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The article discusses the challenges of the stock market, particularly the difficulty of identifying winners and losers, and introduces ETFs as a risk diversification tool.
Investors can gain a lot in the stock market. Would you like an example? Anyone who had invested in the search engine operator's shares when Google went public and stayed with them until today would have made 160 times their money today. So just buy any stock and wait? Investing is not that easy after all.
In this episode we will discuss how exactly you approach the stock market. We explain how difficult it is to identify winners and losers in the stock market and also discuss how you can better spread your risk with ETFs. The great thing about investing: It's rarely too late to go public. But there are other reasons why stocks might be too risky for you right now. We'll explain that to you too.

Anthropic is targeting a valuation of more than $2 trillion in a planned initial public offering despite a net loss of $42 billion in 2025. The company plans massive investments in cloud and computing infrastructure of $518 billion and sees its revenue growing 12-fold to nearly $4.6 billion in 2025. At the same time, the company warns of the dangers posed by increasingly autonomous AI models.
According to the Handelsblatt report, the federal government is considering preventing the sale of the Hamburg freight forwarder Konrad Zippel to the Chinese state-owned company Cosco due to security concerns and the risk of strategic dependencies. A final ban has not yet been decided, but the authorities are moving towards it.

The Mainz-based company is closing three beach resorts and laying off 1,800 employees. The Tübingen plant is particularly in focus, where hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money were burned.

Biontech is reducing its German locations and cutting around 1,800 jobs after the end of the corona vaccine boom. At the same time, the federal government is selling its Biontech shares for around 130 million euros while trying to prevent the Chinese company Cosco from taking over the Hamburg logistics company Zippel in order to minimize geopolitical risks.

The fees for using the electricity transmission network in Germany will rise by 20 to 30 percent from 2027 due to the planned federal subsidy cut from 6.5 to 5.525 billion euros and increasing investments by network operators. The costs are passed on to all electricity consumers, with large consumers being burdened more heavily than private households.

Goldman Sachs' board of directors is considering the appointment of John Waldron to replace CEO David Solomon, according to the Wall Street Journal. The change could take place at the end of 2025 or 2028. Solomon would go on to become executive chairman. Waldron is currently COO and president at Goldman Sachs and has long been considered a possible successor.