Bulletin: It's a Credit Bubble! by Gary Tanashian, Notes From the Rabbit Hole You may have caught the title’s little inside joke. Sometimes you (well, I anyway) can look at a... Read More

The Chinese have long had an ambition to supplant the U.S. as the world’s reserve currency of choice, or at least operate their currency alongside as an alternative.  They... Read More

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) has filed with the SEC to set up a number of new alternative exchange-traded funds, including six funds named “ActiveBeta” and five hedge fund-themed... Read More

Covered Call overwriting? With stock markets moving sharply lower and then higher, now is a challenging time to sell call options on individual names where the investor owns the stock,... Read More

John Melloy, an executive producer at CNBC, is leaving the financial news network in order to become the Chief Executive Officer of StockTwits, according to reports this afternoon. StockTwits... Read More

Spinoffs Investment Strategies.... Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Seth Klarman and Walter Schloss are probably some of the greatest value investors of all time, and at one point or another,... Read More

Despite an increasingly virtual banking world, the prevalence of thousands of brick-and-mortar offices offers sufficient testimony to the enduring value of physical access to banking services, according to an... Read More

Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) agreed with Freddie Mac/Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (OTCBB:FMCC) to settle $780 million to resolve the repurchase claims on faulty mortgage loans. The largest U.S.... Read More

Along the panoply of much-hyped hedge fund terms, "machine learning"  stands out. The predominantly PhD-driven sales pitch makes stunning claims about a computer's ability to "learn," assign value to... Read More

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is said to be selling its physical commodities unit to Switzerland-based Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. Citing people familiar with the developments, Andy Hoffman and Hugh... Read More