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(Bloomberg) — For investors looking past the initial risk-on rally in US equities following Donald Trump’s decisive election victory, now comes the hard part. Most Read from Bloomberg The Republican president-elect made plenty of campaign promises: steep tariffs, tax cuts, business-friendly deregulation and tighter immigration laws, to name some. For investors who plowed into stocks last week on speculation Trump’s policies will bolster the economy, the challenge is to figure out which sectors will get a lasting boost. Tariffs, for example, could spark inflation and hurt large multinational firms, while potentially helping domestically oriented small-cap stocks. However, an immigration crackdown…

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Quantum-Si Incorporated, a company specializing in measuring and controlling devices, has received a notice from Nasdaq regarding non-compliance with the stock exchange’s minimum bid price requirement. The notification, issued on Monday (NASDAQ:), indicates that Quantum-Si’s Class A common stock has been trading below the $1.00 minimum bid price for 30 consecutive business days. The company, which is listed under the ticker NASDAQ:, has been given a 180-day period until May 5, 2025, to address the issue and meet Nasdaq’s continued listing criteria. During this time, the stock will remain listed on The Nasdaq Global Market. Quantum-Si’s business operations and SEC…

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Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesCryptocurrencies extended their rally on Sunday, with bitcoin touching $80,000 for the first time ever.The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4.5% at $79,800.19, according to Coin Metrics. Ether rose 3%, after passing the $3,000 level on Saturday. It last changed hands at $3,203.10.Smaller coins saw bigger moves as investors continued to digest the implications of a second term for President-elect Donald Trump. The payments coin XRP surged 11%. The decentralized finance token tied to Cardano rocketed 40%. Memecoins dogecoin and Shiba Inu coin soared 17% and 31%,…

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Image source: Getty Images Investing in a Stocks and Shares ISA can be very rewarding. But things do not always turn out that way. Indeed, sometimes the value of an ISA may go down rather than up. Here are three mistakes I’m keen to avoid in my ISA. 1. Too much of a good thing Over the past five years, Nvidia stock has soared 2,769%. That means that, if I had invested all of a £20k ISA in the chipmaker in November 2019, I would now have an ISA worth over £570,000. Wow! But while it is easy to look at…

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By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Riot police in Amsterdam began breaking up a pro-Palestinian protest on Sunday after a court upheld a ban on demonstrations following clashes this week involving Israeli soccer fans. Hundreds of demonstrators defied the prohibition to gather in the Dutch capital’s Dam square, chanting demands for an end to violence in Gaza and “Free Palestine.” But after a local court ratified the city authorities’ ban, police moved in, instructing protesters to leave. Several people were dragged away by police, a Reuters journalist saw. The three-day ban was imposed from Friday after attacks on Israeli soccer…

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Indigenous oil and gas producers, Millennium Oil and Gas Company Limited (MOGCL), have entered a collaborative arrangement with American energy solutions provider, Saltspring Energy LLC, to decarbonise operations at the Oza oilfield. Executive Chairman of Millennium Oil and Gas Company Limited (MOGCL), Mrs. Cecelia Umoren The agreement seeks to harness flare gas at the Oza marginal field in Abia State for production of electricity. Millennium Oil is a Nigerian-based exploration and production company which operates the Oza marginal oilfield hosted in the Oil Mining Lease OML 11. Saltspring Energy LLC, based in Houston, Texas, United States, is a global energy…

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Image source: Getty Images If I was curious about the stock market but had never put a penny in before, I would not let years or even decades pass to start investing. Rather, I would begin now, on a small scale. Here’s how. Setting up a share-dealing account My first move would be a practical one. To buy shares I would need some sort of share-dealing account. So I would choose the account that suited me best, whether a straightforward share-dealing account or Stocks and Shares ISA. Then I would deposit my £250, so I was ready to start investing…

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If you want to compound wealth in the stock market, you can do so by buying an index fund. But you can do a lot better than that by buying good quality businesses for attractive prices. For example, the Legacy Housing Corporation (NASDAQ:LEGH) share price is up 88% in the last five years, slightly above the market return. It’s fair to say the stock has continued its long term trend in the last year, over which it has risen 24%. Let’s take a look at the underlying fundamentals over the longer term, and see if they’ve been consistent with shareholders…

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This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Donald Trump’s return to the White House has me wondering about the world’s most beloved stock, Nvidia (NVDA). Is a Trump presidency going to be good or bad for the AI market darling? Has he ever taken CEO Jensen Huang to task on X? Does Jensen feel a certain way about Trump, and perhaps could add headline risk to the company’s stock price? All of this matters since, as I mentioned, Nvidia has become the market — even…

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