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By Yifan Wang and Bingyan Wang Shares of Baidu Inc. surged in Hong Kong on Tuesday as investors welcomed the Chinese internet giant’s plan to launch an artificial-intelligence chatbot next month amid an intensifying AI race in the technology industry. The stock gained as much as 16% to 162.90 Hong Kong dollars (US$20.76), putting it

It certainly hasn’t been easy for investors of electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) to stay in the trade. QS stock has been volatile and will likely stay that way. However, you’ll be in the company of financial whales if you invest in QuantumScape, and you’ll also hold a stake in next-generation EV battery

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Babies born in the U.S. today are likely to live to be 76, on average, compared with just 47 in 1900. By 2040, life expectancy in the U.S. will climb to 79.8 years, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle. The U.S. today has more 60-year-olds than

Will Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) demonstrate powerful growth in 2023? Anything is possible, but there isn’t strong evidence that MSFT stock will be a big winner this year. Both the recent financial data and Microsoft’s outlook for the future suggest that the company could disappoint hope-fueled investors. The outlook is uncertain as Microsoft plans to cut 10,000 jobs, roughly

Love will abide — and so does a ballad about unrequited love and longing when it’s given the perfect needle drop on one of the hottest shows of the season.  A recent episode of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” an adaption of the hit Sony SONY, -0.71% PlayStation game following the survivors of a fungus-fueled

Investors of neo-banking firm SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) have suffered for a long time. They deserve a break, and it looks like 2023 will be a turnaround year for SOFI stock. Sure, there are still risks involved with SoFi Technologies, but the reward-to-risk profile is looking better today than it did just a few months ago. Let’s

The U.S. dollar may be losing its appeal as one of the few reliable safe-haven assets in times of economic and geopolitical uncertainty after an 18 month rally, but a further fall by the currency could fuel a 2023 stock-market rally, market analysts said. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +1.22% fell to a nine-month

Is Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) sensitive to the needs of its customers? That’s a pivotal question that investors ought to consider in 2023. Fortunately, Amazon’s latest foray into a niche healthcare market bodes well for the company. So, despite a number of concerns and headwinds, financial traders will likely fare well with investment in AMZN stock. The bigger

Dear Quentin, My mother recently passed away and I was written out of the will, except for a small amount. She and I had several disagreements over the past two years. This change of will occurred 15 months prior to her death, with her executors present. The remainder of her estate is being divided between

For medium to long-term investors, it’s essential to screen fundamentally strong businesses when looking to add exposure to a given sector or type of stock. However, from a trading perspective, an under-performing stock can be a good investment within a limited time horizon. Among various trading strategies, one that’s recently gained steam of late is

In the Federal Reserve’s playbook, inflation and the job market are joined at the hip — constantly moving in relationship to each other. In this economic cycle, more and more economists think the relationship has broken down and are worried that the Fed doesn’t seem to think so. “I think the Fed needs to be

Once a relatively small online bookseller, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is now a sprawling giant of a company. Lately, it seems that Amazon wants to dip its hands into a wide variety of business segments. However, AMZN stock traders shouldn’t always assume that more is better. Amazon’s latest move into healthcare won’t necessarily yield the results that perma-bulls

Dear Quentin, I am a 31-year-old man, not yet married, earning decent money and have no great financial burden in my family. I have learned from your replies to others that many money problems are not only about the numbers — income, rate of return or which stock to buy and when — but also

At the start of the year, I noted Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) as one of seven stocks about to get absolutely crushed. Put simply, this call on TSLA stock is cringe-inducing in hindsight. Since this prediction dropped on Jan. 2, shares in the leading electric vehicle maker have gained by nearly 68%. In my defense, at the

Phoenix is preparing to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars when the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium on Feb. 12 — but still not as much as the Super Bowl did eight years ago. While Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 attracted more than 121,000 visitors

As we look to round out a very busy week, investors are looking at the hot stocks for tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 3. “Busy” seems like an understatement when it comes to describing the last three days of this week. The Federal Reserve raised rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, but the main focus wasn’t

Meta Platforms Inc. changed its narrative in a big way this week, and that’s resonating on Wall Street. Three months ago, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team sounded fairly defiant as they laid out big spending plans despite economic angst, an attitude that helped send shares toward one of their worst days on

Fintech firm SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) hasn’t been a darling of the market for a long time. Will 2023 be the year SOFI stock stages an exciting comeback? Don’t get your hopes up, as an update from the U.S. government signals potential problems for SoFi Technologies. Not only that, but someone within the company apparently has a

Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix will have more than double the economic impact of the Super Bowl, according to a recent analysis. The F1 race weekend, slated for Nov. 16-18, is estimated to bring $1.3 billion in spending to the city, according to Applied Analysis. That sum includes a projected $966 million in visitor spending and $316 million in event operations and

We all know what the focus is on Wednesday: The Fed. The Federal Reserve is forecast to raise interest rates by 25 basis points today and the action has been well-telegraphed by the Fed in recent weeks. However, it’s a busy week and that has us looking at some hot stocks for tomorrow. On Thursday,