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☆ Top minds at Milken unveil what they're seeing under the surface of the US economy as the national debt burden rises to nauseating levels
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

For the 27th straight year, some of the brightest minds from across the business world descended on Beverly Hills in early May to attend the Milken Institute Global Conference. But while speculation stole headlines, Milken speakers spent much of their time fixated on the state of the US economy. But despite continued concerns about stagflation, Milken speakers overwhelmingly expressed confidence about economic growth at a May 6 session called "Global Markets at Inflection." "The economy is still extremely strong, consumers are still doing really well, businesses are still doing really well," Scharf said. Though far from perfect, the US is still the best place to investDespite the $34.7 trillion anvil hanging over the economy, Milken speakers widely agreed that the US is still the best place to invest and operate a company.

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☆ Jack Dorsey’s payments company, Block, is building its own bitcoin mining system
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions from designing chips to developing a full bitcoin mining system. "Building on these insights and pursuant to our goal of supporting mining decentralization, we plan to offer both a standalone mining chip as well as a full mining system of our own design." "Mining isn't accessible to everyone," Dorsey wrote when Block first entered the business of building mining hardware in 2021. "Bitcoin mining should be as easy as plugging a rig into a power source. The company was light on the details in this latest announcement, but Dorsey posted in 2021 that the company was considering a "bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon."

Persons: Jack Dorsey, We've, Dorsey, Block, Thomas Templeton Organizations: Mining Locations: China, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia

☆ Robotaxi regulators say Tesla hasn’t contacted them about plans teased by Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( David Ingram | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Musk hinted at his plans in a brief post late Friday afternoon on X, writing: "Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8." Musk has talked about a robotaxi service for years. In 2019, he discussed plans to launch a robotaxi fleet using Tesla vehicles that people had leased and then returned. Musk has also talked about a robotaxi service with decentralized ownership, in which Tesla owners could rent out their cars for fares. Amazon subsidiary Zoox has said it has authorization from Nevada to operate a robotaxi service, which hasn't launched.

Persons: robotaxis, Tesla, Elon Musk, Brad Templeton, Templeton, Cruise, Musk, Zoox, hasn't, Eli Rohl Organizations: The California Department of Motor Vehicles, California Public Utilities Commission, NBC, DMV, Google, General Motors, Phoenix, Toyota, Car Dealers Association, Reuters, Cruise, Transportation Department, Nevada DMV, The, The Nevada DMV, California DMV Locations: California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, leaseholders, Arizona, Nevada, The Nevada

☆ Nancy Mace seat: Court rules South Carolina can use map previously declared unconstitutional
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Fredreka Schouten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A federal court said Thursday that it will allow a US House election in South Carolina for Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s seat to proceed under a map it had previously declared unconstitutional. In a brief order, the judges in the case said they had little choice, given a fast-approaching deadline to prepare for the primary election for the state’s down-ballot contests. South Carolina officials appealed to the US Supreme Court, and the justices heard arguments in the case in October. They said they recognized that it’s unusual to allow an election to proceed under a map they had deemed invalid. Mace won reelection in 2022 by 14 points, after winning the seat under the previous map by a single point two years earlier.

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☆ How to beat the retirement crisis: The founder of America's top wealth advisor explains how to properly save, and shares 2 sectors that could expedite returns if you're not on track
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But let's say you're 30 years old and haven't started stashing money away; you may have difficulty getting there. And as a result of this, if you're going to live during a 30 or 40 year retirement. In Edelman's opinion, you're late to the game if you're over 25 and haven't started saving and investing. When people do set money aside, it's often in the wrong places, such as bank savings, money market accounts, and government bonds, Edelman said. All of this might sound complicated for a beginner, but diversification can be achieved through exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Edelman noted.

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☆ High-yield corporate bonds can yield over 10% right now. 4 steps to picking the best bond fund, according to a portfolio manager at $1.6 trillion asset manager Franklin Templeton.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Interest in fixed income has increased over the past year after rising bond yields put them back on investors' radars. Related storiesCorporate bonds with high yields are the new darling as investors dig for returns that beat inflation, Klein said. The Bloomberg US Corporate High Yield Index, a measurement of non-investment grade bonds, has a yield to worst (a measure of the lowest possible yield) of 7.65% and a one-year total return of 12.9%. It's unusual for equities to be doing very well and high yield to be doing poorly, he added. But buyers beware: high-yield bonds are also called non-investment grade and junk bonds, and it's for good reason.

