Louis Navellier’s Navellier & Associates recently filed its Schedule 13F for the second quarter of 2014.
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July 11 - Hedge Funds, News
By analyzing the 13F filings of Third Point, managed by Dan Loeb, we estimate that his large-cap stock picks (those with market caps between above $20 billion) returned, on average...
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April 7 - Hedge Funds, News
Richard Handler’s Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK) more than doubled its bet on Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Group Inc. after the value of an earlier investment jumped.
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March 19 - Hedge Funds
In the current round of 13F filings, hedge funds and other institutional investors are disclosing their equity portfolios as held at the end of the last year.
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February 18 - Hedge Funds, News
Why aren’t there more women running hedge funds? The money’s good, and the lifestyle would seem to lend itself better to balancing family demands than more traditional Wall...
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February 12 - Hedge Funds
Dan Loeb and Third Point are some of the most active investors and that's one of the reasons why their moves should be watched closely.
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January 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Merrill Lynch's recent report on agricultural equipment provider AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO) is a great example: "Margin Upside, Divy Could Soar, Raising Estimates." It's the...
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October 11 - Dividend Stocks, News
Jeffrey Vinik, the money manager who shut his hedge fund earlier this year after returns slumped, is providing $20 million in startup capital for an investment firm run by his...
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, News
According to some readers, the only criticisms of agricultural giants who employ the usage of genetically modified crops come from hipsters or uninformed journalists.
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September 30 - Dividend Stocks, News
The biofuels industry is abuzz this week.
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September 27 - News
Chevron pollution in Ecuador: The International Arbitration Tribunal at The Hague found Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) not liable for collective damages caused by pollution ...
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September 26 - Commodities, News
A study conducted earlier this summer by the University of Arizona discovered that five of the 13 major agricultural pests had developed resistance to genetically modified crops...
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September 23 - News
A few months ago, I sat down with a relative who has two kids getting ready to go to college.
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September 17 - News
While Africa has long been intransigent in its stance against introducing genetically modified crops, cracks are forming in the opposition, and the world's leading biotechs -- ...
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September 16 - News
The U.S. shale energy boom is beginning to trickle down into the economy.
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September 15 - Commodities, News
One is Ardmore Shipping Corp (NYSE:ASC), which had its IPO in August. This company can benefit from the strong demand from Asia for natural gas-based chemicals.
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September 11 - News
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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September 10 - News
To the average investor, there are many methods shareholders can use to analyze their holdings. Two of the most innovative are hedge fund and insider trading activity.
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September 3 - News
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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September 3 - News
Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock's current yield, but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends.
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September 3 - Dividend Stocks, News
The sharp rise in the number of farmers markets around the country reflects an increased demand for locally sourced produce.
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August 29 - News
To the average investor, there are plenty of methods shareholders can use to track their holdings. A pair of the best are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.
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August 29 - News
To the average investor, there are tons of metrics investors can use to watch publicly traded companies. A pair of the best are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.
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August 26 - News
It appears that Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz is fulfilling his promise that the Department of Energy would move quickly on LNG export decisions.
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August 12 - News
If you think Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN)'s lackluster second-quarter numbers are a precursor of worse times ahead, you may want to pause and dig deeper before jumping to ...
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August 8 - News
Kirby Corporation (NYSE:KEX) is in marine transportation and diesel engine services.
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August 8 - News
Since the beginning of the year, E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:DD) has experienced a nice gain of as much as 33%, beating the S&P 500’s gain of nearly 20%.
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August 6 - Hedge Funds
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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August 5 - News
It's been two months since Japan suspended U.S. wheat imports after an Oregon farmer found unapproved genetically modified wheat growing in his field.
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July 29 - News
Because there wasn't anywhere near as much coverage as there was for President Obama signing into law the so-called "Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) Protection Act" -- which prohibits...
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July 29 - News
Weak market conditions coupled with sluggish sales growth has led E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:DD), The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) and FMC Corp (NYSE:FMC) to focus...
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July 27 - News
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) will release its quarterly report on Thursday, and investors are hoping that the chemical giant will be able to break out of a long malaise...
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July 23 - News
The financial meltdown of 2008 was particularly hard on cyclical stocks. Companies in the chemical industry reported huge losses in the recessionary period, and 45 U.S.
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July 18 - News
Sluggish growth in non-residential construction markets and a weak European economy have compelled chemical businesses to rely on cost-cutting measures to improve the bottom line...
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July 15 - News
There are very few terms in the investment world that can illicit as much fear as the statement "Oil prices are going...", regardless of what is inserted after the verb.
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July 15 - News
Thematic investing, betting on one single trend materializing, is inherently risky, because the future could always turn out very different from what we initially anticipated.
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July 11 - News
The global chemical industry, which is valued at nearly $3 trillion, has grown at a steady pace in the last decade.
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July 11 - News
Seed giant Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) reported its third-quarter earnings at the end of June.
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July 8 - News
Are the anti-GMO protests really going anywhere? Activist voices against genetically modified organisms might have pitched louder in recent months, but farmers don't seem to be...
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July 8 - News
The fate of the chemical industry is fundamentally tied to the financial strength of the U.S. economy.
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July 5 - News
Chemical giants E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:DD) and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) are witnessing a transition in the sources of their revenue.
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July 5 - News
After a strong bull run in 2013, it appears that the markets are set to reverse and enter bear territory.
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July 5 - News
On May 8, I noted how the overall market had qualified as a 'sell' under my Investing Strategy.
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July 1 - News
Last month, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) signed an agreement with Qatar Petroleum that will make it possible for the two companies to export natural gas from their proposed...
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July 1 - News
Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE:HON) is the world’s largest manufacturer of avionics and small jet engines, and also produces a variety of other products.
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June 27 - News
In the first piece that I wrote on the subject of finding undervalued stocks in the S&P 500 based on low valuations, I initially believed that opportunities would be few-and-...
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June 27 - News
On Wednesday, Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) will release its latest quarterly results.
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June 25 - News
While most people probably associate bees with their nettlesome sting, the insect is critical to sustaining life on earth, pollinating 80% of all flowering plants and some three...
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June 25 - News
The energy production boom in the U.S. has many midstream and downstream companies salivating at the potential of moving and using our oil and gas.
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June 18 - News