Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › Confluence Investment Management LLC, a hedge fund, decreased its position in shares of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) by 34.1% in the fourth quarter, according to a recent SEC filing. The fund now owns 182,558 shares of the information services provider's stock, down from 277,189 shares previously. Why it matters This filing indicates that Confluence In...
Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › Confluence Investment Management LLC, a hedge fund, decreased its position in shares of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) by 34.1% in the fourth quarter, according to a recent SEC filing. The fund now owns 182,558 shares of the information services provider's stock, down from 277,189 shares previously. Why it matters This filing indicates that Confluence Investment Management, a notable institutional investor, has reduced its exposure to Alphabet, the parent company of Google. This could signal a shift in sentiment or strategy by the fund, which could impact Alphabet's stock price and trading activity. The details According to the filing, Confluence Investment Management sold 94,631 shares of Alphabet stock during the fourth quarter of 2025. The fund now holds a position valued at $57,287,000, down from the previous quarter's $87,032,000 stake. Alphabet's stock price has fluctuated in recent months amid broader market volatility and concerns about the company's growth prospects. Confluence Investment Management reduced its Alphabet position in the fourth quarter of 2025. The players Confluence Investment Management LLC A hedge fund that has decreased its position in Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Alphabet Inc. The multinational technology holding company that owns Google and other subsidiaries. Got photos? Submit your photos here. ›
Cyndeo Wealth Partners LLC lifted its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM - Free Report) by 10.7% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 76,651 shares of the semiconductor company's stock after buying an additional 7,396 shares during the q...
Cyndeo Wealth Partners LLC lifted its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM - Free Report) by 10.7% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 76,651 shares of the semiconductor company's stock after buying an additional 7,396 shares during the quarter. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing makes up approximately 1.2% of Cyndeo Wealth Partners LLC's portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest holding. Cyndeo Wealth Partners LLC's holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing were worth $23,294,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Fisher Asset Management LLC boosted its holdings in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 1.0% in the 3rd quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 17,833,127 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $4,980,614,000 after purchasing an additional 168,171 shares during the period. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA increased its holdings in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 3.6% in the third quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 15,759,419 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $4,401,448,000 after purchasing an additional 541,047 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE raised its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 0.9% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 14,935,893 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $4,171,445,000 after buying an additional 130,173 shares in the last quarter. Jennison Associates LLC raised its position in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by 4.5% in the third quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 12,591,542 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $3,516,692,000 after buying an additional 544,750 shares in the last quarter. F...
Leicester City striker Alisha Lehmann is arguably the most recognisable female footballer in the world. Boasting nearly 16m followers on Instagram and a further 11.8m on TikTok, she strode the catwalks of Milan last year while playing in Italy, and her striking looks regularly catch the attention of the tabloids. By her own recognition, that can establish a certain public perception - and it is so...
Leicester City striker Alisha Lehmann is arguably the most recognisable female footballer in the world. Boasting nearly 16m followers on Instagram and a further 11.8m on TikTok, she strode the catwalks of Milan last year while playing in Italy, and her striking looks regularly catch the attention of the tabloids. By her own recognition, that can establish a certain public perception - and it is something she is keen to quash after swapping Mediterranean life for a relegation battle in the East Midlands. The publicity surrounding her January move focused as much on her off-field persona as what she brought to the team. "When I was younger, it affected me more because I didn't know how to handle the situation," she says. "There were moments where I was really sad and I used to ask my mum if I could not play football anymore. "Football is the thing I love the most and it's what I have put the most time into. I rest so well, I sleep every afternoon and I would never do anything before training or a game that would affect how I play. I care so much about it. "People don't know how much effort I actually put in when they say 'Oh, she's not a footballer'. "But now, I'm fine. I love my life and the people around me and I don't get affected by it." She is likely to spearhead Leicester's attack on Sunday in the BBC-televised game against Aston Villa (14:45 GMT).
