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☆ U.S. and India set to announce flurry of deals spanning defense, chips and A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty ImagesThe U.S. and India are set to announce a slew of defense and technology collaborations on Thursday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit, U.S. officials said. India has overtaken China as the world's most populous country and is set to become the third-largest economy in the coming years. According to Reuters, Modi has not addressed a single press conference in India since he became prime minister in 2014, making this an extremely rare occasion. India and the U.S. are expected to announce a deal to jointly produce F414 jet engines in India, involving General Electric and Hindustan Aeronautics. Thirdly, the so-called India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem will aim to integrate India's growing private sector defense industry with the U.S. defense sector.

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☆ A fund manager for institutional clients shares the offensive and defensive strategies she uses to build portfolios that can navigate all conditions and last generations — plus what all investors can
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Menon has discretion over several institutional clients' portfolios including endowments, foundations, pensions, and healthcare institutions. Regardless of expectations, Menon emphasizes that it's hard to build a portfolio around any particular macroeconomic outcome. This means creating a portfolio that prioritizes offensive assets through equities while adding defensive securities, she noted. When it comes to defensive positions, the two most important things a portfolio needs protection against are inflation and deflation. "Private equity would fall more in the space of offense in terms of generating long-term growth in a portfolio," Menon said.

Foxconn struck a deal in November to take a near-20% stake in the money-losing U.S. firm for up to $170 million. It has since invested $52.7 million and is balking at purchasing additional shares, citing a breach of their agreement, Lordstown said. "There is substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern," Lordstown said in a filing, referring to its dispute with Foxconn over the investment deal. Their course of conduct has resulted in material — and what is becoming irreparable — harm to the company," Lordstown said in a statement. Lordstown shares, which at one point tumbled more than 50% on Monday, closed down 23%, or 12 cents, at 40 cents, in heavy trading.

India's crude imports from Russia are expected to reach a record high in April as Asia's second-biggest oil buyer increasingly turns away from its traditional suppliers in the Middle East. As Russian oil was increasingly sanctioned and shunned by European buyers and some in Asia, such as Japan, the steep discounts on offer led to India's refiners buying increasing volumes. The Middle East's share of India's imports likely dropped to 39.8% in April, according to Refinitiv, down from the 12-month average of 56%. While the buying of Russian crude is fairly broad-based among India's refiners, the biggest buyer is Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), which operates a 1.24 million bpd refinery complex in Jamnagar. Kpler data shows that this complex is expected to receive 20.87 million barrels of Russian crude in April, or about 30% of the total volume of India's imports.

☆ Apple CEO Tim Cook Meets India Prime Minister Modi as Tech Giant Diversifies From China
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Yang Jie | Rajesh Roy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty ImagesApple Inc.’s Chief Executive Tim Cook met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, visiting the country where the iPhone maker wants to expand both its manufacturing footprint and smartphone sales. Apple is committed to growing and investing across the country, Mr. Cook said in a tweet after the meeting, alongside a picture of the two men shaking hands. Mr. Modi said they had spoken about the “tech-powered transformations taking place in India.”

☆ First Republic Bank plunges 30% on report that it's evaluating strategic alternatives including a potential sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

First Republic Bank plunged 30% on Thursday following a report that it was considering a sale. The bank has been roiled by the collapse of its regional banking peer, Silicon Valley Bank. Almost 70% of First Republic's deposits have no FDIC insurance and the bank has $4 billion in unrealized bond losses. First Republic Bank has many similarities to Silicon Valley Bank, including the fact that nearly 70% of First Republic Bank's deposit base doesn't have FDIC insurance. First Republic Bank is also sitting on $4 billion in unrealized losses on its held-to-maturity bond portfolio, which is what sparked the initial downfall for Silicon Valley Bank last week.

☆ Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans to Rely Less on China for Revenue
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Joyu Wang | Yoko Kubota | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Foxconn has been diversifying its production sites as well as the products it makes. TAIPEI— Foxconn Technology Group, one of Apple ’s biggest suppliers, said it would rely less on China as a source of revenue as it diversifies production sites to strengthen supply-chain resilience. About 70% of Foxconn’s revenue comes from China, said Young Liu , the company’s chairman. Going forward, the proportion coming from markets outside of China will continue to grow, he said in an earnings call Wednesday. Foxconn’s revenue in 2022 was 6.6 trillion New Taiwan dollars, equivalent to around $215 billion.

