Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was off 6.9% to 7,703. Canon and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial took huge losses. The Hang Seng fell 4.2% to 12,279. The Shanghia Composite was off 1.7% to 1,984. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was down 2.1% to 3,921. The Dax fell 2.6% to 4,245. The CAC 40 dropped 2.4% to 3,014. Data from Reuters. Douglas A. McIntyre
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With yesterday’s report showing how steeply prices fell last month, I wanted to revisit the issue of inflation’s impact on stock prices. Let me add the important caveat that correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation. The short answer is that inflation is bad for stocks. In fact, the only thing worse is deflation. What the market likes is inflation that's nice, steady, pre...
Market broke through October lows yesterday. Just what I was afraid of. Let's see if it goes straight down to 7700.Steve Ballmer of Microsoft (MSFT) repeated yesterday that they don't want to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) anymore. Surprise! Not for me. In February Microsoft had a lot of free cash to pay for Yahoo! (terms of the deal were half stock and half cash). Not anymore, all that cash is allocated al...
From Vince Farrell at RealMoney: A report making the rounds today [Wednesday] detailed managers' Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from market share losses or the sale of a position, or most likely, both.
This 2 part series will cover recent market developments about Berkshire Hathaway, points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably Berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. Don’t forget to read the big picture of US stock markets. Markets are behaving pretty much th...
Cheer up. Your losses can’t be as big as Uncle Warren’s.
Embattled U.S. banking giant Citigroup Inc. (C) has agreed to buy back $17.4 billion of assets remaining in a series of funds known as structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, after it previously agreed to guarantee the liabilities in those funds. In a separate story today (Wednesday), Wall Street banking analyst David Trone said that he expects higher credit costs and additional losses to forc...
Markets across Asian posted sharp losses Thursday, as stocks were swept away after Wall Street's sell-off and amid concern about rising deflation risks.
Standard & Poor’s said Wednesday that it downgraded Ambac Financial and the company’s main bond insurance unit because the rating agency expects more losses from guarantees of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.
I’ve been thinking about homeowner rescue plans and it occurs to me that the banks are ignoring a fairly obvious solution, consider this: Outside of loss of income/sudden financial hardship situations, many of the people facing foreclosure are in those situations because they purchased a home they couldn’t afford with an exotic mortgage, correct? In other words any relief that comes...