Patel says: "We see these patterns repeated up and down the country. There's a systemic problem with the policing of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, despite all the changes that are said to have taken place."
Patel says: "We see these patterns repeated up and down the country. There's a systemic problem with the policing of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, despite all the changes that are said to have taken place."
Cuba's power grid collapses leaving it without electricity for the 3rd time this month toggle caption Ramon Espinosa/AP HAVANA — Cuba's power grid collapsed Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy an...
Cuba's power grid collapses leaving it without electricity for the 3rd time this month toggle caption Ramon Espinosa/AP HAVANA — Cuba's power grid collapsed Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage. The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province. "From that moment, a cascading effect occurred in the machines that were online," said a report from the Ministry of Energy and Mines, which activated "micro-islands" of generating units to provide power to vital centers, hospitals and water systems. Sponsor Message Authorities said they were working to restore power. Power outages, whether nationwide or regional, have become relatively common in the last two years due to breakdowns in the aging infrastructure. The breakdowns are compounded by daily blackouts of up to 12 hours caused by fuel shortages, which also destabilize the system. The last nationwide blackout occurred on Monday. Saturday's outage was the second in the past week and the third in March. The blackouts have a significant impact on the population, whose lives are disrupted by reduced work hours, lack of electricity for cooking and food spoilage when refrigerators stop working, among many other consequences. In some cases, hospitals have canceled surgeries. President Miguel Díaz-Canel has said the island has not received oil from foreign suppliers for three months. Cuba produces barely 40% of the fuel it needs to power its economy. Cuba's aging grid has drastically eroded in recent years. But the government has also blamed the outages on a U.S. energy blockade after U.S. President Donald Trump in January warn...
President Trump's nominee to become the next Federal Reserve chairman, Kevin Warsh, wrote in The Wall Street Journal last year that artificial intelligence (AI) "will be a significant disinflationary force, increasing productivity and bolstering American competitiveness." The man Warsh would like to replace has a different view, at least for now. Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated last week during a p...
President Trump's nominee to become the next Federal Reserve chairman, Kevin Warsh, wrote in The Wall Street Journal last year that artificial intelligence (AI) "will be a significant disinflationary force, increasing productivity and bolstering American competitiveness." The man Warsh would like to replace has a different view, at least for now. Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated last week during a press conference, "In the short term, what's happening is we're building data centers everywhere, and that's actually putting pressure on all kinds of goods and services that go into building these things." He added, "So that's actually probably pushing inflation up." If Powell is right, investors probably need to pivot to focus on strategies that assume AI will be an inflation factor and that interest rates will remain high for longer than anticipated. What are those strategies? Here's your inflationary AI investing playbook. Focus on stocks with pricing power When inflation is high, companies basically have two choices. They can absorb the higher costs. Or they can pass the higher costs along to consumers. Both options come with drawbacks. Absorbing higher costs drives down profit margins and earnings. As earnings go, so go share prices, sooner or later. There are two potential downsides to passing higher costs along to consumers. First, not every company can do it -- especially those with contractual terms that don't allow them to boost prices. Second, raising prices often leads to lower demand, which could weigh on sales and earnings (and ultimately, share prices). However, companies with pricing power can pass along higher costs without a significant negative impact on their businesses. They're among the most inflation-resistant stocks on the market. What specific stocks fit the bill? Freeport-McMoRan (FCX 2.89%) could be a good pick. The company produced 3.4 billion pounds of copper last year. Copper is a critical component for wiring in AI data centers. Freeport-McMoR...
In March 2026, Meta Platforms signed a 10-year lease with Vornado for its first Manhattan flagship, Meta Lab New York, while accelerating a broad pivot toward AI through large data center deals, custom chip development, and membership in the new Optical Compute Interconnect consortium. This combination of physical retail expansion and deep infrastructure commitments underscores how Meta is reshapi...
