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23d06/03

Sp500 biggest 100 years of structural changes

A lot of people treat the S&P 500 like it is a passive, mathematical law of nature. It isn't. It is an actively managed, rules-based product run by a committee, and they change the rules whenever the market threatens to break their methodology. Right now in mid-2026, they are quietly rewriting the rulebook to accommodate the incoming wave of massive IPOs like SpaceX and Anthropic. I wanted to break down exactly what is happening now, and rank the most impactful structural changes the index has m

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23d06/03⚠ war-conflict · 1/5

Avoid Trade Republic! They're blocking my portfolio transfer and support gives conflicting information

I’m based in Spain and I’m currently trying to transfer my securities positions from Trade Republic to another broker. However, I’ve run into a complete lack of clarity from support, and I’m trying to understand if anyone else has experienced the same issue. So far, I’ve received multiple conflicting explanations from support agents: First, I was told I could initiate the transfer directly from the app Then I was told that Spanish accounts don’t support outgoing position transfers, which is why

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23d06/03

Trump says Vance and Rubio teaming up for 2028 run would be unbeatable

US President ⁠Donald Trump said ⁠in a podcast interview aired on Wednesday that Vice-President J.D. Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, teaming up for a 2028 presidential run, would be ‌unbeatable. Both men are seen as contenders for the 2028 Republican nomination, and Rubio’s recent turn at the White House podium drew praise from Republicans and even some Democrats who noted his smooth performance, which included quips and ⁠a 1990s hip-hop reference to describe Iran’s negotiating...

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23d06/03⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

Britain’s Borrowing Outlook Darkens as Energy Shock Deepens

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned that government borrowing is set to spike as a result of the Iran war, as the Office for Budget Responsibility admitted it had underestimated the effects of the last energy price shock. In a review of its forecasting models, the OBR suggested it had learned lessons from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which led to gas prices rising by around five times. It said the overall impact on public finances “was to significantly increase government borrow

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23d06/03

Past a certain savings threshold, there's no need to keep your emergency fund / home savings out of the stock market

Contentious statement I know but hear me out. Say you want to maintain a $20,000 emergency fund and a $100,000 reserve for a down payment on a home in a year or two. The conventional advice is to put this in a high yield savings account or some similar financial instrument. However, over a certain threshold of savings, this isn't necessary anymore. On average you will be losing out of potential gains from the market, and even if there was a catastrophic crash, provided you held a diversified por

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23d06/03

BYD, am I right in thinking there’s potential here?

TLDR: BYD is doing a lot of the right things, they are a sleeper stock and should be greatly considered. Count how many BYD cars you see today. BYD: A Long-Term Investment Thesis Introduction I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about BYD. When I look at the automotive industry, I struggle to find many genuinely new companies that have broken into established markets. The car industry is one of the hardest to enter. Building a good car is difficult. Building millions is harder. Building dealerships

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23d06/03

MTR Corp boss Jacob Kam elected chairman of Hong Kong’s largest business chamber

The non-executive chairman of Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has been elected as the new head of the city’s largest business chamber for a one-year term. Jacob Kam Chak-pui, 64, took over as chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday following an election among members, expressing “strong confidence” in the city’s economic development. Kam, previously the chamber’s vice-chairman, said he believed the market outlook was rebounding as the global macroeconomic...

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23d06/03⚠ war-conflict · 4/5

Iraq Targets 770,000 bpd Through Ceyhan as Southern Output Climbs Back

Iraq has restarted production at some of its most important oil fields, including West Qurna 1, Majnoon and Fauqi, lifting national output back to roughly 1.5-1.6 million barrels per day after the collapse triggered by the Hormuz crisis, according to IraqiNews. Iraq has spent the past three months confronting a dangerous economic oil dependency caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the rebound still keeps Iraq far below the more than 4 million bpd Iraq was producing before the regio

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23d06/03

FBI kill man holding hostages in California after 12-hour standoff following bomb threat

A man holding hostages inside a building in California that houses a bank branch and school district office has been shot and killed by the FBI, police said on Wednesday. The suspect was killed in “an officer-involved shooting involving Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel”, the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement. The stand-off ended about 12 hours after police were called to the building, police said. All the hostages are free and none was harmed, police said. The stand-off.

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23d06/03

Interesting How AI Investing Is Slowly Turning Into An Infrastructure Trade

The more I look at these mega private-company valuations, the less this feels like a traditional tech cycle. It increasingly looks like an infrastructure race. SpaceX is satellites, launch systems and communications infrastructure. OpenAI is compute infrastructure and enterprise AI layers. Anthropic is enterprise workflow automation and AI agents. Databricks is data infrastructure. Stripe is internet payments infrastructure. Even the funding structures are changing. Reuters noted the SpaceX IPO

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23d06/03

Kenya health minister says US Ebola quarantine centre will proceed despite deadly protests

Kenya’s health minister said on Wednesday that the US-funded quarantine centre would proceed, days after deadly protests erupted over the project. The US-built facility at Kenya’s Laikipia Air Base was due to open last week, according to US officials, to quarantine Americans arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is battling a major Ebola outbreak. But it has been temporarily blocked by a court order, and triggered protests on Monday that killed two people, according to a...

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23d06/03⚠ war-conflict · 1/5

Refinance KFW repayment?

Hello, as a last resort I unfortunately had to apply for a KFW student loan and have a very large amount to pay back. Interest rates were wonderful before the pandemic, but now they are outrageous. I have to reduce my monthly payment to the minimum (€190), most of which is interest. Do you have experience with debt restructuring? Are there banks that give a loan with a sum of around 25k for debt restructuring, then with a better interest rate? I also pay off student loans and

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