Russell Burns

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The best and worst investments over the last six months

6 days ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

Let us guess: you’ve been on high alert lately. No wonder: the last six months have featured trade wars, real wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and a very public spat between the richest and most powerful people in the world, Elon Musk and the US president. That’s a lot for you (and your portfolio) to handle. At the same time, America’s erratic and unpredictable policies have shaken confidence in the US dollar, sending it down around 9% against a basket of currencies this year.
SoftBank’s dreaming up a trillion-dollar AI empire in the desert

1 week ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

1 day ago • 2 minsGet smarter in 3 minutes a dayJoin the newsletter that everyone in finance secretly reads. 1M+ subscribers, 100% free. What’s going on here? SoftBank’s looking to build a $1 trillion AI and robotics hub in the Arizona desert – and it wants TSMC and other firms to throw in some green. What does this mean? The ambitious plan (dubbed “Project Crystal Land”) would create a sprawling, China-style industrial complex, but in America.
What a weird six months it’s been in the markets

1 week ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

The first half of this year has been out of the ordinary, to say the least. After more than a decade of US market dominance, international stocks have charged ahead in the past six months to lead – and not by just a little. That’s had folks wondering whether this is merely a pause in US exceptionalism, or the start of something more permanent. And JPMorgan Private Bank’s just-released outlook for the rest of 2025 could help answer that burning question.
Netflix signed a deal with France’s biggest commercial broadcaster, bringing traditional TV into the streaming sphere

1 week ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

What’s going on here? Cancel your vacation plans, France: Netflix and TF1 signed a landmark deal, so you can spend next summer watching live sports and soaps on the streaming service. What does this mean? Thanks to streaming services like Netflix, folk can binge a whole series in one night… rather than counting down to 9pm every Wednesday for a measly 45 minutes of content. 📺 That’s stealing eyeballs from traditional TV.
Why Novo Nordisk’s slimmed down stock might be worth a… shot

1 week ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

8 days ago • 15 minsNovo Nordisk has been helping millions of people shed pounds – and putting on serious weight itself. Thanks to its wildly popular GLP-1 medicines for diabetes and obesity, the Danish pharma firm has become one of Europe’s biggest companies, with its shares rising at one point to nearly an 800% gain over just eight years. Now, that sounds like a sweet recipe, but lately, investors have put themselves on a bit of a Novo diet.
The UK’s betting big on mini nuclear reactors, aiming to fuel its homes and power-hungry AI future in one fission-powered move

2 weeks ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

What’s going on here? The UK just bought a fancy upscale fleet from Rolls-Royce – not luxury cars, but compact nuclear reactors. And in the current energy race, they’re the far more desirable model. What does this mean? After years of back-and-forth, Britain tapped the London-based Rolls-Royce to lead the charge on small modular reactors (SMRs) – mini-nuclear units that are faster and cheaper to build than the big old-school ones.
The European Central Bank made its eighth quarter-point interest rate cut in a year, as trade tensions weigh on the economy

3 weeks ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

about 1 hour ago • 2 minsGet smarter in 3 minutes a dayJoin the newsletter that everyone in finance secretly reads. 1M+ subscribers, 100% free. What’s going on here? The European Central Bank (ECB) punched its key interest rate down for the eighth time in the last year, dropping it another quarter-point to just 2%. What does this mean? Inflation’s cooled in Europe, and the ECB’s pretty confident it’ll stay that way. Policymakers expect prices to rise just 1.6% next year – safely below their 2% target.
How to invest like Buffett in Japan’s trading giants

3 weeks ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

Warren Buffett may be ready to give up the corner office at Berkshire Hathaway, but there are some things that the Oracle of Omaha just won’t part with. And that includes the five sprawling Japanese trading giants known as sogo sosha. While Buffett and Berkshire have been trimming their US stocks, they’ve held those Japanese trading companies close.
Carmakers are considering moving some auto-parts production to China

3 weeks ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

What’s going on here? US automakers are considering moving some of their supply chains to China, a long-way-round swerve to avoid the country’s export ban on rare earth magnets. What does this mean? China controls about 90% of the world’s rare earth metals – including dysprosium and terbium – which go into the high-powered magnets found in everything from EVs and fighter jets to AI chips and robots.
The US manufacturing sector slowed down for the third month in a row

3 weeks ago | finimize.com | Russell Burns

What’s going on here? The US factory sector slowed down in May, making it tougher for America to crank more growth off its assembly line. What does this mean? The “ISM manufacturing purchasers managers index” is a bit of a mouthful. But put simply, the survey measures activity levels in the manufacturing industry. And according to the index, there were a few feet resting on desks last month.