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OCTOBER 9, 2024
Shore Capital Partners (Shore), a private equity firm focused on lower-middle market investments, has closed its inaugural Healthcare Advantage Fund, second Business Services Partners Fund, and first Shore Search Partners Fund with a combined $1.9bn in commitments. Fundraising for the three funds, which all exceeded their targets brings the firm’s assets under management to $9.1bn.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Image source: Getty Images After much hemming and hawing, I finally joined Costco via its website a few weeks ago. I bought a house earlier this year, and I've got more storage space now, plus I was eager to maximize a Costco membership by taking advantage of deals on appliances, furniture, electronics, and more. I recently visited the store location closest to me (which is an hour away), and it was an eye-opening experience.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) tumbled in early trading Friday, down 8.2% through 10:05 a.m. ET as investors gave two thumbs down to the company's "We, Robot" presentation in Hollywood last night. In no particular order, Tesla unveiled a bartending Tesla Bot. Image source: Tesla. an autonomous Robovan that can carry 20 passengers. Image source: Tesla. and a 2-door Cybercab (that on the company's website is still confusingly called "Robotaxi").
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) has spent a decade building a point-to-point air taxi product and is getting closer to launch. In this video, Travis Hoium discusses whether it's time to invest in this new transportation paradigm or wait until the business model is proven out. *Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Oct. 7, 2024. The video was published on Oct. 8, 2024.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Chip-giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has managed to keep pace with rival AMD on raw performance in the PC c entral processing unit (CPU) market over the past few years, but that feat came at a cost. Intel's previous three generations of desktop PC processors -- Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh -- were all built on the Intel 7 manufacturing process.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
October is an important month for seniors since that's when Medicare's annual open enrollment period kicks off. That period spans more than seven weeks, beginning Oct. 15 and lasting through Dec. 7. During open enrollment, Medicare participants have the opportunity to make changes to their coverage. And in some cases, switching plans could lead to a world of savings.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) was the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) over the last five years, with shares soaring 2,890%. The company completed two stock splits during that period. The first was the 4-for-1 stock split in July 2021, and the second was the 10-for-1 stock split in June 2024. Monster gains notwithstanding, Wall Street is still bullish on the semiconductor company.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) continues to set new records, extending the bull market that began when the index bottomed in Oct. 2022. The technology sector is leading this incredible run thanks to its powerful earnings growth and innovation in areas like artificial intelligence (AI). Since the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization , the largest companies in the index have a greater influence over its performance than the smallest.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Way back in 2016, before most investors were even aware of artificial intelligence (AI), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) co-founder Jensen Huang delivered an AI supercomputer to leadership at OpenAI. In 2022, OpenAI released the popular ChatGPT chatbot, sparking a generative AI revolution. And now the tailwinds couldn't be blowing any harder in Nvidia's sails.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the hottest investing theme of the moment. Much ink has been spilled on the technology's awesome power and potential economic impact. Could it be as transformative as its evangelists would have you believe? PwC -- one of the "big four" accounting firms -- believes AI can add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Image source: Getty Images Sam's Club can be good for your budget in a lot of ways, from the bulk bargains to the 2% Sam's Cash bonus for Plus members. But you're not taking full advantage of your membership if you haven't tried out Sam's Club's house brand, Member's Mark. This isn't a typical low-quality generic brand. Most of the Member's Mark products I've tried have been good quality, and the majority of them have excellent reviews online.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
One of the most important pieces of generative artificial intelligence (AI) development is sophisticated chipsets called graphics processing units (GPUs). Right now, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) absolutely dominates the GPU realm thanks to its A100 and H100 chipsets. While these products contributed to record revenue and profit growth for Nvidia over the last couple of years, the company's new Blackwell series GPUs could wind up being its biggest product yet.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Investing in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can give you exposure to many different areas of the economy. They're not just a way to mirror the overall markets. ETFs can also allow you to tap into different growth opportunities and take advantage of sectors of the market which may be poised to do better than the S&P 500. Vanguard funds are popular options with investors for their strong track records, diversification, and low fees.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
With the broader indexes hitting all-time highs, 2024 has been a phenomenal year in the stock market. While the energy sector is only up 11.2%, Texas Pacific Land Corporation (NYSE: TPL) has soared 87.2% and just hit a new all-time high on Oct. 4. Here's why Texas Pacific has an elite business model and could still be a dividend stock worth buying now despite its meteoric rise.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be the world's largest company, with a $3.4 trillion market cap, but that doesn't mean it will retain that place forever. Some cracks in Apple's armor could make it vulnerable, allowing other companies to pass Apple in market cap. Here are three stocks that could be worth more than Apple five years from now. What's wrong with Apple?
