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MAY 10, 2024

Microsoft is the world's largest company based on market cap , and it's weaving AI through its entire product portfolio. It has developed its own models, but it agreed to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT creator OpenAI last year, so it's leveraging that start-up's technology, too.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

The stock market is on a tear in 2023, led mostly by the technology sector. But we've just entered the weakest seasonal period of the year for stocks; August and September are the two worst months for the benchmark S&P 500 index, based on data going back more than three decades.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

One kind of ETF you may want to steer clear of is the leveraged ETF , and a good example is the ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF (NASDAQ: TQQQ). What's a leveraged ETF? In the financial world, the word "leverage" typically refers to debt, and investors who can stomach a lot of risk sometimes invest with borrowed money.

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MAY 16, 2024

A prolonged period of historically low interest rates helped fuel innovation, the stock market has avoided any major recessions, and most of the largest tech companies have performed especially well. If the Nasdaq 100 falls by 1%, you can expect the leveraged ETF to drop by 3%. Should you invest?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 9, 2025

With the stock market falling more than 10% in two days, we have officially witnessed a stock market crash. Stocks, meanwhile, remain volatile given uncertainty over the impact of tariffs and the ongoing trade war. Along with its strong, high-margin, sponsored ad business, Amazon is seeing nice operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2025

If you're searching for a reliable income stream from your investment portfolio, Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is one stock that should be on your radar. However, Ares Capital hasn't escaped the turbulence of the recent stock market fluctuations. Since the beginning of February, its stock has fallen nearly 16% from its peak.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 15, 2025

The stock is down 71% over the past year, amid ongoing uncertainties regarding the timeline for future commercialization of its clinical pipeline and the broader stock market sell-off. Nevertheless, the company's prospects remain positive with its portfolio of therapeutic candidates covering metabolic and endocrine diseases.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 19, 2024

As such, broad-based index funds like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF (NYSEMKT: VTI) may not be the best choices for investors today. Those companies that most successfully leverage AI to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and create new products and services will likely gain significant competitive advantages.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

Interactive Brokers enjoyed a bumper first quarter The stock market opened 2024 with a bang. Rising stock prices tend to grab people's attention, so a wave of new customers flocked to Interactive's platform during the first quarter, with total accounts soaring by 25% year over year to 2.75

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2023

The first two points resulted in a mad rush to the exits, as many derivative traders were forced to liquidate their heavily leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum positions. At The Motley Fool, we generally caution against leveraged trades of any kind. According to crypto derivatives data tracker CoinGlass, $1.05

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 14, 2024

stock market had an impressive run in 2023, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posting gains of 24.2% Although the stock market seems to have started with a correction in 2024, a strong earnings season and upcoming interest rate cuts may boost it further in 2024. and 43.4%, respectively.

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JUNE 3, 2024

There are lots of ways to make money in the stock market. To sum up, Meta's large share of the social media market (and the associated digital advertising market) have turned the company into a real cash cow -- making it a smart choice for those looking to put money to work in the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2024

Even if the stock market sells off, history shows that holding through periods of volatility is a winning strategy. Procter & Gamble is a simple, boring, but effective dividend stock that can be relied on no matter what the economy is doing. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Management deserves praise for its success so far, but considering the leverage involved, it can be a risky strategy when things go wrong. Buying distressed assets and profiting after fixing them up isn't an easy thing to consistently do well. Perhaps to sweeten the appeal, Bowlero is rewarding shareholders as well as making acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2023

The stock market has been in rally mode over the past few months. That has pushed up most stocks, making it seem like there are fewer compelling values. However, some stocks are still on sale. Alexandria has missed the recent stock market rally. While its leverage ratio of 5.2 data centers).

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MAY 12, 2024

The story of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) illustrates why there are no guarantees in the stock market. However, after years of growth, PayPal has been struggling, and its stock is down 79% from its highs in 2021. Since PayPal reaches a mass market instead of a niche one, it's priced its products attractively. population.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

stock market, a marked change from the disappointing performance of 2022. The benchmark S&P 500 index has gained nearly 20% so far this year and is up by 28% from its bear-market low of October 2022. PayPal Once a hot favorite of the stock market, fintech company PayPal is currently trading nearly 81% down from its peak.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has defied the recent stock market sell-off, with shares rising 19% year to date. Despite the total number of VeriSign's registered domains, 169 million, declining by 2% year over year in 2024, the company has leveraged its contractual ability to raise prices annually, driving growth. higher than in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

The old adage of the stock market is the only place where people head for the exits when the half off sale starts. You know you're going to be, at least you should be a net buyer of stocks over the course of your life. That's not historically been a problem for the US stock market and other world stock markets.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

In addition, some already tax-advantaged accounts (IRAs) don't allow investors to hold partnership units, and many stock market indexes don't allow partnerships. The company and its partners recently agreed to acquire Triton International in a cash-and-stock deal, valuing Triton's equity at $4.7 times target range).

