The Best Stocks of 2024 and Expectations for 2025

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2024: A Standout Year for the Markets

2024 emerged as one of the better years for the financial markets, with the S&P 500 posting a robust 25% gain and the Nasdaq Composite, which tracks nearly all Nasdaq-listed companies, surging by 32%.

Over 55% of the top 30 companies by growth in the Nasdaq Composite were from the biotech and technology sectors, showing the market’s strong focus on innovation and technological advancement. Similarly, in the S&P 500, technology companies dominated, comprising about 30% of the top-performing companies, followed by utilities and energy sectors. The overarching theme across these sectors was artificial intelligence (AI), which played a massive  role in driving the market.

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Gods of War: Market Opportunities in the Defence Sector in 2025

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In 2023, global military expenditure rose for the ninth consecutive year, exceeding $2.4 trillion. This surge, fueled by the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war and escalating geopolitical tensions, marked a 6.8% increase—the largest annual rise since 2009. This pushed world military spending to its highest level recorded by SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). The global military burden, defined as military expenditure as a share of GDP, reached 2.3%, with governments dedicating an average of 6.9% of their budgets to defence or approximately $306 per person. 

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Which altcoins did the best in 2024?

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Bitcoin’s recent all-time highs, driven by market hopes and optimism that the new Donald Trump administration will take a pro-crypto stance and investor interest, has put the spotlight on the cryptocurrency sector once again. In the past 12 months, Bitcoin’s price has risen almost 153% and in November alone, when it nearly touched the $100,000 milestone, bitcoin has grown almost 37%. 

Bitcoin’s rise and the overall bullish sentiment has revitalised the interest in some much smaller and cheaper altcoins, some of which can boast spectacular performances in the past 12 months  and this November alone. Let’s take a look at several of them! 

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