Victor Montagliani’s compensation is thought to be among the highest in the world for a non-club soccer official Concacaf president Victor Montagliani is paid over $3m per year for what the organization claims is just five hours per week of work, according to the latest tax filing made to the Internal Revenue Service. Publicly available filings, first reported by ProPublica, show that he Canadian ...
Victor Montagliani’s compensation is thought to be among the highest in the world for a non-club soccer official Concacaf president Victor Montagliani is paid over $3m per year for what the organization claims is just five hours per week of work, according to the latest tax filing made to the Internal Revenue Service. Publicly available filings, first reported by ProPublica, show that he Canadian was paid $2.1m in base compensation and an additional $893,750 in unspecified bonus and incentive compensation for the 2024 tax year. An additional $15,780 was paid in deferred or retirement compensation. Continue reading...
There were doubters, all across Wall Street by some accounts, that Tuesday’s stock rout would be short-lived, a pullback not sharp enough to dissuade President Donald Trump from waging a trade war with Europe for control of Greenland. Not among them: the retail crowd. Individual investors plowed $4 billion into US equities as the S&P 500 suffered its biggest draw-down in three months, according to...
There were doubters, all across Wall Street by some accounts, that Tuesday’s stock rout would be short-lived, a pullback not sharp enough to dissuade President Donald Trump from waging a trade war with Europe for control of Greenland. Not among them: the retail crowd. Individual investors plowed $4 billion into US equities as the S&P 500 suffered its biggest draw-down in three months, according to data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Another $2.3 billion flowed in on Wednesday, just in time for Trump to unleash a rally by standing down from his tariff bluster. Stocks soared 1.2% and gained another 0.6% Thursday, essentially wiping out the first-day slide. For retail traders, the dip buying was axiomatic. The strategy that was born in the 2020 Covid bear market and came of age during 2021’s meme stock frenzy has a new corollary in Trump’s second term. Encapsulated by what’s been dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, the TACO trade holds, primarily, that any drop caused by threats of punitive levies is a golden buying opportunity. It worked in April. It worked all summer. And it worked this week. “Retail appetite has been notably strong, with individual investors stepping into markets despite volatility driven by tariff headlines, geopolitical uncertainty and policy noise out of Davos,” said Lale Akoner , eToro global markets strategist. “The scale of inflows suggests retail investors remain broadly optimistic on risk assets.” Read: How Trump’s Greenland Threat Revived the TACO Trade: QuickTake Exchange-traded funds absorbed the bulk of the demand. In the five days through Jan. 14 and Jan. 21, broad-based equity ETFs, which account for roughly 40% of retail ETF purchases, posted their strongest inflows ever on a rolling weekly basis. The flows were driven by heavy buying of funds such as the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF , JPMorgan’s data show. “We all know Trump’s playbook now. He threatens something big, then walks back when he ge...
When the young Warren Buffett asked for Susie Thompson's hand in marriage, he got it -- but only after a political rant. Harry Truman had lost the fight against communism, Susie's father, Doc Thompson said. According to Alice Shroeder's biography, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, he predicted that stocks would become "valueless bits of paper." Still, Susie's miserable future ...
When the young Warren Buffett asked for Susie Thompson's hand in marriage, he got it -- but only after a political rant. Harry Truman had lost the fight against communism, Susie's father, Doc Thompson said. According to Alice Shroeder's biography, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, he predicted that stocks would become "valueless bits of paper." Still, Susie's miserable future wouldn't be Warren's fault. The marriage was a go. And as for those soon-to-be "valueless bits of paper"? In 1953, the first year after Warren and Susie's wedding, the S&P 500 rang in the New Year at 26.18. During the next 10 years, it rose 148%. As of Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, it stood at 6,940.01, or a 26,409% rise since Buffett's father-in-law's bearish prophecy. Continue reading
Individual investors plowed $4 billion into US equities as the S&P 500 suffered its biggest draw-down in three months, according to data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Another $2.3 billion flowed in on Wednesday, just in time for Trump to unleash a rally by standing down from his tariff bluster. For retail traders, the dip buying was axiomatic. “Retail appetite has been notably strong, with individual ...
Individual investors plowed $4 billion into US equities as the S&P 500 suffered its biggest draw-down in three months, according to data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Another $2.3 billion flowed in on Wednesday, just in time for Trump to unleash a rally by standing down from his tariff bluster. For retail traders, the dip buying was axiomatic. “Retail appetite has been notably strong, with individual investors stepping into markets despite volatility driven by tariff headlines, geopolitical uncertainty and policy noise out of Davos,” said Lale Akoner, eToro global markets strategist.