as 7.1%. As of 2:03 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 5%. The catalyst that sent the artificial intelligence (AI) software and data mining specialist higher was its addition to an elite group of stocks. Start Your Mornings Smarter! Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day.

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Carlyle and Energean mutually end $945m transaction following regulatory delays

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Prediction: 2 Bargain Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks That Will Be Worth More Than Palantir Technologies by 2026

The Motley Fool

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) has been one of the hottest artificial intelligence (AI) stocks on Wall Street, but it has become a bit overheated. This has caused the stock to sell off 30% from its all-time highs. However, there could be more pain to come, and some other companies could easily surpass Palantir in terms of market cap by the end of the year.

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Regent acquires TechCrunch from Yahoo as private equity reshapes digital media

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Is SPDR Gold Trust a Millionaire Maker?

The Motley Fool

The U.S. stock market has had a rough start to 2025. The S&P 500 recently entered a correction, and while it quickly bounced back, the index remains below where it was in early January. Meanwhile, the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEMKT: GLD) has surged 15% this year and 40% over the past 12 months. The SPDR Gold Trust is a gold ETF , an exchange-traded fund that owns gold bullion.

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CVC, Nordic Capital, and Platinum Ivy complete acquisition of Hargreaves Lansdown in $6.8bn deal

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If You'd Invested $10,000 in Monster Beverage Stock 5 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

The Motley Fool

It's fun to play "what if" games, and you can play them with stocks, too. For example, what if you'd plunked $10,000 into shares of Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) stock five years ago, as the COVID-19 pandemic heated up? How would you have done? The answer isn't as pretty as it appears: Your $10,000 stake would have grown to be worth about $20,922 -- amounting to an average annual growth rate of 15.9%.

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Apollo considers $4bn sale of Cox Media Group as it eyes exit from broadcast media

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Should You Forget Rigetti Computing and Buy This Millionaire-Maker Stock Instead?

The Motley Fool

Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI) took investors on a wild ride since its public debut three years ago. The quantum computing company went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and its stock opened at $9.75. But by May 3, 2023, its stock sunk to an all-time low of $0.38. Like many other SPAC-backed start-ups, Rigetti overpromised and underdelivered.

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Private equity investors poised to lead restructuring of TikTok’s US operations

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Apple Stock Has a Growth Problem. Is It Really Worth Its Premium Valuation?

The Motley Fool

The stock market often rewards companies it believes have strong future growth potential with premium valuations. In the case of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , investors have bid up shares to roughly 35 times earnings -- a level that implies big growth expectations from the Street. But a closer look at Apple's recent performance raises questions about whether the company's growth trajectory can live up to this lofty valuation.

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Oakley Capital closes Fund VI at €4.5bn hard cap following strong global demand

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2 High-Quality Dividend Stocks to Buy Right Now

The Motley Fool

U.S. stocks are experiencing a rather volatile period. Despite multiple optimistic forecasts for the S&P 500 heading into 2025, the benchmark index is down 3.6% year to date as of this writing. High-performing tech stocks, especially those at the forefront of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, have been struggling considerably over the first quarter of the year.

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Clearlake Capital to acquire Dun & Bradstreet in $7.7bn take-private deal

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Prediction: These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Semiconductor Stocks Will Reclaim Their Spots in the Trillion-Dollar Club by Year's End

The Motley Fool

Just seven public companies boast market capitalizations of at least $1 trillion, as I write this, and other than conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway , each of them is a technology company. The artificial intelligence (AI) trend has provided an intense tailwind for tech stocks in recent years, propelling the likes of Nvidia and Meta Platforms into the trillion-dollar club with Apple , Microsoft , Amazon , and Alphabet.

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Temasek and Warburg Pincus explore $5bn exit from healthcare tech firm GHX

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Want $300 in Safe Monthly Dividend Income? Invest $35,125 Into the Following 3 Ultra-High-Yield Stocks.

