D5 Advisors shorted oil shipper Frontline Ltd. (NYSE: FRO) on Friday, April 1, for their Covestor Oil and Gas Producers model. Here’s how Bloomberg described FRO’s latest earnings report, on February 22: Frontline Ltd., the world’s largest operator of supertankers, posted a bigger-than-expected fourth- quarter loss and declared a dividend […]
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New Covestor manager Diddi Capital Advisors Inc. is a New Jersey based boutique investment advisory firm specializing in Global and Emerging Markets Investment strategies. The experience of the firm since its inception in 2004 has been in investing in the emerging BRIC nations and frontier markets. Rahul Didi, the firm’s […]
Update: Kansas, class act veteran journalist, writes in to acknowledge the mistaken description of the ProShares ETF. Dave Kansas makes some good points in his WSJ article today on the latest batch of “specific, complex, risky” ETFs, but this is not among them: Conversely, the ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 (SDS), […]
Here’s a really interesting tidbit from a man who knows both Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) platforms intimately from a business perspective. Bob Bowman is the head of MLB.com, major league baseball’s very successful digital business. In a Q&A with Peter Kafka of AllThingsD, Bowman had this to […]
Another great sketch from Carl Richards: From Richards’ newsletter accompanying the sketch: We love control. You name it, we’d probably prefer to control it. But from the weather to our kids, there are limits to what we can control, and in no place is this more clear than our finances… […]
From CNBC this morning, here’s Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK.A) departing executive David Sokol. Money quote: “Knowing today what I know, what I would do differently is I just would never have mentioned it to Warren, and just made my own investment and left it alone.” Prediction: We haven’t heard the […]
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas upgraded Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA) this morning in a big way – with a $70 price target, and a bull case scenario that the stock goes to $135/share, which is more than 400% up from here. It’s a 50 page research note, where Jonas says […]
Fertilizer provider Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) reported earnings last night. Strong results, on the back of a rise in phosphate and potash fertilizer prices, which were in turn driven by a rise in food demand. From Reuters: The company’s revenue jumped 30 percent [year over year] to $2.21 billion, although […]
Legendary investor Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A), issued a press release today announcing that David Sokol (pictured) one of his top executives at the company and the frontrunner to replace Buffett, has resigned. Buffett writes: “Dave’s [resignation] letter was a total surprise to me.” The Wall St. […]
Some great responses to the question on Quora – first up, Benedict Evans goes back to the 15th century: Ferdinand & Isabella’s decision to back Columbus paid off pretty well. Spain ruled most of the south American continent for the next 300 years and used the flow of silver to […]
Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) is flexing some muscles these days. Speaking to CIO Australia in Sydney yesterday (3/29), Dell’s Vice President and global head of marketing Andy Lark (pictured) went on the offensive against Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL): “I couldn’t be happier that Apple has created a market and built up enthusiasm […]