In March 2026, Meta Platforms signed a 10-year lease with Vornado for its first Manhattan flagship, Meta Lab New York, while accelerating a broad pivot toward AI through large data center deals, custom chip development, and membership in the new Optical Compute Interconnect consortium. This combination of physical retail expansion and deep infrastructure commitments underscores how Meta is reshaping its business model around AI while simultaneously reallocating resources away from loss-making VR and metaverse initiatives. Now we’ll examine how Meta’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar AI infrastructure build-out and related restructuring affect the company’s existing investment narrative. The best AI stocks today may lie beyond giants like Nvidia and Microsoft. Find the next big opportunity with these 21 smaller AI-focused companies with strong growth potential through early-stage innovation in machine learning, automation, and data intelligence that could fund your retirement. Meta Platforms Investment Narrative Recap To own Meta today, you have to believe that its massive, multi‑year pivot into AI infrastructure and custom chips will ultimately reinforce its dominant ads and social platforms, despite heavier spending and margin pressure. The latest retail push with Meta Lab New York, together with long‑term AI data center and interconnect commitments, does not fundamentally change the main near term catalyst, which remains execution on AI products and monetization, or the biggest risk, which is AI capex and opex running ahead of revenue growth. In that context, Meta’s participation in the new Optical Compute Interconnect consortium feels especially relevant, because it sits right at the heart of the AI build‑out that investors are watching. Standardizing high bandwidth, optical links between compute and networking hardware could directly influence the efficiency and cost profile of Meta’s planned US$600 billion plus AI investment, shaping how quickly those systems can s...
Amazon's (AMZN 1.66%) stock performance hasn't been inspiring lately. Its gains have lagged well behind those of the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.51%) over the last 12 months. Amazon remains in correction territory, with its shares around 16% below their fourth-quarter 2025 peak. Should investors stay away from this lackluster stock? I don't think so. Amazon has survived and thrived despite adversity, from th...
Amazon's (AMZN 1.66%) stock performance hasn't been inspiring lately. Its gains have lagged well behind those of the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.51%) over the last 12 months. Amazon remains in correction territory, with its shares around 16% below their fourth-quarter 2025 peak. Should investors stay away from this lackluster stock? I don't think so. Amazon has survived and thrived despite adversity, from the dot-com bubble to recessions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every pullback has created a tremendous buying opportunity. Will history repeat itself? E-commerce and beyond Amazon ranks as the world's largest consumer discretionary company by market cap. It continues to dominate the e-commerce market but still has room to grow. One reason why no e-commerce rival can keep up with Amazon is its relentless focus on improving operations. The company has consistently increased delivery speeds in recent years and delivered almost 70% more items on the same day in the U.S. in 2025 than it did in 2024. Amazon has harnessed technology to improve service and efficiency. For example, over 300 million customers used its Rufus agentic AI shopping assistant last year. The company believes that Rufus helped boost annual sales by nearly $12 billion. The e-commerce platform also serves as a core foundation for one of Amazon's most important new growth areas -- advertising. Sponsored products advertising on Amazon.com generates the greatest ad revenue. Amazon's Prime Video ad sales are also increasing robustly, with millions of viewers tuning into the streaming service for programs such as Thursday Night Football and NBA on Prime. Overall, Amazon Ads now has an annual revenue run rate of $85 billion. Ad sales jumped 22% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2025. Expand NASDAQ : AMZN Amazon Today's Change ( -1.66 %) $ -3.47 Current Price $ 205.29 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.2T Day's Range $ 204.32 - $ 207.56 52wk Range $ 161.38 - $ 258.60 Volume 2.2M Avg Vol 48M Gross Margin 50.29 % A key back...
CWA Asset Management Group LLC lowered its position in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL - Free Report) by 4.9% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 67,336 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock after selling 3,440 shares during the period. CWA Asset Management Group LLC's holdings in Oracle were worth $13,124,000 as of ...
