Investors look through stock information at a securities firm in Haikou, Hainan province, on Friday. Photograph: Zhao Yingquan/Xinhua Press/Corbis
As the east coast of China was put on high alert for the approach of super-typhoon Chan-hom, it was not clear whether the financial storm that has rocked the country’s stock markets had blown itself out.Share prices rebounded to record their best […]
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.China’s sell-off will be felt far beyond its see-sawing stock markets. The month-long slide in share prices has called into question the country’s recent conversion to market dogma, while the state’s floundering response has exposed the limits of its grip on China’s financial system. Broader reforms may suffer.Some […]
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When a company announces its quarterly financial results, it’ll sometimes offer a two sets of earnings.The first is GAAP earnings, which are based on generally accepted accounting principles. This is an industry standard that requires every industry and company to account for and report items in a uniform way.But some companies and industries believe GAAP earnings aren’t always representative […]
Download Letter (PDF)June 12, 2015Crescat Capital Quarterly Investor Letter Q2 2015Performance UpdateWe are pleased to report that the Crescat Global Macro Fund was recently named one of the top-ten performing global macro hedge funds by BarclayHedge for the three years ended 3/31/2015. As shown in the table below, all three Crescat strategies performed strongly in Q1 while the S&P 500 […]
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So are stock prices too high or aren’t they?One of the most closely watched measures of stock market value is the cyclically adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio. Popularized by Nobel-prize winning economist Robert Shiller, CAPE is calculated by taking the S&P 500 and dividing it by the average of ten years’ worth of earnings. If the ratio is above the […]
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REUTERS/Lucas JacksonTraders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the market close in New York on October 17, 2014.Stocks are having their strongest session in several days.The Dow gained as much as 250 points after news crossed that Germany may be offering Greece the opportunity to come up with one economic reform […]
Foreign investors already can invest in China. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was launched last November, and it allows such investors to trade Shanghai A shares through the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mainland investors also gained access to Hong Kong shares, known as H shares.”China’s opening up could be the surprise story of 2015,” said Michelle Gibley, director of international […]
In his “Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets” blog earlier this year, veteran investor Mark Mobius noted, “According to the Chinese calendar, 2015 is the Year of the Goat (or sheep), creatures that are typically peaceful in nature but can also be stubborn, while exhibiting herd-like behavior.”That year official began on February 19. And so far, the Chinese zodiac has completely […]
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A recent article in Seeking Alpha focused on the traditional role of some of Wall Street’s biggest players: hedge funds.In the six-year bull market that has taken the S&P 500 to new all-time highs, there has been little need for hedging or protection from a weak stock market. However, a large part of what hedge funds are meant to do […]
