Journalists are reflected in the sunglasses of drilling site manager Greg Murphy during a media day at Chevron’s site in Pungesti, Romania, April 8, 2014. Bogdan Cristel | Reuters Chevron shares...
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The manager of 2021’s top-performing hedge fund on his winning GameStop trade and lessons from it
(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) On this day last year, investors watched in amazement as GameStop shares surged to a record high of $347.51. The stock had skyrocketed...
The fund that made $700 million on GameStop knew it was time to sell after an Elon Musk tweet
NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images One hedge fund got the GameStop trade just about perfectly right last year — buying it under $10 and selling when the meme stock peaked. The sell signal it used? An ...
Global oil benchmark tops $90 for the first time since 2014
An oil pump at sunset in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 13, 2006. Lucas Schifres | Getty Images Brent crude futures, the international oil benchmark, topped $90 on Wednesday for the fir...
Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting — Buffett’s ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’ — set to return in person after 2 years virtual
Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Los Angeles California. May 1, 2021. Gerard Miller | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway said Tuesday its annual shareholders meeting will be held in...
Stock futures are little changed after volatile session
U.S. stock index futures were little changed in overnight trading Monday, after a wildly volatile session that saw the Dow erase a more than 1,100 point decline to finish the day in positive territory...
Short sellers are up $114 billion this year with winning bets against Tesla and Netflix
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Short sellers are reaping huge profits this year, as the stock market’s brutal bloodbath fuel their bearish b...
Jim Chanos says the notion that the Fed will always bail out the stock market is dangerous
James Chanos and Leon Cooperman at the 2019 Delivering Alpa conference in New York on Sept. 19. 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Short-seller Jim Chanos said the belief that the Federal Reserve will always r...
Ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein says ‘crypto is happening’ despite plunge in digital assets
Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former Goldman Sachs CEO and Chairman Lloyd Blankfein said that his view of crypto...
Banks close record number of branches in 2021, led by Wells Fargo
A man walks past a Wells Fargo Bank branch on a rainy morning in Washington. Gary Cameron | Reuters U.S. banks closed a record number of retail branches in 2021 as customers increasingly turn to digit...
Goldman partners mint $15 million pay packages as boom times return
Tourists are lined up for taking photos by the Charging Bull Statue in the financial district of New York City, United States on August 16, 2021. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Bonus se...
Nasdaq 100 futures fall after Netflix’s earnings disappoint
U.S. stock index futures were lower during overnight trading Thursday following a disappointing earnings report from Netflix, building on the major averages’ declines during regular trading. Fut...
Tudor portfolio manager on where she’s finding alpha in the tech sector with rising rates
(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) With the prospect of higher interest rates looming, 2022 has already been a tough year for the tech sector. The Invesco QQQ ETF has fa...
Record IPO rush of 2021 led to historically dismal returns for investors with no relief in sight
Spencer Platt | Getty Images IPO investors in a record-breaking issuance rush in 2021 have so far been disappointed by dismal returns, and the outlook for the once-booming market is only getting worse...
SEC eyes new disclosure deadlines for hedge funds building big stakes
Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 14...
MS earnings 4Q 2021
James Gorman, chairman and chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 30, 2019. Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Ima...
BAC earnings 4Q 2021
Brian Moynihan, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp, speaks in New York City, September 25, 2019. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Bank of America on Wednesday topped analysts̵...
Goldman CEO says he sees ‘real wage inflation everywhere’ after 33% jump in pay expenses
People walk along Wall Street in the rain on July 08, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Wall Street firms are playing catch up with employee compensation, boosting pay in the second ...
Oil is at a 7-year high, but Exxon CEO Darren Woods sees lower trend
Darren Woods, CEO, ExxonMobil Michael Newberg | CNBC Oil prices rose to a seven-year high Tuesday amid ongoing supply concerns and escalating tensions in the Middle East, but Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Wo...
Goldman earnings 4Q 2021
David M. Solomon, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks during the Milken Institute’s 22nd annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, April 29, 2019 Mike Blake | Reuters Goldman Sachs is sch...
Jamie Dimon says CEOs `shouldn’t be crybabies about it’
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Banks have been one of the main beneficiaries of high inflation recently because their profit ...
Wells Fargo WFC earnings Q4 2021
Wells Fargo signage on May 5th, 2021 in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Wells Fargo shares rose on Friday after the bank posted quarterly revenue that exceeded anal...
JPM earnings 4Q 2021
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon listens as he is introduced at the Boston College Chief Executives Club luncheon in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 23, 2021. Brian Snyder | Reuters JPMorgan Chase post...
Crypto exchange Gemini pushes into wealth management with acquisition of BITRIA
David Abner, Gemini’s Global Head of Business Development. Source: David Abner Gemini, the $7.1 billion crypto exchange, is getting into wealth management with the acquisition of a digital asset...
Stock futures are flat ahead of major bank earnings
U.S. stock index were little changed during overnight trading on Thursday, ahead of earnings from the major banks on Friday. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 29 poin...
Natural gas surges 13% as cold snap ahead is expected to boost demand
A liquid natural gas (LNG) storage silo at the LNG terminal, operated by LNG Croatia LLC, in Krk, Croatia, on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Petar Santini | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. natural gas futures s...
Fintech start-up MX names new CEO as firm prepares for sale or IPO
Shane Evans, interim CEO of fintech platform MX. Courtesy: MX Fintech start-up MX has named Shane Evans its interim CEO as the company prepares for an initial public offering or possible sale, CNBC ha...
Jamie Dimon sees the best economic growth in decades, more than 4 Fed rate hikes this year
Jamie Dimon said the U.S. is headed for the best economic growth in decades. “We’re going to have the best growth we’ve ever had this year, I think since maybe sometime after the Gre...
Citigroup will terminate unvaccinated workers by Jan. 31, a first among Wall Street banks
Pedestrians cross a road in front of a Citigroup Citibank branch in Sydney, Australia, on June 1, 2018. Brendon Thorne | Bloomberg | Getty Images Citigroup will be the first major Wall Street institut...
GameStop shares surge 16% after news it plans to launch an NFT marketplace
A person wearing a protective mask exits from a GameStop Corp. store at a mall in San Diego, California, on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images GameStop shares are set for d...
Hedge funds are selling tech shares at their fastest pace in a decade as rates spike
Surging bond yields have triggered hedge funds to sell growth-focused technology shares at a speed not seen in the past decade. The hedge fund community dumped tech stocks in the four sessions between...
Stock futures inch higher ahead of key jobs report
U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s key jobs report. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 65 points....