Month: October 2019

The new financing will help stock Sears’ store shelves for the holiday shopping season, as it struggles to become profitable. Lampert is no stranger to bankrolling Sears, having extended loans through his hedge fund ESL Investments Inc to the department store chain over the past decade until its financial collapse last year. The new financing is backed by assets that include Sears’ real estate and intellectual property, the sources said. …read more […]

Investors can approximate the average market return by buying an index fund. While individual stocks can be big… …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — U.S. prosecutors aren’t done with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who figured prominently in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against Donald Trump’s campaign chairman.In what could be an offshoot of Mueller’s work, federal authorities are seeking records seized from a U.K. company associated with Deripaska, according to documents filed in a London court this week. As part of the previously undisclosed inquiry, U.S. authorities are seeking evidence of “money laundering, tax offenses and fraud offenses” from 18 individuals and companies including Terra Services Ltd., a real estate firm that until last year was controlled by Deripaska, the filings …read more […]

Warren Buffett famously said, ‘Volatility is far from synonymous with risk.’ When we think about how risky a company… …read more […]

While some investors are already well versed in financial metrics (hat tip), this article is for those who would like… …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street guessed that writedowns from Schlumberger Ltd. were coming, but some analysts were taken aback by the sheer size of the $12.7 billion in pretax charges reported by the oil services company on Friday.The company’s earnings report was its first since Chief Executive Officer Olivier Le Peuch took the reins in August. The writedowns led the company to post its largest net quarterly loss in at least a decade. Schlumberger said on its earnings conference call that the writedowns were part of the new CEO’s strategy.The size of the charges was “eyebrow-raising,” analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt …read more […]

Today we’ll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Pan American Silver… …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Johnson & Johnson is recalling one lot of its Johnson’s Baby Powder after tiny amounts of asbestos contamination were found in samples from a single bottle purchased online.J&J is voluntarily recalling the lot, 22318RB, and encouraging people who bought the product to discontinue use. The company said that it is working with the Food and Drug Administration, which tested the bottle, and has started an investigation into how and when the product was contaminated.J&J shares fell as much as 3.7% to $131.10 in early trading. The stock has been under pressure as investors try to ascertain the company’s …read more […]