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The $3 Trillion Company
January 24, 2024 | Somewhere, Bill Gates is smiling. Microsoft’s remarkable run keeps going. The tech giant achieved the historic $3 trillion market valuation on Wednesday, more evidence of how the artificial intelligence boom has fueled its advance higher and higher.
Talk To Chuck
January 23, 2024 | Charles Schwab’s former marketing campaign stands as one of the most effective financial ad campaigns of all time. But those days are over. Schwab’s net income last year fell 29% from a year prior, and the stock has gotten punished.
On The Move
January 22, 2024 | American workers are getting antsy. About 85% of 1,000 U.S. professionals polled in a new LinkedIn survey say they’re considering changing jobs this year, up from 67% a year ago. About 90% of Gen Z workers — in their early and mid-20s — and 92% of millennials are considering a job change in 2024.
Coffee Powerhouse
January 21, 2024 | Two part-time baristas in Seattle meet at a dive bar, become best friends, move to Philadelphia, and open a one-off coffee shop in a run-down area of the city. That doesn’t sound like a path to a $900 million coffee brand, right?
New Beginnings
January 20, 2024 | Rates might be headed back down, but housing affordability isn’t getting any better.
The Great Inversion
January 19, 2024 | Tom Cruise may have been inverted in Top Gun, but the Treasury yield curve probably won’t be for much longer.a
Force Multiplier
January 18, 2024 | A program meant to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels is helping put cash in renewable energy companies’ pockets by selling tax breaks to corporate giants like JPMorgan.
Crowded Trade
January 17, 2024 | In Bank of America’s surveys of investment fund managers since 2017, U.S. tech stocks (aka “Magnificent Seven”, big tech, Nasdaq, FAANG, etc.) have frequently been reported as the “most crowded trade” in markets.
Space Farming
January 16, 2024 | Our Chart of the Day (in the section above) shows that Chinese growth remains a top concern for the global economy.
Index Boom
September 4, 2024 | Chances are, you own an index fund. And most of us know that the index-fund revolution has showed few signs of slowing down.
The Power of Investing
September 1, 2024 | We're exploring a bit about Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire businesswoman and executive who is also known as Steve Jobs’ widow. They aren’t just philanthropists for positive social change — they also recognize the power of investing in promising startups and entrepreneurs.
Power Shift
August 30, 2024 | The worker pay power shift is here in a cooling hiring market. Pay for new white-collar hires shrank last year, and now blue-collar worker wages are declining, too, according to ZipRecruiter.
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