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Hedge Funds Are Record Short Natural Gas on Mild Winter Outlook
Hedge-fund managers have amassed a record short position in US natural gas on expectations for an unusually mild northern winter that points to anemic demand for the furnace and power-plant fuel. Money managers have increased short-only exposure…
It's been a painful month for hedge funds. To turn it around, they are shorting U.S. stocks.
October has witnessed several crises: faltering confidence in the sustainability of the artificial-intelligence boom and chaos in the French bond market are chief among them. These adverse moves have wrong-footed the hedge-fund community and…
Hedge Funds Bet Big Against the Stock Market
The bad signs are piling up when it comes to where markets may be headed. Hedge funds are betting heavily against stocks this month, with bearish wagers nearing a five-year high. Goldman Sachs says its prime brokerage clients have been selling…
Hedge Funds Log Widest Daily Drawdown Since Covid in Stock Rout
Global hedge funds suffered one of their broadest declines since the Covid pandemic following the stock market selloff on Thursday, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 's prime brokerage desk. “For the first time since Covid, all three…
Hedge fund returns worsen this week as tech selloff deepens
HONG KONG, New York Oct 23 (Reuters) – Global hedge funds were hit by a fresh tech reckoning this week, with major strategies posting their worst day since the COVID-era market rout. A renewed selloff in big tech stocks, driven by…
Ex-cop sped away in hedge fund's SUV after fatal George Washington Bridge road rage shooting: report
The former NYPD detective accused of shooting and killing a man on the George Washington Bridge in a horrific road rage attack sped away in a Range Rover owned by his hedge fund employer, according to a report. Victor Romero, 62, is facing charges…
Hedge Fund Short Leverage Ranks in Top 1% of Five-Year Readings
A global gauge puts hedge fund short leverage in the top 1% of its five-year readings, as October trading has shown an approximately 5-to-1 imbalance between short activity and long purchases. The 99th-percentile label compares the gauge with its…
Hedge Funds Are Shorting Stocks at Near-Record Levels
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Kalshi wants its new contracts to be a way to predict where markets are heading without buying stocks
If you're bullish or bearish on Walmart stock, you would probably just buy and hold shares or buy options betting the stock will fall. Soon, though, Kalshi wants users to tap the prediction platform for yet another way to bet on where markets and…
Tax-Aware Investing: It's Not What You Earn, It's What You Keep
Zoltan Pongracz is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Third View Private Wealth. Say you earn 15% in a high-turnover hedge fund that generates significant short-term capital gains, or you earn 15% in a tax-efficient investment. Those may…
Kalshi Courts Wall Street in Bid to Be the 'Inflation Exchange'
Kalshi Inc. is opening up a new frontier in its rivalry with traditional financial exchanges by pitching the world's largest banks and hedge funds on a futures market tied to US inflation. The New York-based firm, best known for its prediction…
A pair of big-name, macro portfolio managers are out at ExodusPoint less than a year after joining
A pair of pedigreed traders have left Michael Gelband's ExodusPoint Capital, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Chris Wheeler and Daniel Dangoor, each of whom ran their own macro investing team for the $15.5 billion hedge…
Opinion: The crisis in France will not stay in France. Canada, beware
Please log in to bookmark this story. Create an account John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. What happens in France won't…
Warning shareholders of £1 billion Scottish company risk 'sleepwalking' into a change
US hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein's Saba Capital Management is seeking to install three individuals it has nominated to the board of Edinburgh -based Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust, of which it owns about 29%. It has tabled resolutions to…
The Year-End Rally Is Well Underway
The year-end rally is unfolding broadly, with non-tech equities outperforming as tech valuations face scrutiny and AI-related spending concerns intensify. Despite tech sector weakness, the equally weighted S&P 500 has gained 4.1% since October…
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