Search Results for: Hedge funds
Gold stocks go through the roof
October 5th, 2015
Shares in Australian gold miners rallied hard on Monday, with Northern Star Resources even hitting a new all-time high on an improved outlook for the precious metal. The spot gold price jumped 2.2 per cent to $US1136 an ounce ...
Financial Independence via Self-Employment: How Do We Do It?
September 23rd, 2015
Financial independence via self-employemnt is still possible, and there are a number of pathways to that goal. The conventional financial industry touts gaining financial independence by playing Wall Street’s game: working a conventional job for decades to accumulate a ...
Activist investor takes 6% stake in LPL Financial, sending stock higher
September 23rd, 2015
Marcato Capital says shares of the independent broker-dealer are undervalued at current levels An activist hedge fund investor on Tuesday afternoon said it had taken a 6.3% stake in LPL Financial Holdings Inc., sending the independent broker-dealer’s stock price ...
Arcadia-based company under investigation, councilman’s connections under scrutiny
September 21st, 2015
State and federal agencies are investigating an Arcadia-based company that is facing allegations from investors that it swindled them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and may have taken more from individuals overseas. Officials with the Department of ...
Why The Big Banks Want Higher Interest Rates
September 21st, 2015
Something strange is happening in the banking business. In theory, a low interest rate environment is good for banks because it allows them to borrow money for next to nothing and lend it to auto or home buyers for ...
Bad loans haunt Greek banks seeking new start
September 8th, 2015
Turned down for a 10,000 euro ($11,100) loan, George Sarris is one of hundreds of thousands of small business owners shunned by Greek banks. Pointing to the parliament building overlooking his small cafe in Athens’ Syntagma Square, the 35-year-old ...
The Elite Have Prepared For The Coming Collapse – Have You?
September 7th, 2015
Why are the global elite buying extremely remote compounds that come with their own private airstrips in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the planet? And why did they start dumping stocks like crazy earlier this ...
Bye Bye Brazil
September 7th, 2015
For about a decade there, Brazil was the Latin American country that got it right. Under a socialist but apparently reasonable government they kept their budgets under control, managed the population shift from farm to city, and developed some ...
Millenium Capital Exchange CEO Sentenced to Federal Prison for Running Forex Ponzi Scheme
September 3rd, 2015
Stafford S. Maxwell, the former owner and Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Capital Exchange, Inc., was sentenced to three years, nine months years in prison for orchestrating a multi-million dollar foreign exchange market Ponzi scheme. “With false promises of ...
UAE open to meeting Indian oil demand – UAE economy minister
August 20th, 2015
The United Arab Emirates is open to meeting any demand for oil from India, the Gulf OPEC member’s economy minister Sultan bin Saeed al-Mansouri told Reuters on Monday. Mansouri was speaking after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ...
