A seven-year-old girl in northeastern China who single-handedly took care of her sick father in hospital has melted the hearts of millions of internet users. San Mengru attracted considerable attention online after a man, surnamed Pei, who was caring for his own father in the bed next to the girl’s father, released a video about her on January 18, the local news outlet Kanqi News reported. The gir...
A seven-year-old girl in northeastern China who single-handedly took care of her sick father in hospital has melted the hearts of millions of internet users. San Mengru attracted considerable attention online after a man, surnamed Pei, who was caring for his own father in the bed next to the girl’s father, released a video about her on January 18, the local news outlet Kanqi News reported. The girl’s father, who is in his 40s, was admitted to the Qiqihaer No 1 People’s Hospital in Heilongjiang province with heart disease. Advertisement San told Pei that her parents were divorced and her grandmother is over 70 years old and cannot make it to the hospital every day. San Mengru stands beside her sick father while he receives treatment in hospital. Photo: Douyin The youngster’s other relatives are migrant workers in other cities.
Stockyme/iStock via Getty Images Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ) just put to rest fears their AI spending isn't paying dividends for the company. The social media giant benefits from AI in a far different manner than other AI peers, highlighted by the surging revenue growth rates. My investment thesis remains ultra Bullish on Meta, especially on a market sell-off that closes the gap below $680. Sour...
Stockyme/iStock via Getty Images Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ) just put to rest fears their AI spending isn't paying dividends for the company. The social media giant benefits from AI in a far different manner than other AI peers, highlighted by the surging revenue growth rates. My investment thesis remains ultra Bullish on Meta, especially on a market sell-off that closes the gap below $680. Source: Finviz CapEx Surge Due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg having huge plans for boosting spending on data center infrastructure, Meta Platforms had to deliver strong Q4 results and 2026 guidance. The company has to produce the growth now to warrant the huge ramp up in costs. The social media giant reported the following big Q4'25 results as follows: Source: Seeking Alpha Meta delivered incredible 24% growth, with revenue beating estimates by $1.4 billion. The company has now passed the $200 billion annual revenue level with the strong end to 2025. The capex spending is really off the charts, and that's where the market has concerns with this management team. Meta only spent $27 billion on capex in the year of efficiency back in 2023 and the company plans to spend nearly $100 billion in additional annual capex in 2026, with a target of anywhere from $115 to $135 billion in spending. Data by YCharts A big question this year is where Meta goes from here with the spending getting rather large. While the capex has a 4 to 6 year depreciation life, the company is approaching the outer limits of upfront spending on infrastructure. Meta produced $116 billion in operating cash flows last year, so covering the $70 billion in capex was easily absorbed. The company spent about $33 billion in additional capex last year, while the operating cash flows rose by $25 billion from 2025. Meta is highly unlikely to produce anywhere close to $55 billion in additional operating cash flows to match the capex boost this year. Investors worried about the financial strength of AI companies don't appreciate th...
Stockyme/iStock via Getty Images Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ) just put to rest fears their AI spending isn't paying dividends for the company. The social media giant benefits from AI in a far different manner than other AI peers, highlighted by the surging revenue growth rates. My investment thesis remains ultra Bullish on Meta, especially on a market sell-off that closes the gap below $680. Sour...
Stockyme/iStock via Getty Images Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ) just put to rest fears their AI spending isn't paying dividends for the company. The social media giant benefits from AI in a far different manner than other AI peers, highlighted by the surging revenue growth rates. My investment thesis remains ultra Bullish on Meta, especially on a market sell-off that closes the gap below $680. Source: Finviz CapEx Surge Due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg having huge plans for boosting spending on data center infrastructure, Meta Platforms had to deliver strong Q4 results and 2026 guidance. The company has to produce the growth now to warrant the huge ramp up in costs. The social media giant reported the following big Q4'25 results as follows: Source: Seeking Alpha Meta delivered incredible 24% growth, with revenue beating estimates by $1.4 billion. The company has now passed the $200 billion annual revenue level with the strong end to 2025. The capex spending is really off the charts, and that's where the market has concerns with this management team. Meta only spent $27 billion on capex in the year of efficiency back in 2023 and the company plans to spend nearly $100 billion in additional annual capex in 2026, with a target of anywhere from $115 to $135 billion in spending. Data by YCharts A big question this year is where Meta goes from here with the spending getting rather large. While the capex has a 4 to 6 year depreciation life, the company is approaching the outer limits of upfront spending on infrastructure. Meta produced $116 billion in operating cash flows last year, so covering the $70 billion in capex was easily absorbed. The company spent about $33 billion in additional capex last year, while the operating cash flows rose by $25 billion from 2025. Meta is highly unlikely to produce anywhere close to $55 billion in additional operating cash flows to match the capex boost this year. Investors worried about the financial strength of AI companies don't appreciate th...
