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SoftBank-backed Indian digital payments startup Paytm’s parent is set to allot about 2.6 million shares to investors, according to a latest filing by the company. A source familiar with the matter said the allotment by One 97 Communications Ltd was part of last month’s $1 billion fundraise, which valued Paytm at $16 billion. Alibaba’s Alipay, SoftBank’s SVF Panther (Cayman) and funds managed by T Rowe Price were among the investors, financial data accessed by business intelligence platform Tofler dated Dec. 12 showed. …read more […]

Coffee will never go out of fashion, as evidenced by the 10 countries with the highest coffee consumption in the world. There is nothing better in the world than a hot, steaming cup of coffee to jolt you awake in the morning. Similarly, nothing comes close to coffee as you attempt to pull an all-nighter […] …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The pound jumped by the most since 2017 on mounting signs Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was on course to secure a strong majority in the U.K. election, raising hopes of an end to the Brexit deadlock.The surge took sterling to its highest level since May 2018 against the dollar and the strongest rate versus the euro since just after the 2016 Brexit vote. The news also rippled through to other assets with the euro touching a four-month high. FTSE 100 Index futures pared an initial decline. U.K. government bonds may come under pressure at the open as uncertainty …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the Dec. 15 introduction of a new wave of U.S. tariffs on about $160 billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation, according to people familiar with the matter.The deal presented to Trump by trade advisers Thursday included a promise by the Chinese to buy more U.S. agricultural goods, according to the people. Officials also discussed possible reductions of existing duties on Chinese products, they said. The …read more […]

With the first-quarter round of 13F filings behind us it is time to take a look at the stocks in which some of the best money managers in the world preferred to invest or sell heading into the second quarter. One of these stocks was GreenSky, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSKY). GreenSky, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSKY) was in 15 hedge […] …read more […]

“Since 2006, value stocks (IVE vs IVW) have underperformed 11 of the 13 calendar years and when they beat growth, it wasn’t by much. Cumulatively, through this week, it has been a 122% differential (up 52% for value vs up 174% for growth). This appears to be the longest and most severe drought for value […] …read more […]

“The global economic environment is very favorable for investors. Economies are generally strong, but not too strong. Employment levels are among the strongest for many decades. Interest rates are paused at very low levels, and the risk of significant increases in the medium term seems low. Financing for transactions is freely available to good borrowers, […] …read more […]

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 […]