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Broyhill Asset Management, a boutique investment firm based in North Carolina, released its Q1 2020 Investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. Established as a family office, the company invests with a long-term, objective, and rational perspective. You should check out Broyhill Asset Management’s top 5 stock picks for investors to […] …read more […]

The financial regulations require hedge funds and wealthy investors that exceeded the $100 million equity holdings threshold to file a report that shows their positions at the end of every quarter. Even though it isn’t the intention, these filings to a certain extent level the playing field for ordinary investors. The latest round of 13F […] …read more […]

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Stock markets saw spectacular drop yesterday, as rising hospitalizations in states such as Texas and Arizona promoted fears that an uptick in coronavirus cases could cause more economic damage. It’s a clear sign that traders are not going to be easily reassured in the current crisis. Yet, according to J.P. Morgan strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Panigirtzoglou argues that the massive amount of cash currently in the financial system could be the spark that pushes risk assets higher, noting that billions could be pumped into equities. This potential, however, could come at the …read more […]

Miller Value Partners recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. You should check out Miller Value Partners top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash. In the said letter, Miller Value Partners spoke about […] …read more […]

Hertz announces plans to sell $1 billion in shares. Yahoo Finance’s On The Move panel discusses. …read more […]

Market turmoil sends average mortgage rates where they’ve never been before. …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. Insider Monkey finished processing 821 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, 2020. […] …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Caterpillar Inc.’s machinery sales dropped by the most in 10 years last month in a sign of a deepening slump in its Americas businesses, where the company has extended plant shutdowns.Retail receipts in North America fell 36% on a rolling three-month basis, the most since January 2010, the company said in a government filing Friday. Sales in Latin America had the biggest decline since December 2016. Overall global sales dropped by the most since early 2010.The figures underscore concerns over prospects for a halting recovery at the heavy-equipment maker after coronavirus shutdowns dented the profit outlooks for miners …read more […]

(Bloomberg Opinion) — What was already a tough week for Intel Corp. got worse Thursday night: One of the chip giant’s most essential employees left the building.Intel announced its top chip architect Jim Keller resigned effective immediately for personal reasons after only two years on the job. The company didn’t specify exactly why, but added the executive would serve as a consultant for six months to help with the leadership transition.Keller’s departure is a big deal. No one else in the semiconductor industry has his pedigree of chip-engineering success over the last two decades. In the late 1990s, he designed …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — A Taiwanese court ruled Friday that current and former engineers from United Microelectronics Corp. stole trade secrets from U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. and shared them with a government-backed mainland Chinese company, closing one chapter of a global dispute that’s stoked U.S.-Chinese tensions.The district court of Taichung fined UMC NT$100 million ($3.4 million) after finding three engineers guilty of theft or assisting in the alleged theft. The trio was jailed for periods ranging from 4.5 to 6.5 years and fined between NT$4 million and NT$6 million.The case is part of a years-long dispute spanning two continents that’s deepened …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The sharp rally in U.S. airline stocks from mid-March lows pushed one analyst to upgrade the worst-performing member of the bunch: Southwest Airlines Co.Credit Suisse boosted Southwest to a buy-equivalent rating from hold on the premise that it’s among the best-positioned to stage what analyst Jose Caiado De Sousa characterized as an “aggressive comeback.” Meanwhile, ratings were cut for Spirit Airlines Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc., which have both outperformed the sector and Southwest recently.Since March 19, Southwest has risen by about 17%, lagging behind the S&P 500 Airlines industry index’s 39% climb, Spirit’s more than 100% …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. Insider Monkey finished processing 821 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, 2020. […] …read more […]

Miller Value Partners recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. The Miller Value Partners Opportunity Equity Fund posted a return of -38.4% for the quarter (net of fees), underperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned -19.6% in the same quarter. You should check out Miller […] …read more […]