May 10, 2024
Funds

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts $110 billion in Q1 profit

Norway’s giant sovereign wealth fund on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of 1.21 trillion kroner ($109.9 billion), supported by robust returns on its investments in technology stocks. The so-called Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, said it had a value of 17.7 trillion kroner at the end of March. It described the

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Funds

Jorge Paulo Lemann’s Hedge Fund 3G Is Betting On These Stocks

In this piece, we will take a look at Jorge Paulo Lemann’s stock portfolio. If you want to skip our overview of Lemann, his firm, and the latest news revolving around 3G Capital, then you can skip ahead to Jorge Paulo Lemann’s Hedge Fund 3G Is Betting On These 5 Stocks. Jorge Paulo Lemann is

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Funds

New funds target weight loss, Big Tech hype: Roundhill Investments

A major exchange-traded fund provider is going deep on two popular plays: megacap tech and weight loss drug stocks. In health care, Roundhill Investments is getting ready to launch a fund that focuses on the companies behind GLP-1 drugs. Dave Mazza, the firm’s chief strategy officer, expects to have more information on the fund’s debut

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Investors

Stock-market investors fear a megacap meltdown. Here’s what history says.

Investors spent 2023 fretting about the sustainability of a stock-market rally largely driven by a handful of megacap tech stocks. Those worries remain in place as the S&P 500 has returned to record territory in the new year. “With the usual set of select megacap stocks pacing early 2024 performance, concentration-risk worries have been getting

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Investors

Stock investors fear ‘no-landing’ economy could spell trouble. What’s next?.

While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, relatively strong corporate earnings, and Federal Reserve Jerome Powell’s comments during the past week could point to the possibility of “no landing,” where the economy is resilient while inflation stays target.   Such a scenario

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Investors

Meta shares surge 17% in premarket trade as investors cheer first-ever dividend

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Revenue jumped 25% in the fourth quarter for Meta, from $32.2 billion a year earlier. That’s the fastest rate of growth for any period since mid-2021, and comes amid a rebound in the online ad market. Meta’s net income more than tripled, to $14 billion from $4.65 billion

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Investors

Disney board nominates slate of dozen directors that excludes activist investors

Published: Jan. 16, 2024 at 6:22 p.m. ET Walt Disney Co.’s board on Tuesday nominated a slate of 12 directors that notably left out activist investors from Trian Fund Management (Nelson Peltz, James Rasulo) and Blackwells Group (Craig Hatkoff, Jessica Schell, Leah Solivan), both of which have been highly critical of Disney Chief Executive Robert

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Crypto

AI takes over WEF’s main area pushing crypto aside

Companies touting their artificial intellgience products dominated the Promenade, the main road in Davos. In past years at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, cryptocurrency firms were the most prominent down the Promenade. But AI fever has taken over in 2024. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC This shift underscores the rapid rise in AI investments and

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Crypto

Crypto ‘dark money’ lobbies as industry aims to influence 2024

Jtsorrell | Istock | Getty Images A new mysterious nonprofit group backed by the crypto industry has set up a mailing address about 100 miles away from Washington, D.C., and is making movies to exert power in the nation’s capital. The Cedar Innovation Foundation, a 501(c)(4) that was incorporated in Delaware in April, has launched

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Crypto

EU laws approved but US is top cop

Here’s the state of play globally for crypto regulation and enforcement in 2023 — and a look at what to expect in 2024. The U.S. has proven to be one of the most active enforcers of penalties and legal action against crypto companies this year, as authorities looked to counter bad practices in the industry

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