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 …
by Martin Armstrong Everything is still on track for a pullback. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a 14-month low on Thursday, the second consecutive day of sell-offs after the Federal Reserve announced its fourth widely-anticipated rate hike of …
Today with all the other wonderful financial news, DB shares went under $8. The merger with Citi has obviously fell apart. now the German government is scrambling to Merge DB with Commerce, Germany’s second largest. This is like tying a …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The vengeance of share buybacks: buyback queen Apple plunges. In the third quarter, share buybacks by S&P 500 companies totaled $203.8 billion, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices today. These are actual buybacks, not hyperventilated announcements …
The company values itself at $24 billion. Dell is projecting $87.5 billion revenue this fiscal year (up 9% from previous year). The company has $50 billion in debt. Dell was recently taken private in a $24.4 billion buyout in 2013. …
by Zaroden Basically, I’m talking about the sites that we usually share here that aren’t in the mainstream media. Leftwing or rightwing, it doesn’t matter. Let’s share them. Why? So that we can leave no stone unturned and actually …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A big shift, at a cost of $3.8 billion – which it now has to borrow. “We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences,” explained GM CEO Mary Barra …
by John Rubino A recent MarketWatch article notes that: GE was one of Wall Street’s major share buyback operators between 2015 and 2017; it repurchased $40 billion of shares at prices between $20 and $32. The share price is now $8.60, so …
It has been speculated, that if DB drops under $10, this would be the point of no return. This morning DB dropped to $9.96 https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:DB Last month DB biggest investor sold it’s entire share. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-07/deutsche-banks-top-investor-selling-its-entire-stake-under-orders-china Is this the final moments …
via sciencealert: Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks …
Corporate Buybacks + record insider sales, it just doesn't get more evident about management motives https://t.co/cTJKYbONtv — Sunchartist (@sunchartist) September 26, 2018 the boost that US repatriation provided to the US equity and bond markets via share buybacks and corporate …
Share Market Live: Indian stock markets (Sensex and Nifty) closed lower on Friday facing a knee-jerk reaction in the intraday deals with Sensex closing 280 points lower and Nifty slipping below 11,150 while Yes Bank (down 28%) and DHFL (down 42%) ended …
via canonicalized: Built the visualization in Tableau as a part of the #SWDchallenge Interactive version on Tableau Public Data source: http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/s/DATA-for-Sept18-SWDchallenge.xlsx
by Chris Black If you’re worried about privacy in the digital era, you are most probably privy to Telegram, the hugely popular uber-secretive messaging app, which boasted to be world’s fastest and most secure, or something along these lines. …
by Martin Armstrong The US share markets are being driven up by two main factors. First, institutions have sold the market assuming there would be a major crash. In February at the lows, Goldman Sachs was forecasting that the market …
by David Robertson In a famous Indian parable [here] a group of blind men encounter an elephant. Since each blind man encounters a different part of the elephant (e.g., the tusk, the leg), there is a great deal of disagreement as …
According to Richard Johnson, a staff writer for The New York Post’s PageSix.com, “One waitress has a bad memory of working with Ocasio-Cortez as (she) tended bar during the very busy Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017. “At the end of …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1030568223522140161 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1030569737435144195 Trump admin is absolutely terrified about this chart — if tech goes — the market goes — so now we should expect a whole lot of intervention though comments to save tech — kind of like we saw …
via pjmedia: WASHINGTON – Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told PJM that the rising federal deficit does not contradict the GOP’s message of fiscal responsibility because “both parties share the blame” for spending more than the federal government brings …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Isn’t it obvious that those at the top of the wealth-power pyramid don’t want us to know how much ground we’ve lost while they’ve gorged on immense gains? In the late 1970s and early 1980s, an era …
Loans backed by stocks looked like safe bets as Chinese stocks marched higher over the past two years, however a $2 trillion selloff since late January is rapidly eroding the value of brokerages’ collateral.” $1 trillion worth of Chinese stocks …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen from Monument Valley, Arizona about the steadily declining localized real estate markets in Canada as Toronto and Vancouver are met with massive resistance following years of ridiculous rallies. The value …
I only found out about this because I look at my account online. Haven’t received any emails or texts about this change. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me. The data increases really doesn’t cost them that much, they …
by dreamingofaustralia I used to work for AT&T but sold my shares at the beginning of this year. The dividend is great – but the stock has lost a decent amount in the past few years. Having sometimes worked with the …
by John Rubino Here’s one for the Clueless Regulator Hall of Fame: Corporate executives are using stock buybacks to pad their own compensation, according to SEC official (CNBC) – Share buybacks have surged since the Republican-backed tax bill made it …
In your opinion, are share buybacks deliberately being used to push stock prices higher? Have no fear, the Fed will save the day! But if the Fed is reducing its balance sheet, isn’t that the exact opposite? What would happen …
Sajid Javid launches new terror strategy after 5 terror attacks in UK in past year He called on British Muslims to use their ‘unique role’ to root out more extremists Teachers, social workers and council staff will receive details of …
With China enacting the most stringent laws ever in the country aganst social media news sharing, now following on the heels of FB and Twitter filtering, Asia is in a full push to limit self fed news. You need to …
