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2025/2/25
Unlike traditional computers, quantum computers can accomplish complicated problems in much shorter time. This article explains quantum computing' key principles: quantum superposition and quantum entanglement ,and further exploring current technological advancements, potential future applications, and existing challenges. As quantum computing technology progresses, it is expected to drive breakthroughs in cryptography, material science, financial analysis, and artificial intelligence. However, realizing the full potential of quantum computing still faces significant technical challenges. Despite these hurdles, quantum computing is on the path to transforming various industries in the near future.
# Investment
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# Editor's Pick
2025/2/20
With its unique data integration and security technologies, Palantir has emerged as a rising AI-driven stock. Rising as a leader in AI and big data analytics, Palantir continues to expand from government defense contracts into the private sector. This article analyzes Palantir’s growth trajectory, business model, and operations, along with its future prospects and potential risks. With the strategy of "Acquire, Expand, Scale", Palantir has built a highly customized market advantage, driving revenue growth. Palantir’s core platforms, Gotham and Foundry, serve as its primary services, managed by Apollo as the backend system. Additionally, it is actively developing AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) to enhance AI-driven decision-making for its clients.
# Stocks
# Fundamental Analysis
Unlike its intuitive meaning, goodwill in accounting refers to a key item that reflects a company’s value during a merger or acquisition (M&A). It represents a company’s intangible assets and signifies the acquiring firm's recognition of the target company's brand, customer relationships, and market position. This article provides an in-depth analysis of goodwill’s critical role in M&A, explaining its underlying significance, calculation methods, and impact on financial statements. Finally, it illustrates these concepts with the well-known case of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram.
# Beginners Guide
# Financial Lessons
2025/2/10
Changes in liquidity are one of the key factors influencing the market. Understanding the flow of funds within the financial system helps identify the underlying drivers of asset price movements. This article explains how to analyze liquidity by examining the balance sheet of the world’s largest liquidity creator—the U.S. Federal Reserve. By tracking changes in monetary policy operations and liquidity supply, we can assess their potential impact on financial markets. From assets to liabilities, the article breaks down key balance sheet components and then use critical indicators to evaluate current market liquidity conditions.
# Macroeconomics
# Macroeconomic Data
# fiisual lab
2025/1/10
This article primarily shares the new features released by ChatGPT in December 2024, organized into five key areas for review and discussion: Release of New Models and Plans, Developer Optimization, Innovation and Feature Enhancements, New ChatGPT Features, Collaboration with Apple, Additional Features. With these releases, OpenAI has demonstrated even greater AI capabilities, showing its vision not only to assist individuals in solving challenges in daily life but also to evolve AI into an independent-thinking assistant. Moving forward, there is a need to further consider how to balance company profitability with technological innovation for humanity.
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SoIC (System-on-Integrated-Chips) is a high-density 3D stacking packaging technology developed by TSMC, leveraging through-silicon vias (TSV) and hybrid bonding to enable higher performance and lower power consumption in chip designs. SoIC holds significant potential for applications in artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and autonomous driving. As production capacity continues to expand, SoIC is projected to become a mainstream next-generation semiconductor packaging technology.
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# Manufacturing Industry
2023/9/28
An ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) is an index fund that combines the characteristics of both funds and stocks: pooling money from multiple investors into one investment (fund) while being tradable on the secondary market (stocks). ETFs can be broadly categorized into security-based, leveraged and inverse, and commodity futures types. Due to their dual nature as both funds and stocks, ETFs also have their corresponding fees.
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# Financial Products
# ETFs
2023/9/5
The Federal Reserve sets "monetary policy" through FOMC meetings to achieve its dual mandate of stability. The well-known actions of raising and lowering interest rates are part of this process, aimed at controlling the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) using various FOMC tools. Traditionally, these tools include Open Market Operations, the Discount Window, and Required Reserve Ratios. However, additional tools have evolved over time such as Quantitative Easing (QE), Interest on Reserve Balances (IORB), and the Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreement (ON RRP). This article will introduce each of these tools in detail, explaining their specific functions and impacts.
# Central Bank
# Federal Reserve
# Monetary Policy
# Inflation
# Employment
In addition to influencing interest rates through monetary policy, the Federal Reserve’s reports also frequently have a significant impact on the market. Common reports include the Federal Open Market Committee Statement, FOMC Meeting Minutes, Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), Beige Book, and the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS). There are also more frequently updated reports such as the Balance Sheet (H.4.1) and the Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks (H8). These reports provide diverse insights, allowing for market interpretation from various perspectives and revealing the real thoughts of scholars, experts, and Fed officials on the economy.
Since dividends represent a company returning its earnings to shareholders in the form of cash or stock, simply looking at the ex-dividend historical price won’t provide us the true return on a stock investment. By using “adjusted stock price”, investors would be able to know the historical return on a stock through the stock price directly.
