Understanding Risk Tolerance Before Investing
ithout knowing how much risk an investor is truly comfortable with, even the greatest investment strategy will fall to pieces when the market becomes volatile.
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Who Pulls The Trigger?
In late February, a $35,000 autonomous drone built by an Arizona startup flew over the Persian Gulf and hit its target. No pilot. No last-second confirmation from a commander. The U.S. military called it Operation Epic Fury. Analysts called it something else: a preview of what war looks like from here on out.
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Investing 101: What Investing Really Is and How Anyone Can Get Started
From an investor perspective, the biggest thing separating someone from building wealth is time. The time to start investing is never too early, and almost never too late either. People still hesitate though. A lot of it comes from overthinking the timing. Some wonder if they should wait for a crash, while others worry, they’re already too late.
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$5 Trillion & Counting: NVIDIA Beats Nations
A market capitalization of five trillion, NVIDIA has achieved that once seemed unimaginable. The most valuable company in the world. Once known for powering your computer, NVIDIA has transformed itself into an artificial intelligence revolution, showing how untouchable they are and illustrating how technological innovations can rewrite global economic rankings.
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Public Investors Will Never Win – Thank the Private Markets
Despite the narrative of democratized investing being pushed by mobile trading apps, the “Gamestop Frenzy”, and the market share of retail investors growing from 10% in 2011 to 22+% 2022… the financial whales still gatekeep the best features of Wall Street for themselves. Private markets have locked up the best opportunities and thrown away the key. Inequity among investors has become increasingly apparent when evaluating the decrease in the value creation offered by U.S. IPO markets.
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Potential Investment Strategies to Use During Volatile Periods as Dow Index Enters Bear Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the oldest of the three main stock indexes on The New York Stock Exchange, entered bear market territory when it declined by 1.1% on September 26th. The decline extended the index’s drop-off from its all-time high and pushed its losses to over 20% from its January peak of 36,799 points to 28,725 points, which meets the criteria to enter a bear market.
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Don’t Expect More of the Same
Defensive assets have taken center stage this quarter. The top S&P 500 sectors have been healthcare, real estate, and utilities. Utilities lead, up 10.2% so far. The thinking behind defensive stocks is that regardless of the economy’s health, people still consume the goods and services of these sectors.
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Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter Summarized
The letter started with a non-subtle flex: a table showing that Berkshire has returned an overall gain of over 2,800,000% to its shareholders since 1965, while the S&P 500 has only returned 23,000%, including dividends.
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Fed Chair Powell Remains Dovish
Jerome Powell appears to remain dovish on interest rates as long-term Treasury yields continue to spike. While undermining the equity markets overall, inflation is nowhere near the Fed’s 2% target, and the labor market has not returned to full employment.
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Robinhood and Citadel CEOs Face Questionings from Lawmakers
Last Friday, the House Committee of Financial Services called upon Robinhood and Citadel CEOs Vlad Tenev and Ken Griffin to testify before Congress for restricting trading of GameStop stock on the Robinhood app.
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