Monthly Archives: February 2018

(CNBC) Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday that the best way to judge President Donald Trump is to compare him to Ronald Reagan. “I kind of contrast Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan,” Cooperman, chairman and CEO of the […]

(Reuters) A non-profit organization that wants to develop a more decentralized internet using blockchain has raised $61 million in funding from U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and hedge fund Polychain Capital, it said on Wednesday. DFINITY Stiftung wants to […]

(Reuters) The Probabilities Fund was supposed to take some of the risk out of the stock market. The $81.2 million mutual fund, backed by an eponymous firm based in San Diego, aims to have a double leveraged position in the […]

(Reuters) Wall Street’s “fear gauge” notched its biggest one-day jump on Monday in over two years, as U.S. stocks slumped and investors took to the options market in search of protection against a further slide in equities prices. Stocks slid […]

(Reuters) BlackRock Inc, the world’s largest asset manager, warned of the risk of so-called inverse Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) following Monday’s steep decline in financial instruments that bet against wild downward swings in the markets. Monday’s stock market rout left two […]

(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 […]