Hedge-Fund Honcho Kyle Bass Takes Aim at Hong Kong ‘Time Bomb’ (The Wall Street Journal) Kyle Bass, the often-bearish hedge-fund manager who won big......
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Billionaire Ray Dalio: ‘Of Course’ Rich People Like Me Should Pay More Taxes (CNBC) Financier Ray Dalio is on a mission to let everyone know that......
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Looking for stocks with high upside potential? Just follow the big players within the hedge fund industry. Why should you do so? Let’s take a brief......
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Hedge Funds and other institutional investors have just completed filing their 13Fs with the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing their equity......
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W W Grainger Inc (NYSE:GWW) (The Motley Fool) What happened: Shares of industrial supplier WW Grainger Inc (NYSE:GWW) jumped as much as 17.4% in trading......
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Out of hundreds of healthcare stocks that are trading on the U.S stock market, we have selected the top 75 healthcare dividend stocks to invest in. These......
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Alere Inc (NYSE:ALR) has surged 16% in the pre-market after the Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) finally bit the bullet and agreed to an amended merger......
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GDS Investments, a premier investment management firm headed by Glenn D. Surowiec, recently released a letter in which the firm talked about various......
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Locust Wood Capital Advisers is a New York-based hedge fund that was founded in 2002 by Stephen J. Errico with a capital of $29 million. Since then the......
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The Abbott RealTime ZIKA molecular test from Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has gained the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It......
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The Tendril MRI pacing lead and the Assurity MRI pacemaker have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This will make it possible for......
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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT)‘s dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation therapy has advantages over traditional spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in......
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Alinity, a family of next-generation clinical chemistry and immunoassay diagnostics from Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) is now being offered in Europe......
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Corporate insiders such as Board members and executives usually buy shares on the open market for one simple reason – they believe Mr. Market severely......
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Stanley Druckenmiller was one of the fund managers for the Quantum Fund founded by George Soros. Ranked 128th on Forbes’ list of the richest people......
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Each week I review the list of dividend increases as part of my monitoring process. This exercise is helpful in evaluating how my existing holdings are......
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Our extensive research has shown that imitating the smart money can generate significant returns for retail investors, which is why we track more than......
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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has sued Alere Inc (NYSE:ALR), a diagnostics company it agreed to acquire earlier this year, for breach of contract. In......
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Mairs & Power is a Minnesota-based hedge fund with $4.32 billion worth of assets invested in 52 holdings in its U.S. public equity portfolio. In its......
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Billionaire George Soros has been in the news a lot during the current Presidential elections, most recently being at the center of controversy over ......
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Markets are mixed on Wednesday as investors get ready to digest a flurry of earnings, and await Federal Reserve’s summary of commentary of the current......
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Dividend Aristocrats have passed the test of time. By definition, each one of them has raised their dividend payout for 25 or more consecutive years,......
(read more)October 1 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With another quarter almost in the rear-view mirror, many investors are adjusting their portfolios in reaction to the latest news. Of all the potential......
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London-based Cheyne Capital recently disclosed its U.S. equity portfolio via a 13F filing submitted with the SEC. Founded in 2000 by Jonathan Lourie and......
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Antitrust regulations, tax rules and political uncertainty marred the Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) activity in the second quarter of 2016. According......
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Most investors are smiling today, as the US stock market continues its rally, with the Dow setting a new intraday high. Oil prices are also surging after......
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The markets are quiet this morning as all three major index futures are close to flat. Some potential upside/downside catalysts in the upcoming week include......
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The world is aging. The average global population age is increasing. Source: The Economist This means there are more middle-aged and elderly people......
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Founded in 2000 by Ric Dillon, Diamond Hill Capital employs a value investing approach to stock picking and had approximately $18 billion in assets......
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The S&P 500 opened lower on Thursday as investors refocus on the weak global macro-economic picture. Among the stocks that traders are buzzing about......
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Arthur B. Cohen and Joseph Healey‘s HealthCor Management has nearly $2.6 billion worth of regulatory assets under its management. The healthcare......
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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) was founded in 1888 and has grown to reach a market cap of more than $67 billion. Abbott Laboratories has been wildly successful......
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Like everyone else, elite investors make mistakes. Some of their top consensus picks, such as Micron and Anadarko Petroleum, have not done well during......
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A report from Financial Times mentioning a potential acquisition bid for St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) helped rocket the shares of the company up......
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Investors are panicking. The stock market is in free-fall. Now is a good time to insulate your portfolio against the worst effects of recessions. Unfortunately......
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Animal health care company, Zoetis Inc (NYSE:ZTS) is doing extremely well according to activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square, having agreed......
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The story was picked up by the major news sources a few years ago as a “cute” human interest feature. You might have seen the headlines like......
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While Foolish readers know all too well that a good turnaround story can drive excellent shareholders, sometimes discretion is the better part of valor......
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Since 1983, Depakote ER has been a good source of revenue for drug manufacturers. The drug is mainly used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, migraines......
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Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable......
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Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARNA)‘s Belviq, VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ:VVUS)‘s Qsymia, and Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OREX)&#......
(read more)August 29 - News - Comments
The medical-device industry isn’t probably the first place you’d think to find great, high-yielding dividend stocks. While other players in......
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Is Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK) a buy? To the average investor, there are a multitude of metrics shareholders can use to analyze stocks. Some of the......
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Who’s crazy about Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT)? Now, according to many of your fellow readers, hedge funds are perceived as useless, old investment......
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The benefits to investing in emerging markets have become well known over the course of the last decade. The pros include better long-term growth and......
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but spinoff companies are as close to free as you can get. When a company is spun off, there’s a high......
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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT)’s stock hasn’t had as good of a 2013 as some investors may want, but one indicator tells us now may be the......
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It is often said that the real cure for HIV and AIDS will come from better, more discrete testing procedures, and not from the drug cocktails made by......
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A strong week for investors ended especially well in China, as Hong Kong’s HANG SENG INDEX (INDEXHANGSENG:HSI) index jumped by 3.3% for the week......
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These days there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of economic news that can stop the ascent of the broad-based S&P 500 . With good reason,......
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