Persons: there's, Goldman Sachs, Patrick Klein, Franklin, Klein, Goldman, don't Organizations: Business, Franklin Templeton, Bloomberg

☆ Bitcoin's halving is unlike others before it: A supply shock colliding with a demand tidal wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A bitcoin halving — when the number of tokens rewarded to miners gets cut by 50% — happens reliably every four years. This time, however, supply will slow within months of an unprecedented demand shock, fueled by the approval of 11 spot bitcoin ETFs from asset management titans including BlackRock and Fidelity. AdvertisementAnd what's new this year is the wave of demand from bitcoin ETFs. Recent weeks have seen single-day inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs topping $1 billion, BitMex data shows. "We've never had both a supply shock and a demand shock at the same time."

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☆ Here's when the Fed is likely to start cutting interest rates, according to investment strategists
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Kent Nishimura | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesWest Palm Beach, Fla. — The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to start cutting interest rates by the end of second quarter despite recent "hotter than expected" inflation data, according to Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco. The question has become, at what point — and how quickly — does the central bank start to cut rates in order to avoid plunging the economy into a downturn? Fed chair Jerome Powell said last week that the Fed may not be far off from throttling back. The Fed last raised interest rates in summer 2023; in prior interest-rate-hiking cycles, the Fed began cutting rates about 8½ months later, Hooper said. Jenny Johnson, president and CEO of Franklin Templeton, also expects the central bank to begin cutting rates this year, though in the second half of 2024 at Fed policy meetings in July or September.

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☆ These 70 stocks are the top bets for AI and related themes like big data and machine learning, according to the CIO at a firm that bets on disruptive technology
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Nvidia's 76% gain this year underscores the concentrated stock market led by mega-cap tech. Despite concerns, the growth of AI stocks isn't a hype cycle, according to Defiance ETFs' CEO. The Defiance Quantum ETF holds leading AI players, spanning sectors like quantum and cloud computing. It's a concentrated stock market, with a handful of mega-cap technology names continuing to lead the gains as they profit off the development of AI. But investor concerns are mounting over whether it's getting shaky at the top.

Persons: it's, Franklin Templeton Organizations: Nvidia, Business

☆ Retailers turn to an unlikely source to boost profits. Walmart shows how powerful this lever could be
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

There are three main routes through which retailers like Walmart benefit from advertising, Tarlowe said. The focus in retail advertising once transitioned from in-store to retailer websites with the e-commerce boom, Gutman said. Walmart: The pack leader With the deal, Walmart appears ahead of the retail pack, Gutman said. Connected TV is also just one part of a broader tide-change that's bolstering optimism on the stock, analysts told CNBC Pro. Other retail ideas Beyond Walmart, analysts said retailers need size and scale to perform well within off-site advertising.

Persons: Jefferies, Corey Tarlowe, Tarlowe, Morgan Stanley, Matt, Simeon Gutman, Gutman, it's, Roku, FactSet, Warren Buffett, Franklin Templeton, Dan Niles Organizations: Walmart, Intelligence, Retailers, Albertsons, CNBC, P Retail, Costco, Target, FactSet, TGT, Nvidia, & & , & & () Locations: Arkansas, Vizio

☆ AI investor on why Nvidia's valuation isn't crazy and his top picks in the space
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Zehrid Osmani, a portfolio manager at Martin Currie, a Europe-based affiliate of Franklin Templeton, is one such investor. Osmani told CNBC that he sees "potential risk of froth" in the AI trade as a whole, but not for Nvidia. "Unlike the basket of AI [stocks] that has seen multiple expansion, Nvidia has actually seen multiple contraction. Nvidia's price-to-earnings ratio, using the projections for the next 12 months, is 32.4, according to FactSet. So there will be a critical element of needing to channel more spend toward AI for a corporate," Osmani said.

Persons: Zehrid, Martin Currie, Franklin Templeton, Osmani Organizations: Nvidia, CNBC, Microsoft Locations: Europe, Great Britain, OpenAI

☆ Forget cash — it's time to move into fixed income, Franklin Templeton strategist says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Lee Ying Shan | In Ying-Shan-Lee | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Investors should move out of cash and into fixed income with some duration, said Franklin Templeton's chief market strategist, Stephen Dover. Franklin Templeton's inflation forecast is more conservative than the U.S. Federal Reserve's. The investment firm expects the core personal consumption expenditures price index to fall to 2.7% by the end of the year, versus the U.S. Federal Reserve's projections of 2.4%. The markets' "biggest screaming issue" is the $6 trillion sitting in money market funds right now, he said. "We would advise those investors to move out of that cash and take some duration move into fixed income," he added.

