Investor's Business Daily
The Great IPO Blastoff
News that SpaceX could file for its initial public offering as early as this week focused fresh attention on the IPO market’s three-year rebound. It looks as though 2026 could be the biggest bounce yet, as SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI and other major...
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BEST MUTUAL FUNDS 2026
The best-performing mutual funds don’t regularly beat their market benchmarks by getting lucky or recklessly swinging for the fences. Delivering excellent returns is all about consistency. It’s about developing a profitable stock-picking blueprint...
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Memory Makes A Comeback
In the competitive arena dominated by big-shot tech stocks, memory can get overlooked. Though important, it’s often seen as a commodity space, even boring. But not since the artificial intelligence frenzy sent demand for memory chips and hard-disk...
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The Fog Of War
When a crisis such as the Iran war breaks out, investors’ emotions can run wild. Fear of financial losses and the fog of war cloud stock market trading decisions. How can investors handle the latest conflict and its unpredictable moves? Geopolitical...
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People Need Not Apply
For the first three years of the ChatGPT era, generative AI’s upside held the limelight as megacap tech stocks carried the S&P 500 to lavish gains. The downside of artificial intelligence — broad job displacement — looked like a day over the horizon....
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Where Crypto Stands Now
President Donald Trump’s second victory at the ballot box unleashed spirited action by crypto enthusiasts, driving an 80% climb in the bitcoin price. But with bitcoin in bear market territory after tumbling 52% from its record high in October, the...
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Biotech’s New Challenger
Washington and Wall Street have spent decades debating U.S. dependence on China for chips, consumer electronics and manufacturing. Now, China is poised to disrupt another major industry, one that is arguably more consequential, and could trigger a...
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Hollywood’s New Star
Like most up-and-coming actresses with an outside shot at making it, Tilly Norwood has a lovely smile, some promising early screen tests and a heavily followed Instagram account. What Norwood lacks, by design, is actual flesh and blood. She is a pure...
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BEST ONLINE BROKERS
For investors, 2025 was another year of double-digit gains for stocks, as investment in AI expanded, corporate earnings kept growing and companies adjusted to tariffs. But where will 2026 take investors? Are their online brokers helping customers make...
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Is The Bank Rally Safe?
Banks have traditionally occupied a solid, but sleepy corner of the investing world — a realm of ordinary financial tasks and steady service. Recently, however, many bank stocks have become fast movers amid regulatory rollbacks, and as cutting-edge...
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Biotech Outlook For 2026
The long winter for biotech stocks is over. Shares have climbed to levels not seen since late 2021, buoyed by eye-popping takeover valuations, trailblazing innovation in battling obesity and cancer, and a surprising, if uneasy, alliance with the Trump...
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Tesla Takes A Leap Of Faith
Five months after Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned that (TSLA) the EV giant “could have a few rough quarters” through mid-2026, his words have proved all too true. EV sales, still the vast majority of Tesla’s business, fell for a second straight year, with...
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A Market With Some Steam Left
With a third straight year of double-digit gains almost assured for 2025, the stock market enters the new year with enough momentum to make it a fourthstraight winning season. The favorable stock market forecast for 2026 rests on many supports: rising...
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AI’s New Adversary
All politics is local. So is the future of AI development. For growth investors, it’s no secret that data centers are the lifeblood of the artificial intelligence revolution. Hyperscalers like Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned...
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Bitcoin’s Hidden Menace
For years, the biggest bitcoin obstacle was regulators, who had control over how the cryptocurrency was used, taxed and tracked. Now the biggest threat may be physics. The fast rise of quantum computing, which works on a subatomic level using exotic...
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A Star Market Outperforms
After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel struck back with war on Gaza, Israel and its economy were seriously tested. A public divestment and boycott movement targeted the country. Activists condemned any financial involvement in Israel...
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