In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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Rare-earth elements are used in a variety of modern devices and applications: magnets in small and large motors; glass additives and glass polishing compounds; rechargeable batteries; television and computer screens; lighting; X-ray machines; and lasers.
MP and the Saudi Arabian Mining Co., also known as Ma’aden, have signed an agreement with to explore opportunities to establish a fully integrated, end-to-end rare earth supply chain.
Ma’aden is the Middle East’s largest multi-commodity mining and metals firm and stands among the world’s fastest growing, with $8.7 billion in revenues for 2024.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on the sideline of the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum 2025, taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ma’aden and MP aim to explore opportunities to jointly develop a vertically integrated rare earth supply chain in Saudi Arabia, including the mining of deposits across Saudi Arabia, separation, refining, and magnet production. MP Materials is a buy.
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