The US dollar (DX=F, DX-Y.NYB) is on track to secure its best week since mid-November as a looming tariff deadline pushes the greenback currency to new heights. The US Dollar Index, which measures the dollar’s value relative to a basket of six foreign currencies — the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona, and Swiss franc — rose about 0.5% on Friday to rebound from its worst performance in over a year last week. The index has gained around 8% since its September lows and is up about 5% since Election Day. The dollar’s price action has largely…
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Using the 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity, System1 fair value estimate is US$0.62 System1’s US$0.68 share price indicates it is trading at similar levels as its fair value estimate The average discount for System1’s competitorsis currently 27% How far off is System1, Inc. (NYSE:SST) from its intrinsic value? Using the most recent financial data, we’ll take a look at whether the stock is fairly priced by taking the forecast future cash flows of the company and discounting them back to today’s value. This will be done using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. There’s really not all that…
Dmytro Kuleba, former Foreign Minister of Ukraine, presents his new book “Ukraine 2030 – Vision of a Nation” in an interview with the German Press Agency. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be concerned about Ukraine’s post-war future, the country’s former Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CNBC amid a rapid escalation of tensions between Kyiv and Washington this week.”I don’t think he cares. Okay, let me put it even simpler. I believe he doesn’t care. I believe he does not care about any single country in the world except the United States,” he…
Image source: Getty Images The Standard Chartered (LSE: STAN) share price spiked up 5% in early trading Friday morning (21 February), as 2024 full-year results beat expectations. It was already up 90% over the past 12 months in the long-awaited FTSE 100 bank sector recovery. Standard Chartered mainly offers offers international corporate banking, wealth management and financial services. And that helped isolate it from the UK’s retail banking pressures of the past few years. It shows. Capital returns The year brought net interest income of $10.4bn, ahead of the bank’s $10.25bn target. That helped boost underlying operating income for the…
As financial markets are being rattled by the precarious impacts of the Trump administration’s tariffs and other fiscal policies, mortgage rates continue to ride out the storm, holding close to 7%. Most economic forecasts call for a gradual decline in mortgage rates this year, but homebuyers shouldn’t expect miracles. Fannie Mae expects average 30-year fixed mortgage rates to remain above 6.5% for most of the year. Predictions for slightly lower mortgage rates in late 2025 are based on expectations for cooler inflation, a weaker labor market and more rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Yet none of these appear to be…
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Image source: Getty Images In the stock market, the best opportunities are often where other investors aren’t looking. And I think this is definitely true when it comes to UK shares. The FTSE 100 and the FTSE 250 get a lot of attention – and rightly so. But beyond this, there are some quality companies I think investors should have on their radars. Cohort One example is Cohort (LSE:CHRT). The company is a collection of six smaller businesses focused on defence technology, specifically communications and sensors. With this type of business, demand is highly sensitive to political (in)stability. Obviously, this isn’t…
This week’s news that the DeepSeek Chatbot app, developed by China, was downloaded from the Apple app store significantly more times than the US-developed ChatGPT from Open AI, wiped billions off the global tech market.Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesDeepSeek’s sudden splash in the large language model space has given China a powerful tool to catalyze artificial-intelligence adoption in the country and boost economic growth.While Goldman Sachs pegs a 20-basis-point to 30-basis-point boost to China’s GDP over the long term — by 2030 — its expects the country’s economy to start reflecting the positive impact of AI…
US stocks fell on Friday as investors reacted to the threat of more possible tariffs from the Trump administration while digesting a jump in consumer expectations for inflation and an overshadowed monthly jobs report. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved almost 1% lower, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) slid around 1.4%, both finishing their second week of consecutive losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) also fell more than 400 points, or almost 1%, to register its worst daily performance in roughly four weeks. At the White House on Friday, President Donald Trump said he would soon announce a plan…