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Despite high inflation, rising interest rates, and consistent recession predictions from Wall Street, Americans have continued spending at near a record pace over the past year, opting to splurge on Disney vacations and DoorDash deliveries. Rising wages and a “cash buffer” of savings that was built up during the pandemic—when …

Investors are doing their best to identify the most promising stocks, which will help them achieve their financial goals. A key criterion for the selection of the most promising stocks is the growth of earnings per share. All else being equal, the faster a company grows its EPS the greater …

Join the most important conversation in crypto and web3! Secure your seat today It’s been a wild week for bitcoin with the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization reaching multiple six-month highs before retreating suddenly late Thursday, but then rallying again. Bitcoin (BTC) was recently trading over $24,557, up almost 3.1% …

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Stock-market investors should not blindly follow the established narratives suggesting rising Treasury yields usually spook technology and growth stocks but focus on underlying economic trends which are the real driver, market analysts say. The Nasdaq Composite index COMP, -0.58%, home to many of the tech and growth stocks that were …