George Soros’s philanthropic foundation is slashing its workforce almost in half just weeks after his millennial and “more political” son took the reins of the multibillion...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey, on paper, is a billionaire — commanding a vast wealth built over decades that’s unlikely to unravel as fast as his tenure atop Odey Asset Management.
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June 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Activist investor Jana Partners has called on Vonage Holdings Inc.
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August 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund giant that Deutsche Bank AG has counted as one of its largest clients, has been taking money out of its prime brokerage accounts with ...
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July 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and hedge fund manager Kyle Bass have accused Wall Street and corporate America of “funding” China’s fight with the U.S.
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April 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Fisher Investments was founded in 1979 by billionaire Ken Fisher.
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November 13 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News
Some of these cards are offered in collaboration with credit card giants like Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, while others are private label creations.
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May 17 - Lists, News
September 15th will mark the five-year anniversary of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for Lehman Brothers.
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September 13 - News
There's big money being made from the massive Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) buyout of Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:VOD)'s stake in Verizon Wireless.
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September 12 - News
HSBC Holdings plc (ADR) (NYSE:HBC) is a U.K. banking giant, and giant is no overstatement.
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August 12 - News
Monday was busy for Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS). The U.K.
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July 30 - News
Bill Gates founded Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) in 1975.
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June 27 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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June 25 - Hedge Funds
This theory uses the price-to-earnings to growth (PEG) ratio to show how a share's price weighs up in relation to its near-term growth prospects -- a reading below 1 is generally...
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June 17 - News
LONDON -- One of Warren Buffett's famous investing sayings is "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful" -- or, in other words, sell when others...
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June 14 - News
Millions of investors use money market funds as a savings-account alternative, relying on their shares to hold their value and produce at least modest income.
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June 6 - News
LONDON -- Question 1: What was the third region, along with the U.K.
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June 5 - News
The PE10 compares the current share price with average earnings per share for the last ten years.
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May 30 - News
For the period 1990-2010, the World Bank estimated that U.S. seigniorage income derived from the greenback's international status has averaged $15 billion per year.
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May 28 - News
LONDON -- Dividend income accounts for around two-thirds of total returns, the actual rate of return taking into account both capital and income appreciation.
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May 28 - News
According to the IMF, Africa's economic growth is surging, especially south of the Sahara with the Ivory Coast and Mozambique leading the way.
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May 21 - News
LONDON -- Both Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) and Banco Santander, S.A.
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May 21 - News
LONDON -- Thomas Moore is an investment director at Standard Life Investments.
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May 13 - News
After being down 0.17% in overnight trading, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) is up 1.58% about two and half hours into the trading day.
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May 8 - News
Since their appointments last year, Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) chairman, Sir David Walker, and chief executive, Antony Jenkins, have been banging on about creating the highest...
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April 29 - News
LONDON -- It hasn't yet attained investment fad status, but there are signs that the fund management world sees Africa as "The Next Big Thing." The latest launch is Baring's Frontier...
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April 25 - News
On April 19th, the spouse of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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April 24 - Insider Trading
LONDON -- Next week will be busy for FTSE 100 company news, and we have already taken a look at some of our most popular companies.
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April 19 - News
LONDON -- The FTSE 100 (FTSEINDICES:FTSE) is picking up today after a gloomy four days of straight losses. After closing on 6,416 points last Thursday, the index of top U.K.
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April 18 - News
Ongoing litigation in the U.K. means that banks will likely be on the hook for mis-selling products to small business and individuals.
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April 12 - News
LONDON -- Over the last year, I've slowly been building up a small portfolio that currently consists of an income share, a growth story, and a contrarian play, across different...
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April 9 - News
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) stocked the shelves with $5 billion spread over three-, five-, 10-, and 30-year notes.
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April 8 - News
Last week, Judge Naomi Buchwald ruled against a series of class action suits that had been brought against banks, alleging that the banks were guilty of market collusion.
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April 4 - News
Like the rest of the banks, Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) has had a mixed 2013 so far.
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April 4 - News
After Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) received a $430 million fine last year for rigging the LIBOR, the bank decided to do some introspection.
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April 3 - News
LONDON -- It's more than five years since Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (ADR) (NYSE:RBS) (LSE:RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group PLC (ADR) (NYSE:LYG) were bailed out by the British...
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March 20 - News
LONDON -- The shares of leading U.K.
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March 19 - News
The Federal Reserve just released stress test results for the nation's largest financial institutions. It paints an altogether flattering impression of the U.S.
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March 10 - News
LONDON -- Are you perplexed by the banks' results? Suspicious of big improvements in "adjusted," "underlying," and "managed" performance when tucked away in the small print are...
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March 7 - News
Not even the enacting of $85 billion in budget cuts has been enough to keep more than 50% of companies in the Motley Fool CAPS Screener from creeping within 10% of a new 52-week...
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March 7 - News
The Credit Card Act of 2009 brought about sweeping changes in the credit card industry.
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February 21 - News
The investigation into the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal continues, with regulators and investigators tackling each of the banks involved one by one. Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS...
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February 15 - News
LONDON -- The FTSE 100 is hovering steady, up just 0.2% to 6,340 as of 8:35 a.m. EST. News of a surprise slowdown in January U.K.
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February 15 - News
LONDON -- Most investors, like most journalists, hate admitting their mistakes.
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February 14 - News
Long known for pushing companies to take actions to increase or unlock value, Carl Icahn is delivering a bit more to his own shareholders.
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February 12 - Hedge Funds
Last Wednesday, Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), formerly known as Research In Motion, unveiled its new generation of phones, which feature the new BB10 operating system.
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February 7 - News
According to a filing with the SEC, Timothy Flynn, a member of the Board of Directors at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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January 30 - Insider Trading
Hedge funds Kleinheinz Capital Partners Inc., and Corriente Advisors have respectively sent letters to their investors to inform them of their decision to close shop and return...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) CEO Jim Rogers will retire at the end of 2013 and other key executives will be shuffled under an extraordinary agreement to end regulators’ five-...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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November 8 - Stock Analysis
