Month: December 2019

In today’s political discourse, there’s a major focus on wealth and poverty. Are socialist policies the answer to economic inequality?
Nicholas Vardy examines Argentina’s success (and failure) to find out.

“Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana, Philosopher
The secret to economic prosperity is no secret at all.
Start with the rule of law, respect for property rights and low taxes. Support them with a stable, commercially minded government… And you have a fail-safe recipe for prosperity.
As recently as the 1960s, the “Asian Tigers” – Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong – were dirt-poor.
In 1960, Singapore had …read more […]

Activist firm discloses new holding in medical device company Continue reading… …read more […]

U.S. and China trade negotiators are reportedly planning to delay tariffs that are set to go into effect on December 15th, but it turns out the market may have already priced it in. Paul Schatz, Heritage Capital President, joins Yahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro, Julie Hyman and Rick Newman to discuss. …read more […]

Stitch Fix reported earnings the stock is up and even before this report, it’s gained 46% so far this year. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Roberts, Scott Gamm and Anjalee Khemlani discuss on YFi AM. …read more […]

We can readily understand why investors are attracted to unprofitable companies. For example, biotech and mining… …read more […]

The financial regulations require hedge funds and wealthy investors that exceeded the $100 million equity holdings threshold to file a report that shows their positions at the end of every quarter. Even though it isn’t the intention, these filings to a certain extent level the playing field for ordinary investors. The latest round of 13F […] …read more […]

Looking for stocks with high upside potential? Just follow the big players within the hedge fund industry. Why should you do so? Let’s take a brief look at what statistics have to say about hedge funds’ stock picking abilities to illustrate. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index returned approximately 26% in 2019 (through November 22nd). Conversely, hedge […] …read more […]

While the market driven by short-term sentiment influenced by the accomodative interest rate environment in the US, increasing oil prices and deteriorating expectations towards the resolution of the trade war with China, many smart money investors kept their cautious approach regarding the current bull run in the third quarter and hedging or reducing many of […] …read more […]

Before we spend days researching a stock idea we like to take a look at how hedge funds and billionaire investors recently traded that stock. Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) lagged the larger S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 10 percentage points since the end of the third quarter of 2018. This means hedge funds […] …read more […]

Boeing Co delivered less than half as many planes in the first eleven months of 2019 as in the same period a year earlier, the planemaker said on Tuesday, as it continued to struggle with the grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX jets. After an accounting adjustment, Boeing’s net total for orders this year improved marginally to -84 airplanes from -95 a month earlier. The orders included what Boeing called a “conversion” by China Aircraft Leasing Group of 8 MAX orders into two 787 Dreamliners. …read more […]

Wall Street pays attention when David Tepper makes an investment move. Tepper started out his career as a credit analyst with Goldman Sachs in the 1980s, diving right away into risky bonds and other distressed debt assets. Older financial hands noticed that Tepper was right more than he was wrong with this gutsy strategy, and brought in yielded high returns for the firm.Tepper earned a reputation as a go-getter who was not afraid to take hair-raising chances. When he parted ways with Goldman Sachs in 1992, he took that attitude with him when hefounded Appaloosa Management the next year.Starting with …read more […]

Penny stocks have a low barrier to entry. For a few dollars you can buy a stake in multiple companies. Although, they can be hard to track down. That’s why we’ve put together a list of penny stocks.
The list below offers high risk-to-reward investment opportunities. Some of the stocks might double or even triple your money in little time. But with that opportunity comes downside risk. I’ll cover the risk and reward in more detail below, but first, here’s a list of the top penny stocks.
Top Penny Stocks List of 20 Companies
*Stock data from December 6, 2019

Ticker
Market Cap
Price
Exchange

GSAT
$679 million
$0.467
NYSEAmerican

UEC
$179 million
$0.982
NYSEAmerican

MDR
$140 …read more […]

Even when a business is losing money, it’s possible for shareholders to make money if they buy a good business at the… …read more […]