Key Points Passenger jet maker Boeing seems to be selling more aircraft now than it has of late. The quarterly comparison in and of itself, however, isn’t nearly as bullish as it seems on the surface. Nevertheless, a great deal of future revenue is already lined up and waiting to be booked. 10 stocks we like better than Boeing › Well done, Boeing (NYSE: BA)! Last quarter's top line of just under $...
Key Points Passenger jet maker Boeing seems to be selling more aircraft now than it has of late. The quarterly comparison in and of itself, however, isn’t nearly as bullish as it seems on the surface. Nevertheless, a great deal of future revenue is already lined up and waiting to be booked. 10 stocks we like better than Boeing › Well done, Boeing (NYSE: BA)! Last quarter's top line of just under $24 billion not only topped analysts' expectations of $22.6 billion but also improved the year-earlier figure by 57%. The company also swung back to a profit, offering a glimmer of hope to the beleaguered aircraft maker's investors. There's a fairly important footnote to add to these numbers, though. That is, the comparison was to a rather lousy fourth quarter of 2024, when revenue fell 31% year over year. Indeed, it did $24 billion less business than it did in the final quarter of 2018, shortly before a couple of fatal crashes of new Boeing-made aircraft hinted at potential design flaws. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Nevertheless, this commercial aircraft manufacturer's future has never been brighter in a far more important regard. That's its backlog of orders that have yet to be delivered. As of the end of last year, Boeing is sitting on a record-breaking $682.2 billion worth of airplane orders. And the backlog's growth appears to be accelerating. Orders can be canceled, of course. But that's not particularly common and is likely to become even less so. In its most recent projection for the air travel business (released last year), Boeing indicated the industry will need 43,600 new passenger jets between 2025 and 2044. For perspective, the International Air Travel Association reports there are 30,300 such planes in active use right now, plus another 5,250 held in storage as backups. Already at an average age of around 15 years, though,...
Thanks to a big equity market rotation to kick off 2026, dividend ETFs are back in style. Growth and tech may have been the market leaders of the past few years, but that's no longer the case in 2026. The market is experiencing a major rotation that's seeing previously unloved areas of the market, including small caps, energy, and materials stocks, turn into leaders. Investors who have maintained ...
Thanks to a big equity market rotation to kick off 2026, dividend ETFs are back in style. Growth and tech may have been the market leaders of the past few years, but that's no longer the case in 2026. The market is experiencing a major rotation that's seeing previously unloved areas of the market, including small caps, energy, and materials stocks, turn into leaders. Investors who have maintained diversification throughout the current cycle are finally being rewarded. Dividend stocks and ETFs are another group that's doing well. They've benefited from current outperformance in value stocks and those backed by healthy balance sheets -- two factors that dividend portfolios tend to overweight. With 3%-4% yields readily attainable, dividend ETFs are looking like one of the year's early winners. Not all high-dividend ETFs are built the same, though. Here are three worth loading up on in 2026. 1. Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF I'll be the first to admit that I didn't like the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF's (SCHD +1.53%) prospects heading into the new year. With the artificial intelligence (AI) trade still in full focus, the economy still on a healthy growth trajectory, and investors showing little interest in shifting away from large-cap growth, it looked like the fund's portfolio would be swimming upstream. But the market rotation that's occurred over the past several weeks (so far) has proven me wrong. The fund's focus on quality fundamentals, stable dividend growth, and above-average yield has been in favor again, and it's made the Dividend Equity ETF one of the top year-to-date performers in the U.S. dividend ETF category. Expand NYSEMKT : SCHD Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF Today's Change ( 1.53 %) $ 0.45 Current Price $ 29.82 Key Data Points Day's Range $ 29.38 - $ 29.82 52wk Range $ 23.87 - $ 29.82 Volume 23M This fund has always had a solid strategy, and it produced very strong results for the first nine years of its life. The current 3.7% yield and 0.06% exp...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has released a spending plan to protect the economy from US tariffs with support for exporters and strategic sectors. Bloomberg's Swati Pandey has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has released a spending plan to protect the economy from US tariffs with support for exporters and strategic sectors. Bloomberg's Swati Pandey has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is notably lower on Friday, giving up the gains in the previous session, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 falling below the 7,400 level, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, with losses across most sectors, led by coal miners and technology stocks after the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe told the parliament that furth...
