Year: 2019

Each of the chains in the top five brought in at least $10 billion in sales last year. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — China’s big bang opening of its $45 trillion financial industry begins in earnest next year — a step-by-step affair that’s unfolding just as economic strains threaten the promised windfall luring in global firms.Starting with its insurance and futures markets, the Communist Party ruled nation will enact the most sweeping changes in decades to allow the likes of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and BlackRock Inc. to expand their footprint in China and compete for a slice of its growing wealth.President Xi Jinping is seeking to cushion the world’s No. 2 economy against the steepest slowdown …read more […]

A new report examines the short-term effects of retaliatory tariff in the trade war with China. …read more […]

“We are not linked to any government,” the app’s co-founder said. …read more […]

Oil prices have remained somewhat depressed for the second half of 2019, and if the big banks are correct, not much will change in 2020 …read more […]

New York City mayor: Trump has not shown any willingness to give us the tools we need, most especially Section 8 vouchers which allow people to live in rental housing. …read more […]

Taking calculated risks could pay big dividends in the new year. …read more […]

With the launch of the huge Johan Sverdrup field, the question arises how many large oilfields Norway will commission in the next couple of years …read more […]

The daughter-in-law of Tigers’ offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger died Saturday morning in a plane crash. …read more […]

It is already common knowledge that individual investors do not usually have the necessary resources and abilities to properly research an investment opportunity. As a result, most investors pick their illusory “winners” by making a superficial analysis and research that leads to poor performance on aggregate. Since stock returns aren’t usually symmetrically distributed and index […] …read more […]

It has been a fantastic year for equity investors as Donald Trump pressured Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates and finalized the first leg of a trade deal with China. If you were a passive index fund investor, you had seen gains of 31% in your equity portfolio in 2019. However, if you were an […] …read more […]

While the market driven by short-term sentiment influenced by the accomodative interest rate environment in the US, increasing oil prices and deteriorating expectations towards the resolution of the trade war with China, many smart money investors kept their cautious approach regarding the current bull run in the third quarter and hedging or reducing many of […] …read more […]

Hedge funds and other investment firms that we track manage billions of dollars of their wealthy clients’ money, and needless to say, they are painstakingly thorough when analyzing where to invest this money, as their own wealth also depends on it. Regardless of the various methods used by elite investors like David Tepper and David […] …read more […]

Hedge funds are known to underperform the bull markets but that’s not because they are bad at investing. Truth be told, most hedge fund managers and other smaller players within this industry are very smart and skilled investors. Of course, they may also make wrong bets in some instances, but no one knows what the […] …read more […]

Amid an overall bull market, many stocks that smart money investors were collectively bullish on surged in 2019. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 57%. Our research shows that most of the stocks that smart money likes historically generate strong risk-adjusted returns. That’s why we weren’t […] …read more […]