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 …
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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 …
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“‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard.’ ” — Larry Summers Almost a full year of monetary-policy tightening by the Federal Reserve appears to be having little impact on price pressures, putting policy makers in danger of needing to do much more, according to …
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Text size Cathie Wood focuses on high-growth stocks. Lauren Justice/Bloomberg High-profile fund manager Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management has increased holdings of e-commerce company Shopify and shed chip maker Nvidia , the group said in a statement. ARK snapped up about $35 million worth of Shopify shares. The stock has …
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