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Jon OggThe government shutdown may be averted for a few months and the S&P 500 Index may have just hit new all-time highs, but a short seller is maintaining his aggressive stance against shares...
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Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. is a huge fan of dividends. Rising dividends and safe high-yield dividends are even better. What is not good is when things are bad enough that a company will have to cut its...
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ThinkstockHedge funds are often copycat artists. When a trade comes in vogue, they all tend to pile into the same trade. There is always one little issue, and that is their use of leverage. In an...
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thinkstockGreece and its banks may have found a friend in billionaire investor John Paulson. A report from Reuters has said that Paulson now favors the recapitalized banking sector as a bet on...
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The phrase “A rising tide lifts all boats” is frequently used around Wall Street when the good times roll. It basically helps to explain why in a good market almost everything works, with little...
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ThinkstockCan you imagine winning $400 million in a lottery drawing? This is empire-making money. A winning ticket in the Powerball was sold at a gas station in South Carolina. You probably only...
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ThinkstockThe activist investor has been around forever on Wall Street. For years the portfolio managers and equity strategist at the big mutual fund companies were the ones that really could drive...
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Jon OggThe boom of investor interest in the field of 3D printing may be coming to a serious end, or at least entering a period where some value concerns have to at least be considered. We have...
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ThinkstockOne of the main reasons that the ultra rich have become so enamored with the hedge fund industry over the years is their “go anywhere, do anything” approach to investing. Hedge funds...
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Investors are bombarded daily with contrary opinions from talking heads that don’t get paid for their expertise in stock performance. The reality is that investors constantly are given advice that...
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thinkstockInvestors almost always worry about a stock market crash, but when headwinds start to look stronger than the positive forces, they really start to worry that the rug can get yanked right...
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courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J. C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has been a real pain in the backside of activist investor Pershing Square and other value and turnaround investors. This is Bill...
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ThinkstockThe hedge fund industry sure seems and looks different now when compared to a decade or two ago. We recently wrote about how the 2% and 20% pricing strategy long imposed on hedge fund...
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ThinkstockThe simple statement by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Philip A. Falcone of Harbinger Capital Partners has “agreed to be barred from the securities industry for at...
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ThinkstockHighlighted in a Fortune magazine article in 1966, an obscure investment vehicle called the hedge fund was outperforming every existing mutual fund by double-digit figures. By 1968, there...
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