• Mar 24, 2025

3 Market-Beating Stocks on Our Watchlist

The best-performing stocks typically have robust sales growth, increasing margins, and rising returns on capital, and those that can maintain this trifecta year in and year out often become the legends of the investing world.

  • Mar 24, 2025

3 Services Stocks Walking a Fine Line

Business services providers use their specialized expertise to help enterprises streamline operations and cut costs. But increasing competition from AI-driven upstarts has tempered enthusiasm, and over the past six months, the industry has pulled back by 1.4%. This performance was similar to the S&P 500’s.

  • Mar 24, 2025

Tether, Bitcoin, XRP, and more cryptocurrencies to watch this week

Stablecoins are getting some extra attention after President Donald Trump told a crypto conference Thursday that he’s called on congress to pass “simple, common-sense rules for stablecoins.” Plus, what’s next for Bitcoin in 2025? Betting markets seem to think that the leading cryptocurrency is unlikely to go much higher this year than its January peak of roughly $109,000.

  • Mar 24, 2025

Chile Central Bank Lifts Economic Growth and Inflation Forecasts

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  • Mar 24, 2025

Mexico Inflation Slows More Than Forecast Before Banxico Vote

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  • Mar 24, 2025

Exclusive-Russian central bank sees chance of prolonged low oil price cycle

Russia's central bank has warned the Kremlin's policy makers the United States and OPEC have the capacity to flood the oil market and cause a repeat of the prolonged price collapse of the 1980s - which contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union. The warning came weeks before Russian and U.S. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump began talks to end the war in Ukraine. Trump has warned he could impose further sanctions on Russia if there was no peace deal.