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
There are no two ways about it: The dawn of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in early 2023 has been a windfall for chipmaker Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The company pioneered the graphics processing units (GPUs) that have become the gold standard for a variety of use cases by providing the computational horsepower needed to underpin video games, data centers, and even earlier versions of AI.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
In the wake of the pandemic, inflation soared to a degree not seen in decades, wreaking havoc on consumers' finances and putting pressure on retirees with fixed incomes. But thankfully, inflation has cooled nicely in 2024, leading to some relief in the context of everyday expenses. At the start of 2024, seniors on Social Security saw their monthly benefits rise by 3.2%.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Earlier this year, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) revealed that it invested capital in several promising artificial intelligence (AI) companies. Management clearly believed the investments would pay off, but it also positioned the company as a direct enabler of its end markets. After all, Nvidia isn't an AI company itself. Rather, it supplies the AI industry with critical components like graphics processing units, or GPUs.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) supplies the most powerful graphics processing chips (GPUs) for developing artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company has an impressive list of customers who are spending truckloads of money to fill their data centers with those chips as they battle for AI supremacy. In fact, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI infrastructure spending will top $1 trillion over the next five years, and his company is likely to be the biggest winner because it has a dominant market shar
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Walt Disney 's (NYSE: DIS) domestic theme parks are dealing with windstorms on both coasts this week. The situation in Florida is making national headlines. Disney World -- as well as the area's other popular gated attractions -- closed on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton slicing through the state overnight. Disney's iconic Florida parks closed early on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the catastrophic storm.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Retirement healthcare expenses eat up a significant portion of your nest egg, even if you're healthy. A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2024 can expect to spend $165,000 on out-of-pocket medical expenses, according to Fidelity, and this doesn't include things like dental care, over-the-counter medications, or long-term care. Prioritizing your health at every age is critical to keeping these expenses as low as possible.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Are you looking for a new growth investment? Consider a stake in Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ: CELH). Shares of this fast-growing company are down 70% since hitting their all-time high last year. But the reasons behind the deep discount are only temporary. Bargain-minded growth investors will want to take their swing on Celsius stock sooner rather than later.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
The Social Security Administration released news on Thursday, Oct. 10, explaining that beneficiaries will receive a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2025. That means the average monthly retired worker benefit will increase from $1,920 in August 2024 to $1,968 in January 2025. Retired workers haven't received a smaller raise since 2021. Unfortunately, there is more bad news.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Dividend investing is a tried-and-true strategy for building long-term wealth. It may not be as sexy as buying the hottest hyper-growth stocks or cutting-edge technology companies, but dividend stocks can be the tortoise that drives steady portfolio wealth when looking at a multi-decade period. And it does take time. For example, if you buy a dividend stock yielding 2% that grows its dividend per share by 6% per year, it will be yielding just 3.6% in 10 years.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Imagine a world where you can avoid traffic gridlock by jumping into a flying taxi that whisks you away to your destination. While this seems like an idea out of science fiction, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL), also known as flying taxis, could be coming to a city near you. Flying taxis could potentially change urban transportation, and Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) is one company looking to make them a reality.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Important data releases aren't hard to come by on Wall Street. Monthly employment and inflation reports, coupled with earnings season (i.e., six weeks packed full of operating results from public companies), can make it easy for important data to fly under the radar. While most investors were focused on the heart of earnings season in mid-August, as well as the release of the July inflation report, they may have missed the deadline for Wall Street's smartest and most-successful money managers to
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) was nearly the undisputed best cybersecurity investment prior to its July 19 outage incident. After that problem, CrowdStrike's position seemed a little less certain. With all the computers CrowdStrike's update crashed on, the knee-jerk reaction was to sell the stock because it was trading at a premium price point, and nobody knew what the long-term effects on its business would be.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) expert SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) has about two decades of operating history and technology development under its belt. At the same time, it's a young company on the stock market. SoundHound AI entered the public stock market by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in the spring of 2022. Ten earnings reports later, the maker of AI-powered voice control systems boosted its trailing-12-month revenue from $21.8 million to $55.5 million while lower
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
It's amazing how much things can change in just 20 years. Two decades ago, industrial and energy stalwarts General Electric and ExxonMobil were the most valuable companies when measured by market cap, worth $319 billion and $283 billion, respectively. Jump ahead to 2024, and technology concerns are leading the way. Topping the list are three of the world's most recognizable tech companies.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
For the more than 68 million beneficiaries currently receiving a Social Security check each month, today is kind of a big a deal. In less than four hours, the September inflation report will be released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Social Security Administration (SSA) will have the final puzzle piece necessary to calculate the 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) has experienced a huge rebound since the pandemic. After shutdowns left it without a significant revenue source for over a year, massive debts and a long process of returning to normalcy left its stock without an obvious catalyst. However, Carnival's ships are again packed, and bookings are at record highs. Such conditions should prompt investors to take a closer look at the cruise line stock.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Here's an eye-opening fact: The bottom 40% of lifetime earners get more than 80% of their retirement income from Social Security. Without Social Security benefits , many millions of retirees would slip below the poverty level. Thus, it's rather important to try to make your benefits as big as possible. There are multiple ways to do so -- and to try to hang on to all your benefit dollars.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
Image source: The Motley Fool/Upsplash Small business owners are known for their tireless work ethic which sometimes includes working weekends. But should your small business marketing software start working weekends, too? If you're selling to business-to-business (B2B) customers, a new survey from DesignRush suggests you might want to start doing more marketing outreach during weekends -- because B2B buyers are paying attention.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
After hitting a 52-week low on Oct. 1, U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices surged nearly $8 per barrel in two days as Middle East tensions threaten to take supply offline. Oil prices had been under pressure from a ramp-up in U.S. production, paired with potentially higher OPEC+ supply. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) , the most valuable U.S. energy stock by market cap, notched a fresh all-time high on Oct. 4.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
In today's video, I discuss why Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing 's (NYSE: TSM) recent announcement is bullish for the vast semiconductor market. To learn more, check out the short video, consider subscribing, and click th e speci al offer link below. *Stock prices used were the market prices of Oct. 9, 2024. The video was published on Oct. 10, 2024.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Do you think of International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) as an artificial intelligence (AI) expert? Maybe you don't, and that's OK. But you really should, and I think you'll get there soon enough. There's a generative AI boom happening right now, and Big Blue is quite happy to watch the public drama unfold from the sidelines. You see, the company has been laying the foundation for its own AI empire for years, and that effort is starting to pay dividends.
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Image source: The Motley Fool. Lennar (NYSE: LEN) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Sep 20, 2024 , 11:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Thank you for standing by, and welcome to Lennar's third quarter earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time.
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