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JANUARY 13, 2025

Last Monday night, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang gave the opening keynote speech to kick off CES 2025, which ran until Friday in Las Vegas. Nvidia is the leader in providing chips -- primarily graphics processing units (GPUs) -- and related technology to enable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. So, Huang naturally spent much of his approximately 1.5-hour presentation on the topic of AI.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 9, 2025

True Religion announced on Tuesday that private equity firm Acon Investments has acquired a majority stake in the company. SB360 Capital Partners, chaired by American Eagles CEO Jay Schottenstein, also took part in the deal. True Religion stated that the acquisition would support the expansion of its product range and global presence. The US-based clothing company will maintain its independence following the acquisition.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Stellex Capital Management has acquired Industrial Construction Services (ICS), a provider of electrical services to industrial and commercial sectors, from Stone Arch Capital. The ICS platform was formed by Stone Arch in September 2018 with the acquisition of Louisiana-based Electrical and Instrumentation Unlimited , a company specializing in industrial electrical and instrumentation services across the Gulf Coast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeastern regions of the United States.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JANUARY 16, 2025

We also answered questions about 2025 retirement account limits, Coast FIRE strategies, when to take money off the table from the stock market, how to account for pension and Social Security income during retirement and how other economies impact the U.S. markets. Further Reading: Updating My Favorite Performance Chart For 2024 The post The 2024 Sector Quilt appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been the first big usage of AI. However, the next major wave may be agentic AI. Generative AI uses generative software models to create text, image, video, or audio content in response to a user prompt. An example would be asking ChatGPT a question and getting a text response. With agentic AI, meanwhile, automated AI agents will go out and complete assigned tasks autonomously without constant human supervision.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

It's tempting to try and pick stocks that you think might double or triple in value in a year or two. However, the best gains often come over the long term, and sometimes they can come in unexpected ways. That's why investing in multiple stocks can be an effective strategy because it's almost impossible to predict where a business might end up in the long run.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Creating a well-diversified portfolio through individual stock selection requires extensive research, constant monitoring, and significant time commitment. Many investors find themselves overwhelmed by the complexity of analyzing financial statements, understanding competitive advantages, and staying current with market developments. Low-cost exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offer a simpler path to diversification and staying invested for the long term.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2025

One area where Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has seriously dropped the ball has been artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia essentially owns the market for AI accelerator chips, and AMD is at least competitive with its Instinct line of data center graphics processing units (GPUs). Nvidia is generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue each quarter from its data center GPUs, and AMD is producing a few billion per year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Though Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a top performer in the stock market in the past couple of years, shares of the semiconductor giant have lost momentum since the release of its fiscal 2025 third-quarter results in November last year. Investors were not impressed by Nvidia's quarterly performance and outlook even though it handily beat Wall Street's expectations thanks to the booming demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Investors scored big wins last year as the S&P 500 , the Nasdaq , and the Dow Jones Industrial Average all climbed by double digits. Investor enthusiasm about technology and growth stocks, and the economic environment ahead, drove the momentum. Right now, it's too early to predict with 100% certainty whether the indexes will deliver yet another annual gain, but there are reasons to be optimistic about the possibility.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 15, 2025

OpenAI has added Adebayo Ogunlesi, CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, to its board. Ogunlesi will help the company secure the infrastructure needed to advance artificial intelligence development. GIP, a private equity firm managing over $100bn in assets, owns stakes in Gatwick Airport and offshore wind projects. AI requires large-scale computational infrastructure like specialised data centres.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2025

Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) was one of the best-performing stocks of 2024. The analytics and software management platform for government agencies, the military, and big business soared 340% for the year and sports a market cap of $167 billion as of this writing. Shareholders of Palantir no doubt appreciated the company's performance in 2024, but investors are likely looking at the new year and asking themselves: Can Palantir keep up this momentum?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) , also known as AMD, has been a surprisingly underperforming tech stock over the past year. In 2024, it declined by 18% even despite its promising growth opportunities as a top artificial intelligence (AI) chip maker. Over the past five years, the stock has achieved gains of around 140%, and it has typically been a market-beating investment.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 14, 2025

Plenty of technology companies saw solid growth in the past couple of years. Catalysts like strong spending on cloud infrastructure and services related to the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) played a part, and there is a good chance that the trend will continue in 2025. Global information technology (IT) spending is forecast to increase by 9.3% in 2025 (to $5.74 trillion) as compared to 2024's estimated increase of 7.2%, according to Gartner.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1930 and is one of history's most successful investors. Trained under the tutelage of Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, Buffett has applied value-focused strategies to deliver incredible performance. In fact, if you had invested $1,000 in Berkshire Hathaway on the day that Buffett purchased a controlling stake in the company and became its CEO in 1965, you would now be sitting on holdings worth more than $37 mill

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Growth investors are often willing to look past a company's underwhelming bottom line if they're convinced that the business has a promising future and path forward. C3.ai (NYSE: AI) is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that has captivated many investors in recent years due to the potential for this mid-cap stock to be the next big tech company.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

The age at which you decide to claim Social Security retirement benefits can have a huge impact on the size of your monthly check. Those claiming early typically receive a smaller benefit than those who wait. All else being equal, the difference between claiming your Social Security benefits at age 62 compared to waiting until age 70 can be as much as a 77% increase in your benefits.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Even after the broad market pullback in recent days, the S&P 500 is still only offering investors a miserly 1.2% yield or so. You can do way better than that with these three stocks, all of which offer yields of more than 4%. Here's why Chevron (NYSE: CVX) , Black Hills (NYSE: BKH) , and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) are no-brainer high yielders right now whether you have $200 or $200,000 to invest. 1.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) has established itself as a leader in quantum computing, a cutting-edge technology poised to transform machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Recent breakthroughs are beginning to address an expanding scope of real-world commercial applications. Strong company sales have powered a fantastic rise in its share price, up 136% in the past year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

You don't have to build a fancy stock portfolio. Many investors simply settle for a market-tracking index fund , and keep adding funds to that boring but effective long-term investment. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that approach. Matching the returns of the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index can build serious wealth in the long run. There's always the middle ground, though.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2025

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) made headlines late last week when it announced it would spend $80 billion this year building data centers that would train artificial intelligence (AI) models and handle AI and cloud-based applications around the world. More than half of the investment will be in the U.S. To put the amount Microsoft is spending on AI infrastructure in perspective, that is more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of many countries, including Croatia and Lithuania (to name just two).

