The sideways price action of Bitcoin (BTC) has recently been a hunting ground where whales can easily liquidate ill-informed traders on leveraged trading platforms. Without decent balancing, any asset can become boring. But let’s not forget that BTC is not the only cryptocurrent that exists, as several altcoins are currentlyRead More →
Large-capitalization U.S. stocks are in the midst of an earnings recession, by some measures, but the state of profit growth for small-cap stocks in 2019 has been a disaster on another order. Earnings for companies in the small-cap S&P 600 SML, -0.73% have cratered this year, falling 16.4% in theRead More →
Amy Zhang, manager of the Alger Small Cap Focus Fund, explained last April how she had improved the fund’s performance since taking over the portfolio in 2015. She hasn’t lost her touch since that conversation. Here’s a link to the April 2018 interview in which Zhang explained her stock-selection processRead More →
© Reuters. A logo of Mitsubishi Electric Corp is pictured at the CEATEC JAPAN 2017 in Chiba By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – Apple (NASDAQ:), L’Oreal and Mitsubishi Electric are among more than 120 global firms which scored top marks in a ranking of corporate efforts to slow climate change.Read More →
2018 was a losing year for the average hedge fund, but it did mark a rare outperformance compared to U.S. stocks. The average fund fell 4.07% last year, according to research firm HFR’s Fund Weighted Composite Index, while an asset-weighted version of the index fell 0.84%. That beat a return,Read More →
