After sporting middling 1.7% returns in the first quarter, admitted market cynics at Carlson Capital delivered notable 9.9% net second quarter returns to investors. The above mean performance came... Read More

As a great continues in private equity, The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) will report its earnings for the third quarter of the year on Thursday before the market opens... Read More

The talking heads on CNBC attract their fair share of criticism, and as it turns out, this criticism is deserved. During October 2013, Y. Han (Andy) Kim and Felix Meschke published a... Read More

Talk about costly typos. A mistaken e-mail address typo had placed in jeopardy “highly confidential brokerage account information” of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) customers and the investment bank is... Read More

When the credit markets sold off in early 2016, the hedge fund run by Mitch Julis and Joshua Friedman's Canyon Value Realization Fund, L.P., saw investing opportunity that they believed would... Read More

National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) sports an improved capital position following its equity issuance and capital measures, notes Paul Formanko of JP Morgan. The JP Morgan Cazenove analyst upgraded NBG... Read More

Stock buybacks or share repurchases is one of the most controversial subjects in finance. Some investors believe that they are a waste of money, and would rather excess company cash... Read More

2016 and The Limitations of Contrarianism by LST I find writing immensely therapeutic. and after the last two weeks of banging my head against the wall on a daily basis, I... Read More

Lansdowne Partners, one of London's largest hedge funds, is known for putting big bets against some big companies. The fund is now betting against Unilever plc (NYSE:UL) (LON:ULVR), one of... Read More

Deutsche Bank believes that over time the Euro will weaken further against the dollar -- in line with much of the rest of Wall Street. However, as Deutsche Bank... Read More