Trading Ideas

Heading into the 2020 election, some politicians have proposed socialist-leaning policies to combat economic inequality.
However, as Alexander Green explains, we need to look at other countries for a dose of reality about these policies and whether they actually work.

I’ve mentioned here before that I have a younger brother who is a committed Marxist.
He has lived on various communes for more than 40 years – and believes that capitalism is all about greed, selfishness and exploitation. He much prefers the communist ideal.
If you point out the abject failure of economies like the former Soviet Union, pre-capitalist China or today’s North Korea, …read more […]

Boeing engineers and test pilots considered before two fatal 737 MAX crashes whether an anti-stall system should be redesigned after discussing how flawed data from a single sensor could trigger it repeatedly, U.S. investigators have found. The so-called MCAS system, which relied on one sensor, has been linked in part to crashes of 737 MAX jets flown by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, which triggered a worldwide grounding and a corporate crisis at the world’s largest planemaker. The potential redesign discussed during 737 MAX development was ultimately ruled out, based in part on the assumption pilots would …read more […]

Investors cheered a significant cut in production costs at Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras on Friday, sending shares in the company soaring 4% in morning trade, their biggest intraday gain in more than a month. In its third-quarter results released on Thursday night, the company said production costs in a key offshore oil area known as the “pre-salt” fell 20% from the previous quarter to around $5.03 per barrel. Analysts at Banco BTG Pactual SA called the production cost figures “impressive,” adding that the firm’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization beat their estimates by 13%. …read more […]

Boeing engineers and test pilots considered before two fatal 737 MAX crashes whether an anti-stall system should be redesigned after discussing how flawed data from a single sensor could trigger it repeatedly, U.S. investigators have found. The so-called MCAS system, which relied on one sensor, has been linked in part to crashes of 737 MAX jets flown by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, which triggered a worldwide grounding and a corporate crisis at the world’s largest planemaker. Although not formally part of the required analysis, the Boeing staff discussed the scenario of repeated activation of MCAS due to …read more […]

Russia’s largest internet group Yandex raised its 2019 revenue forecast for the third time on Friday after strong third-quarter growth, but its share price fell after a company earnings call. Chief Executive Arkady Volozh said on Friday’s call that the initial version of a draft law aimed at limiting foreign shareholding in Russian IT firms was “very damaging”, saying the company was in discussions with the government over the proposals. “As we look to address national interests, we want to do so in a way that supports our own business interests and the interests of all of our …read more […]

Phillips Baker has been the CEO of Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) since 2003. First, this article will compare CEO… …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Bankrupt California utility giant PG&E Corp. had an equipment failure on a high-voltage transmission line just minutes before a wildfire was reported to have broken out late Wednesday.A 230-kilovolt PG&E power line went down at about 9:20 p.m. local time, according to a report filed with the California Public Utilities Commission. The Kincade blaze was reported to have erupted five minutes later. As of early Friday, it had scorched at least 16,000 acres and destroyed 49 structures. California’s fire agency is investigating the line, according to the company.PG&E’s equipment has already been blamed for sparking a series of …read more […]

Amazon reported third quarter earnings, showing profit fell for the first time in more than two years after its high spending for one-day-delivery proved costly. CEO of Amplify ETFs, and manager of the Amplify Online Retail ETF Christian Magoon joins Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Brian Sozzi to discuss. …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 […]

Out of thousands of stocks that are currently traded on the market, it is difficult to identify those that will really generate strong returns. Hedge funds and institutional investors spend millions of dollars on analysts with MBAs and PhDs, who are industry experts and well connected to other industry and media insiders on top of that. Individual investors can piggyback […] …read more […]

Is Jumia Technologies AG (NYSE:JMIA) 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 […] …read more […]

Like everyone else, elite investors make mistakes. Some of their top consensus picks, such as Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba, have not done well in Q4 due to various reasons. Nevertheless, the data show elite investors’ consensus picks have done well on average over the long-term. The top 20 stocks among hedge funds beat the S&P […] …read more […]

It seems that the masses and most of the financial media hate hedge funds and what they do, but why is this hatred of hedge funds so prominent? At the end of the day, these asset management firms do not gamble the hard-earned money of the people who are on the edge of poverty. Truth […] …read more […]

It was a rough fourth quarter for many hedge funds, which were naturally unable to overcome the big dip in the broad market, as the S&P 500 fell by about 4.8% during 2018 and average hedge fund losing about 1%. The Russell 2000, composed of smaller companies, performed even worse, trailing the S&P by more […] …read more […]

We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through October 17th. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 45% and 39% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 34.4% this year and beat the S&P […] …read more […]