(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is notably lower on Friday, giving up the gains in the previous session, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 falling below the 7,400 level, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, with losses across most sectors, led by coal miners and technology stocks after the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe told the parliament that further rate increases would be needed to bring down sky-high inflation. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is losing 40.30 points or 0.54 percent to 7,370.00, after hitting a low of 7,366.50 earlier. The broader All Ordinaries Index is down 45.90 points or 0.60 percent to 7,574.80. Australian markets ended significantly higher on Thursday. Among major miners, BHP Group and Fortescue Metals are gaining almost 1 percent each, while Rio Tinto is adding more than 1 percent. Mineral Resources is losing almost 2 percent. OZ Minerals is flat. The market is also seeing heavy losses among coal miners, with Whitehaven Coal and New Hope losing more than 4 percent each, while Yancoal Australia declining more than 2 percent. Oil stocks are weak. Beach energy is losing almost 2 percent, Santos is down almost 1 percent and Woodside Energy is declining more than 1 percent, while Origin Energy is gaining almost 2 percent. Among tech stocks, Afterpay owner Block is slipping more than 7 percent and Xero is down more than 4 percent, while WiseTech Global, Appen and Zip are losing more than 3 percent each. Among the big four banks, ANZ Banking and Westpac are edging down 0.2 to 0.4 percent each, while National Australia Bank is losing more than 1 percent. Commonwealth Bank is edging up 0.1 percent. Gold miners are lower. Northern Star Resources and Gold Road Resources are edging down 0.1 to 0.2 percent each, while Evolution Mining is declining more than 4 percent, Newcrest Mining is down more than 1 percent and Resolute Mining is losing more than 2 percent. In the currency market, the Aussie dollar is...
Voters are less likely to support female politicians when they are wearing face masks, while there was no such effect for their male counterparts, according to a study by a Japanese university research team. The findings, published last month ahead of Sunday’s general election, underscored the differences in how the public perceived politicians following the Covid-19 pandemic, when wearing masks b...
Voters are less likely to support female politicians when they are wearing face masks, while there was no such effect for their male counterparts, according to a study by a Japanese university research team. The findings, published last month ahead of Sunday’s general election, underscored the differences in how the public perceived politicians following the Covid-19 pandemic, when wearing masks became more common for politicians across the world. “Differences in how masked faces are perceived could work against women candidates,” said Kiho Muroga, an associate professor on labour economics at Kyushu University, who jointly conducted the survey with Charles Crabtree, then affiliated with Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Advertisement She urged female politicians to figure out creative ways to communicate during election campaigning and asked voters to watch for bias in how they judge women politicians. The survey was conducted in August 2020 with 1,508 people in Japan aged between 18 and 74 who were shown photos of politicians, such as the late prime minister Shinzo Abe and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike , with and without masks. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks during a Covid-19 meeting in September 2021. Photo: dpa Respondents rated the images on a five-point scale for support, attractiveness, competence, intelligence, strength and trustworthiness.
President Trump Selects Kevin Warsh as New Fed Chair After an extended selection process and rampant speculation from Wall Street investors, President Trump finally made his Jerome Powell’s replacement as Chair of the Federal Reserve. Until the very last few hours, betting markets such as PolyMarket had Rick Rieder, a Wall Street legend and the CIO of Global Fixed Income at BlackRock (BLK), as the...
President Trump Selects Kevin Warsh as New Fed Chair After an extended selection process and rampant speculation from Wall Street investors, President Trump finally made his Jerome Powell’s replacement as Chair of the Federal Reserve. Until the very last few hours, betting markets such as PolyMarket had Rick Rieder, a Wall Street legend and the CIO of Global Fixed Income at BlackRock (BLK), as the frontrunner. Rieder, who is seen as a massive ‘dove’, seemed like the obvious choice after months of President Trump denouncing current Federal Reserve Chair Powell as too ‘hawkish.’ However, with a handful of hours left, Warsh’s odds spiked and, ultimately, he was chosen. Image Source: Polymarket Who is Kevin Warsh? Like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Kevin Warsh is a close colleague and friend of investing legend Stanley Druckenmiller. Warsh has been a partner at Stanley Druckenmiller’s ‘Duquesne Family Office’ for nearly a decade and a half, communicating regularly and often bouncing ideas off each other. Prior to his time with Druckenmiller, Warsh served as the youngest-ever member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Precious Metals Slammed: Is Warsh a ‘Hawk’? Kevin Warsh has a reputation on Wall Street as a ‘hawk’ for his outspoken criticism of the Fed and concern about inflation during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Based on Friday’s action, markets agree. Friday, precious metals and precious metals ETFs such as the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) and the iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) were slammed amid “hawkish” Fed fears. In fact, intraday, silver fell nearly 40%, marking one of the worst single-session losses over the past century. Image Source: TradingView Warsh is a Departure from the Keynesian Era At this juncture, Wall Street can only work off presumptions about Kevin Warsh’s previous statements. Based on his historical statements, Warsh might not be as much of a “hawk” as Wall Street fears, but he is also a departure from the “Keynesian” era, which wa...