Kevin O'Leary Andrew Burton/Getty Images Kevin O'Leary said volatility has returned to the stock market, adding it may be time to buy. The "Shark Tank" star addressed uncertainty in markets about how aggressive the Fed will be. "There's a bet going on in the market, you can see it as volatility," he said. "Shark Tank" […]
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Remembering John Bogle, patron saint of the amateur investor
He died on January 16th, aged 89
The agony of the value investor
A contrarian strategy fares badly much of the time
After instigating trade war America will have to dance to China's tune – investor Peter Schiff to RT
The lull in the US-China trade war amid new flaring tensions over the arrest of Huawei finance chief can only backfire at Washington as Beijing holds a trump card, veteran stockbroker Peter Schiff has warned. Schiff, who serves as the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, voiced his grim prediction for the outcome of US’ attempts […]
The agony of the value investor
A contrarian strategy fares badly much of the time
The agony of the value investor
IN APRIL 1962, Joan Whitney Payson watched the New York Mets, a collection of cast-offs from rival baseball teams, lose their first ever game. Mrs Payson, the Mets’ owner, soon left for a summer in Greece. News of further defeats reached her by telegram. So she asked that she be told only when the Mets […]
Billionaire investor Steve Case says the failure of the 2000 AOL Time Warner mega merger taught him a crucial lesson about execution
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Steve Case is the billionaire founding CEO of AOL and the head of Washington, DC-based venture-capital firm Revolution. In 2000, AOL bought Time Warner for $ 165 billion, making it the largest merger in history at the time. Case left in 2005, correctly predicting it was an unsustainable partnership. He said that […]
Ein Problem: Volkswagen Facing $10.7 Billion Investor Lawsuit Over Diesel Scandal
Volkswagen Group will be staring down the barrel of a courtroom next week, which isn’t anything new. The automaker’s investors want 9.2 billion euros ($ 10.7 billion) in compensation after arguing the carmaker should have informed shareholders about a diesel emission scandal before regulators got the word out in 2015. The lawsuit groups 1,668 individual […]
What’s the Chinese Electric Car Startup Survival Rate? One Percent, An Investor Predicts
China has bit of a gambling problem when it comes to electric car manufacturers, though it should probably be referred to as a “gambling solution.” The country dumps vast sums of money into hundreds of EV startups, effectively hedging its bets by placing chips on absolutely everyone. With $ 15 billion already invested, the nation intends […]
Early Facebook investor Marc Andreessen says one of the biggest mistakes that startups make is hiring an HR leader too late (FB, TWTR)
Stuart Isett/Fortune Global Forum Marc Andreessen says most companies put off hiring a HR leader too long. The delay makes the company more at risk of “catastrophic failure through self-inflicted wounds,” according to Andreessen. In an interview with longtime tech industry veteran Elad Gil for his new book “High Growth Handbook,” Andreessen says companies should hire […]