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2 Dividend Kings With Yields Over 3% to Buy Today and Hold Forever
What makes a great dividend stock? It's more than just the yield. Dividend investors count on the passive income they get from dividends, so reliability should be an important factor. Growth is also important to make a dividend stock a worthwhile investment, because that affects the yield.That's why...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
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A New Social Security Law That Will Boost Benefits for 3.2 Million Retirees Comes With an Unwelcome Surprise
Millions of Americans rejoiced after former President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that will boost Social Security benefits for approximately 3.2 million retirees and spouses. Social Security can be a touchy subject because it impacts tens of millions of Americans and also has many looming finan...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
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3 Surging EV Stocks Leaving the Competition in the Dust
The narrative around electric vehicle (EV) stocks in 2024 was a bit misleading. If you didn't dig into the numbers, you might have assumed that EV sales in the U.S. were declining, but that simply wasn't the case. The U.S. EV industry grew its sales, just perhaps not at the fast pace automakers and ...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
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Verizon Is Benefiting From Strong Wireless Growth. Is Now the Time to Buy the Stock?
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) continued to post strong subscriber growth in the fourth quarter, helping lift the stock. However, the stock has nonetheless traded lower over the past year. With an attractive forward dividend yield of about 6.7%, the question is whether now is a good time to buy t...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
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BRIEF-Danske Bank Completes Share Buy-Back Programme
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Danske Bank A/S DANSKE.CO:DANSKE BANK SHARE BUY-BACK PROGRAMME COMPLETEDUNDER PROGRAMME,27,189,496 OWN SHARES WERE REPURCHASED AT A TRANSACTION VALUE OF APPROXIMATELY DKK 5.5 BILLION DURING PERIOD UP TO TERMINATION OF PROGRAMMEREPURCHASED SHARES ARE EXPECTED TO BE CANCELLED SUBJECT...Reuters
Feb 3, 2025
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Looking for a Data Center Investment Opportunity That's Not Nvidia? This Stock Could Be for You.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are among the most important types of hardware underpinning the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution are. Between them, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices essentially own the market for these advanced parallel-processing chipsets -- data centers around the globe ar...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
Cryptocurrencies
India Reconsiders Crypto Rules After US Moves—What’s Changing?
India is reviewing its rules on crypto and security, looking at what other countries, especially the United States, are doing. Major countries like the US are updating their plans for digital assets, and India is also adjusting its strategy to stay in line with global standards. Related Reading: Tru...Bitcoinist
Feb 3, 2025
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ECB 'not quite there' with rate cuts but cautious flexibility needed, Kazimir says
FRANKFURT, Feb 3 (Reuters) - European Central Bank interest rates have room to fall further given weak growth and a slowdown in inflation, but uncertainty is so high that any more precise guidance on rates would be unrealistic, Slovak policymaker Peter Kazimir said on Monday.The ECB lowered borrowin...Reuters
Feb 3, 2025
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Should You Buy XRP (Ripple) While It Trades Under $3?
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is the native cryptocurrency on the XRP Ledger, a blockchain built by technology company Ripple to enable faster and cheaper cross-border transactions. XRP soared about 500% in the past year, but its price has also declined 15% during the last two weeks, such that the cryptocurrenc...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
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Americans have high hopes for Trump's economy, Gallup poll shows
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Americans are more bullish on the U.S. economy and the stock market and more hopeful about falling inflation and borrowing costs than they have been in a decade or more, including in the heyday of Donald Trump's first presidency, a Gallup poll showed on Monday. Some 53% of Amer...Reuters
Feb 3, 2025
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Russian rouble weakens against US dollar, approaches 100 mark
MOSCOW, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble weakened against the U.S. dollar on Monday, approaching the 100 mark and following trends in the global forex market, where the dollar surged on U.S. President Donald Trump's trade tariffs. The rouble RUB was down 1.2% at 99.70 against the dollar at 0...Reuters
Feb 3, 2025
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India asks whether global tax deal can work after US withdrawal
By Nikunj Ohri and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - India is assessing whether a global corporate tax deal agreed between 140 nations can work following U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the landmark 2021 arrangement, a senior bureaucrat in the finance ministry said.Last m...Reuters
Feb 3, 2025
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Nvidia Stock Investors Just Got Good News From Meta Platforms and Microsoft
China's DeepSeek recently published a research paper that shocked Wall Street. The startup company claims it spent less than $6 million to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model whose performance matches or nearly matches that of leading U.S. models. Comparatively, OpenAI spent more than $100 m...The Motley Fool
Feb 3, 2025
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Offshore Chinese stocks, yuan pare US tariff losses on AI, stimulus bets
Updates prices, adds more details HONG KONG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Chinese stocks in Hong Kong and the offshore yuan pared losses as markets reopened after the Lunar New Year holidays, with shock at U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs outweighed by optimism over domestic AI firms and possible s...Reuters
Feb 3, 2025