☆ Goldman Sachs says buy Palo Alto Networks as the cybersecurity company diversifies its business
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Palo Alto Networks ' diversification strategies can mean big gains for the stock, according to Goldman Sachs. Borges said Palo Alto has utilized its leadership in network security to branch out into other revenue streams within the cloud. The analyst also noted that Palo Alto should have "more consistent and durable growth" than peers. Shares of Palo Alto Networks rallied 19.2% year to date, rebounding from a 24.8% drop in 2022. Palo Alto wasn't the only cybersecurity stock Borges was getting bullish on, giving buy ratings to CrowdStrike and Fortinet as well.

The world's biggest public company is expected to report on Thursday that iPhone sales fell about 5% for the all-important holiday quarter, according to Refinitiv. The last time iPhone sales slipped was in the August-October period in 2020, months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Greater China, including Hong Kong, is key to Apple's fortunes, contributing roughly a fifth to annual revenue. FUNDAMENTALS** Revenue estimated to have fallen 2% in the last three months of 2022, Apple's first fiscal quarter. ** IPhone sales likely fell for first time since 2020, while services business rose 6%.

London/Abu Dhabi CNN —Dubai has scrapped a 30% tax on alcohol and will no longer charge tourists or expats for permits to buy alcoholic drinks as the emirate tries to attract more foreign workers and visitors in the face of growing regional competition. Two major retailers in the city, located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said they had slashed their prices to reflect the tax cut. MMI, one of Dubai’s biggest alcohol retailers and a subsidiary of the state-owned Emirates group, has 21 stores across the city, according to its website. Muslims are prohibited from acquiring licenses for purchase of alcohol in Dubai. The sale of alcohol in the UAE is already more liberalized compared to neighboring Gulf countries.

☆ Japan lawmaker says TSMC is considering second plant in Japan
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TOKYO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A senior Japanese lawmaker said on Friday that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chip maker, is considering building a second plant in Japan in addition to an $8.6 billion dollar facility now under construction. "I believe TSMC is looking into further investments in Japan. TSMC said in an emailed statement that it did not rule out any possibility for Japan but there were no concrete plans at the moment. The Taiwanese company is building a chip plant in southern Japan, with Sony Group Corp (6758.T) and auto parts maker Denso Corp (6902.T) each taking a minority stake. "Technological innovation is fierce in the semiconductor industry," Seki said.

☆ Here are the 4 best investing opportunities in 2023, according to the investment chief at Goldman Sachs' $1.8 trillion asset management arm
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Goldman Sachs is expecting weaker growth in 2023 as interest rates stay elevated. Here's why the firm is optimistic about emerging markets and willing to invest in China. Instead, the investing chief at GSAM prefers emerging markets equities and debt in 2023. "It's had the trifecta of rising US rates, strong US dollar, and weaker growth," Shah said. Within emerging markets, Shah is most bullish on stocks in Asia, specifically India and China.

[1/2] Caucus goers wait in the corner for Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at their caucus site in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., February 3, 2020. After Iowa, both Democrats and Republicans hold state primaries that narrow down presidential candidates even further. Their push to change the primary calendar picked up momentum after 2020 when the Democrats' Iowa caucuses were plagued by technical and communication issues that delayed the announcement of a winner. The state has traditionally held the first primary, right after Iowa's caucuses, but some Democrats would like more-diverse Nevada to get that spot. But New Hampshire state law requires its secretary of state to set the primary date seven days before any other, providing state officials a firewall against any efforts to boot them as the first primary state.

☆ Three companies vie to build new Czech nuclear plant
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Jan Lopatka | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Czech Republic has been a strong backer of nuclear energy as a carbon-free power source for the future, unlike European Union neighbours Germany and Austria. CEZ plans to build three more nuclear units - on top of the one now planned - at its Dukovany and Temelin nuclear sites, as the country diversifies away from coal. It is also planning to build smaller modular nuclear power plants. Poland picked Westinghouse last month to build its first nuclear power plant, and also agreed to cooperate with South Korea on potential further units. In 2020, the cost of the project - not including financing and inflation - was estimated at 6 billion euros ($6.2 billion).

