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China to Cut Some Tariffs From Jan. 1

Dec.22 — China is saying that it’s cutting import tariffs on certain goods from Jan. 1. It’s a move it says is partly aimed at expanding imports. The news comes as Beijing and Washington work to finalize a formal signing of the first phase of their trade deal next month. Bloomberg’s Selina Wang speaks with Rishaad Salamat and Yvonne Man on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.” …read more […]

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Masayoshi Son, Tech Visionary or Robber Baron?

(Bloomberg Opinion) — This is the year that brought a $100 billion venture capitalist to his knees. In January, SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son was riding high, writing billion-dollar checks to unicorns from office-sharing startup WeWork to autonomous-delivery vehicle designer Nuro. But as 2019 winds down, the Japanese dealmaker is straining to finance a $9.5 billion bailout package for Adam Neumann’s troubled startup, whose valuation has evaporated from $47 billion to $8 billion — or even zero, depending whom you ask. SoftBank’s bad year goes well beyond WeWork. Investors are starting to get the feeling that whatever Son brings to …read more […]

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Oil Holds Losses as Kuwait Nears Deal With Saudis on Production

(Bloomberg) — Oil held its biggest decline in three weeks as Kuwait signaled a deal with Saudi Arabia to renew crude output along their border and U.S. shale explorers increased drilling.Futures were little changed in New York after falling 1.2% on Friday, the most since Nov. 29. The shared neutral zone, which has been shut for at least four years due to disputes between the two countries, can produce as much as 500,000 barrels a day. U.S. explorers last week boosted drilling by the most in almost two years, according to data from Baker Hughes Co. on Friday.Oil is up …read more […]

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Behind Samsung’s $116 Billion Bid for Chip Supremacy

(Bloomberg) — Technology giants are increasingly designing their own semiconductors to optimize everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life. Google has the Tensor Processing Unit, Apple Inc. has the A13 Bionic and Amazon.com Inc. has the Graviton2. What the titans all lack, however, is a factory to build the new chips they are dreaming up.Enter Samsung Electronics Co., which is planning a decade-long, $116 billion push for their business. The South Korean company is investing heavily in the next step in miniaturizing semiconductors, a process called extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). It’s by far the priciest …read more […]

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Is RiceBran Technologies (RIBT) A Good Stock To Buy?

We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 54% and 51% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 41.7% this year and beat […] …read more […]

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Do Hedge Funds Love Bank7 Corp. (BSVN)?

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 have processed the filings of the more than 700 world-class investment firms that we track and now have access to the collective wisdom contained in […] …read more […]

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Trump Asked About Ukraine Aid Before Zelenskiy Call

Dec.22 — New documents show President Donald Trump asked about U.S. military aid to Ukraine a month before the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that went on to trigger the impeachment investigation into Trump. Bloomberg’s Ros Krasny speaks with Paul Allen on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia.” …read more […]