Image source: Getty Images Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares have wobbled in 2025 in the great Nasdaq sell-off, and they are down 12% year to date at the time of writing (21 March). The company has just concluded its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California. It’s an annual event that attracts the big players in the artificial intelligence (AI) game. Nvidia’s new-generation Blackwell Ultra chip is the key technology event, with next-generation Rubin chips advancing through the pipeline. We heard of even more powerful AI workstations, moves into robotics, and there was a fair bit of starry-eyed dreaming too. But…
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Even as valuations for both Nike and FedEx stock come down to a more attractive level, both stocks are still a sell, according to Main Street Research chief investment officer James Demmert. Shares of FedEx have pulled back more than 18% in 2025, while Nike’s stock has slipped about 10%. On Thursday, FedEx slashed its full-year forecast , citing macroeconomic uncertainty, while Nike executives said they expect headwinds in the current quarter as consumer sentiment weakens amid talk of tariffs on a range of consumer goods. Here’s what Demmert had to say on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Friday. FedEx FedEx…
Image source: Getty Images Earning a passive income from dividend shares can be a low maintenance strategy to generate cash from investments. However, there are no fixed rules about what size investment pot’s needed to generate a certain level of income. Here, I’ll look at some example scenarios, based on a target income of £6,000 a year, or £500 a month. I’ll also take a look at a FTSE 100 dividend heavyweight with a 9.5% yield that could make a useful contribution to an investor’s income goals. For these examples I’ll assume the shares are held in an ISA, meaning…
Image source: Getty Images When the stock market gets choppy, growth stocks often get hit the hardest. And this is no accident – their future cash flows are often less certain than value shares or dividend stocks. In general though, these things tend to be fairly cyclical. I don’t know exactly when things will turn around, but I think this is a good time to be looking at growth stocks for when they do. Growth vs value So far this year, the ratio of the MSCI US Growth Index to the MSCI US Value Index has fallen from 3.8 to…
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose slightly for the second week in a row, a modest setback for prospective home shoppers as the spring homebuying season ramps up. The rate rose to 6.67% from 6.65% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.87%. Including this week, the average rate on a 30-year home loan has risen only twice in the past nine weeks, a welcome trend for aspiring homebuyers struggling to afford a home after years of soaring home prices. “The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has stayed under 7%…
Image source: Getty Images The Stocks and Shares ISA deadline is almost upon us. And time is quickly running out for investors to make the most of their £20,000 annual allowance. Don’t forget, once 5 April comes and goes, any unused allowance is lost forever. But just how much money and wealth are investors potentially missing out on? Well, with just £5,000, it could be anywhere up to £7,000 in the next 12 months and perhaps up to £250,000 in just 10 years. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject…
Image source: Getty Images Building a passive income in the stock market isn’t hard. After all, the London Stock Exchange offers a vast array of dividend-paying businesses for investors to pick from, and even investing in a passive index fund can immediately start generating income returns. But how much money can investors earn with just £5,000 of starting capital? Crunching the numbers Let’s start by exploring the index fund approach. Right now, the FTSE 100 offers an overall dividend yield of 3.54%. So an investment of £5,000 at this rate would result in an annual passive income of £177. Obviously,…
(Bloomberg) — Private credit funds are grinding down margins and cranking up leverage to win business over their liquid peers, as trade wars and geopolitical uncertainty suppress corporate deals. Most Read from Bloomberg Credit spreads are among the tightest they’ve ever been for the industry’s best borrowers, with private loans recently pricing as low as 4.5 percentage points over the Secured Overnight Financing Rate in the US, and 4.75 percentage points over Euribor in Europe. Meanwhile, hopes that the Trump administration would bring a renewal in mergers and acquisitions haven’t yet materialized. “Spreads are in across the board this past…
Image source: Getty Images A lot of the UK’s most popular shares are in the FTSE 100, but I think investors who overlook the FTSE 250 could be missing out on some potential profits. And with the new financial year here in a couple of weeks, I’ve been looking again for some candidates. Ready to rebound? Why is the ITV (LSE: ITV) share price struggling so much? It’s easy to point to declining TV ad revenues, but that’s only a part of it. The real uncertainty comes from the changing face of digital televisual entertainment. There’s intense compeition delivered through…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build AI Day event in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 1, 2024.Chalinee Thirasupa | ReutersWith about 10 minutes left until the market’s close, Microsoft’s stock was down for the week. It would’ve been the first eight-week losing streak since 2008.But the shares popped just before the end of trading, pushing the stock up 0.7% for the week to close at $391.26. It is still down 7% for the year.The last time Microsoft had a weekly slump like it has seen this year was between January and February 2008, when the country was in…