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Social Security is best known for providing retirement income to tens of millions of retired workers, but there's a lot more to the program. One of the most important, but often misunderstood, components is Social Security spousal benefits. Spousal benefits are designed to provide much-needed retirement income to married couples for which one spouse had a relatively low income.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2025

The AI revolution may still be in its early innings as tech giants and start-ups invest mountains of cash into AI infrastructure. Microsoft is reportedly set to spend an incredible $80 billion on AI data centers this year, a strong sign that heavy spending on AI is going to continue in the foreseeable future. While betting on the big AI players might make sense, some smaller companies are worth considering.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

I've been a big fan of Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) for some time. The company is clearly capable of tremendous growth. When it went public in 2021, Rivian was generating annual sales of just $55 million. In 2024, annual sales surpassed $5 billion. The best news is that Rivian's biggest days of growth are likely still ahead of it. But is there enough upside potential in the stock to turn you into a millionaire?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming many industries, but not all tech companies will benefit equally. The companies with the most potential notched their AI lead years ago before their rivals had even jumped on the AI trend. The competitive moats established by Alphabe t (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) could be significant as AI grows, resulting in impressive gains similar to how AI darling Palantir Technologies has benefited rec

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has become the second-largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $3.3 trillion as of this writing. The terrific demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips is playing a key role in helping the chipmaker achieve this position. The semiconductor giant's impressive rise can be justified by the phenomenal increase in its revenue and earnings over the past couple of years, thanks to the dominant position it has built for itself in the market for AI chips.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has grown into one of the world's largest oil and gas producers over the years. The oil company's public history dates back to 1998, when the Continental Oil Company separated from DuPont. It was the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history at the time, at nearly $4.4 billion. Here's a look back at how many shares of the oil stock you'd own today if you bought one at its historic IPO nearly three decades ago for roughly $23.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

I've been steadily adding to my position in Realty Income (NYSE: O) over the past few years. I generally buy a few shares every month or so when I have a little extra cash in my retirement account to spare. However, I recently bought a boatload of shares, boosting my position by more than 40%. Here's why I loaded up on shares of the real estate investment trust ( REIT ) in my retirement account.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2025

The second year of Wall Street's bull market rally didn't disappoint. Although all three major stock indexes climbed to numerous record-closing highs throughout 2024, it's growth stocks that continued to lead the charge. The Nasdaq-100 , which is comprised of 100 of the largest non-financial public companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, gained 25% last year and 92%, in aggregate, over the two-year period between the start of 2023 and end of 2024.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2025

There's going to be a new nameplate before long on a C-suite door of candy company Hershey (NYSE: HSY). Just after market hours last Friday -- considered by many public relations professionals to be a suitable time slot to release bad news -- it announced that CEO Michele Buck will exit the company. This was an unexpected development. After all, Buck has been at Hershey for nearly 20 years, and CEOs at the conservatively managed company tend to stay for a while (Buck herself began her tenure in

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Shares of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) were pulling back Thursday after the company delivered underwhelming fourth-quarter results, as sales were weaker than expected and its costs rose. As of 1:15 p.m. ET, the stock was down 5.2%. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

A lot of us start off the new year eager to tackle different financial resolutions -- paying down debt, increasing savings, and kicking expensive habits. But the start of a new year is also a great time to focus on Social Security. Now you may be thinking, "But wait a minute -- I'm nowhere close to being ready to retire. Why do I need to even think about Social Security, much less spend time focusing on it?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Magnificent Seven stocks had an outsized influence on the broader market in 2024, with investors piling into these high-flying artificial intelligence-influenced stocks. Their influence has swelled and these seven stocks now represent about one-third of the overall value of the broader benchmark S&P 500. That meant they had a big role in maintaining the bull market now well underway.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Explore the exciting world of Roblox (NYSE: RBLX) with our expert analysts in this Motley Fool Scoreboard episode. Check out the video below to gain valuable insights into market trends and potential investment opportunities! *Stock prices used were the prices of Dec. 4, 2024. The video was published on Jan. 16, 2025. Should you invest $1,000 in Roblox right now?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Warren Buffett is widely considered the greatest investor. From 1965 through 2023, his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway , delivered an astounding 4,384,748% total return to shareholders, or nearly 20% on an annualized basis. If you have some extra cash to invest right now, Berkshire's stock portfolio is a great place to look for inspiration. Here are two Berkshire-held stocks to buy today that have above-average return prospects over the next five years.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

Everybody knows that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is one of the most popular stocks on the market today. It's not only one of the most valuable stocks with a $3.24 trillion market cap on Jan. 13, but it's also very heavily traded. The daily dollar volume of Nvidia shares moving from one investor to another was about $28 billion in recent weeks. That's more than the total dollar-based trading of Apple , Microsoft , and Amazon.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

Among investment opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) realm, semiconductor stocks have become a top choice. Nvidia has been the most popular among chip stocks over the last two years, and for good reason. The company's graphics processing units (GPUs) play an important role in generative AI development, and companies around the world can't seem to get enough of what Nvidia has to offer.

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