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Though the risk-on attitude that has emerged in the back half of 2024 has lifted the stock market to new all-time highs, not every major growth stock has been a beneficiary. Investors still seem to be chasing companies with true AI tailwinds, and Analyst’s Disclosure: I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, and no plans to initiate any such positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. Seeking Alpha's Disclosure: Past performance is no guarantee of future results. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. Any views or opinions expressed above may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha as a whole. Seeking Alpha is not a licensed securities dealer, broker or US investment adviser or investment bank. Our analysts are third party authors that include both professional investors and individual investors who may not be licensed or certified by any institute or regulatory body.They were accused of 'ruining people's lives'...but what do people think now?December 30 - Former Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson returns to San Francisco on Monday, leading the red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers, owners of the NBA's best record, into a showdown with the host Warriors. Atkinson, in his first season at the helm for Cleveland, spent three seasons working alongside Golden State head coach Steve Kerr, including in the Warriors' 2021-22 championship-winning campaign. Atkinson introduced a high-tempo offensive approach in Cleveland akin to Golden State's signature style, and it has paid immediate dividends for the Cavaliers. They come into Golden State on a six-game winning streak and winners in 10 of 11 after opening a four-game, Western Conference road swing on Friday with a 149-135 win over the Denver Nuggets. The 149 points marked the season high for a Cleveland offense producing 122.7 points per game, second-most in the league. Friday's victory also showcased the Cavaliers' scoring balance, with Donovan Mitchell's 33 points leading four players who notched at least 22. Mitchell's 23.6 points per game lead Cleveland, Darius Garland is putting up 20.6 ppg, and Evan Mobley is averaging 18.8. A key to Cleveland's potent offense -- and a quality similar to that of the Golden State teams which Atkinson coached -- has been the Cavaliers' 3-point shooting. They hit 23 triples in Denver and head into Monday's contest making 16.3 attempts per game. "Don't leave me open. Don't leave nobody open on our team," Mobley told Cleveland.com. "(With) the depth of our team, everybody can shoot. Also, our shot quality is one of the tops so we're not just forcing 3s, we're taking the good ones night in and night out." That shot quality shows up in Cleveland averaging a league-leading 40.9 percent from beyond the arc. Golden State comes into Monday's contest not far behind Cleveland in 3-pointers made per game with 15, but the Warriors' percentage lingers around the middle of the NBA at 36.2. Two-time Most Valuable Player Steph Curry is shooting 40.6 percent from outside, but his 4.2 made per game are on pace to be his fewest in a full season since 2017-18. But with Curry averaging a team-leading 22.5 points per game, Golden State is seeking more scoring options to step up alongside him in the Warriors' push for the postseason. Following the Warriors' 109-105 win over Phoenix on Saturday that put them above .500 after a stretch losing six of seven, Draymond Green told reporters that Golden State is looking for more contributions from Buddy Hield in particular. "We need Buddy Hield to play great, we need Buddy Hield to make shots," Green said. "It's simple. We're 16-15. We don't love this. So do we just keep doing the same thing and sit back on our hands, 'Oh, it's going to change at some point.' Or do we make a change?" Hield went from Philadelphia to Golden State in an offseason trade and is scoring 12.9 points per game while shooting almost 40 percent from behind the arc. Jonathan Kuminga has provided offensive punch for Golden State in the last two outings, improving his season scoring average to 16.7 ppg with back-to-back 34-point efforts on Friday against the Clippers and in the win over Phoenix. "This is exactly what we're looking for, and it's fun to see him deliver," Kerr said of Kuminga. --Field Level Media Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tab

Women will for the first time make up a majority of state legislators in Colorado and New Mexico next year, but at least 13 states saw losses in female representation after the November election, according to a count released Thursday by the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. While women will fill a record number of state legislative seats in 2025, the overall uptick will be slight, filling about a third of legislative seats. Races in some states are still being called. “We certainly would like to see a faster rate of change and more significant increases in each election cycle to get us to a place where parity in state legislatures is less novel and more normal,” said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the CAWP, which is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. As of Wednesday, at least 2,450 women will serve in state legislatures, representing 33.2% of the seats nationwide. The previous record was set in 2024 with 2,431 women, according to the CAWP. The number of Republican women, at least 851, will break the previous record of 815 state lawmakers set in 2024. “But still, Republican women are very underrepresented compared to Democratic women,” Debbie Walsh, director of the CAWP, said. By the most recent count, 19 states will have increased the number of women in their state legislatures, according to the CAWP. The most notable increases were in New Mexico and Colorado, where women will for the first time make up a majority of lawmakers. In New Mexico, voters sent an 11 additional women to the chambers. Colorado had previously attained gender parity in 2023 and is set to tip over to a slight female majority in the upcoming year. The states follow Nevada , which was the first in the country to see a female majority in the legislature following elections in 2018. Next year, women will make up almost 62% of state lawmakers in Nevada, far exceeding parity. Women in California’s Senate will make up the chamber’s majority for the first time in 2025 as well. Women also made notable gains in South Dakota, increasing its total number by at least nine. At least 13 states emerged from the election with fewer female lawmakers than before, with the most significant loss occurring in South Carolina. Earlier this year, the only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries after they stopped a total abortion ban from passing. Next year, only two women, who are Democrats, will be in the 46-member Senate. No other state in the country will have fewer women in its upper chamber, according to the CAWP. Women make up 55% of the state’s registered voters. Half the members in the GOP dominated state were elected in 2012 or before, so it will likely be the 2040s before any Republican woman elected in the future can rise to leadership or a committee chairmanship in the chamber, which doles out leadership positions based on seniority. A net loss of five women in the legislature means they will make up only about 13% of South Carolina's lawmakers, making the state the second lowest in the country for female representation. Only West Virginia has a smaller proportion of women in the legislature. West Virginia stands to lose one more women from its legislative ranks, furthering its representation problem in the legislature where women will make up just 11% of lawmakers. Many women, lawmakers, and experts say that women's voices are needed in discussions on policy—especially at a time when state government is at its most powerful in decades. Walsh, director of the CAWP, said the new changes expected from the Trump administration will turn even more policy and regulation to the states. The experiences and perspectives women offer will be increasingly needed, she said, especially on topics related to reproductive rights, healthcare, education, and childcare . RELATED STORY: 'Pro-family' GOP speaker doesn't want new moms to vote in Congress “The states may have to pick up where the federal government may, in fact, be walking away,” Walsh said. “And so who serves in those institutions is more important now than ever.”