The last three years have seen a pandemic-driven market crash turn into a soaring (nearly bull) market, only for rising inflation and weak consumer spending to send stocks back down again. There’s a lot of uncertainty about what happens next for the economy and the stock market, but investors with a long time horizon can still put money to work.…
Savvy investments in the right stocks can help to grow your wealth significantly. By parking your money in growth stocks with solid potential, you could see your money snowball into a much larger sum, perhaps in just a few years. To have the potential for quick growth, a company needs to have several attractive characteristics, such as a growing client base, sustainable…
The stock market has had plenty of great trading days in 2023, but the volatility of the 2022 stock market has persisted. Even as promising economic data continues to appear, fears about the potential of a global recession haven’t totally receded. With that in mind, choosing businesses that can hold up against the whims of the market and continue to…
The heavy-duty computation required to train the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models and deliver those models as services is mostly being done in cloud data centers. Cloud giants like Amazon Web Services, Alphabet‘s Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are ramping up their AI offerings, and in some cases, designing their own AI chips. While the cloud giants will win plenty of AI workloads, smaller players are…
Are you looking for some investments that have lots of potential upside in the years ahead? These three stocks have been struggling this year and could make for underrated buys. Here’s why? This post originally appeared at The Motley Fool.
Are you a successful investor who’s already managing a portfolio worth billions for yourself and others? If not, then there’s probably a lot you can learn by following the handful of folks who can say they do. Luckily for everyday investors like us, keeping tabs on billionaire investors is a lot easier than you might think. The U.S. Securities and…
Investing in stocks doesn’t have to be overly complicated. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs for short, offer many of the same benefits of owning individual stocks, but these vehicles come with the added bonus of instant diversification. As a result, ETFs can be a straightforward and simple way to gain exposure to the market, or a particular theme like artificial intelligence…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the hottest technology of 2023, with many stocks in the emerging industry absolutely surging year to date: But last year was a different story; many of these names suffered steep declines — in some cases of 50% or more — which is a reminder that big gains typically come with a higher degree of volatility. So…
Growth stocks have been the talk of the town in 2023. Unlike stable dividend-paying companies, which tend to be established, many growth-orientated companies are valued based on what they will become in the future, not where they are in the present. Bullish stock markets coincide with investor optimism, which can help fuel a rally in growth stocks. These three stocks have…
For those seeking stocks that have trounced the market over the past year, the biotech sector might be an excellent place to start. The SPDR S&P Biotech Index ETF, an industry benchmark, has climbed 34% over the trailing-12-month period, nearly three times the gains of the S&P 500. These two drugmakers that have done particularly well for themselves. Moreover, both…