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Time to sell Yahoo and buy Alibaba directly instead?

The value of Yahoo/Altbaba will be almost directly tied to the increase or decrease in the value of its investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan once the sale of core Yahoo is completed.

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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak during a meeting in Brussels on January 12, 2017. / AFP / POOL / DAVID STOCKMAN (Photo credit should read DAVID STOCKMAN/AFP/Getty Images) What will the year ahead look like for Europe? 2017 will be another chapter in the European [...]

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It's common knowledge that actively managed mutual funds seldom beat their market benchmarks. So it makes sense to go for index funds totally. Here are other reasons to do so.

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Steemit, creators of the world’s fastest growing decentralized social media platform, has unveiled today what it describes as a “comprehensive roadmap” detailing improvements to its blockchain, company structure and website. As part of its plans Steemit is to migrate its servers this first quarter to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the [...]

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Indian government slightly more accommodative to Apple concession requests?

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Automation and minimum wage hikes will help Amazon crush retail icons and kill millions of traditional sales jobs and cost investors in retail icons millions of dollars in losses.

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The stock market did well under Barack Obama, and it stands to keep going under Donald Trump. The key is the slow and steady pace of economic growth, not too fast or slow.

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If we want to save a million bucks starting with nothing, we have two choices.

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• Alibaba is set to announce results for its December quarter early Tuesday morning before the market opens, followed by a conference call at 7:30 a.m. EST."
• Alibaba should not have a problem beating estimates for the December quarter and guidance going forward should not be an issue either given the Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday (and shopping season) starting next Saturday.
• As of December 30, 2016, there were 110.2 million shares (just under 5% of the float) of Alibaba held short compared to an average daily trading volume of 8.4 million shares. It would be safe to assume that amount is higher now that we are on the cusp of earnings for Alibaba.

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