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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to cover expenses, one exception is HCM www.heffcap.com that is purely success based. Traditional asset-management firms, which offer products such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, get most of [...]

GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB)

A way to play Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) on the Cheap if you must GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) got hammered Friday because the company has sold another secondary offering of common shares, so that it can go out and buy more portfolio investments. This business development company priced a follow-on stock offering of 6,000,000/shrs at a [...]

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US Market Sentiment Indicators

Bulls vs. Bears The Bulls are at 38.7% vs. 41.9% last. Last week the Bulls faded and moves to the 35% mark, the Key mark that turns this to a Bullish signal. This indicator is lining up with the Put/Call ratio. They have moved off of the 55 mark hit in February. For your reference: [...]

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Wall St PreMarket Gold, FX, Equities, Oil

Early indications suggested that stocks in economically sensitive sectors such as banks and those linked to natural resources would lead the decline. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) fell 2.3 percent to $14.61 in premarket trade. Aluminum producer Alcoa (NYSE:AA) fell 1.2 percent to $8.95. The general move out of risky assets, such as equities and commodities, was [...]

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Mark J. Lundeen Market Outlook

Markets on the Edge of Something Big Mark J. Lundeen In Early May, some potentially big things are happening that I want to bring to your attention. First, it appears that gold’s bear box is terminating. Remember, the step sum is a market sentiment indicator, and since February the price of gold has [...]

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Organic Food USA: Genesis Industries on BioChar

By Y 2050, our Planet will need 70% more food at a minimum than it does today to meet the expected rise in population from 7-B to 9-B, and changing appetites as many poor people grow richer, according to the experts. “Can we feed a world of 9-B? I would say the answer is yes,” [...]

EuroCrisis: Olli Rehn Trys to Talk up Economy

The European economy is suffering a mild and short-lived recession and is expected to witness a slow recovery at the start of 2-H this year and the next year, European Union (EU) Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said Friday, the statement shows how far from reality the European politicians now reside. Real economy [...]

South Africa Outlook Downgraded

South Africa’s economy is feared to be plagued by new challenges in the coming months. The manufacturing output slid unexpectedly by 4.3% in March, and factory production fell by 2.7% year on year, marking the 1st decline in 8 months, the South African newspaper the Business Day reported on Friday, citing Statistics South Africa (Statistics [...]

The FELDA IPO, DB, JPM, MS: Racism and Political Corruption in Malaysia

Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE:DB), JPMorgan Chase & Co.(NYSE:JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) DB, JPM, MS are assisting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak buy his way back in to office with an IPO that differentiates the subscription price on race, something that should not be supported by international financial institutions. The sham IPO purports to offer [...]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) a Must Own Under $520

I am an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) believer, with my price target at $800, but there is a big bump in the road as regulators reduce Apple’s weighting in Indexes in the near future and the ridiculous EuroCrisis continues to a devastating finally, the break up of the EU or a severe Euro devaluation. The Rebalance [...]

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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to …