General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) in its filing Thursday with the SEC said that after completion of the IPO, the unit will operate under “Synchrony Financial”. The company plans to list... Read More

Activist Insight data shows renewed appetite for large cap targets after tailing off in 2016. Almost one-in-three U.S. companies publicly subjected to demands by activist investors in the first half... Read More

Marc Cohodes - Jim Grant’s Fall 2016 Investing Conference took place in New York City earlier this week and, as usual, the conference threw off plenty of interesting investment ideas... Read More

An increasing percentage of weather extremes are noted in a Swiss study as directly related to global warming Read More

  Every afternoon ValueWalk provides an update on global market levels, economic news, and hedge fund news Market Levels   US:  Dow: 12986.50 (1.41%), S&P 500: 1387.56 (1.38%), NASDAQ: 3055.55 (1.30%) Europe: CAC: 3269.79 (0.98%),... Read More

Part three of a short series on Martin (Marty) Whitman. To catch up on the rest of the story, you can find part two here. Continued from part two... Distressed debt... Read More

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) will always have its defenders, because without it you would have to admit that investing isn’t a hard science in the vein of physics... Read More

Below is a 13F Roundup for some high profile names for the fourth quarter of 2018. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc These statements are generally seen as a barometer of hedge... Read More

As banking and other sensitive functions in society increasingly move to cell phones, another mobile phone security bug has been discovered, this one that puts iOS users at risk... Read More

VIPShop Holdings (VIPS)  didn’t do half bad with its second quarter earnings report released on Tuesday, but investors didn’t seem all too pleased. The stock took a dive in the... Read More