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This week’s oil price rout had become inevitable and cutting oil output has ceased to make sense because it is unclear how deep the impact of the coronavirus on demand will be, Russia’s deputy energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. Last week, Saudi Arabia failed to secure Moscow’s support for deeper output cuts at a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known as OPEC+. Following the disagreement, Saudi Arabia has threatened to flood the market with oil. …read more […]

Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson confirmed Wednesday the agency has rejected Boeing Co’s proposal to leave wiring bundles in place on the grounded 737 MAX. Last month, Boeing told the FAA it did not believe it needs to separate or move wiring bundles on its grounded 737 MAX jetliner that regulators have warned could short circuit with catastrophic consequences. Dickson told reporters after a hearing on Capitol Hill that the agency has “not approved” the Boeing proposal and the next step is up to Boeing. …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. On February 27th we published this article and predicted that US stocks will go down by at least 20% in the next 3-6 months. We also told you to short the market ETFs and buy long-term bonds. Investors who agreed with […] …read more […]

Investment bank JPMorgan has cast a careful eye on current market conditions, and lays out the likely scenarios for investors to consider. According to the firm’s analyst team, the spreading COVID -19 epidemic will likely continue to disrupt markets, mainly through increased volatility this year. In the short term, JPM sees the US Federal Reserve’s 50 basis point rate cut as a net positive, mainly because it increases the relative upside for equity assets.In JPM’s view, investors should understand that governments will provide policy support in the first half of this year to mitigate virus-related losses, while the global epidemic …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. On February 27th we published this article and predicted that US stocks will go down by at least 20% in the next 3-6 months. We also told you to short the market ETFs and buy long-term bonds. Investors who agreed with […] …read more […]

The World Health Organization on Wednesday formally declared the coronavirus a worldwide pandemic, as the pathogen continues its inexorable spread. …read more […]

Lenore Hawkins – Tematica Chief Macro Strategist is quarantined in Italy and describes the surreal scene to Yahoo Finance’s On the Move. Empty streets and shuttered windows is the norm as the entire country is on lockdown, reporting over 10k coronavirus cases. …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. On February 27th we published this article and predicted that US stocks will go down by at least 20% in the next 3-6 months. We also told you to short the market ETFs and buy long-term bonds. Investors who agreed with […] …read more […]

Is Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) a good stock to buy right now? We at Insider Monkey like to examine what billionaires and hedge funds think of a company before spending days of research on it. Given their 2 and 20 payment structure, hedge funds have more incentives and resources than the average investor. The funds have […] …read more […]

Warren Buffett sat down with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer to discuss the market volatility, saying “If you have to be open second by second, they react to news in a big time way”. Yahoo Finance’s On the Move panel discusses. …read more […]

Coronavirus is probably the 1 concern in investors’ minds right now. It should be. On February 27th we published this article and predicted that US stocks will go down by at least 20% in the next 3-6 months. We also told you to short the market ETFs and buy long-term bonds. Investors who agreed with […] …read more […]

Will the new coronavirus cause a recession in US in the next 6 months? On February 27th, we put the probability at 75% and we predicted that the market will decline by at least 20% in (this article). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a reading on which direction each […] …read more […]

How do you pick the next stock to invest in? One way would be to spend days of research browsing through thousands of publicly traded companies. However, an easier way is to look at the stocks that smart money investors are collectively bullish on. Hedge funds and other institutional investors usually invest large amounts of […] …read more […]

There are some things in life that we just can’t predict. But what we can do is try to make ourselves “antifragile.”
Today, Mark Ford shares how you can determine whether your assets are likely to be lost in an adverse event, along with the steps you can take to protect yourself.

Several years ago, Nassim Taleb came out with a bestselling book called Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. You may have read it. If not, I recommend it. It’s one of those rare books that present the reader with a feast of delectable ideas – I find myself savoring every …read more […]

UBS Head of Equity Derivatives Research Stuart Kaiser joins On The Move to discuss why the sell off amid the coronavirus outbreak is not done and what investors can do to offset their losses. …read more […]