Oil prices fell more than 1% on Monday after comments from a U.S. official stymied hopes that a U.S.-China trade deal would be reached soon, prompting renewed concern that a slowing global economy would reduce demand for oil.
Billionaire financial pioneer Charles Schwab, founder of The Charles Schwab Corporation, applauds millennials who are saving more than half of their income to prepare for retirement. …read more […]
Howard Marks put it nicely when he said that, rather than worrying about share price volatility, ‘The possibility of… …read more […]
Hedge funds are known to underperform the bull markets but that’s not because they are terrible at stock picking. Hedge funds underperform because their net exposure in only 40-70% and they charge exorbitant fees. No one knows what the future holds and how market participants will react to the bountiful news that floods in each […] …read more […]
We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through October 17th. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 45% and 39% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 34.4% this year and beat the S&P […] …read more […]
Halliburton Co on Monday promised more cost cuts after reporting a bigger-than-expected drop in quarterly revenue as the oilfield services looks to counter weak demand from North American shale producers, sending its shares up about 7%.
We can readily understand why investors are attracted to unprofitable companies. By way of example, Intellicheck… …read more […]
After several tireless days we have finished crunching the numbers from nearly 750 13F filings issued by the elite hedge funds and other investment firms that we track at Insider Monkey, which disclosed those firms’ equity portfolios as of June 28. The results of that effort will be put on display in this article, as […] …read more […]
Despite a surge last year, oil prices have been generally depressed since early 2015. The low prices have pushed down stock prices in the energy sector, which has paradoxically opened an opportunity for income investors.The energy sector’s production companies benefit from dealing in commodities – oil and gas – that are always in demand. They have high overhead, but they also have a ready market for the product and consequent strong cash positions. Low share prices are attractive to investors, and the companies have been following two strategies to boost their shares.First, they are simply buying back shares to support …read more […]
Wall Street kicked off the week on an upbeat note on Monday after the United States and China showed some signs of progress in resolving their trade war, but a fall in Boeing’s shares pressured the blue-chip Dow index.
General Dynamics, based in Falls Church, Virginia, is the country’s fifth biggest defense contractor. …read more […]
(Bloomberg) — After freezing out Rio Tinto Group for more than a decade for owning a highly polluting copper mine, one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds has brought the company back into the fold.Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund built a 1.4% stake in the world’s No. 2 miner by the end of September, according to Bloomberg data. That puts the fund among the top 10 holders of Rio Tinto shares, the data show.The investment demonstrates the value of meeting the increasingly aggressive environmental goals set by some of the largest money managers. Norway’s wealth fund is at the …read more […]
Four large drug companies reached a last-minute $260 million legal settlement over their role in the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic, averting the first federal trial that was scheduled to start Monday morning in Cleveland.
Czech-based Avast and Czech counterintelligence service BIS said on Monday they had detected a network attack on the cyber-security company which the BIS suspected of originating in China. Avast said in a blog post that it found suspicious behavior on its network on Sept. 23 and opened an investigation involving the BIS and Czech police along with an external forensics team. The BIS said in a statement that – with contribution from foreign partners – it detected a threat to products of Avast, a company founded in the Czech Republic. …read more […]
Yahoo Finance’s Rick Newman joins Brian Sozzi and Alexis Christoforous on The First Trade to discuss his interview with presidential hopeful Governor Bullock. …read more […]
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