It’s easy to get distracted by the multitude of flashing warning signs of reckless investor behavior gripping markets.
Digital currencies have gained as much as 7000% this year, so-called “initial coin offerings” have raised billions, and the crypto rally means the market value of Bitcoin now exceeds Procter & Gamble. Maybe the mania read »
Forgive me for sounding like a crank, but it’s okay to totally ignore the Bitcoin rally.
Sure Bitcoin’s up over 1,400% this year (that’s as of the time I started typing) and its market capitalization now significantly exceeds that of Procter & Gamble, the best performing stock in Forbes’ first 100 years of existence. Despite read »
A dozen MoneyShow.com contributors are recommending stocks that also happen to be holdings of Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. Six were featured in our column last week. Six more are profiled below:
Nicholas Vardy, VIP read »
A dozen MoneyShow.com contributors are recommending stocks that also happen to be holdings of Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. Six are featured today. Follow us on Forbes.com to get next week’s column featuring an additional six Buffett bets. read »
Real estate investment trusts — or REITs — have been out of favor, as investors worry about the impact of rising interest rates. Nevertheless, several MoneyShow.com contributing experts see select opportunities for long-term investors seeking both growth and income.
Tim Plaehn, Investors Alley’s The read »
What will Warren Buffett buy next? It’s a question that many investors obsess over given $100 billion-plus war chest. Increasingly, the answer isn’t just large public companies like BNSF, Lubrizol, Heinz, Precision Castparts and Kraft Foods. Buffett’s held out Berkshire as a safe place for family-owned businesses to turn to when they want read »
When it comes to betting on American ingenuity, no one has done it better than Warren Buffett. His confident, common sense approach to capitalism has yielded Berkshire Hathaway’s 20%-plus annualized returns since 1965 and its powerhouse $450 billion stock market status. When Forbes Magazine celebrated its first century on Tuesday read »
Only 12 of the original 100 largest U.S. companies of 1917 have lasted a century under the same name. The survivors–, , Ford and Dupont–have defined American industry and innovation.
Despite the high attrition rate, anyone smart and wealthy enough to have invested $1,000 in each of top 100 public companies in 1917 would now have a read »
At the beginning of August, Wells Fargo warned investors that an expanded review of its sales practices could lead to a “significant increase” in the total number bank accounts created without customers’ knowledge or permission. The firm was right to issue the warning, and right to use the word “significant”: Wells announced Thursday read »
Within the last thirteen months, Wells Fargo has gone from being “the bank that works” to the bank whose reputation has been shattered because it opened millions of checking accounts without customers’ permission, allegedly failed to issue refunds when customers paid off auto loans early, and allegedly made unauthorized charges on read »
Arizona’s richest person and one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs, Bruce Halle, founder of tire and wheel retailer Discount Tire, died in his sleep on Thursday January 4. read »
Dominion Energy and Brookfield Asset Management are stepping into the nuclear mess, hoping to buy big assets on the cheap. For real estate and infrastructure giant Brookfield, Thursday’s $4.6 billion deal for Toshiba’s bankrupt Westinghouse unit highlights its underappreciated restructuring skills. read »
Can PONANT lead the transition of expedition cruising from granola to Grand cru? With the deep pockets of the Pinault family and five new sleek luxury yachts coming, the answer is big business. read »
Star Wars is a force to be reckoned with in Britain’s economy. A close look at financial statements reveals that the production of the sci-fi movie series, which has primarily been shot in the U.K., has brought $1.1 billion into the country in the last three years. read »
Altogether, homes in the Los Angeles metro area are worth $2.7 trillion, more than the United Kingdom’s GDP. In the New York City metro, total home values equal $2.6 trillion, more than the French economy — and enough money to buy 8,494 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners. read »
China’s Ant Financial, an affiliate of Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group, has withdrawn its offer to buy Dallas-based Moneygram in the face of opposition from the U.S. Treasury. read »
