Monthly Archives: May 2020

(CNBC) Ark Invest, the firm known for its $7,000 price target on the stock of Tesla, has faced some disbelief for selling shares of the electric auto maker. Though Tesla remains the firm’s top holding, Ark has slashed its stake […]

(CNBC) How are we to characterize this stock-market struggle of the past three months and beyond? By the most simplistic definition, it became a bear market when the S&P 500 dropped more than 20% from its high, which it did […]

(Opalesque) For a fourth straight year, the U.S. insurance industry reduced its hedge fund investments. Insurers pulled out $2.6 billion in 2019, bringing total exposure to $11.9 billion, according to new research from AM Best. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) A small group of hedge funds managed to overcome the fast and furious market rout in March as the coronavirus pandemic sent countries around the world into a lockdown. Most hedge funds, including those run by industry titans such […]

(Hedgeweek) Short-term trend-following hedge fund strategies are maintaining their positive momentum in May, but other managed futures strategies have dipped into negative territory in recent weeks. To read this article:

(CNBC) U.S. stock futures fell early Friday morning after a decline in some major tech stocks, along with dismal employment data and rising tensions with China, pushed the market lower during regular trading. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures declined 150 […]

(Opalesque) The 2008-9 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was in many ways the making of the private debt industry. Funds were able to take advantage of opportunities presented by the contracting economy, and banks’ retreat from the corporate lending space helped […]

(Marketwatch) Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares slipped about 5% in after-hours trading Thursday after the computing giant reported fiscal second-quarter results that fell short of Wall Street estimates. To read this article:

The days of U.S. hegemony are numbered and China is waiting in the wings, argues Ray Dalio, in his most recent missive on LinkedIn.‘As you can see the United States is now the most powerful empire by not much, it […]

(Marketwatch) International Business Machines Corp. is cutting an unspecified number of jobs in the first major workforce reduction under new Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna, who is trying to revive growth at the tech company. To read this article:

(CNBC) Already bad friction between the U.S. and China has ratcheted higher in recent weeks, and now it’s expanded onto another front: the stock market.As the coronavirus crisis draws on, the relationship has gotten more strained, with each country blaming […]