To say this year has been huge for investors is an understatement.
Stock prices are near a record. The unrelenting AI boom has cemented Nvidia (NVDA) as a $5 trillion giant. Bitcoin is going mainstream and hitting new heights, though a recent pullback has rattled some bulls. Corporate America has its first $1 trillion compensation package — I am looking at you, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk.
While asset markets have feasted on the AI theme and interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, the US economy has been mixed at best. That is, prior to investors losing weeks of precious economic data at the hands of the longest government shutdown in history.
Enter your friends at Yahoo Finance.
Today, the Yahoo Finance team is excited to unveil the next chapter of Invest, its annual marquee event. The team decided early on that we wanted to reinvent Invest, moving to a true global digital event.
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Every month, Yahoo Finance reaches over 150 million investors around the world. Readers use the platform to consume investing and business content, from videos and podcasts to written stories, and use our incredible data to better their financial lives. We wake up every day trying to help this audience.
So we’re starting live at 8 a.m. ET today with Invest, right from our New York City studio headquarters. Invest has taken over Yahoo Finance homepages globally, our app, our social and streaming channels, and broadcast.
I want to know what top leaders are thinking about on Musk’s pay package, the future of crypto, the AI outlook for 2025 — in addition to 500 other things!
A small sampling of what you will see from us throughout the day.
Yahoo Finance Invest: The BIG conversations
Topic: Crypto explosion and the retail investor
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Michael J. Saylor, executive chairman, Strategy (MSTR)
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Arjun Sethi, co-CEO, Kraken
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Vlad Tenev, chairman, CEO, co-founder, and president, Robinhood (HOOD)
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Eric Trump, co-founder and chief strategy officer, American Bitcoin (ABTC); executive vice president, The Trump Organization
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Asher Genoot, CEO, Hut 8 (HUT); executive chairman, American Bitcoin
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Yoni Assia, co-founder and CEO, eToro (ETOR)
Topic: Artificial intelligence boom
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Dan Ives, managing director and global head of technology research, Wedbush Securities
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Eric Jackson, founder, president, and portfolio manager, EMJ Capital
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Max Levchin, founder and CEO, Affirm (AFRM)
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Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies (PLTR)
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Alexis Ohanian, co-founder, Reddit (RDDT); founder, 776
Topic: Economy and markets: What’s next
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Lael Brainard, distinguished fellow, Georgetown University Psaros Center; director, National Economic Council (2023-25); vice chair, Federal Reserve Board (2022-23)
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Jeffrey Smith, managing member, CEO, and chief investment officer, Starboard Value
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Albert Bourla, DVM, PhD, chairman and CEO, Pfizer (PFE)
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Daymond John, CEO, The Shark Group
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Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Air Lines (DAL)
Topic: Investing and personal finance: How to make sense of it all
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Anne B. Walsh, managing partner and chief investment officer, Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, Guggenheim Partners
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Robert F. Smith, founder, chairman, and CEO, Vista Equity Partners
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Ted Leonsis, founder, chairman, and CEO, Monumental Sports
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Gargi Chaudhuri, chief investment and portfolio strategist for the Americas, iShares BlackRock (BLK)
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Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP
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Keith Lerner, chief investment officer, Truist
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Caleb Silver, editor in chief, Investopedia
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Dan Dolev, senior analyst, Mizuho Securities
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Mark Palmer, analyst, The Benchmark Company
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John D’Agostino, head of strategy, Coinbase (COIN) Institutional
The finer details
Invest will also include:
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Streaming live on Yahoo Finance UK, Yahoo Finance Australia, Yahoo Finance Taiwan, and Yahoo Finance Canada.
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An early afternoon investing education seminar hosted by Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre and Trader Talk podcast host Kenny Polcari.
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Live interaction with the Yahoo Finance community across Yahoo Finance and our social channels.
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Special partnership announcements from Yahoo Finance.
Every place where you can watch us is listed here. You can also watch us on desktop and on the Yahoo Finance app.
Speaking of interaction with the Yahoo Finance community, we’ve begun asking for questions from YOU for our Invest guests! Simply head to our community page to submit your questions.
I’ve loved the early round of questions from our community, so please keep them coming throughout the day. Yahoo Finance’s Allie Canal will be running point on getting your questions on the airwaves, especially those submitted on TikTok!
I’m blown away by what our teams have been able to execute with Invest while continuing to operate a first-class platform each day. I thank them for all their awesome efforts, and thank you, as always, for the support each and every day. Both mean a lot!
Brian Sozzi is Yahoo Finance’s Executive Editor and a member of Yahoo Finance’s editorial leadership team. Follow Sozzi on X @BrianSozzi, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Tips on stories? Email brian.sozzi@yahoofinance.com.
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