Between AI-powered travel planning, a long-term global flights partnership, aggressive buybacks, and strong international growth, Booking Holdings is quietly positioning itself for something bigger than most investors notice at first glance.

Markets have been very slowly climbing a wall of worry over the past few weeks.

Whether its folly or prescience, markets continue to climb a wall of worry, effectively looking through tariffs and other risk factors that could threaten the bullish trend. But the broad trend from a global perspective remains positive.

Buy and hold investing is all about purchasing stocks that are built to last.