Bankers can breathe a sigh of relief, the public has put its pitchforks away. According to a recent Gallup poll a narrow majority of Americans have a favorable opinion... read more

Sensing a continuing rise in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), several large banks took subordinate positions in them on the secondary market, notes Asset Backed Alert (ABAlert.com). In its weekly update on... read more

Price reversal strategies, which buy stocks that have recently outperformed and short stocks that have recently underperformed, aren’t supposed to work. In an efficient market, prices reflect all available... read more

In April thirty-year German bund yields briefly dipped below 0.5% and 10y bunds hit 0.05% after sliding for more than a year, so now that we’ve had a sharp... read more

Since the UK voted to leave the EU on June 23, government bond yields around the world have collapsed to new lows as central banks in Japan and Europe... read more

Although stocks are likely to continue to trade well in the near term, from a medium-term perspective, the risk-reward is becoming less attractive for equities, argues a recent report... read more

According to Kevin Gardiner of Rothschild, the current weakness in the U.S. economy is not likely to last more than a few months read more

Buying bonds ahead of U.S. payrolls is a trade that Balyasny Asset Management has been feasting on, according to a mid-December fund strategy document reviewed by ValueWalk. Balyasny notes Federal... read more

Hedge funds are usually compared to the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) or some other stock index as a way of deciding whether the fund is underperforming, but this approach suggests that... read more

Deer Park Road's STS Master Fund was up 4.17% for August, according to the fund's quarterly investor letter. For comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return index was down 1.58%... read more