Hey, Prime members and Bezos-believers - buckle up, because Amazon just dropped its Q1 2025 earnings, and this quarter is juicier than a Prime Day lightning deal. Amazon reported solid results for the first quarter of 2025, with across-the-board improvements in revenue and profitability. Key financial metrics for Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024 are summarized below:
What drives retail investors both globally and in the US? Are they deliberate market participants who assess economic fundamentals, or are they impulsive speculators influenced by memes, FOMO, and online forums like Reddit? As always, the answer resists easy categorization - but exploring it offers valuable insights into investor psychology, financial trends, and stock market behavior.
Here’s a unified Top 10 list of reasons retail investors - globally and in the US - buy stocks.
Imagine you're a trillion-dollar tech behemoth navigating a world where AI is both your golden goose and your existential threat. Welcome to Alphabet's first quarter of 2025. Alphabet’s first quarter of 2025 has given us plenty to scribble about, with surprisingly robust earnings, a wave of new AI products, and just enough tariff-related drama to keep things interesting. Despite facing regulatory headwinds and macroeconomic uncertainties, the company delivered impressive financial results, underscoring its resilience and adaptability.