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(Bloomberg) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. is returning to the bond market within weeks of its last visit, looking to support its liquidity and repay outstanding debt.The carrier is selling five-year unsecured bonds that may yield around 8%, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The notes are expected to carry high-yield ratings, but the offering is being marketed by investment-grade debt syndicates, the person said, asking not to be identified as the details are private.Delta borrowed $3.5 billion in April through a sale of five-year secured bonds, pledged by domestic slots at New York airports and those at Heathrow in London, but Wednesday’s offering comes with no collateral protection. It’s a sign of how much the market has rallied since then for Delta to merely announce an unsecured offering, especially when the stakes for strong collateral have never been so high.U.S. airlines have been focused on raising capital...
Diamond Hill Capital recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. The Diamond Hill Small Cap Fund posted a return of -36.17% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the Russell 2000 Index which returned -30.61% in the same quarter. You should check out Diamond Hill Capital's top 5 […]...
(Bloomberg) -- Daniel Kretinsky’s bet on Macy’s Inc. turned out to be short but profitable, and the Czech billionaire might jump back into the stock again if the price is right.His Vesa Equity Investment said Tuesday it owned 0.7% of the U.S. department-store chain, down from the 5% stake unveiled less than a month ago. The investment, billed as a strategic move at the time, coincided with a 65% surge in the stock. Kretinsky made roughly $36 million if he bought Macy’s shares the day before disclosing his 5% stake and sold them on Tuesday.“The reason for our exit certainly isn’t lack of confidence in the company’s future or in the management’s abilities,” said Vesa Equity spokesman Daniel Castvaj. “We will continue closely watching Macy’s and the U.S. retail market in general and we are not ruling out returning among the shareholders of this company.”Macy’s is beginning to reopen stores following...
The Federal Reserve is set to announce its latest policy decision on Wednesday afternoon....
Of all the controversial plays on Wall Street, penny stocks take the cake. The risk-tolerant flock to these names as the potential for share prices to grow from pocket change to more than a few dollars is too tempting to ignore.That said, these tickers aren’t without their pitfalls. Some investors avoid them entirely, arguing that the bargain price tags are too good to be true. Rather, the fact that shares are trading at such low levels could reflect problems lying beneath the surface, whether it be poor fundamentals or overpowering headwinds. So, how are investors supposed to distinguish between the long-term winners and those set to come up short? One strategy is to follow the activity of the pros.Enter Israel “Izzy” Englander, who is widely known for his impressive stock picking abilities. Englander expressed interest in the stock market since he was young, and in 1989, co-founded hedge fund Millennium Management...
Investors who owned stocks in the 2010s generally experienced some big gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500's (NYSE: SPY) total return for the decade was 250.5%. But there's no question some big-name stocks did much better than others along the way.Marathon's Difficult Decade: One underperformer of the last decade was U.S. oil exploration & production company Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO).Marathon's past 10 years were dominated by a major restructuring, a surge in U.S. shale oil production and an unprecedented collapse in oil prices due to COVID-19.Marathon shares started the 2010s trading at around $19.25 but hit their decade-high above $37.99 in mid-2014 just prior to the first collapse in oil prices. That first downturn was driven by a supply glut credited in large part to a booming U.S. shale oil industry.In 2011, during the shale oil boom, Marathon restructured its company, spinning off its refining business into its own...
