Month: September 2020

(Bloomberg) — SoftBank Group Corp. slid as much as 7.1% Wednesday, taking losses to about 14% this week after the Japanese conglomerate made substantial bets on equity derivatives in tech stocks before a broad sector selloff.The Japanese company touched a low of 5,432 yen in Tokyo morning trade. It has shed roughly $17 billion of market value since Monday as SoftBank’s big bets on high-flying tech stocks from Amazon.com Inc. to Alphabet Inc. spooked investors.Investors are grappling with recent market turbulence, assessing whether the pullback for equities is a sign of market health or the start of a larger drawdown …read more […]

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We at Insider Monkey have plowed through 823 13F filings that hedge funds and well-known value investors are required to file by the SEC. The 13F […] …read more […]

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(Bloomberg) — High-yield bond default rates may double as companies struggle with a protracted economic downturn even as the Federal Reserve props up valuations, said Jeffrey Gundlach.The investment grade corporate debt market has skewed toward lower quality BBB- rated debt, but if just 50% of that were to be downgraded it could fuel a near doubling of the high-yield market, Gundlach said Tuesday on a webcast for his firm’s flagship DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund.Gundlach’s views reflect broad skepticism about the market’s connection to economic realities. He criticized the Fed’s emergency actions as buoying asset prices and spurring unsustainable corporate …read more […]

(Bloomberg Opinion) — As investors fret over whether high-flying technology stocks have gotten too frothy, the recent volatility isn’t scaring away Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — at least not when it comes to getting in on the ground floor of what may be one of the year’s most sought-after tech IPOs. Yes, you read that correctly.Snowflake Inc., a fast-growing cloud-software and data-warehousing company, filed an amended offering prospectus Tuesday that revealed Berkshire will buy roughly $250 million of Snowflake shares at its IPO price and an additional 4 million shares from another stockholder. The two transactions add up to …read more […]

On August 30, Bill Gates publicly wished Warren Buffett a happy 90th birthday.
In doing so, he shared one of the most important lessons he has learned from Buffett: what friendship is all about.
As Buffett himself put it…
You will move in the direction of the people that you associate with. So it’s important to associate with people that are better than yourself.
The friends you have will form you as you go through life. Make some good friends, keep them for the rest of your life, but have them be people that you admire as well as like.
Personally, I’ve never met …read more […]

Stock futures fell Tuesday evening, after another drop in tech names dragged the three major indices to their lowest closing level in one month. …read more […]

In this article on election stocks to buy, master stock trader Bryan Bottarelli reveals the one trade you MUST make before the November election.

It surrounds something that might make you uncomfortable, and that honestly, I’d rather not have to talk about…but it’s a reality in the world we live in today.
This particular election stock to buy is closely related to self-defense and all of the social unrest we’re seeing in our society as of late. Right now, I think we MUST place a larger emphasis on companies that gain investor attention during times of social unrest.
Leading into the November election, …read more […]

Workplace collaboration app Slack posted fiscal second-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, and although it reported better-than-expected revenue, the company missed on quarterly billings, posting $218.2 million vs. the expected $232.9 million. Myles Udland breaks down the company’s report on The Final Round. …read more […]

Shares of Nikola and GM surged Tuesday after announcing that GM would invest $2B in Nikola, holding a 11% stake in the electric vehicle company. GM will engineer and produce Nikola’s ‘Badger’ pickup. The Final Round panel breaks down the details …read more […]

We’re entering my favorite time of year.
It’s not my favorite because I love fall or the cornucopia of pumpkin-spice-flavored goodies. Or because I’m a fan of winter. (In fact, I hate all those things.)
I love this time of year because it’s the busiest season for trend traders like me.
And despite the pandemic’s best efforts, the world hasn’t ground to a halt. Life adapts and pushes forward. We’ve witnessed this time and time again this year.
That’s why I believe that as we dive headlong into the final two quarters of 2020 (thankfully!), we’re going to experience record spending poised to reward …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk’s net worth plunged $16.3 billion Tuesday, the largest single-day wipeout in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the Tesla Inc. rout continued.The electric-carmaker fell 21% in New York trading — the most ever — on news of a partnership between competitors Nikola Corp. and General Motors Co., deepening a sell-off that began last week after it was snubbed for inclusion in the S&P 500 index.The world’s wealthiest people have lately seen wild swings in their net worth as retail traders accelerate buying and selling in stocks. Amazon.com Inc’s Jeff Bezos lost $7.9 billion Tuesday, …read more […]

No, we’re not hitting the end of a second dot-com bubble. …read more […]

On Tuesday, nine top drugmaker companies – such as Merck, Pfizer, and Johnson and Johnson – announced that they all pledge to uphold ‘safety’ and ‘integrity’ as the rush for a coronavirus vaccine is worrying health officials about the potential consequences of their studies. Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani breaks down the latest news about the coronavirus on The Final Round. …read more […]

Investors are signalling that maybe the old warrior has some fight left. …read more […]