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"Robots, Drones" Mean Mass Layoffs For Whole Foods Employees
When describing the logic behind Amazon's blockbuster acquisition of Whole Paycheck Foods, a deal that made the "greedy bastards" over at Jana Partners $400 million richer in just a few months, Credit...
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Dan Loeb Is Now Nestle's 6th Largest Shareholder; Goes Activist On World's...
Dan Loeb has returned to his earthshaking activist roots, and in a letter released moments ago, Third Point announced it is now targeting the world’s largest food company, with its biggest bet on a...
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First India Bans Cash, Now It's Targeting Gold
Authored by Jeff Paul via ActivistPost.com,In November of last year, India banned certain cash notes in a bold move to force businesses into the banking system to better harvest more taxes from its...
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Noted Short Seller Marc Cohodes Comments On The Recent Events At Home Capital
Submitted by Marc Cohodes And @DonutShortsThe past two months have been a roller coaster ride for Home Capital shareholders culminating in the announcement of Berkshire Hathaway’s investment in the...
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Moody's Warns That Private-Label Credit Card Issuers Will Be Crushed By...
We've spent a lot of time of late talking about the retail implosion currently underway in the United States courtesy of a massive oversupply of retail square footage and a simultaneous shift in demand...
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Hedge Fund Traders Return To Banking As Trump Promises To 'Make Prop Trading...
The hedge fund industry is finding itself in increasingly dire straits as persistently weak returns and the advent of low-cost investing have forced more and more funds to shut down. So, it's...
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Global Stocks Rebound From Korea Jitters; S&P Flat As Fed Minutes Await; Oil...
S&P futures were little changed at 2,425, ignoring the N.Korea tensions of the past two days which will likely be a major topic in the upcoming G-20 summit, as European stocks fluctuate and Asian...
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Malls Swap Retailers For Gyms And Restaurants In Last-Ditch Bid For Survival
With a record 8,640 retail stores expected to close in 2017, American malls are desperate to draw in customers as America’s retail apocalypse leaves them littered with empty store fronts. Now, some are...
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There Has Been Just One Buyer Of Stocks Since The Financial Crisis
When discussing Blackrock's latest quarterly earnings (in which the company missed on both the top and bottom line, reporting Adj. EPS of $5.24, below the $5.40 exp), CEO Larry Fink made an interesting...
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"Willful Blindness"
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,As we get into the midst of the Q2 earnings season, we can take a closer look at the results through the 1st quarter of the year. Despite the...
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"Reading The News On America Should Scare Everyone, Every Day... But It Doesn't"
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,Reading the news on America should scare everyone, and every day, but it doesn’t. We’re immune, largely. Take this morning. The US Republican...
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BOJ Plans To Drop Inflation Target At Thursday's Meeting
The Bank of Japan is finally acknowledging something that Federal Reserve policy makers like San Francisco Fed President John Williams acknowledged months ago, when he published a paper highlighting...
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One Bank's Surprising Finding: "It's Not Complacency But Paralysis"
Complacent: Contented to a fault; self-satisfied - The American Heritage DictionaryThree weeks after the volatility-obsessed Deutsche Bank derivatives expert Aleksandar Kocic went so far as to not...
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"The Most Dangerous Moment": Why Every Bank Is Suddenly Talking About Q3 2018
By now everyone is probably familiar with one of the scariest financial charts created recently by Bank of America: it shows that not only have central banks injected a record $15.1 trillion in...
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The New "Supply-Side Economics" Fueling Asset Bubbles
Via Global Macro Monitor,No, we are not talking about President Reagan’s supply-side economics- policies to increase productivity with the goal of increasing long-term aggregate supply or output while...
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Market "Paralysis" Confirmed - Squeezed Shorts And Anxious Longs Are Fleeing...
For the last two years, short interest in the US stock market's largest ETF has collapsed as bears have been squeezed back to their lowest level of negativity since Q2 2007 (the prior peak in the...
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Why VIX 'Acceleration Events' And Extreme Short Interest Signal "Clear Path...
Authored by Peter Tchir via Brean Capital,VIX ETFs and ETNsWe take a deeper dive into the strange world of VIX ETFs and ETNs. We take a quick look at the incredible short interest in both the long VIX...
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Deutsche Bank Tumbles After Abysmal Trading Results
Deutsche Bank shares tumbled 4% on Thursday after reporting better than expected earnings, driven by provisions and dramatic cost-cutting, more than offset however by a sharp drop in overall company...
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Global Markets, Futures Slide Spooked By Poor Amazon Earnings, US Politics
S&P futures have tracked both European and Asian markets lower, which were dragged down by the big EPS miss and guidance cut reported by Amazon on Thursday. Meanwhile, the pounding of the dollar...
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Swiss Banks Paid Out €1 Billion In Negative Interest Rates In The First Half
Overnight, the Swiss National Bank disclosed the composition and breakdown of its FX reserves as of June 30. There were no notable changes, as the central bank kept most of its asset allocations...
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