Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD)’s proposed sale to Chinese-holding company Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd is going to be reviewed through additional regulators. A group of 15 senators have urged the Treasury... Read More

Four of the key measures used to determine stress in the high yield market are approaching or at post-crisis lows: dispersion, distress ratios, default rates and spread per turn... Read More

Tobias M Levkovich of Citi thinks the stock market is slightly undervalued. Writing in a research note from last week, Citi slightly raised their earnings forecast from $117.25 to $117.50,... Read More

Bonds are very different from stocks, particularly when it comes to active management and it does not only have to do with odd personalities.... Active bond managers outperform their... Read More

With the current debate over emerging markets going between analysts who think current outflows are justified and others who think EM stocks are too cheap, it’s strange to hear... Read More

Matt Hall, is the author of the new memoir-manifesto, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor and President and Co-Founder of Hill Investment Group - he talks about why... Read More

The combination of cheap financing and expensive stocks makes this an attractive time for dealmakers, but investors have to be more cautious about mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that too... Read More

The high-flying Dorset Energy Fund, up 71.33% as of nearly one week ago, might be finding that leveraged energy exposure cuts both ways, down near 5% over the course... Read More

In the debate about whether the US stock market is currently overvalued, analysts have any number of valuation metrics to choose from. Most of them give comparable results (expensive,... Read More

With energy prices generally lower and in need of tighter supply to provide oil, natural gas and coal signs of pricing life comes Macquarie commodities research shows the increasing... Read More