
Month: September 2020


SoftBank option purchases raise eyebrows as Wall Street backtracks
The trades were revealed just as Wall Street’s runaway technology-led rally was faltering. In August, SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son had announced a new investment management subsidiary that would park excess cash from a massive asset sale program in liquid stocks. In total, SoftBank injected roughly $4 billion building up stakes in Amazon.com Inc , Netflix Inc , Tesla Inc , Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc , according to regulatory filings. …read more […]

Goldman Sachs joins syndicate for Ant IPO of up to $30 billion – sources
Goldman Sachs has joined the growing list of investment banks working on Chinese financial technology firm Ant Group’s mammoth initial public offering of up to $30 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Ant, backed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group , plans to list simultaneously in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in what sources have said could be the world’s largest IPO and come as soon as October. Wall Street major Goldman Sachs has been hired as a joint lead manager on the Hong Kong leg of the IPO, said the people, who …read more […]

Etsy gets into S&P 500, Tesla does not
The decision by S&P Dow Jones Indices is a blow to Tesla investors who widely expected the company to join the benchmark stock index after a blockbuster quarterly report in July cleared a major hurdle for its potential inclusion. S&P Dow Jones Indices said in a statement it was adding online craft seller Etsy , semiconductor equipment maker Teradyne and pharmaceutical technology company Catalent to the S&P 500, effective Sept. 21, and removing H&R Block , Coty and Kohls . …read more […]


A Great Investor’s Greatest Mistake
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Tesla Shares Fall After Stock Was Not Added To The S&P 500
After showing a fourth straight quarter of profitability, many assumed Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) would be added to the S&P 500. After hitting this milestone, the electric vehicle maker qualified for entry into the index of the United State’s 500 largest companies.After the S&P 500 added Etsy Inc. (NASDAQ: ETSY), Teradyne Inc (NASDAQ: TER) and Catalent (NYSE: CTLT) on Friday evening, the lack of a Tesla announcement sent shares sinking. Meeting qualifications does not automatically mean a company will be added to the index, as a committee makes the final decision on which stocks to add each month.”It was viewed …read more […]

Two Reasons Bloomin’ Brands Yields Fat Profits
Last Friday I wrote to you about Bloomin’ Brands (Nasdaq: BLMN) when it was trading for around $14.
You could have bought it around that price all day Monday!
However, the next morning, two analysts upgraded Bloomin’ Brands, and the stock shot up to more than $16 per share.
War Room members were ready and jumped in for some fat profits. I hope you were able to jump in on Monday after reading my article!
If you did, cash out now!
Take a look at what members had to say about the trade…
“79% gain.” – Mccauley
“In at $1.24, out at $2.10 (69%).” – Russ M.
“Out …read more […]

Buffett's Berkshire slashes Wells Fargo stake
Berkshire said in a regulatory filing https://bit.ly/2Z9Kxml, it owned about 137.6 million shares, worth $3.4 billion, of the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets, down about 100 million from the end of June. Buffett began investing in Wells Fargo in 1989, but has been reducing Berkshire’s stake as the bank struggles to recover from a series of scandals over its treatment of customers, including the opening of accounts without their knowledge. Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday lowered its rating outlook on the bank to “negative” from “stable”, citing the bank’s slower-than-expected ability to resolve governance and oversight issues from …read more […]


A Great Investor’s Greatest Mistake
Warren Buffett is 90 years old, and he recently scored the biggest home run of his investing career.
It might be the most profitable stock market investment ever made.
Between 2016 and 2018, Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B), bought $35 billion worth of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) .
The average split-adjusted share price was around $35, which means Buffett now holds 1 billion Apple shares.
In 2020, that investment has paid off big.
Apple’s share price recently crossed $120.
Currently, Berkshire’s stake in Apple is now worth more than $120 billion.
I don’t believe that anyone in world history has ever made that much money on one …read more […]

A Great Investor’s Greatest Mistake
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Why Disney took calculated risk to release $200M 'Mulan' tentpole on Disney+
‘Mulan’ made its Disney+ debut for $30 on Friday. Here’s why Disney took the calculated risk to release the $200 million tentpole on its streaming service instead of in the theater. …read more […]

'Mulan' producer on boycott threats: 'I feel badly … the conversation turns to this’
The live-action remake of “Mulan” premiered on Disney’s streaming platform Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic and renewed calls for its boycott over the star’s support for Hong Kong’s police during pro-democracy protests. …read more […]

Berkshire Hathaway Slashes Stake in Troubled Lender Wells Fargo
(Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., once the biggest holder of Wells Fargo & Co. common stock, slashed its investment by more than 40% as the San Francisco-based lender copes with the aftermath of consumer-abuse scandals.Berkshire sold more than 100 million shares, trimming its stake in Wells Fargo common stock to about 3.3%, according to a regulatory filing Friday. A Wells Fargo spokesperson declined to comment.Berkshire, a long-time investor in the lender, has been trimming its bet in recent months, down to a stake valued at $3.4 billion based on Friday’s closing price. Wells Fargo is grappling with lingering …read more […]