The government has decided to take an additional 45 days to review a Chinese company's plan to purchase Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD), the world's largest pork producer. The sale of... Read More

Bulge bracket investment banking is no top career choice of MBA students and recent graduates. One quarter of respondents expressed a preference to working at consulting firms, up six... Read More

Money market funds have soared to heights not seen in nine years as investors continue to pull capital from equity and bond funds and pour it into MMFs. It's... Read More

Left Brain Capital Appreciation Master Fund performance update for the month of December 2018. Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc This first appeared on HiddenValueStocks (more…) Read More

Sergey Brin, the billionaire Google co-founder, has invested €250,000 ($330,000) to develop synthetic beef, and it won’t be long before it’s ready for its very first taste test, reports... Read More

Mathew Martoma, the former SAC Capital Advisors trader found guilty of insider trading, was stripped of his degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business, the first time the school... Read More

On December 3, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) made a dual-currency debt offering comprising of $3.25B in US dollar bonds and 3.5B in euro bonds. At an aggregate value of $8B,... Read More

A Credit Suisse report notes that long / short hedge funds have increased their short diversification percentages while funds made cuts to precious metals but additions to base metals... Read More

  Market Levels     US:  Dow Futures: 12942.30 (0.42%), S&P 500 Futures: 1367.82 (0.59%), NASDAQ Futures: 2910.56 (0.59%) Europe: CAC: 3259.74 (1.61%), DAX: 6641.72 (0.88%), FTSE: 5590.93 (0.32%) Asia-Pacific: Australia: 4209.80 (1.50%),... Read More

In 2016, Warren Buffett made what has turned out to be a very astute and well-timed investment decision. The Oracle of Omaha decided to invest $1 billion of Berkshire... Read More