CWA Asset Management Group LLC lowered its position in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL - Free Report) by 4.9% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 67,336 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock after selling 3,440 shares during the period. CWA Asset Management Group LLC's holdings in Oracle were worth $13,124,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in ORCL. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 189.3% during the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 153,580 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock valued at $25,593,000 after buying an additional 100,494 shares in the last quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC increased its stake in shares of Oracle by 8.1% in the 4th quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC now owns 5,418 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock worth $903,000 after acquiring an additional 404 shares in the last quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC increased its stake in shares of Oracle by 21.5% in the 2nd quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC now owns 4,348 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock worth $951,000 after acquiring an additional 768 shares in the last quarter. United Bank lifted its position in Oracle by 6.8% during the 2nd quarter. United Bank now owns 15,038 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock valued at $3,288,000 after acquiring an additional 963 shares during the period. Finally, Schnieders Capital Management LLC. lifted its position in Oracle by 19.2% during the 2nd quarter. Schnieders Capital Management LLC. now owns 52,856 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock valued at $11,556,000 after acquiring an additional 8,530 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 42.44% of the company's stock. Get Oracle alerts: Sign Up Oracle Trading Down 4.0% ...
As the world reels from the fallout of the Iran war India is seeking to manage its risks and interests in the Middle East and beyond while maintaining its neutrality in the widening conflict. This can be seen in New Delhi engaging with combatants US and Iran , as well as other nations caught in the crossfire of the war, according to political analysts. the UAE , Qatar , Oman , In the past two week...
As the world reels from the fallout of the Iran war India is seeking to manage its risks and interests in the Middle East and beyond while maintaining its neutrality in the widening conflict. This can be seen in New Delhi engaging with combatants US and Iran , as well as other nations caught in the crossfire of the war, according to political analysts. the UAE , Qatar , Oman , In the past two weeks, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has spoken four times with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached out to several Gulf leaders, including those from Saudi Arabia Kuwait and Bahrain Advertisement Harsh V. Pant, vice-president for studies and foreign policy at the Observer Research Foundation, a Delhi-based think tank, said India had so far handled the situation well and needed to keep communication channels open with all sides, given the “growing fragmentation” between Iran and the Arab states. “India has to carefully navigate this [war situation], because its equities in Arab states are quite high. It has a huge diaspora, big trade and investment relationship,” Pant said. In the near term, Delhi’s focus would be to ensure that its ships did not get struck in the Strait of Hormuz, he added. Advertisement About 14 per cent of India’s exports to Gulf countries pass through the strategic waterways, while funds sent back home by nearly 10 million Indian workers in the Middle East account for 40 per cent of overall remittances annually, according to Goldman Sachs.
American last hit a competitive ball in 2022 but Instagram posts show her training again, with her motives still unknown As was often the case in Serena Williams’s unparalleled tennis career, her time at the French Open in 2009 was far from straightforward. Her gritty performance in a third-round win against Spain’s María José Martínez Sánchez that went the distance was quickly overshadowed by a g...
American last hit a competitive ball in 2022 but Instagram posts show her training again, with her motives still unknown As was often the case in Serena Williams’s unparalleled tennis career, her time at the French Open in 2009 was far from straightforward. Her gritty performance in a third-round win against Spain’s María José Martínez Sánchez that went the distance was quickly overshadowed by a gamesmanship row after Martínez Sánchez refused to admit that one of Williams’s shots had struck her body, not her racket, before going back over the net. The point should have been awarded to the American. An unimpressed Williams immediately protested to opponent and umpire. Then, once it became clear the point was a lost cause, she comically suggested Martínez Sánchez should probably not approach the net again. During her post-match press conference, Williams’s continued criticisms led to her uttering one of her more memorable quotes: “I’m, like, drama. And I don’t want to be drama,” she said, sighing. “I’m like one of those girls on a reality show that has all the drama, and everyone in the house hates them because no matter what they do drama follows them. I don’t want to be that girl.” Continue reading...