China attempts to shake up the Global Chip Industry China created the country’s largest chip maker last week, taking a giant step towards Beijing’s plan of becoming less reliant on foreign technology. Under the government’s direction, Tsinghua Unigroup, China’s largest chip designer, acquired a majority stake in XMC, one of China’s leading chip makers and … Read more
Hedge Fund Investing Just as Good As Monkeys With Darts Tiger cub hedge fund Tiger Global’s public-equity business, run by Scott Shleifer and Chase Coleman, ditched its massive bet of more than 17.9 million shares, according to the fund’s most recent 13-F filing. Viking Global, led by billionaire Andreas Halvorsen, reduced its stake in Netflix in … Read more
Longest Bull Market In History: Updated Dec 2022 Verily, the notion of hope is folly for those with ample time on their hands and an insatiable appetite for torment, at least as far as investing in the markets is concerned. We do not mean to be unkind, but the stock market is akin to a … Read more
Nigeria’s Response to Fraud Allegations Laughable The civil society organisation which dragged Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and others before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-corruption agencies for an alleged fraud of about N11 billion, Egalitarian Mission Africa (EMA), yesterday said the defence put up by the state government denying the … Read more
Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor An Audit Firm on trial for not spotting $2.9bn fraud Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. Subscribers … Read more
Black Wall Street; The real Dirty Dancing Movie These elections will be one of the most polarised elections in the history of the US; when people let emotions do the talking, they are easy to manipulate. Market Update July 2, 2016 The term Black Wall Street is used here to illustrate just how dirty Wall … Read more
What Is Quantitative Easing (QE)? Quantitative easing (QE) is a form of unconventional monetary policy in which a central bank purchases longer-term securities from the open market in order to increase the money supply and encourage lending and investment. Buying these securities adds new money to the economy, and also serves to lower interest rates … Read more
Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor Random thoughts Central bankers have become very adept at deflating a nation’s currency while maintaining the illusion all is well. This is achieved by subsidising key industries, using a basket of goods that (and the sectors these goods originate from are usually the one’s receiving massive subsidies) paint … Read more
Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor Hong Kong-Shenzhen stock exchange link Approved If you are a novice trader you will find out investing for dummies section to be of great interest. Now let’s look at the most-read article of the week shall we and then we will get to the story at hand. … Read more
Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor Brexit Blow Let’s start off by posting an excerpt of the article that viewers loved the most this week. The masses made no noise when central bankers started to flood the system with hot money and are still quiet, so why will the banks stop? There are trillions of dollars … Read more
