Pop Mart International Group Limited

Here Group Limited

MINISO Group Holding Limited

Labubu toys sold in surprise boxes are not the only ones causing excitement among buyers. Last year, the designer toy Wakuku appeared in China, and since March this year it has been sold in the Miniso chain. Buyers are also definitely queuing up for these dolls, and shares in QuantaSing, the company that owns the rights to Wakuku, are up more than 340% since the beginning of the year. Will they be able to disrupt the business of Pop Mart, the company that produces Labba? &nbsp;

Toy rally: who on the stock market will compete with the manufacturer Labooboo

Microsoft Corporation

Mira Murati - former CTO of OpenAI and co-founder of startup Thinking Machines Lab - raised $2 billion from investors in July. As <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-is-worth-12b-in-seed-round/">noted</a> by TechCrunch, this is one of the largest seed rounds of funding in Silicon Valley history. Thinking Machines Lab's total valuation has reached $12 billion - the company is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mira-murati-4b39a066/">less than a year old</a>, it hasn't brought a single product to market yet, and Murati hasn't even <a href="https://x.com/miramurati/status/1891918876029616494">told</a> much about what it's going to do yet, other than that it will be a new AI. Still,&nbsp; Thinking Machines Lab is one of the few startups that investors see as a real threat to leading AI modelers like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. Thinking Machines Lab is a level of credibility that many startups can only dream of. Let's try to understand how Albania-born Mira Murati achieved this and what she is going to shake up the market with.

Star on trust: how Mira Murati attracts investment in a startup without a product


NextEra Energy, Inc.

The Procter & Gamble Company

The Coca-Cola Company

The main index of the U.S. market, the S&amp;P 500, has been rising with little interruption since April this year. According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/stock-market-today-live-updates.html">CNBC data</a> at the end of last week, &nbsp;it has already set at least nine records this year, while the Nasdaq Composite has set ten.

Flight of the "red" swan and volatile August: should investors prepare for a collapse?

Heineken N.V.

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

Carlsberg A/S

Compania Cervecerias Unidas S.A.

Summer is traditionally a hot season for brewers. Just four months - from May through August - <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2022/6/6/myth-busting-beers-big-summer-sales-season">bring</a> up to 40% of companies' annual combined sales in the U.S. market: heat, festivals and holidays drive demand.&nbsp;

Hot season: how brewery stocks have become a defensive asset for 2025


Tesla, Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

A startup from China released a GPT-4 level model - what conclusions did the market draw? Gulf countries and China are turning sports into a global tool of influence. Will unmanned cabs win the car market? The most interesting in economists' blogs - in our review.&nbsp;

New AI from China, sports and diplomacy, the future of robotaxis: what was written about in blogs

Late on Wednesday night, July 9, famed technopreneur Ilon Musk <a href="https://x.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072">presented</a> Grok 4, not very modestly (which is pretty typical for Musk) called "the most powerful AI in the world." This could be considered just another stage of the endless <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/souz-zaklatyh-konkurentov-i-rekruting-za-14-mlrd-kak-nacalos-leto-v-sfere-ii">AI race</a>, in which all the leading technology companies are now taking a very active part. However, a number of related events suggest that for Ilon and his entire business empire, Grok is much more than just another AI model.

Musk and "the world's most powerful AI": why the billionaire is putting Grok at the center of his business

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Ilon Musk has announced the formation of a political party, can he succeed where dozens of politicians before him have failed? What U.S. President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Law initiative could be a step toward unconditional basic income? Why are tech giants building data centers on borrowed time? And finally, why have the number of parties and celebrations declined over the past 20 years? The most interesting things in economists' blogs - in our review.

Advice to Musk, Trump's baby bills, zero parties: highlights from economists' blogs

President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful” bill, signed into law last week, extends tax incentives for smaller companies through 2030.

How Trump’s “Big Beautiful” tax law changes the game for smaller companies



The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd.

Instead of panic and collapse - growth. Oninvest analyst Konstantin Gnenny analyzed how stocks traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange reacted to the escalation with Iran, and why some sectors soared, while others failed;

Israel's stock exchange during the war: how investors capitalized on the conflict with Iran

The first half of 2025 proved to be a roller coaster for small-cap investors. Exchange-traded funds investing in European and Asian small caps delivered strong returns, while U.S.-focused peers largely hovered around flat performance or slipped into the red.

Small-cap ETF outperformers and underperformers in 1H25: Non-U.S. DMs ascendant

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

SK hynix Inc.

Investors are undervaluing Samsung, says Ninety One Global Strategy, manager of one of the most profitable Asian equities funds in the world

Morningstar called Korean stocks the best bet in Asia and emerging markets

Classical economic theory is based on rational consumer behavior and does not suggest that emotions are sometimes a key driver of some decisions and events. But British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves' tears in the House of Commons last week precisely caused a nervous reaction from investors, who staged a £3 billion sell-off. Independent analyst Mikhail Zavaraev discusses what, setting aside emotions, an investor should pay attention to on the British market in the near future.

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