Alibaba.com tumbled 8.8% Thursday, a day after Yahoo finally answered investor chirping by announcing it will spin off its remaining stake in the Chinese e-commerce giant to shareholders. Are we looking at a case of be careful what you wish for? The assumption held by those clamoring for Yahoo to spin off the Alibaba stake has been that fast-growing Alibaba basically accounts for the entire current value of Yahoo stock, and divesting it in a tax-free manner is the best way to deliver ...
It’s one of those rare moments of humility on Wall Street, a placed where “indicted but never convicted” is a badge of honor. A hedge fund chief who lost all of his client’s money told them he was sorry. Owen Li, founder of Canarsie Capital, wrote to his clients to say he had run their accounts down from $100 million less than a year ago to just $200,000. Reportedly, he got into a hole and took on a string of high-risk bests ...
These six Dow components are set to report quarterly results this week. Investor reaction to these reports could decide whether or not the weekly chart for the Dow 30 shifts to negative or not. American Express reports quarterly results after the closing bell on Wednesday and analysts expect the company to earn $1.38 per share. The stock is down 7.5% year to date and is below its 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages at $91.43 and $89.89, ...
Investors continue to look at the John Paulson as a way to bet on rising merger and acquisition activity globally, as companies look to scale their operations and take advantage of record-low financing costs. Billionaire John Paulson received a lot of press for a 36% drop in his Advantage Plus fund last year as assets at Paulson & Co. fell below $20 billion. But investors continue to look at the hedge fund manager as a way to bet on rising ...
In the otherwise forgettable movie Cocktail, when Tom Cruise’s character Brian Flanagan abruptly splits with his date Bonnie, she pleads with him not to let their relationship end badly. He replies “everything ends badly: otherwise it wouldn’t end.” The turmoil in foreign exchange markets caused by Switzerland’s abrupt ending of its Euro peg may be such a bad moment for the Euro—and it comes figuratively moments before another likely bad moment, ...
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