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Most people would prefer to avoid reading never ending documents whenever they can, but lengthy 8-K SEC filings are a necessity for the serious investor. We shed light into this topic and show examples on how you can speed up your research significantly.

The financial sector is on the brink of collapse. The country that probably gave the English-speaking world the word for bank – medieval Italian merchants traded with each other on a bench known as banca – has a €360bn problem in its fragmented banking sector. This is the amount of non-performing loans, loans on which customer’s repayments have fallen behind.

How does one determine whether an asset is fundamentally undervalued or overvalued? Gold. It’s the ultimate storehouse of value. Let’s have a look into the present and see if we can construct an indicator and use the gold price to measure the value of any commodity.

In their view, the intervening two years have thoroughly validated that thesis and proven the company’s business model differentiation. Pangaea Logistics was the only US-listed drybulk operator to remain profitable in both 2015 and 2016. The company generated more than $40 million in operating cashflow during the period, which was primarily reinvested in completing a planned acquisition program, adding three additional vessels to the owned fleet to support new contracts. PANL even withstood the 2016 bankruptcy restructuring of its largest customer, Noranda Aluminum. The Noranda contract is a 10-year contract for the transport of bauxite from Jamaica to the US and a key reason for Pangaea’s differentiation.

The board of Johnston Press have received a formal demand for a vote to install Alex Salmond as chairman, setting the scene for a potentially explosive confrontation between the newspaper publisher and its shareholders.

According to Goldman Sachs these are the tech companies most likely to get acquired within the next twelve months.

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Globalstar has long been a controversial investment. Originally, the short-thesis was that the FCC would never grant Globalstar’s request, out of interference concerns; interference from any transmission on Globalstar’s spectrum with transmission on adjacent spectrum bands.

Under the current Board’s supervision, Rent-A-Center’s shares have declined by over 75% in just over two years. Say hello to the Titanic.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report in which it increased its forecast for China’s GDP growth by 0.3 percentage points to 6.5 percent. However, the IMF report also warned that “slow progress in addressing corporate debt” posed a risk to the forecast. China’s claims to be over the worst of its corporate debt problem seem to be wishful thinking. One thing is certain: The debt problem is real; it’s a drag on growth; and policies so far have not gotten rid of it.

Portfolio Manager commentary as of December 31, 2016 regarding small cap investments. Third Avenue is a private investment firm rooted in their collective value-driven investment philosophy. Since their founding in 1986, they have consistently pursued a fundamental, bottom-up approach to deep value and distressed investing–the fund has it’s focus on the company’s balance sheet, the value of its underlying assets, and the discounted price of its securities.

A company’s 10 Q report is one of the most important tools an investor has when he tries to decide if and when a particular stock is a buy or a sell. The majority of investors is reading these reports yet most of them fail to properly understand the lingo used in these reports. What most investors miss or are not capable of doing is reading between the lines and interpreting the data correctly. To kick us off, we will examine key-phrases used in the 10 Q reports that can help us gauge the direction of the stock price.

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire, is a documentary, which shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. Up to half of the global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions , such as Jersey and the Caymans Islands.

Despite being a tedious and time consuming task and even if you feel you’ve done all your homework, the pick could still go bad. In this article we’ll show you some harbingers of a turnaround situation in Obsidian Energy that will help you isolate the flower from the weeds.

Ben Graham, the father of value investing, once said of the stock market, “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” To Graham the market was like a popularity contest. Investors “vote” for a stock out of considered enthusiasm for its prospects. Results however are determined in the long run as profits are “weighed” year after year and intrinsic value is revealed.