Year: 2020

Investors like Sir John Templeton and Bill Browder used major market downturns to make millions of dollars.
Nicholas Vardy explains their way to wealth today: the surprisingly simple rules of crisis investing.

“People are always asking me where is the outlook good, but that’s the wrong question… The right question is: Where is the outlook the most miserable?”
– Sir John Templeton
Sir John Templeton made his reputation as a pioneer in global investing.
After all, he spent a lifetime investing in foreign stock markets far off the radar screen of most U.S. investors.
Templeton bought U.S. stocks even as Hitler’s armies rolled into Poland in …read more […]

Occidental Petroleum shareholders next month will get their first say on the oil company’s troubled acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum when they vote on issuing shares and warrants to Berkshire Hathaway for helping finance the $38 billion deal. The Anadarko acquisition closed in August, months before an oil price crash sapped the cash flow Occidental needed to pay the debt taken with the purchase. Critics, including activist shareholder Carl Icahn, have said the financing deal with Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett was too generous. …read more […]

Goldman Sachs downgraded Apple to ‘sell’ from ‘neutral’, citing the economic slump for a near-term decline in iPhone sales. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley joins Seana Smith to discuss. …read more […]

Great Hill Capital Chairman Thomas Hayes joins Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith to discuss if the market’s response to COVIID-19 treatment optimism will last. …read more […]

In this article, Early Investing co-founder Adam Sharp explains why the current economic environment could lead to significant inflation. And why that may actually be a silver lining both for the economy – and for investors.
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Things are looking pretty grim for the world economy. Production is sputtering. Unemployment is soaring. And we don’t know when the COVID-19 quarantines can safely end.
But in every crisis – including this one – there are silver linings.
For the past few decades, much of the world has depended on ever-increasing debt to keep growing.
We all know this isn’t sustainable. But we’ve put off dealing with …read more […]

“We’re like the captain of a ship when the worst typhoon that’s ever happened comes,” the 96-year-old Munger said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “Warren wants to keep Berkshire safe for people who have 90% of their net worth invested in it,” Munger added. Berkshire did not immediately respond to a request for comment to Buffett’s assistant. …read more […]