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Bill Gates has put his bets on Bud Light's comeback after the tech mogul bought 1.7million worth of shares from the disgraced brand's parent company. The Microsoft founder, 67, acquired the Bud Light shares via his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust during the second quarter of this year. The shares hold a market value of approximately $95 million, reports TipRanks. His investment comes as Anheuser-Busch Companies are still reeling from the effects of their partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney on April 1. The videos and images posted by her caused nationwide boycotts of the beer. This is not...

Facebook’s mini-crash — the company’s stock is down over 13% in three days — is a reminder that even red-hot FAANG stocks can fall. Facebook FB, -0.08% took the stairs up and the elevator down. Did the Facebook shock just offer a glimpse into stock market future? Read on, and I’ll explain. Mean reversion Let’s not forget that Facebook’s stock is still up 865% since its 2012 low. For most of the past five years, Facebook has been trending higher in a well-defined trend channel. Let’s call this the “mean.” In July 2017, Facebook jumped above the trend channel and...

Twin Cities home sales for May were down from a year ago, as the housing inventory continued its record growth, the local Realtors associations reported Monday. There were 5,039 closed home sales in May in the 13-county metro area. That is down 9.3 percent from a year ago, but up 28.6 percent from April. The median sales price rose 1.1 percent to $230,000 in May, compared to $227,501 a year earlier. There were 5,749 pending sales in May, down 14.5 percent from 6,726 a year ago. New listings continued to soar in May, jumping 16.6 percent to 11,419. Following several...

In case you have been living in a cave, the business news talking heads have been prognosticating a burt to the housing bubble. Set aside your opinions for a moment and lets work a thought exercise. So, lets assume that there is a housing bubble and that it is going to burts. 1) What would be the key pre-indicators that would signal a price downturn. 2) How could a person capitalize on the price bust during the start of the fall? 3) What can be done with other less liquid assets to protect them from any such burts? Would you...