Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has quietly executed one of the most dramatic portfolio pivots of the current artificial intelligence boom, unloading high‑profile stakes in Nvidia and Tesla to concentrate capital in a single software giant whose stock has surged an astonishing 483,000% since its market debut. The shift, carried out through his hedge fund Thiel…
BYD has just logged its slowest annual sales growth in half a decade, yet the company is still on track to overtake Tesla in global electric‑vehicle sales. That combination of cooling momentum and rising dominance captures the new reality of the EV race, where scale, pricing power, and geographic reach matter as much as raw…
Trump Media & Technology Group is trying to turn political identity into an investable asset class, betting that partisan enthusiasm can be packaged into exchange-traded funds and sold as a path to market-beating returns. With President Donald Trump back in the White House and culture-war branding saturating consumer products, the company’s new funds test whether…
Home sales have slumped to levels not seen since the aftermath of the last housing bust, leaving agents staring at the slowest pipeline in more than a decade and wondering how long the drought will last. Transactions have dried up even as prices hold near record highs, a combination that is squeezing buyers, sellers and…
Strategists are heading into 2026 with a cautiously confident view that the S&P 500 can extend its winning streak, even after a powerful run driven by artificial intelligence and mega-cap technology stocks. Their case rests on a mix of solid earnings expectations, still-supportive monetary policy and the idea that the bull market is broadening beyond…
Warren Buffett is stepping away from the trading desk just as the S&P 500 hovers near record territory and optimism about 2026 is building. His recent moves and comments, from shedding index funds to hoarding cash, look less like a quiet retirement and more like a final set of instructions about how to survive the…
General Motors has turned into one of the market’s most surprising momentum stories, with its stock sprinting ahead of Tesla and Ford Motor even as headlines still fixate on electric-vehicle darlings and legacy laggards. The rally is not just a short-term pop, it reflects a deeper reset in how investors are valuing Detroit’s most diversified…
The S&P 500’s biggest winners this year did more than ride a rising market, they defined the story investors will remember about 2025. A handful of companies turned structural shifts in artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and digital finance into explosive share price gains, leaving even seasoned traders scrambling to keep up. I want to unpack…
Investors heading into 2026 are weighing a familiar trade off, the staying power of Bitcoin against the catch up potential of XRP. The debate is no longer just about ideology or brand recognition, it is about how each asset behaves in a maturing market where institutional flows, payment utility, and regulation all matter more than…
Meta’s stock has roared back from its 2022 slump, yet by Big Tech standards it still trades at a valuation that looks more like a solid industrial than a hyper‑growth platform. The company is pairing disciplined spending with a full‑throttle push into artificial intelligence and augmented reality, while its core social apps continue to print…