Persons: Franklin, Stephen Dover, Dover Organizations: U.S Locations: U.S . Federal

☆ A former software engineer who's betting on leading AI stocks at a $1.6 trillion firm says pullbacks will be incredible buying opportunities, and shares 6 under-the-radar picks
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Despite dashed hopes of early rate cuts, growth stocks like Nvidia continue to make new highs. "And here we are today: we've got Apple at multi-trillion dollars, Microsoft at multi-trillion dollars, Nvidia at multi-trillion dollars, and Google at over a trillion dollars." Snowflake (SNOW) helps businesses wrangle their data and build models from that data for multiple purposes, including AI. GitLab (GTLB) is an open-code platform with over a million paid users and programmers who can use AI tools to help with coding. Still, they collect customer data, and they help companies talk to their customers in a relevant and direct manner.

Persons: Jonathan Curtis, Franklin Templeton, Curtis, hadn't, ChatGPT, there's Organizations: Nvidia, Franklin Templeton Institute Global Investment Management Survey, Business, Franklin Equity Group, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Meta, Semiconductor, Power Systems, AMD, Arista Networks

☆ When the ‘tradwife’ lifestyle leads to divorce
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Enitza Templeton of Littleton, Colorado, embodied the tradwife lifestyle for 10 years. Like any relationship, the tradwife arrangement does not always make for a happy couple with no family issues. How to live a happy ‘tradwife’ lifestyleAlexia Delarosa currently lives the traditional wife lifestyle. Delarosa currently and happily embodies the traditional lifestyle — her husband works, while she stays home with the kids. Since then, Templeton has made several videos answering questions about the tradwife life and how she left it, while her podcast focuses on advice for single mothers.

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☆ The chief market strategist at $1.6 trillion Franklin Templeton breaks down how many rate cuts to expect this year. Plus, why the 'irrational exuberance' in stocks could be over by year-end.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Expect four rate cuts in 2024 that will bring the federal funds rate to 4.30% by year-end, according to the Franklin Templeton Institute Global Investment Management Survey, which compiles the views of the firm's 300 senior investment professionals who work across equities, fixed income, and alternatives. That's still more cuts than the Federal Open Market Committee projects in its dot plot: three reductions and a fed funds rate of 4.63% by year-end. Stephen Dover, chief market strategist and the head of the Franklin Templeton Institute, expects those rate cuts to begin closer to June or July and be 25 basis points each. For now, Dover pointed to a strong US economy, with solid jobs and GDP growth, as working against the possibility of earlier rate cuts. This will be another sticky point that the central bank will likely consider and could impact when cuts happen, he said.

Persons: Stephen Dover, Dover, there's Organizations: Franklin Templeton Institute Global Investment Management Survey, Federal, Franklin Templeton Institute

☆ Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul on the rate of flows into its EZBC bitcoin ETF
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Jordan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFranklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul on the rate of flows into its EZBC bitcoin ETFCNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets and provides viewers with a look at what's ahead with high-profile interviews, explainers, and unique stories from the ever-changing crypto industry. On today's show, Sandy Kaul, head of digital asset & investor advisory services, discusses the firm's EZBC spot bitcoin ETF.

Persons: Franklin, Sandy Kaul, explainers Organizations: CNBC

☆ 'There's very little margin for error': 7 strategists explain why the Goldilocks narrative is in trouble — but these 8 investments are still worth making now
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Investors are pricing in a best-case outcome where earnings rise and inflation returns to normal in a continued economic expansion. “It’s a tough needle to thread,” said Steve Sosnick, the chief strategist at Interactive Brokers. “And that pretty much pulls forward almost all the returns, in our minds, for 2024.”AdvertisementCrit Thomas, a global market strategist at Touchstone Investments, has the same concern. “And so at 21x earnings, there’s very little margin for error here.”AdvertisementFourth-quarter earnings mostly met measured expectations , as did forward guidance. Clark Bellin, the chief investment officer at Bellwether Wealth, said he’s less worried about valuations broadly and is more interested in seeing which sectors look cheap.

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☆ Investors should move money out of cash and into fixed income with some duration: Strategist
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInvestors should move money out of cash and into fixed income with some duration: StrategistStephen Dover from Franklin Templeton discusses his market view, saying there is a "high concentration" of earnings expectations in a few companies, namely the Magnificent Seven in the current market environment.

