The Best Stocks of 2024 and Expectations for 2025

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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Navigating Market Concentration: Optimising Short Index Positions with Secular Stocks

The U.S. market has experienced a significant shift in recent years, with a handful of tech giants commanding a larger share of the S&P 500 index. This has led traders to seek ways to hedge their short index positions and protect their portfolios. In this article, we will delve deeper into the growing dominance of Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the S&P 500 and explore how these secular stocks can help balance the risks associated with short positioning in index trading.

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Who are the AI leaders? – Analysis of the top 5 AI stocks

Welcome to this week’s analysis, where we will be focusing on the top 5 AI stocks and the top 5 reasons we have shortlisted them, including their current price targets. 

As the world continues to move towards automation and digitalisation, artificial intelligence has become increasingly important in various industries. With that in mind, we have scoured the market and have selected the top 5 AI stocks that we believe have the potential for significant growth in the future.

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On the brink of a new business age: who are the winners and losers from COVID-19

Source: Unsplash.com | Author: Braden Collum

Reading time: 6 minutes

In the span of just a couple of months, the coronavirus pandemic managed to shake the foundations of the global economy, dramatically alter our day-to-day lives, and generate unprecedented unemployment levels on a global scale, all without breaking a sweat.

And while the disrupted supply chains posed significant financial risks to a great degree of companies, for some sectors the virus turned into an unexpected stairway to success. LEt’s take a look at who are the winners and losers in the fight against COVID-19.

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