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2025/6/4
Whether it's DRAM for short-term data buffering or Flash for long-term data storage, memory has become an essential building block in electronic systems. This article introduces the two major categories of memory—volatile and non-volatile—and explains their respective characteristics and application scenarios. It concludes with an overview of prominent memory companies in Taiwan and around the world, analyzing their current production capacities as well as potential future trends and outlooks.
# Financial Lessons
# Stocks
# Fundamental Analysis
# Manufacturing Industry
Bridgewater Associates is one of the largest hedge funds in the world, renowned for its unique investment strategies and long-term, consistent performance. It holds a significant and influential position in the financial industry. This article shares the story behind Bridgewater’s founding, its investment approach, and the background of its founder, Ray Dalio. It also examines Bridgewater’s latest 13F filing to analyze its current holdings and infer its present investment outlook.
# Investment
On May 3rd of this year, Warren Buffett officially announced at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting that he will be retiring by the end of the year. He also named Greg Abel as his successor and the company’s next CEO. This article reviews Buffett’s investment philosophy and Berkshire Hathaway’s investment approach, while also briefly introducing the background of incoming CEO Greg Abel.
# Long-term Investment
# Investment Strategy
2025/3/17
Equity is a fundamental concept of business ownership that influences corporate governance, capital raising, and investment decisions. This article begins with the basics of equity, explaining how shareholders participate in a company’s operations through ownership. It outlines shareholders’ rights and obligations, including the right to profit distribution, voting rights, claims to residual assets, and access to company information. The article also explores various types of equity—such as common stock, preferred stock, and restricted shares—as well as the investment risks and responsibilities shareholders must bear. Through these discussions, readers gain a clearer understanding of how equity functions.
# Beginners Guide
# Taiwan
2025/2/20
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.
# Editor's Pick
2024/12/23
EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) is a widely used financial metric for assessing a company's core profitability, eliminating non-operational factors that may distort financial performance. This article explores the definition, formula, and advantages of EBITDA, along with practical applications. Additionally, the article discusses the limitations of EBITDA, including its exclusion of capital expenditures and comparability issues as a non-GAAP metric.
2024/10/18
FedWatch is a tool developed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to predict the probability of future rate hikes or cuts by the Federal Reserve. It calculates these probabilities based on the prices of "30-day Federal Funds" futures, offering insights into market expectations. The tool provides both short-term and long-term interest rate forecasts and includes the Fed officials’ dot plot to help analyze policy direction. With these features, investors can adjust their strategies in line with market expectations, preparing for potential rate changes in advance.
# Financial Tools
# Macroeconomics
# USA
# Central Bank
# Federal Reserve
Gold has a wide range of uses, including jewelry, industrial applications, central bank reserves, and private investment. Its strong hedging characteristics make it particularly appealing to investors as a store of value, especially during periods of inflation and economic instability. There are various ways to invest in gold, ranging from physical gold to gold ETFs, such as Yuanta S&P GSCI Gold ER Futures ETF (00635U) and SPDR Gold ETF (GLD).
# Financial Products
Recent volatility in global stock markets has intensified due to the Bank of Japan's interest rate hike, primarily driven by the yen's appreciation and the unwinding of large-scale carry trades. In a carry trade, investors borrow low-interest yen and invest in higher-yield assets like U.S. Treasuries or U.S. equities to earn a yield differential. However, the Bank of Japan's rate hike has pushed up the yen’s exchange rate, increasing both currency and liquidity risks. This has prompted investors to swiftly unwind their positions to repay yen loans, creating selling pressure in the market. This shift has reduced the attractiveness of carry trades and impacted market liquidity.
# Trading
# Japan
# Bank of Japan
# Monetary Policy
Nvidia's 1-for-10 stock split attracted market attention by making the stock more accessible to a broader range of investors. A stock split is a way to restructure a company's shares, adjusting the price per share while altering the total number of shares without changing the company's total market capitalization. Stock splits can be either forward or reverse. Forward splits reduce the share price, increase liquidity, and attract more investors, and reverse splits works vice versa. Although a stock split does not affect the company's intrinsic value, it can influence market psychology and investor behavior.
# Asset Management