Persons: Stephen Dover, Franklin Templeton

☆ This Morningstar 5-star rated high-yield fund seeks to 'stand out by not fitting in'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Their Corporate Credit Fund, which trades under the ticker BCAAX for retail investors, largely focuses on high-yield bonds. The fund currently holds a little over 70% in high-yield bonds, 10% in cash and about 18% in investment-grade bonds. Another inefficiency the managers exploit is the area between low investment-grade bonds and the higher-rated high-yield market, Zox said. Investment-grade portfolio managers are shying away from the lower rated end of the investment-grade market, and high-yield managers are sticking with the higher rated end of the high-yield market, he explained. "We find better values in the lower rated part of the investment-grade market than the higher rated part of the high-yield market," Zox said.

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☆ This India ETF is beating its main rivals — and the S&P 500 — in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The WisdomTree India Earnings ETF (EPI) has a total return of 6.6% through Feb. 8, according to FactSet, and is up 18.7% over the past three months. That makes it the best performing of the five biggest India ETFs, with the iShares MSCI India ETF (INDA) and the Franklin FTSE India ETF (FLIN) both up less than 4% year to date.The WisdomTree fund is also beating The S & P 500, which up less than 5% over the same period. The WisdomTree fund has been a long-term winner as well, with an average annualized return of roughly 12% over the past decade. And, notably, the second-best performing major India ETF this year is the iShares MSCI India Small-Cap ETF (SMIN) . That is above the 0.65% of the iShares INDA ETF and the 0.19% of Franklin Templeton's FLIN.

Persons: date.The, Jeremy Schwartz, it's, It's, Schwartz, Franklin Templeton's FLIN Organizations: Franklin FTSE, CNBC, India ETF Locations: India, Franklin FTSE India

☆ McCarthy foes face blowback as primary threats grow and GOP donors shut wallets
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Melanie Zanona | Manu Raju | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Donors no longer want to contribute to their campaigns. So we obliged her,” one House Republican told CNN. Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told CNN some “very wealthy folks” shut their wallets to him in the aftermath of his vote. “If you’ve watched, just her philosophy and the flip-flopping, I don’t believe she wins reelection,” McCarthy told CNN. “We are an incumbent-driven organization and support all House Republican incumbents call,” said a spokesman for the National Republican Campaign Committee.

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☆ ‘Save the Whales’ was a shining success. Now can humpbacks save us from ourselves?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Antarctic Peninsula CNN —About 15 billion miles from where you sit, two 12-inch golden records are hurtling through outer space with multilingual greetings to the universe from 55 humans and one humpback whale. WWF's Johnson said the whales are not harmed by this -- to the whales, the dart feels like "a mosquito bite." It feels like “a mosquito bite” to the whales, Johnson said, but what they can test for is priceless: from stress hormones to toxins to — most importantly — pregnancy rates. Ten million copies were inserted into National Geographic magazine in 1979 — the largest single pressing in history — and a global movement to Save The Whales grew big enough to … save the whales. Seth Wenig/AP“I don’t think a wind turbine can kill a whale,” Friedlaender told CNN.

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☆ Stock market to 'nowhere?' Two ETF experts see more trouble ahead in China
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Meredith Mutter | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

ETF Action's Mike Akins sees challenges tied to the country's ability to generate stock market returns. Fool me twice, shame on me," the firm's founding partner told CNBC's ETF Edge this week. The stock market went nowhere. According to Atkins, emerging market ex-China products are among the largest inflows ETF Action is seeing. Or is it really a growth story in the economy alone and not in the actual return of the stock market?"

Persons: Mike Akins, You've, It's, Atkins, Franklin Templeton, David Mann, hesitancy, Mann Organizations: Edge, Franklin Templeton Investments, Investors Locations: China

☆ There are sectors in China that will be investible: Franklin Templeton
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThere'll be investing opportunities in China's manufacturing, services sectors: Franklin TempletonJenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, discusses the Chinese government's attempts to create a more consumer-driven economy and says "it's always better to swim with the current."

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☆ How investors are playing emerging market opportunities in India and Japan
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Anna Gleason | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Investors are increasingly looking to emerging market exchange-traded funds for growth at a reasonable price. David Mann, head of capital markets at Franklin Templeton, named India as one of the most popular countries with ETF investors in the past year. "[It] has been one of the emerging market standouts thus far, so India has been a great story." The firm's Franklin FTSE India ETF (FLIN) has risen 18.19% in the past year, as of Tuesday's close. As of Tuesday's close, the firm's Franklin FTSE Japan ETF (FLJP) gained 12.58% in the past year.

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