The poison pill is becoming less common as corporate boards become more comfortable working with activist investors instead of adopting an automatically confrontational stance, and no one knows it better than Jana Partners managing partner Barry Rosenstein, who recently wrote about his experiences for The Financial Times.
Every afternoon we provide an update on global market levels, economic news, and hedge fund news. Post Market Update Market Levels  * US: Dow: 13008.50 (-0.23%), S&P 500: 1369.58 (0.04%), NASDAQ: 2957.76... Read More
In honor of Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V)'s oversized share price gain today, we are looking over the picks from big shortsellers that have been the most painful throughout... Read More
We've been receiving quite a few tear sheets reporting December and full-year results for many hedge funds. While most of the funds have done quite well, Blue Mountain got... Read More
Watch out for $200 per barrel oil, warns Abdalla El-Badri, OPEC secretary-general. The former Libyan oil minister, whose country’s oil production and rule of law have both broken down, says... Read More
On one side of the National Mall in Washington DC the Senate held a confirmation hearing on three Commodity Futures Trading Commission nominees, while on the other side the... Read More
This is the second part of a short two-part series of notes from the Economic Club of Washington’s 2012 dinner celebration, which featured Warren Buffett as the featured guest. Q1... Read More
Christian Levrat, head of the Swiss Social Democrats, urged the Swiss lender’s top execs to resign amid mounting political pressure over Credit Suisse Group AG (ADR) (NYSE:CS)’s long-running tax... Read More
Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Capital Management, LLC revealed in its latest 13D filing that the hedge fund boosted its stakes in Sears Holdings Corp by 4.18% to 27,516,248 shares. In its... Read More
All the volatility and market turmoil shook the returns of Pharo Macro Fund, down 2.1% in last month. The global macro hedge fund strategy is up 7.6% for the... Read More
Despite the recent market rally and rotation from defensives into cyclicals, don’t give up hunting for value in the market, it can be found; that’s according to January 12... Read More
