via caixinglobal: China is encouraging insurance companies to invest more of their $2.65 trillion of assets in securities as part of the government’s efforts to bolster liquidity and revitalize the gloomy capital markets. The commission wants insurance institutions to use their …
via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ INDEX INVESTING (Log scale & inflation adjusted) All the investment “experts” tout index investing: blindly buying 100s-1000s of minuscule positions, as ideal for the average investor. The below chart shows the sideways movement that this strategy leads to, …
Notable companies that have lowered guidance so far this month: AppleSamsungLGDelta SkyworksMacy’sKohl’sAmerican AirlinesConstellation BrandsLindtGoodyearFordSignet JewelersBungeStanley Black & DeckerIntel — Ticker History 🗞 (@TickerHistory) January 24, 2019 Sad part is that even these downgraded forecasts may be difficult to beat pic.twitter.com/onpdzUoHy3 …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Painful moment of truth for banks & investors. “Uncertainty over the accuracy of the companies’ books and disclosure of pertinent information”: Fitch Ratings. Defaults by Chinese companies on bonds they issued in China (“onshore” bonds, as …
via drmalcolmkendrick: Sometimes you read a thing quickly, and then you have to read it again to make sure you read it right. Yesterday I was sent a copy of a ‘Patient page’ from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). …
The ever decreasing right to privacy on the Internet is entirely by design, we need the right to compensation for gross violations by companies like Facebook and Google to slow the tide. via eff.org: It is not enough for government to …
Sean Higgins for the Washington Examiner reports, Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett predicted Thursday that other companies would follow Apple in taking collateral damage in the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China and downgrading their earnings projections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kLpoYdkgg …
by Dr. Eowyn Although there are rules preventing banks and credit-card companies from seeing what customers are buying, if the New York Times has its way, those financial companies would begin to do just that. Not only would they see what we purchase, but the NYT would also have them monitor …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. To the white-knuckle end, 2018 has been a terrible roller coaster ride for Spanish supermarket chain Dia, once one of Europe’s biggest grocery chains. The firm’s shares, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “It now appears bike sharing is the stupidest business, but the smartest brains of China all tried to get in,” Wu Shenghua, founder of 3Vbike, one of the many collapsed bike-sharing companies in China, told Reuters. “It …
The cannabis industry is projected to grow by more than 400% by 2021. It is the single fastest growing industry, with more than $40 billion in revenue expected. With so many different companies competing to be on top, we’re recognizing …
Zuckerberg is zuck’d: http://archive.is/wZOSt
via dividendgrowthinvestor: A dividend king is a company that has managed to increase dividends to shareholders for at least 50 years in a row. There are only 26 such companies in the US, and perhaps a couple more in the rest …
Lefty Millennial Media Companies Are Collapsing, Investors Pull Out. Vice and Vox have both missed revenue projections, Disney has written down their investment in Vice by 157 Million dollars, and Buzzfeed resorted to selling cookware at Walmart. Social justice, the …
By Rodney Johnson The markets peaked in early October, and since then something remarkable has happened. Investors have lost their drive to buy-the-dips! Instead, we’ve transitioned to sell-the-pops, and that’s not a good sign. For decades, investors typically drive stocks higher after a week …
While we are being told that the economy is red hot and the stock market is doing well, both couldn’t be further from the truth. Stock markets around the world are in the red in 2018 and there are just …
Authored by Ritesh Jain via WorldOutOfWhack.com, I had written about some observation from singularity university almost 18 months back and if you look around then it seems everything is falling in place. The original article below: Singularity University, based in …
via visualcapitalist: It’s easy to be envious of the leaders of Fortune 500 companies. They get paid millions of dollars, and they have the power to make transformative decisions for some of the most beloved companies in the corporate world. Despite …
by howmuch “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” So said Mark Zuckerberg, back when Facebook was still growing rapidly and not engulfed in so many public problems. Zuckerberg meant that innovation is messy, …
by Michael Lebowitz On November 27, 2018, the CFO from United Technologies (UTX) stated that his company will focus on deleveraging and not stock buybacks. This announcement comes as General Electric (GE) is struggling mightily to retain investment grade status …
by Thinker Major pharmaceutical companies just can’t seem to get enough cash, and they are now lobbying the federal government to get Medicare drug discounts for senior citizens thrown out! This is an absolutely disgusting move by an industry that …
by loratcha Factbox: Deals signed by U.S. companies in Saudi Arabia, Reuters, May 20, 2017 U.S. and Saudi Arabian companies signed tens of billions of dollars of business deals on Saturday as Riyadh sought help to develop its economy beyond …
A $9 trillion corporate debt bomb is ‘bubbling’ in the US economy Companies are carrying a $9 trillion debt load, posing a potential threat should rates continue to rise and the economy weaken. Most Wall Street bond experts think the …
by Michael Snyder Job cuts and layoffs are coming fast and furious now as the U.S. economy really starts to slow down. We haven’t seen anything like this since 2008, when millions of Americans lost their jobs in just a …
via visualcapitalist: The novelty of the internet platform boom has mostly worn off. Now that companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet are among the world’s most valued companies, people are starting to hold them more accountable for the impact of their actions …
Francine McKenna interviewed by Jason Burack on Wall St For Main St Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, forensic accountant and transparency reporter at MarketWatch.com, a Dow Jones publication, Francine McKenna http://retheauditors.com/ Francine’s Market Watch articles can be …
by FoxyFoxMulder I thought this might be intriguing to you. It’s a chart that shows the types of data that 6 big companies gather on you (Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Amazon, and Microsoft). Here is the original source. What are some other …
Canadian Bitcoin Exchange was never easier. We’ve prepared a list of companies that help you in buying bitcoins with no problems at all. Coinbase People from Canada can make the most out of bitcoin with Coinbase – all using a …
by dequeued Background Beginning in October 2019, all CFPs will be required to act in the best interests of their clients at all times when providing financial advice. While many CFPs already operate this way, CFPs are currently only required to …
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. At first glance, the business world may seem quite static. The biggest companies today – ones like Apple, Walmart, or Exxon Mobil – will likely also be some …