Monthly Archives: February 2018

(Bloomberg) Haidar Capital Management’s global macro hedge fund returned about 12.5 percent last month by betting on emerging markets, commodities and a weaker dollar, a wager that’s unlikely to change unless short-term interest rates spike, said Chief Executive Officer Said […]

(BBC) European markets have followed Asian markets lower on Tuesday as investors continued to dump shares. London, Frankfurt and Paris all fell sharply at the open with losses of up to 3%, before recovering some ground. In the US overnight […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund managers have cut their bullish exposure to petroleum for the first time in six weeks as oil prices stalled and sentiment turned more cautious amid concerns about an increasingly crowded trade…. To read this article:

(The Business Insider) A trader has been betting for months on a large increase in the Cboe Volatility Index — or VIX — which serves as the stock market’s fear gauge, and has been suppressed for most of the past […]

(Bloomberg) Whenever there’s a sudden crash seemingly devoid of rhyme or reason, the first culprits in the firing line tend to be the “algos.” To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Bill Gross was having a mighty good 2018, until he wasn’t. Gross’s $2.2 billion Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund fell 0.83 percent as markets plunged Monday — its biggest drop since Dec. 30, 2016, and the worst one-day […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds led the latest rush out of stocks, with selling from BofAML clients reaching a record high. As the S&P 500 suffered the worst decline in two years last week, clients from pension funds to wealthy individuals were […]

(Bloomberg) As Asia was jolted awake to a violent sell-off in global markets, some money managers are girding for more carnage. The head of Australian money manager Magellan Financial Group Ltd. warned that the current bout of selling may be […]

(Bloomberg) A hedge fund at Sweden’s SEB AB that delivered a return of more than 16 percent in 2017 is betting that the rise of the euro will continue. “We’re most optimistic on the Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar […]

(Harvest) U.S. domestic equity markets turned sharply negative in early February as interest rates headed higher amid concerns of returning inflation—and in a single day, the U.S. Treasury market became a safe haven for panicked investors. But is panic warranted? […]

(Reuters) Activist hedge fund investor Elliott Management Corp. has trimmed its stake in Swiss duty-free retailer Dufry AG in December to less than 1 percent, the SIX Swiss Stock Exchange reported over the weekend. The stock had risen more than […]