According to a recent Harris Interactive survey, most consumers feel smartphone payments will eventually replace credit and debit cards and cash for most purchases but it's likely...
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April 9 - News
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you.
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April 4 - News
Even though unemployment is still brutal and mortgage delinquencies are high, credit card delinquencies are at the lowest rate in at least two decades, according to data from ...
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April 3 - News
eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) has finally come up with a genius program for the auction division that will appeal to anyone who doesn't want to star on "Hoarders." One simply signs ...
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April 2 - News
For instance, despite the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, shares of Visa Inc (NYSE:V) and Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) appreciated by 38% and 22.5%, respectively, last year.
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March 27 - News
In order to help drive more sellers on to its platform, Valuentum's Best Ideas Newsletter holding eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY)announced new, less complicated fee structures.
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March 27 - News
You lose if you do, you lose if you don't -- this pretty much sums up the state of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) today.
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March 27 - News
Visa Inc (NYSE:V) was in 74 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of December. V investors should be aware of a decrease in activity from the world's largest hedge funds of late.
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March 18 - Hedge Funds
American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) was founded in Buffalo, N.Y., on March 18, 1850.
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March 18 - News
Six to seven weeks after the end of each quarter, hedge funds are required to file 13Fs with the SEC detailing many of their long equity positions as of the end of the quarter...
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March 14 - Hedge Funds
Sometimes interesting investment themes are just too expensive to dive into.
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March 13 - News
With consumer credit on the rise again, and tangible signs appearing of US economic recovery, things look pretty good for credit card companies.
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March 13 - News
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is well known for its huge cash pile.
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March 12 - News
Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) and Visa Inc (NYSE:V) introduced their latest next-generation mobile payment initiatives at the Mobile World Congress few days back.
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March 8 - News
In the world of mobile computing, the bring-your-own-device to work trend, or BYOD, is all the rage.
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March 2 - News
The most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds tend to outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year, according to our historical analysis of 13F ...
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February 28 - Hedge Funds
Recently the Dow Jones has been flirting with 5 year highs. While the run has been great it has left some of my favorite companies looking a bit expensive.
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February 25 - News
I never really bothered to notice if I use a Visa Inc (NYSE:V) or Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) while buying something with my credit card.
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February 22 - News
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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February 21 - News
Since November, shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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February 19 - News
The Phillips curve attached below, explains the short term inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment.
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February 17 - News
Dividend stocks are everywhere, but many just downright stink. In some cases, the business model is in serious jeopardy, or the dividend itself isn't sustainable.
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February 15 - News
Despite catastrophic moments, most of the markets have shown sizeable gains in 2012. The NASDAQ has posted returns of 15% in the last year, while the S&P 500 was up by 13%.
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February 13 - News
With the popularity of using credit cards and debit cards instead of cash and checks; payment processing companies like Visa Inc (NYSE:V), Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) and Discover...
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February 13 - News
We all have heard that phrase, and most people would agree that it's not wise to rack up large amounts of credit card debt.
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February 8 - News
eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) has always been under the shadows of its high-flying rival, Amazon, in the e-Commerce business.
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February 6 - News
With hundreds of companies having already reported quarterly results, we're now in the heart of earnings season.
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February 6 - News
Cash will never completely disappear. There will always be some marginal room for good old fashioned paper money, but it´s certainly losing popularity as a payment method all...
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February 4 - News
The world’s largest payments network, Visa Inc (NYSE:V) has done exceptionally well for its shareholders since its highly-publicized IPO in 2008, which at the time was the ...
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February 2 - News
As credit processing facilitators, MasterCard and Visa Inc (NYSE:V) have an incredible amount of unmet demand abroad yet to be tapped.
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February 1 - News
Columbus Circle Investors is an asset manager with total assets under management of $17 billion (including $1 billion in its hedge funds strategies).
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January 31 - Hedge Funds
Egerton Capital, a hedge fund managed by John Armitage, has filed its 13F for the end of December.
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January 29 - Hedge Funds
With Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM)'s upgraded BB10 OS and a couple of new phones on the horizon, it isn't surprising that RIM shareholders are a bit giddy.
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January 21 - News
American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) is a true old age behemoth of investing. The company is one of Warren Buffett’s favorites and is one if the Dow 30.
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January 15 - News
Fisher Asset Management, which is managed by billionaire investor/author/Forbes columnist Ken Fisher, has released its 13F filing for December 2012, disclosing many of its long...
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January 10 - Hedge Funds
Can a Muckety map predict a corporate acquisition? Notice how the extended Buffett-Gates cartel has surrounded Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST).
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December 24 - Hedge Funds
Farallon Capital Management is one of the largest hedge funds in the world, and the combination of size, good returns, and a long operating history- the fund was founded in 1986...
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December 11 - Hedge Funds
Julian Robertson became a billionaire through his success at Tiger Management, and also had an enormous effect on the financial world by identifying and grooming a pack of “...
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December 11 - Hedge Funds
We track insider transactions because we believe that no one knows a company better than the people who work there.
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December 4 - Insider Trading
Andreas Halvorsen is the Chief Investment Officer of Viking Global Investors, a $17-billion fundamentals-oriented long/short global equity fund.
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November 30 - Dividend Stocks
Diversification is one of the most important principles of investing- not only for investors themselves, but also for company insiders.
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November 26 - Insider Trading
Insider purchases are generally a good sign for a stock.
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November 23 - Insider Trading
Our database of 13F filings allows us to see details about an individual hedge fund or other notable investor’s long stock positions.
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
Tiger Cub Andreas Halvorsen has achieved significant success since leaving Julian Robertson’s hedge fund to co-found Viking Global in 1999.
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November 19 - Hedge Funds
Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEARCA:XLF) – Heavy volume in February expiry call options on the XLF this morning may be the work of one or more traders positioning for shares...
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November 16 - News
Farallon Capital Management, which is managed by billionaire Thomas Steyer and his team, engages in just about any investment strategy dependent on fundamental analysis: pure ...
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November 14 - Hedge Funds
Although 2012 isn't quite over yet, we're now close enough to 2013 to start thinking about the bigger themes that are going to make for investment-worthy stocks in the coming ...
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November 8 - Stock Analysis
The consumer finance industry should see a rebound in the credit markets, although this might not be the best news for the likes of card transaction companies Mastercard Inc (...
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November 1 - Stock Analysis
During the past five years, engineers at Apple Inc.
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October 31 - Stock Analysis