The Motley Fool

For well over a century, Wall Street has been a wealth-building machine. Though there is no shortage of pathways to grow your wealth in the stock market, few strategies have proved more fruitful over long periods than buying and holding high-quality dividend stocks. Companies that pay a dividend to their shareholders on a regular basis are: Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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Top private equity news of the week

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Where Will IonQ Stock Be in 1 Year?

The Motley Fool

One area of artificial intelligence (AI) that's beginning to come into the mainstream is a concept known as quantum computing. While it's still years away from becoming commercially adopted, big tech companies such as Amazon , Alphabet , and Microsoft are all exploring ways to integrate this technology into their AI ecosystems. That said, big tech hasn't fetched much attention in the quantum computing landscape.

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Government Spending Is Out of Control! LOL

The Big Picture

Calculation: BEA Table 3.1 Line 20 (Current Expenditures) divided by Table 1.1.5 Line 1 (GDP). Alternatively, Item #2 below divided by GDP. “ If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything. ” – Ronald Coase Hey, it’s @TBPInvictus. Let’s delve into a case in point of Coase’s theorem: If you wanted to peddle the narrative that government spending is out of control, you might present a chart like the one above, which is an exact replica of a chart t

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This Is the Average Social Security Benefit for Age 69

The Motley Fool

The average retired worker who is 69 years old and collects Social Security gets about $1,945 per month, according to the latest edition of the Social Security Statistical Supplements. That's $23,340 per year in retirement income. However, there are a couple of things to point out. First, this data was before the 2025 Social Security COLA went into effect and increased benefits by 2.5%.

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Ribbit Capital scales back capital raising for new fund pair

AltAssets

Fintech investor Ribbit Capital has set its sights lower for its latest pair of fundraises, with eyes on a combined $1.15bn - more than 40% less than it collected for its predecessor vehicles in the strategies. The post Ribbit Capital scales back capital raising for new fund pair appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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3 Things You Can Do if You're Worried About Social Security Cuts

The Motley Fool

If you've been hearing rumors about Social Security cuts, you should know that unfortunately, they're true. This isn't to say that benefit cuts are a given. But they're certainly a possibility based on the way things are looking for Social Security right now. The problem is that in the coming years, Social Security is expected to owe more money in benefits than it collects in revenue.

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Temasek and Warburg Pincus targeting $5bn valuation in possible GHX sale

Private Equity Wire

Temasek and Warburg Pincus are preparing to sell their majority stake in healthcare supply chain management firm Global Healthcare Exchange, with the deal expected to be valued at up to $5bn, according to a report by the Financial Times. The Singaporean government-backed investment firm holds a majority stake in GHX, with Warburg Pincus holding the remainder.

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Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Jettisoned Shares of Palantir and Nvidia, and Is Piling Into 3 High-Profile Turnaround Stocks

The Motley Fool

Data is abundant, if not overwhelming, on Wall Street. Between earnings season -- the six-week period when a majority of S&P 500 companies unveil their quarterly operating results -- and near-daily economic data releases, it can be easy to miss something important. For instance, investors might have overlooked one of the most-important days of the entire first quarter: Feb. 14.

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Mundimoto Raises $21.1M in Funding

FinSMEs

Mundimoto, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of a motorcycle trading and renting platform, raised $21.1M in funding. Specifically, the financing round included 8.1M in equity, complemented by 13M in bank financing from Santander Consumer Finance, Banco Sabadell, and La Caixa. The equity round was led by Orilla Asset Management, and Endeavor with participation from Autotech Ventures, […] The post Mundimoto Raises $21.1M in Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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2 Monster Stocks to Hold for the Next 5 Years

The Motley Fool

Every investor wants multibagger stocks. These are the kind of investments that can make up for a dozen losers in your portfolio, or even generate life-changing returns over a long enough period. The good news for investors is that these kinds of growth stocks are currently on sale, after the Nasdaq Composite index entered a correction earlier this month.