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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2025

Dear Mr. Market

Historically, this bracket has been dominated by the tech sector, but after years of outsized gains, big tech valuations are stretched. Amazons AWS is still the leader in cloud services, and its growth in advertising, e-commerce, and other sectors makes it a highly diversified growth machine.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

And, and I know it sounds a little bit like an advertisement, but I really believe that, Barry Ritholtz : Well the the next question, the obvious question is, who are the clients? We have a very robust economy. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with the modern economy. We have that, those options as well. Are they households?

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

Alright, Barry Ritholtz : So you end up at what could be my favorite advertisement, which was the EF Hutton ads. And then number three is gonna be sentiment and valuation. Now, sometimes people say sentiment and valuation, why are they together? So, so valuation is going to reflect sentiment.

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Monday links: investing wisely

Abnormal Returns

hunterwalk.com) Safe Superintelligence is raising capital at a $30 billion valuation. theatlantic.com) Economy Don't let big, scary numbers fool you. axios.com) A sign that 2024's economy wasn't as strong as it looked. businessinsider.com) Big 'trend reports' are just corporate advertising. They can be overused.

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Friday links: the most important investing skill

Abnormal Returns

ft.com) Startups How unicorns are dealing with the decline in valuations. theinformation.com) The bloom is off the 'passion economy' rose? ft.com) Economy Existing home sales plunged in December. stayathomemacro.substack.com) Earlier on Abnormal Returns Podcast links: the advertising downshift.

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Investors pivot to value stocks amid tech rout

Nationwide Financial

The tech sector faces fierce headwinds from a strong dollar, compressing margins, and weaker advertising growth, which is often considered a leading indicator of recessionary headwinds. Massive capital expenditures and dwindling advertising revenue are finally catching up as recessionary headwinds approach. billion last year.

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R K Swamy IPO Review – Financials, GMP and More

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Today, it is run by promoters Srinivasan and Narasimhan Swamy, who have 4 to 5 decades of experience in the advertising and marketing services industry. This increase was supported by growth in marketing spending of Indian corporates, a rise in the revenue of companies, and an increase in the gross domestic output in the economy.