☆ Here's how to pick winning stocks that can help your portfolio survive a recession, according to the managers of a $42 billion fund that beat 92% of peers in the past decade
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Matt McLennan and Kimball Brooker have guided their fund to a top 8% performance in the past decade. That's in sharp contrast to Matt McLennan and Kimball Brooker, co-managers of the $42 billion First Eagle Global Fund (SGENX). "What you'll find is that the amount of whatever it is that we're collecting never becomes large enough to do too much damage to the portfolio," Brooker told Insider. Those first two points are often prioritized by managers seeking quality stocks, but fewer fund managers target those latter two attributes. Fund managers should carefully consider a stock's long-term outlook instead of simply whether or not it diversifies and lowers the volatility of a portfolio.

Some may want to see the explosive, racist diatribes of a handful of prominent Los Angeles City Council members as an unfortunate incident that will eventually fade away. But the reality is that such prejudice from Latino to Latino and Latino to other racial groups is not so uncommon. That was on stark display in the conversation among former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, council members Kevin De León and Gil Cedillo and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, who resigned Monday. "If you’re going to talk about Latino districts, what kind of districts are you trying to create?” she asks her colleagues in frustration. Zapotecs, or Indigenous people of Oaxacan descent, number about 200,000 in Los Angeles County, one of the largest Oaxacan communities outside Mexico.

☆ Over half of Gen Z and millennials could face a retirement crisis as inflation rises and homeownership falls, says a Boston University economist
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Over half of Gen Z and millennials could enter retirement with insufficient savings, says a Boston University economist. As of 2017, roughly half of all retirement age Americans had no personal retirement savings, per a January Census Bureau report. While the expectation that young Americans will live longer than the generations before them is a positive development, this also raises the total cost of retirement. "The retirement age will rise and it's been rising," he said, pointing to BLS projections of older workers' labor force participation. To prepare for retirement, Kotlikoff says Gen Zers should be saving 15% of what they earn after taxes, although he adds that that "may well be on the low side."

☆ Wealthy millennials aren't relying on the stock market. Here's how their investment portfolios break down.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Only 32% of older investors said the same. The wealthy millennials surveyed said they allocate 25% of their portfolios to stocks, compared to 55% for older investors. Cryptocurrency is popular among these millennials as well, accounting for 15% of their portfolios compared to only 2% for older investors. Wealthy millennials see cryptocurrency as the best investmentLooking forward, the wealthy millennial investors ranked cryptocurrency or digital assets, real estate, private equity, and direct investment into companies offer the "greatest opportunities for growth." Older investors favored US stocks, followed by real estate and equities in the emerging and international markets.

☆ FedEx inflamed recession fears. These are our least economically sensitive stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

FedEx hasn't exactly been a perfect company in recent years, and Subramaniam acknowledged to Jim that FedEx needs to get its own house in order. However, the traditional recession playbook involves selling energy stocks due to fears of demand collapsing. Mixed bag The stocks discussed here have a mixture of economically resilient and sensitive characteristics to them, such as Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL). (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

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☆ How to make 6 figures on Taskrabbit, according to 4 top-rated users
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-19 | by ( Ann Matica | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Then, he hired someone from Taskrabbit to help him move and found out how lucrative work through the site could be. To make the most profit possible while completing tasks, Young plans his routes the night before and abides by a tight schedule during the day. Read more: I'm a 23-year-old who's made more than $130,000 on TaskRabbit this year — here's howRead more: I've made more than $155,000 on TaskRabbit this year. When money started to get tight and Garcia was close to getting evicted in 2019, she turned to Taskrabbit work full-time. Read more: I make $7,000 a month on Taskrabbit doing odd jobs like event planning, gift wrapping, and organizing closets.

☆ Denmark's most popular eToro trader breaks down how his time as an elite chess player helped shape the strategy that made him 400% returns on bitcoin this year and led 20,000 people to copy his portfo
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-29 | by ( Tom Turula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

His portfolio generated 44% in returns in 2020.Insider asked Jain Kongsted how he invests and why he thinks his portfolio is so popular. His background as an elite chess player gives him a leg up in investing"The best chess players know thousands of patterns on a chess board," Jain Kongsted said. Elite chess also taught Jain Kongsted to "keep his head cool" when trades go bad. Besides chess, Jain Kongsted is also champion of Scrabble. And he spent thousands of hours studying stock charts, "until they took on a life of their own."

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