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Meet Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the 72-year-old French woman who's having the kind of year that makes your crypto gains look like pocket change. She's up $24 billion in 2025 alone, bringing her net worth to a casual $98 billion. That's billion with a B, folks. How'd she do it? Well, she didn't launch a tech startup or invent the next big app. She inherited a 35% stake in L'Oréal from her mom and watched the beauty giant's stock climb 17% this ...
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So Marvell Technology just had one of those "oops" moments that makes everyone in the AI world suddenly very interested in their coffee cups. The chip company dropped 17% faster than your portfolio during a market crash, and honestly? It's got people asking the big question: Is the AI party finally winding down? Here's what happened: Marvell posted some pretty decent numbers – $2.006 billion in revenue (up 58% year-over-year) and hit their earnings target of $0.67 per share. Sounds good, ...
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Remember that friend who was always the underdog but suddenly becomes the star of the show? That's basically small-cap stocks right now, and honestly, it's about time they got their moment. While everyone's been obsessing over whether NVIDIA will hit another trillion-dollar milestone or if Apple can innovate beyond making their phones slightly thinner, small caps have quietly been crushing it. The Russell 2000 (think of it as the little sibling to the S&P 500) has jumped over 5% in the ...
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Remember when your mom told you not to put all your eggs in one basket? Well, apparently the S&P 500 didn't get that memo. The top 10 stocks now make up a whopping 40% of the entire index – that's like having your entire friend group consist of tech bros who all went to Stanford. Here's the thing: we're living through what might be the most concentrated stock market in history, and it's making some very smart people at Morningstar pretty ...
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Remember when Dell was riding the AI wave like it owned the ocean? Yeah, well, Thursday happened. Dell Technologies just dropped their Q2 earnings, and let's just say the market wasn't exactly throwing confetti. Sure, they beat expectations on both earnings ($2.32 vs $2.30 expected) and revenue ($29.78B vs $29.17B). Sounds great, right? Wrong. Here's where it gets spicy: Dell's Q3 guidance came in at $2.45 per share when Wall Street was expecting $2.55. That 10-cent miss might not sound like much, ...
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Remember when Alcoa used to kick off earnings season? Yeah, me neither – that was like a million market cycles ago. These days, NVIDIA basically is earnings season. When Jensen Huang speaks, the market listens. When he doesn't speak loud enough, apparently the market throws a tantrum. So here's what happened: NVIDIA just dropped another monster earnings report that would make most CEOs weep with joy. Revenue jumped 56% year-over-year to $46.7 billion (with a B), and earnings per share hit ...
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Remember the California Gold Rush? Turns out the real winners weren't the folks with pickaxes and dreams—they were the ones selling the pickaxes. Levi Strauss got rich making pants for miners, not digging holes in the ground. Classic. Fast-forward to 2025, and we've got another gold rush brewing. Except this time, it's not about shiny rocks. It's about rare earth metals—the unglamorous elements with names like neodymium and dysprosium that sound like rejected Pokémon characters. Why Your Future Robot Butler Needs These ...
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So here's a fun fact that might make you spit out your morning coffee: the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 now make up about 40% of the entire index. That's right—nearly half of America's most important stock benchmark is basically just 10 companies having a group chat about your retirement fund. According to the smart folks at Morningstar, this is the most concentrated the market has ever been. And before you ask, yes, this is about as healthy as ...
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