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August 2025

The Low Beta Boom: Sidestepping The Dotcom Bust

The Low Beta Boom: Sidestepping The Dotcom Bust Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Following the release of our article The High Beta Melt Up- Echoes of 1999, we received a few emails complaining that we left our readers hanging. They wanted to know how investors could have shifted their holdings from high beta and momentum […]

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“Dialogue Will Prevail”: Unexpected Scenes Of Witkoff & Putin Envoy Strolling Through Moscow Park

“Dialogue Will Prevail”: Unexpected Scenes Of Witkoff & Putin Envoy Strolling Through Moscow Park Bloomberg is reporting Wednesday that President Donald Trump suggested he would hike tariffs on more countries buying Russian energy, including China, as the deadline for ceasefire looms, and as US envoy Steve Witkoff is in Moscow trying to make headway with

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The Lucky Continent?

The Lucky Continent? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank While European equity markets ended the day on a slight positive note, the US market could not hold its opening gains and the S&P500 ultimately ended down some 0.5%. The US treasury curve flattened, led by front-end increases in rates (2y +5bp),

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NATO Member Scrambles Jets As Russia Destroys Gas Facility Key To Imports From US, Azerbaijan

NATO Member Scrambles Jets As Russia Destroys Gas Facility Key To Imports From US, Azerbaijan Russia carried out an overnight drone strike on a crucial gas pumping and metering facility in Ukraine, triggering a large fire at the site, Ukrainian officials reported Wednesday. Importantly the station is part of an LNG imports scheme from the

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McDonald’s Q2 2025 revenue and adj. earnings beat estimates

Fast-food giant McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) reported an increase in revenue and adjusted earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2025. The latest numbers also beat analysts’ estimates. Second-quarter earnings, excluding special items, increased to $3.19 per share from $2.97 per share in Q2 2024. The bottom line beat estimates. Net income was $2.25 billion

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Watch: ‘Invasion Fatigue’ Strikes As Spanish Beach-Goers Tackle Boat-Full Of Illegal Immigrants

Watch: ‘Invasion Fatigue’ Strikes As Spanish Beach-Goers Tackle Boat-Full Of Illegal Immigrants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Video out of a small town in Spain shows beach going locals tackling and detaining a boat load of illegal immigrants who suddenly washed up and attempted to flee in the middle of the day. The video

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WTI Prices Hold Post-India Decline Despite Big Crude Draw, Production Drop

WTI Prices Hold Post-India Decline Despite Big Crude Draw, Production Drop Oil prices have traded in a volatile range overnight as API reported a big crude draw and then President Trump announced 25% additional tariffs on India due to their oil purchases from India. “The pressure on India to displace Russian barrels continues, and there

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Trump Slaps India With Additional 25% In Tariffs Over Russian Energy Trade

Trump Slaps India With Additional 25% In Tariffs Over Russian Energy Trade Just as he warned yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India over its purchase of Russian energy, the White House said Wednesday hours after talks between the US and Russia over the war in Ukraine failed to

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SHOP Earnings: Shopify Q2 FY25 profit rises on higher revenues

E-commerce company Shopify Inc. (NYSE: SHOP) on Wednesday reported an increase in revenue and net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2025. There was a sharp increase in gross merchandise value. June-quarter revenues climbed 31% year-over-year to $2.68 billion, as sales at the Subscription Solutions and Merchant Solutions segments grew sharply. The company reported net income of $906

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