Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook used to have a market capitalization of over $1 trillion last year. This past Friday the market cap was just over $240 billion !. The collapse of this tech darling which was part of the so-called FANG group, in such as short period is astonishing indeed. In October, Meta …
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Apple(APPL) is one of the world’s most valuable companies today with a market cap of over $2.5 Trillion. It too many decades for Apple to get to where it is now. When the company did its IPO in 1980 it was mainly known for its personal computers. That is no longer the case. The Apple …
Many investors focus on the price return of the S&P 500 index when they consider their investment return Instead investors ought to pay attention to the total return which includes dividends reinvested. The total return of the index can especially be much higher the price return when looking at many years. This is because of …
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I came across a fascinating article on lessons learned from experienced investors on braving bear markets at Capital Group. This is indeed a timely article since we are in the grips of a brutal bear. Though market may have shot up yesterday and today, the bear market is not over until it is actually over. …
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The US equity market is in a bear market this year. The S&P 500 is down about 19% year-to-date. After a few months of relentless declines, stocks saw a brief run up during the summer. That brief bull run seems to have ended and equities are heading in the downward direction again. The Federal Reserve …
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