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Nvidia Briefly Became the Largest Company on the Stock Market. What Does This Mean for Investors?

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It's up 150% this year, crushing the broader market, and that catapulted it to the very top spot as the largest public company by market cap. What does this mean for investors? A stock's market cap is the total value of all of its shares. They're winning companies.

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Warren Buffett's $277 Billion Warning That the Stock Market Could Be Headed for Trouble

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Warren Buffett has never claimed to be able to predict what the stock market would do over the near term. In a 2008 op-ed for The New York Times , he wrote, "I can't predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven't the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month, or a year, from now."

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10 Stock Market Predictions for 2024

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As investors ready to ring in the new year, they have to be thrilled with Wall Street's performance in 2023. But it's not about where Wall Street has been, so much as where the stock market is headed next. The bear market returns in 2024 Although the U.S. economy and stock market.

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This Warren Buffett Indicator Is a Red Flag. Should Investors Worry?

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stock market is overvalued or undervalued. The Buffett Indicator is the ratio of a country's total market capitalization of public companies to its gross domestic product (GDP). Calculating the Buffett Indicator is straightforward: You divide a country's total market cap by its GDP. For the U.S.,

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Meet Wall Street's Safest Dividend Stock: A Small-Cap Company Few Investors Know Exists

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While Treasury bonds, housing, and commodities like gold, silver, and oil, have had their moments in the sun and, in many instances, made investors richer, no asset class has come close to matching the average annual return from stocks over the last century. Image source: Getty Images. Regardless of what's happening with the U.S./global

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What Does It Mean for Investors if CRISPR Therapeutics Gets Bought Out in 2024?

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Gene-therapy treatments are growing in popularity, and for a larger healthcare company that is perhaps looking into getting into the business, it could be more attractive to simply buy CRISPR Therapeutics than to develop its own therapies. What would a buyout mean for investors? They could also decide to cash out and sell their shares.

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3 Stock Market Predictions for 2024: The S&P 500 Gains, Apple Falls Behind Microsoft, and Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Soar

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Fallout from the pandemic made the last two years particularly tumultuous for investors. Here are three not-so-wild stock market predictions for 2024. That could energize investors and move the index higher. Lower rates boost spending and economic growth, and investors tend to get excited by those prospects.