Investor Essentials Daily

Companies around the world seized a crucial opportunity to lighten their debt loads…but some missed their chance...

The global pandemic has unleashed a wave of digital disruption many experts previously expected was years or even decades away....

China has been a difficult investing market over the last year...

When the lights turned back on for the first time across the world’s factories after a significant period of lockdown, it was clear to manufacturing executives that their industry would be no exception to the massive technological disruption instigated by the pandemic...

Those who read yesterday’s Investor Essentials Daily newsletter already know that breakfast food conglomerate Post Holdings is a victim of bad GAAP accounting standards...

Behind many of your favorite breakfast brands, massive conglomerates have been consolidating smaller brands into their fold...

Legendary investor Bill Ackman is known across the investing world for his big, concentrated bets. As an activist investor, he will often buy a controlling stake in a company, install his own people on the board, and steer the ship in the direction he wants to go...

As a bidding war to buy a massive railroad company plays out, we at Valens are reminded of Warren Buffett’s outright purchase of his own massive railroad magnate...

When the U.S. imposed lockdowns in mid-March 2020 to combat the rapid spread of COVID-19, many believed the recession that followed would be severely damaging...

Although this energy producer tells you it is going green, the going is slower than you might think....

Early on in the pandemic, lockdowns sent most students and workers packing from the office or the classroom...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (“NBER”) has released its report breaking down the conditions of the coronavirus induced recession...

This ETF was the darling of green energy investors last year, but it has seen a large pullback in recent months...

With the cryptocurrency craze still in full swing, it’s easy for a bystander to see just how fervently retail buyers have dedicated themselves to the idea of blockchain technology...

The At-home Revolution hasn’t only been a godsend for homebuilders, but also for contractors and their suppliers...

Unfortunately, Type 2 diabetes is a major problem in America, a country where more than a quarter of the population suffers from obesity...

After a year of record low housing inventory and climbing prices, the news cycle is occupied with the risk of 2021 being a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis...

What was once a fun thought experiment has become an investable universe...

As the COVID-19 pandemic shut down swaths of the global economy and forced millions into self-isolation, people were forced to quickly adapt to a new, changing world...

As the pandemic has pushed mortgage rates to all-time lows and led more and more Americans to move away from crowded cities, inventories of new homes have reached their lowest levels in decades...