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Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Bet On "Tax Alpha"
Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Bet On "Tax Alpha"
Tax alpha — the practice of improving investment returns by reducing taxes — has become one of the fastest-growing strategies on Wall Street, according to Bloomberg.
Rather than focusing only on beating the market, many investment firms now design portfolios to minimize taxes, often producing higher after-tax returns even if pre-tax performance is similar to traditional strategies.
After years of rising markets, many wealthy Americans hold large unrealized gains in stocks and funds. To address the resulting tax burden, asset managers have developed a wide...
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Feb 28, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Defiant Iranian FM Says Regime Change Will Be 'Mission Impossible'
Defiant Iranian FM Says Regime Change Will Be 'Mission Impossible'
There have been more US and Israeli strikes on Tehran into the afternoon and evening hours local time, suggesting that the aerial operation will be sustained, at least for the time being.
There have been rumors flying all day that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed, which Iranian officials have firmly denied. Many analysts believe that full regime change in Iran cannot happen unless there are US forces on the ground, and this prospect would be immensely unpopular among the American...
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May 6, 2026 / Tyler Durden
UBS Says Transport Stock Rout Is "Overdone" After Amazon News
UBS Says Transport Stock Rout Is "Overdone" After Amazon News
UBS senior analyst Tom Wadewitz, who covers freight transportation, told clients that Amazon's latest push to open its supply chain network to businesses beyond its own marketplace triggered an "overdone" sell-off in transport names, including UPS, FedEx, and C.H. Robinson.
Wadewitz said the risk is not new, noting that Amazon's supply chain service has been around since 2023. He said the pullback has created attractive entry points in select transport stocks, particularly UPS, FedEx, and C.H. Robinson.
"While we view AMZN's...
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Mar 31, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Negative Equity Leaves 30% Of Car-Buyers Underwater On Trade‑Ins
Negative Equity Leaves 30% Of Car-Buyers Underwater On Trade‑Ins
Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times,
Almost one-third of American car buyers with a trade-in owe more than the vehicle is worth, new industry data show.
About 30.5 percent of buyers trading in a car toward a new vehicle maintained negative equity, according to a JD Power report released on March 26.
This is up 4.2 percentage points from a year ago and has been steadily rising since 2022, “as consumers who purchased during the peak of inventory shortages 4 years ago...
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