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2024

market proved to be a powerful and cost-effective tool for building wealth for long-term investors. However, to fully leverage the compounding effect in the stock market, it makes sense for investors to avoid the hype and instead invest in companies with robust fundamentals and a solid vision. Over time, the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Stock market volatility will come and go, but what makes a growth stock truly unstoppable is the strength of the underlying business. Whether a stock is up or down in the near term, if you patiently hold shares of a competitively strong business, you're going to earn great returns sooner or later. It has the No.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2025

The past few months have been extremely volatile in the stock market. In times like these, it's best to focus on making safer investments that can deliver more reliable returns, like high-quality dividend stocks. Tariffs and other concerns have caused a lot of uncertainty about what's ahead. There's growing angst that the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Investing in the stock market is an excellent way to build long-term wealth. For instance, there is an insurance stock many may not know of that has returned 392% since it went public in 2018. However, there's a misconception that investing in the next big thing is the only way to generate that wealth.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

Right now, the company has 193,000 Bitcoins on its balance sheet, worth an estimated $13 billion at today's market prices. By way of comparison, the total stock market capitalization of MicroStrategy is $21 billion.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) isn't the stock market darling it once was. While the video streamer was once squarely featured in the FAANG group of fast-growing tech stocks, it's the only one of the group to be left out of the " Magnificent Seven ," one of the current groupings of elite tech stocks.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

Vanguard offers more than 80 ETFs as of this writing, with choices that allow people to passively invest in a variety of benchmark indices, stock market sectors, fixed-income instruments, and much more. It isn't just that falling rates can be good for real estate stock prices. Their businesses can benefit as well.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

2024 has turned out to be a great year for Roblox (NYSE: RBLX) as its stock price rose 25% year to date (as of writing), reaching a level not seen since 2022. While there is general optimism in the stock market, company-specific reasons remain the biggest drivers of Roblox's solid stock performance.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The stock market is pushing toward a new all-time high, but some stocks have been left behind in the recent market rally. The new team sees plenty of opportunity to capitalize on its existing position, and that's led Morgan Stanley analyst James Faucette to put a $118 price target on the stock. "I

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Market volatility can make investors feel very uneasy about their financial future. The key is to ignore the stock market and focus on the key advantages of the underlying business. There are terrific buying opportunities in beaten-down growth stocks right now. That gives Chewy a long runway for growth.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2024

With the price of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) soaring, it's no surprise that companies highly leveraged to the price of the cryptocurrency are also soaring. There's another factor to take into account, and that's the gap between the stock market valuation of the company and the valuation of the company's Bitcoin holdings.

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JUNE 7, 2024

How Bitcoin boosts crypto stocks The impact on Coinbase, MicroStrategy, and Cipher Mining are a little different but they'll all make more money as Bitcoin rises. MicroStrategy has a leveraged position in Bitcoin so it's not surprising its stock price has exaggerated the move in Bitcoin.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

This reach is a key part of the company's allure as an investment, with its ability to leverage synergies supporting its market-leading advertising network. Alphabet's ownership of autonomous driving venture Waymo demonstrates its commitment to continued innovation.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

The crypto market took an absolute nosedive at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday after the stock market opened. With a lack of regulatory clarity, it's not surprising that some investors have chosen to take profits at a market peak. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has fallen over $4,000 in value to $66,440 as of 3:15 p.m.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recession fears have dogged the stock market for much of the last few years. The 2022 bear market was premised partly on the notion that the economy was headed for a recession as interest rates rose. Management has also noticed a pattern of sales slowing at the end of the month, a sign that customer budgets are running out.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The company's share price closed out the daily session up 43%, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Reddit had its initial public offering (IPO) and began trading on the stock market this morning, and shot higher out of the gate. earlier in today's session. million of that revenue this year.

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MAY 26, 2024

Leverage the power of long-term investing and compound interest. Investing in the stock market can be even more effective. A rising market is not guaranteed, but using a time-tested passive investing strategy -- $100 a month since the turn of the century -- would now total $77,869 based on the average 7.5%

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