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Howard Marks and Joel Greenblatt discussed market bubbles, tech stocks, and investing tips in a recent interview. Here are the value investors’ 9 best quotes.

Howard Marks and Joel Greenblatt discussed bubbles, tech stocks, and investing tips. The value investors suggested some companies deserve their lofty valuations. Here are Marks and Greenblatt’s nine best quotes from the interview. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Value investors Howard Marks and Joel Greenblatt discussed market bubbles, tech stocks, and the key … Read more

Billionaire investors Steve Cohen and Ken Griffin pour $2.8 billion into a GameStop short seller

Steve Cohen’s Point72 and Ken Griffin’s Citadel are investing $2.75 billion in Melvin Capital. Melvin is down about 30% this year as its short positions are getting hammered. Day traders have bid up the stock prices of GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond, and other popular shorts. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. A pair … Read more

5 ‘StockTok’ creators explaining the market to a new generation of investors

The TikTok hashtag “#investing” has amassed over 1 billion views on the mobile video app as more and more young people are turning to the platform to learn about the stock market. Several creators are using TikTok to explain stock market concepts in fun and interesting ways with short, snappy videos and useful graphics. Here … Read more

‘I don’t see this ending well’: A 47-year market vet breaks down why stocks are a ‘few months’ away from a 75% crash – and says gold will surge to $10,000 because of a tidal wave of inflation

David Hunter, the chief macro strategist at Contrarian Macro Advisors and a 47-year market veteran, says a 75% sell-off is in store for stocks in early 2021 following a final “melt-up.” He predicts an economic bust, and that subsequent responses from central banks would lead to mass inflation. Hunter also says gold will surge to … Read more

Should Promoters care about the stock price?

…or instead just focus on the business and let stock price be decided by the market forces…

A Wall Street expert says the dramatic shift in stocks last week reeks of investor complacency — and warns that many favorite trades remain vulnerable to losses

The popular momentum trade that involves buying market winners and selling losers suffered its largest one-day outflow in over three decades last week Monday. This dramatic shift marked a departure from stocks geared towards working from home, and reflected investors’ excitement about an effective vaccine. But Peter Tchir, the head of macro strategy at Academy … Read more

Jefferies outlines the overlooked measure of corporate profitability that’s pointing towards bigger stock gains ahead

Jefferies says profit margins are indicating at least one extra quarter of improvement is ahead for stocks. The “shock drop” in margins in the second quarter is rebounding just as quickly as the third quarter earnings did, the bank’s equity strategist said. He added that the lack of a blue wave election outcome and subsequent … Read more

Goldman Sachs breaks down the 5 forces that will shape US stock-market demand in 2021 as investors put stockpiled cash to work

Equity allocations have rebounded to their highest levels in two years at 47% of total financial assets, just below the tech bubble peak, which sat at 51%, said Goldman Sach’s equity analyst Arjun Menon in a recent client note. Menon and his colleagues in the portfolio strategy research team released a new report exploring existing … Read more

Sebi raises minimum investment corpus in equities to 75% for multicap funds | India Business News

Markets regulator Sebi (Securities and Exchange Board of India) on Friday tweaked asset allocation framework for multicap mutual funds, asking such funds to have a minimum corpus of 75 per cent invested in equities as against the present mandate of 65 per cent. Further, such funds will have to make a minimum investment of 25 … Read more