June 2024

Top 3 Stocks Fund Managers Buy: Realty Income, Starbucks, Boeing

Occasionally, Wall Street fund managers come down from their ivory towers and let the rest of Main Street into some of the plays they have been making. These institutions manage the nation’s pensions and other crucial investment vehicles, so when their insights are released, it pays to keep up with them, or at least behind […]

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Silvaco Stock: New Semiconductor Investment Opportunity

Silvaco Group NASDAQ: SVCO is a small fish in the technology sector and semiconductor industry, with a market capitalization of less than $500 million. The firm could either see explosive growth or be destroyed by its larger competitors. The company provides software essential to designing and manufacturing semiconductors. The firm went public in early May

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Letting An ARM Reset Is Similar To A Free Mortgage Recast

If you bought a home during a high-interest rate environment, it\’s wise to prepare for either a mortgage refinance or a recast. Interest rates have been gradually coming down since their highs of 2022, and I suspect millions of existing homeowners will eventually be able to reduce their monthly mortgage payments. After writing my post

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Hyundai India’s IPO Filing Highlights Confidence In Surging India Markets

Hyundai’s IPO could top Life Insurance Corp.’s 2022 offering that raised a record $2.7 billion. The Hyundai India IPO that was announced earlier this year has become a bellwether for the health of Indian stock markets and particularly its IPO market, now that the South Korean carmaker has reportedly filed a draft red herring prospectus

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DBS Equity Capital Markets Head Art Karoonyavanich On A Decade Of Growth

Home Banking DBS Equity Capital Markets Head Art Karoonyavanich On A Decade Of Growth A 10-year veteran at DBS Bank, Karoonyavanich recently expanded his role to cover all Equity Capital Markets business for the bank globally when the firm merged its equities, fixed income and brokerage businesses to form a new Investment Banking unit. The

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The Blueprint of an AI-First Financial Institution

An AI-First organization accelerates AI adoption by avoiding traditional siloed use cases. According to Bal Shukla from Infosys, financial institutions especially are seeking to move past the experimentation stage to scale both traditional and generative AI across the enterprise. Financial institutions have been facing tough challenges between economic uncertainty and an unprecedented technology-powered speed of

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Reorganization Spurs Synergies: Q&A With Citi Commerical Bank\’s Raymond Gatcliffe

Home Banking Reorganization Spurs Synergies: Q&A With Citi Commerical Bank’s Raymond Gatcliffe Head of Commercial Bank in North America at Citi discusses the company’s reorganization of its banking lines with Global Finance. In mid-September, Citi CEO Jane Fraser announced a comprehensive reorganization of the banking giant. Part of the simplified operations model included putting its

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World\’s Most Peaceful Country 2024 Global Peace Index

Over the past two decades, most indicators of peacefulness have deteriorated, according to the 2024 Global Peace Index. Old and new conflicts, and our political and cultural polarization, are the main culprits. Peaceful Nations Generate Economic Value Peace, some people say, starts with a smile. Peaceful societies enjoy greater income growth, stronger currencies and higher

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