Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller believes the Federal Reserve’s attempt to quickly unwind the excesses it helped build up for a decade with easy monetary policy will not end well for t...
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Investors believe aggressive Fed will keep stock market down for the rest of 2022, CNBC survey shows
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, September 26, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters (Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) The Federa...
Cathie Wood’s new fund gives small investors access to the VC market for just $500
Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP...
Wall Street’s fear gauge hits highest level since June
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 31, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters A measure of fear in stocks just hit the highest level in three months a...
Hedge funds ramp up market bets as volatility brings the asset class back into favor
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 21, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The extreme market volatility is not causing hedge funds to back dow...
Lauren Taylor Wolfe says it’s just too risky for investors to ignore ESG amid recent pushback
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) According to Deloitte, global ESG assets under professional management could be worth $80 trillion by 2024. But this growth in popularity ...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says tidal wave of macroeconomic risks will wipe out some companies
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir arrives ahead of a “Tech For Good” meetup at Hotel Marigny in Paris on May 15, 2019, held to discuss good conduct for technology giants. Bertrand Guay | AFP | Ge...
Watch Jamie Dimon and other bank CEOs get grilled by Congress in second day of hearings
[The stream is slated to start at 9:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The heads of seven of the biggest U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie...
The Fed forecasts hiking rates as high as 4.6% before ending inflation fight
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of the Federal Reserve, July 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty The Federal Reserve ...
Watch JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and six other bank leaders get grilled by Congress
[The stream is slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The CEOs of the biggest U.S. retail banks, including JPMorgan Chase‘s Jam...
Bitcoin drops 5% to its lowest level in 3 months as risk assets continue to get crushed
Ether has hugely outperformed bitcoin since both cryptocurrencies formed a bottom in June 2022. Ether’s superior gains have come as investors anticipate a major upgrade to the ethereum blockchai...
Cathie Wood’s contrarian deflation call gets endorsements from Elon Musk, Jeffrey Gundlach
Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest, gestures as she speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022 in Miami, Flo...
Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti breaks down where to find yield in a world of uncertainty
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Inflation, a hawkish Fed, fears of a recession have all made 2022 a tough environment for investing. A traditional portfolio of stocks an...
Wall Street slump leads to 50% plunge in JPMorgan advisory revenue
Daniel Pinto, JPMorgan’s chief executive of corporate and investment bank. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images The deal-making slowdown that has weighed on Wall Street this year shows no sig...
Goldman Sachs to kick off Wall Street layoff season with hundreds of job cuts this month
People enter the Goldman Sachs headquarters building in New York, U.S., on Monday, June 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs is planning on cutting several hundred jobs thi...
Goldman’s (GS) Apple Card business has a surprising subprime problem
The weakest American borrowers are starting to miss payments and default on their loans, and that is showing up at a surprising place: Goldman Sachs. While competitors like Bank of America enjoy repay...
JPMorgan (JPM) fintech deal to acquire Renovite to battle Stripe and Block
The main entrance at JPMorgan’s headquarters in New York City. Erik McGregor | LightRocket | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase has agreed to acquire a payments startup called Renovite to fend off thre...
Bitcoin drops below $20,000 to lowest level since mid-July as investors dump risk assets
Bankruptcy filings from Celsius and Voyager have raised questions about what happens to investors’ crypto when a platform fails. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoi...
This $3.8 billion hedge fund is shaking up the industry with its pay-for-performance model
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) When Peter Kraus founded Aperture Investors, he deviated from the traditional active management model. Rather than raking in fixed fees, K...
Hedge funds are sitting on a record level of bearish bets on the stock market
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), August 17, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Hedge funds are getting increasingly skeptical about this big rally that broke out in the m...
Bed Bath & Beyond soars 70% as meme traders bet on Ryan Cohen
A Bed Bath & Beyond store is seen on June 29, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bed Bath & Beyond shares soared on Tuesday as retail traders active on socia...
‘Forget the past three years’
Eugene Zhang, founding partner of Silicon Valley VC firm TSVC Spencer Greene, general partner of TSVC Courtesy: TSVC Eugene Zhang, a veteran Silicon Valley investor, recalls the exact moment the marke...
National average for a gallon of gas drops below $4
A customer pumps gas at an Exxon gas station on July 29, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The national average for a gallon of gas dropped below $4 on Thursday for the first time si...
Apple Card growth, vendors blamed for mishaps in Goldman card business
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces Apple Card during a launch event at Apple headquarters on Monday, March 25, 2019, in Cupertino, California. Noah Berger | AFP | Getty Images When it was unveiled in 2019,...
Berkshire Hathaway BRK earnings Q2 2022
An Andy Warhol-like print of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett hangs outside a clothing stand during the first in-person annual meeting since 2019 of Berkshire Hathaway Inc in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S...
Here’s where the jobs are for July 2022 — in one chart
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Bureau of Labor Statistics The U.S. economy added many more jobs than expected last month, and there was an appetite for workers particularly in the service sector...
A ‘shakeout’ among mortgage lenders is coming
A sign hangs from a branch of Banco Santander in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg via Getty Images Banks and other mortgage providers have been battered by plunging d...
Goldman Sachs says regulators are investigating credit-card practices
Goldman Sachs CEO David Michael Solomon attends a discussion on “Women Entrepreneurs Through Finance and Markets” at the World Bank on October 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery ...
Job cuts, smaller bonuses loom for Wall Street bankers
People walk by the New York Stock Exchange on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Investment bankers hit with a collapse in equity and debt issuance this ye...
Paul Britton, CEO of $9.5 billion derivatives firm, says the market hasn’t seen the worst of it
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) The market has seen tremendous price swings this year – whether it comes to equities, fixed income, currencies, or commodities — but...
SPAC market hits a wall as issuance dries up and valuation bubble bursts
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, August 1, 2022. Source: NYSE The SPAC boom is officially a thing of the past. Not a single special purpose acquisition company was issued in July as the market slowdo...