Hedge funds are offering to buy startup deposits at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) for as little as 60 cents on the dollar, Semafor reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Bids range ...
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‘I don’t see another bank stepping in to help.’ Bill Ackman suggests government intervention to save Silicon Valley Bank parent.
“The failure of Silicon Valley Bank could destroy an important long-term driver of the economy as VC-backed companies rely on SVB for loans and holding their operating cash. If private capital can’t p...
Crypto Hedge Funds Outperform Wall St: Report
Last year was an atypically tough one for crypto hedge fund managers — not to mention their limited partners. Scores of trading teams that had been institutional investor darlings flipped months, or e...
Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund is up again in 2023 after a record year
Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, in 2014. E. Jason Wambsgans | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s flagship hedge fund matched the broader market&#...
Binance bites back against Forbes report claiming transfer of $1.8 billion in client collateral
Binance denied using client assets without consent after a Forbes report said the crypto exchange moved “$1.8 billion of collateral meant to back its customers’ stablecoins.” Forbes ...
Already worth $19 billion, Ray Dalio will be paid ‘billions’ more after retiring from Bridgewater: report
Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, is to be paid billions of dollars via an exit package he secured upon retiring from Bridgewater Associates last year, according to a report by the...
Darktrace hires EY to review financial processes after short seller report
Darktrace, one of the U.K.’s largest cybersecurity companies, was founded in 2013 by a group of former intelligence experts and mathematicians. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty...
Michael Burry and David Tepper snapped up Alibaba during the fourth quarter
High-profile investors Michael Burry and David Tepper were buying Alibaba during the fourth quarter, potentially putting them in a position to profit from the reopening of the Chinese economy. Scion A...
Why the stock market’s ‘FOMO’ rally stalled out and what will decide its fate
A torrid, tech-led stock-market rally stalled out this past week as investors began to come around to what the Federal Reserve has been telling them. Bulls, however, see room for stocks to continue th...
Crypto markets tread water ahead of Fed speech
Cryptocurrency prices were little change alongside other risk assets ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech this afternoon at the Economic Club of Washington. Bitcoin was tr...
Cash is no longer trash, says Dalio, who calls it more attractive than stocks and bonds
“‘Cash used to be trashy. Cash is pretty attractive now. It’s attractive in relation to bonds. It’s actually attractive in relation to stocks.’” Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio no longer thin...
Brace for ‘tinderbox-timebomb’ market crash worse than 1929, hedge fund manager says
“ “It is objectively the greatest tinderbox-timebomb in financial history — greater than the late 1920s, and likely with similar market consequences. Now, as then, it is of our own making.” ” — Mark S...
Bear market unlike anything I’ve seen since starting on the Street in 1980, says short selling legend Jim Chanos
“I’ve been on the Street [since] 1980 [and] not one bear market has ever traded above nine times to 14 times the previous peak earnings.” That was short selling giant Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos As...
Investors dangerously ignoring bear market impact on earnings
Famed short seller Jim Chanos sees an alarming trend in the market. “I’ve been on the Street [since] 1980 [and] not one bear market has ever traded above nine times to 14 times the previou...
A Tesla Debate Just Happened. Both Sides Were Wrong.
A big Tesla bull-bear debate just went down, but most of the ground covered was old news. Investors should be asking different questions about the industry and how Tesla can keep growing. Friday after...
Crossover Hedge Funds Lost Big in 2022. They’re Still Launching in 2023.
Hedge funds investing in fast-growing public and private companies lost tens of billions of clients’ money last year. That isn’t stopping more “crossover” funds from launching. Mala Gaonkar, 53 years ...
Shares of Chinese funeral company rise as Covid infections leap
Workers in protective gear handle a coffin and coffin case at Dongjiao Funeral Parlor, reportedly designated to handle Covid fatalities, in Beijing, China, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomb...
Blackstone Tumbled in 2022; Here’s Outlook for 2023
Most alternative assets seem to simply represent a leveraged play on the stock market. That particularly seems to be the case with Blackstone (BX) – Get Free Report, the world’s largest alterna...
Billionaire David Tepper Is Betting Against the Stock Market Because of the Fed
Text size David Tepper, co-founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper says he is worried further tightening of monetary policies from g...
Grayscale may return some capital to investors if GBTC’s ETF dreams fail: WSJ
Grayscale Investments will explore how to return up to 20% of its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s capital to shareholders if it cannot turn the product into an exchange-traded fund. A tender off...
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Buys Up More Howard Hughes Stock
These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities. Subsequen...
FTX fiasco one of the most egregious cases of ‘gross negligence,’ says Ackman
Hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman appears to be walking back comments he made via Twitter last week about Sam Bankman-Fried that some interpreted as implicit support for the 30-something who presided over ...
Top Tech Stocks, Resources And Healthcare Themes
A common strategy many investors use around each quarter’s 13F reporting period is to “follow the smart money.” This strategy works most of the time, but this year, investors who hav...
Ray Dalio, Founder of Hedge Fund Giant Bridgewater, Sees More Pain Ahead
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...
Dow ends nearly 350 points lower after strong economic data, bearish comments by David Tepper fuel worry about rate hikes
U.S. stocks ended well off session lows but still fell sharply, after a round of upbeat economic data and a warning from hedge-fund titan David Tepper that he was “leaning short” against both stocks a...