Customer Quotes by Alex Berenson

Predicting the market is always tough.

— Alex Berenson

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

— Alex Berenson

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

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At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.

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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

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Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very…

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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

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In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding…

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Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of…

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Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means…

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For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer…

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One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers…

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The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it…

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Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive…

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Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth,…

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On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades…

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Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As…

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Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum…

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The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then…

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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to…

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Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are…

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Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

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Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

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Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

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It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy…

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Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors.…

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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and…

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Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely…

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At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not…

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Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information…

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Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one…

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The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually…

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Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

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While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling…

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Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their…

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It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising…

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