Whitney Tilson

U.S. stocks traded mixed today as investors are anxiously waiting for Tuesday's testimony from Janet Yellen. Yellen will make her first appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives with a Senate session scheduled for Thursday. Elliot Spar, market strategist at Stifel told CNBC that "...

U.S. stocks finished the day almost unchanged as investors and traders were presented with a mixed bag of data today. A better than expected report on the service sector negated another report that showed that companies added fewer employees to their payrolls than anticipated in January. The...

Stocks traded mostly lower today as investors digested a new set of earnings that were disappointing. A mixed housing data and a consumer sentiment coming in lower than expected was enough to tame the bulls as major indices finished the day mixed. Markets will be closed on Monday for Martin...

Major indices barely budged Thursday following yesterday's monster rally after the Fed announced it will begin tapering. Overall volume was below average which is typical in the final trading days of the year. Next week will be shortened as investors break for Christmas and a week later for new...

While not offering any specifics, investors seemed comfortable enough with Dennis Lockhart's comments to end the week on a positive note. While speaking to CNBC the Atlanta Fed chief commented that tapering will begin “when the economy is ready and when the market is ready.” Lockhart also noted...

Whitney Tilson has become one of the strongest voices in the fight for education reform. As the founder and Managing Partner of Kase Capital, many investors know of Tilson as an outspoken money manager. He is also very dedicated to improving the American school system. "There is no magic bullet...

While some investors have always been skeptical about multi-level marketing firms, very few have gotten into a battle as heated as the one between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn. Ackman is famously short Herbalife (NYSE: HLF), while Icahn is now a prominent investor. Icahn's investments have caused a...

Kase Capital founder and Managing Partner Whitney Tilson recently co-authored a new book, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market, with media executive John Heins. Based on eight years of interviews from Value Investor Insight, a monthly newsletter created by...

Expect big changes from Hertz (NYSE: HTZ), Avis (NASDAQ: CAR), Enterprise and the entire industry over the next 10 years. Whitney Tilson, the founder and Managing Partner of Kase Capital, believes that the U.S. car rental segment will begin to resemble the railroad industry's transformation over...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has gotten quite popular over the last few years. According to AllThingsD, the streaming video giant has been acquiring roughly one-third of all fixed access (wires and pipes) Web traffic, defeating the competition by a significant margin. Only YouTube, Google's (NASDAQ:...

Nine months ago, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) traded for less than $55 a share. Any major company -- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or any other firm that has an interest in content deals and millions of subscribers -- could have purchased the firm at that low...

John L. Schwartz did not plan on producing a financial conference. As the founder of CME, Inc., a provider of clinical information to medical professionals, he helped create and deliver hundreds of conferences and trade shows every year. When he sold the company in a nine-figure all-cash...

On June 22, hedge fund managers Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue of T2 Partners disclosed to investors that the two would go their separate ways, leaving Tilson as the sole principal of T2 Partners. According to the letter, it was after careful consideration that they decided not to manage money...