By Dr. David Kass In SEC Form 4 filings, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) has disclosed that in January and early February 2016, it has added to its stake in Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) at...
The DAX 30 (FXCM: GER30) has risen 3.05% this morning and may continue to rise over the next few days as short-sellers get squeezed out of their positions. The cause of the latest rally has likely b...
Last year our real GDP grew 2.4 percent, primarily driven by personal consumption and fixed investments, by both residential and non-residential fixed investments. However, markets in 2015 ended up fl...
 It seems that Twitter (TWTR) has been under siege by an army of bears. The company has desperately tried to solve its user growth problems ever since its 2013 IPO. For a while, it was able to dis...
Gold declined from 1250 area to around 1210 today as risk assets staged a recovery in Asia. After a week-long holiday, China market reopened with a 0.3% higher CNY mid-point set by the central bank PB...
Markets are cheerful, ignoring reasons not to be cheerful such as a contraction in Japan and poor Chinese trade data. Does this imply more stimulus that markets love so much? A testimony by ECB Presid...
Alphabet, previously Google, reported healthy Q4 2015 earnings that topped analyst estimates. Google’s core ad business saw a resurgence in growth aided by the company’s change in ad forma...
The time tested proverb “A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the top” is generally attributed to Mark Twain, although he may have just popularized it. The last few years, Â...
Hogging the spotlight in 2015, with an average return of 86%, Facebook, Inc. (FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) and Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) – more popularly the FANG stocks – have l...
Bad news is once again good news… for stocks that is. After a month and a half of markets unable to decide if they should buy or sell on ugly data, over the weekend, People’s Bank of China G...