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Facebook’s Shares Plunge After Profit Decline

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startled investors with a sharper-than-expected decline in profits and a gloomy outlook in its first earnings report since Chief Executive. If shares dropped that much when trading opens on Thursday, it would wipe more than $175 billion from the tech giant’s market capitalization. Meta Platforms Inc. Mark Zuckerberg.

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Meta, Amazon, Snap, Pinterest: What to Watch in the Stock Market Today

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Technology shares are leading losses after Facebook parent Meta Platforms surprised investors with a bigger-than-expected profit drop. Snap , Pinterest and Amazon are all due to report after markets close, and are being pulled down premarket amid the broader tech gloom. billion profit in the recent quarter.

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Avoid Getting Caught Up In Big Market Delusions: The Case Study Of Electric Vehicles

Nerd's Eye View

A key value proposition for financial advisors is helping clients avoid common behavioral biases that can lead to suboptimal investment decisions. Which often leads to advisors counseling their clients to stay diversified and stick with a disciplined investment strategy to optimize their risk and return over the long term.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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17 Ways to Invest $30k (Updated for 2023)

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You’ll be rewarded if you can invest it for the long haul. As this compound interest calculator demonstrates, investing $30,000 at a return of 8% for 20 years will leave you with $138,828. But where should you invest your $30,000? With that in mind, I wanted to review some of my top suggestions for investing $30,000 in 2023.

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What Does the Market “Know” ?

Barry Ritholtz

The link was to James Mackintosh’s column “ Five Not-Quite-Impossible Things the Market Believes.” But rational people can reasonably disagree on anything market-related — after all, someone has to be on the other side of your trade. As to what the market “knows:” Stop Anthropomorphizing Mr. Market.

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Amazon Breaks Record for One-Day Gain in Market Cap

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on Friday notched the largest-ever one-day gain in market value for a U.S. suffered the largest-ever loss. Both stocks have surged so far, so fast in recent years that any big move can rattle the broader market and set various records. by market value, behind. with a market capitalization of about $1.6 AMZN 13.54%.

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