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Facebook just passed Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in market value
July 29th, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg has put Warren Buffett in his rear view mirror. Zuckerberg’s tech behemoth, Facebook Inc. FB, +1.35% edged out Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B, +0.16% moving ahead of the market capitalization of the Sage of Omaha’s investment conglomerate Thursday. Facebook added about $5 billion ...
Yen Jumps on BOJ Decision as Japanese Bonds Sink; Gold Climbs
July 29th, 2016
Kuroda expands ETF purchase target, leaving policy rate steady BOJ release will be followed by Europe stress tests, U.S. GDP The Bank of Japan’s most anticipated policy announcement in years left investors underwhelmed, sparking a surge in the yen ...
Turkey revokes the licence of a director at one of the country’s largest brokerage firms
July 28th, 2016
Turkey’s financial regulator has cancelled the licence of a research director at one of the country’s largest brokerage firms after his report on the failed July 15 coup. In a bulletin on its website, the Capital Markets Board (CMB) said the ...
Is Recession-Risk Monitoring Useful For Investing?
July 27th, 2016
There’s a myth going around that tracking the business cycle is a waste of time for investors. On the surface, the reasoning sounds logical. By the time it’s clear that the US has slipped into a recession, it’s too ...
Nikkei sells off on fresh yen strength; rest of Asia trades mixed
July 26th, 2016
Japanese stocks sold off in a mostly positive Asian session on Tuesday, dragged by fresh strength in the yen after a local media report suggested the government’s highly anticipated stimulus package may not live up to expectations. Other Asian ...
Weaker dollar lifts oil prices, but mood remains bearish
July 26th, 2016
Oil prices rebounded from over three-month lows on Tuesday, lifted by a drop in the dollar, but concerns of ongoing oversupply weighed on markets and many traders are raising their bets on further price falls. International Brent crude oil ...
Global Brokers See 109 Million Reasons to Ramp Up in China
July 25th, 2016
Interative Brokers and Saxo among firms laying groundwork QDII2 program to be rolled out at ‘appropriate time’: PBOC Online brokerages from around the world are gearing up for what could be China’s biggest step yet to unleash the nation’s ...
The real message from asset inflation
July 22nd, 2016
The earliest signs are developing of hyperinflation, more correctly described as a collapse of the purchasing power of all the major government currencies. Central bankers are almost certainly unaware of this danger, partly because their chosen statistics fail to ...
There’s a group of investors waiting in the shadows with $200 billion to spend
July 21st, 2016
Money managers are saving up and eager to be the lenders of first resort. Private-debt fund managers have amassed a record high $199 billion in untapped capital as of June, according to the latest report by Preqin. That’s a ...
Globalization’s Few Winners and Many Losers
July 21st, 2016
Quality, quality of life, and well-being are not easily quantified, so they are ignored. I often write about the Tyranny of Price, the rarely examined assumption that lower prices are all that matters. Thanks to the Tyranny of Price, ...
