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Stocks rally as Bush pushes revived bailout
KTAK – U.S. lawmakers and President George W. Bush eased pressure on financial markets on Tuesday by starting work to revive a $700 billion bailout plan to stem a credit crisis that has spread beyond Wall Street to claim more […]
RLPC-Leveraged loans sag as hedge funds sell-traders
Reuters – Leveraged loan prices fell on Wednesday as hedge funds facing redemptions and forced to cover short equity positions sold loans, traders told Reuters Loan Pricing Corp. Leveraged loans have declined over the past week amid a rout in […]
Hedge funds grab the spotlight on Wall St.
Politico.com – Even as the storied financial names vanish — Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns — they’re being quietly replaced by less familiar ones: Cerberus Capital Management, Citadel Investment Group, SAC Capital Partners and the other biggest hedge […]
Investors cheer shorting ban
Interactive Investor – Investors are cheering the temporary ban on shorting financial stocks which came into play on Friday morning. The Financial Services Authority introduced the four-month freeze on profiteering from falling share prices after the markets closed last night […]
Hedge Funds Raise Cash To Repay, Not Reinvest
Seeking Alpha – Some analysts say a big-picture trend presently unfolding involves hedge funds and other players unwinding bets on commodities/foreign currencies and plowing the proceeds into U.S. financial and other stocks. They are doing this for valuation reasons and […]
Hedge fund’s Chanos-financials have seen the worst
Reuters – Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, who makes money betting that companies’ stock prices will fall, said financial stocks have probably seen the worst and his fund has fewer short positions now than it did in the past. "We […]
Swiss to lower tax burden for hedge funds
Reuters – Switzerland plans to ease the tax burden for hedge funds and private equity funds and soften regulations for investment funds in a first step to boost its standing among other financial centres. The goal is to get the […]
HK Subprime Investments Cause Local Concern
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- The Hang Seng Index posted its biggest single-day loss in a month, as investors fretted about the recurring subprime credit crisis in the United States and its impact on regional banks and other financials. "It’s a […]
Hedge fund chief pessimistic about UK property
Financial Times- John Paulson, the US hedge fund manager who made a fortune for his investors by anticipating the debacle in subprime mortgages, said on Wednesday it was too early to look for bargains in the financial sector and predicted […]
Hedge star Paulson says credit crisis not over
Reuters- The credit crisis is not over, and losses in the financial sector are set to be around $1.3 trillion, according to star hedge fund manager John Paulson, who says he remains short credit. In its twice-yearly report in April, […]
