Goldman Sachs Portfolio Strategy Research's "US Weekly Kickstart" of March 28th highlighted how the flattening of the yield curve led to a major change in investor sentiment last week, and resulted in one of the largest weekly losses for hedge funds since 2001. A proprietary index serving as a proxy for long-short hedge fund performance developed by Goldman Sachs was down more than 3% last week.
Oil prices jumped by close to 2 percent today as the crisis in Syria worsens. The price of a barrel of crude hit around $110 this morning. The crisis... Read More
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), is getting a raise after a year in which the firm paid nearly $20 million in regulatory fines. According to... Read More
Voce Capital Partners gained 4.6% net of all fees and expenses for the third quarter of 2016 with an average gross exposure of 84% according to the hedge fund’s... Read More
See's Candies, the confectionery business owned by Berkshire Hathaway, and BNSF, the largest freight railroad network in North America, also owned by Berkshire Hathaway don't have much in common... Read More
Elections are interesting to us as macro traders. High-profile political election results can move the markets in a big way, Just look at how crazy the E-mini S&P’s traded... Read More
LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD)Â released its earnings report for the first three months of 2013 this afternoon after the market closed. The company recorded earnings of $0.45 per share for the... Read More
With corporate fraud costing the offending stock’s shareholders 22% of the enterprise value, according to a 2014 academic study, how can investors identify stocks where fraud is a problem?... Read More
Kippliner's has released its first ever best banks in the US listing, covering everything from the best bank for high net worth individuals to the bank best focused on... Read More
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is moving forward on a controversial rule to require firms engaged in automated trading to provide access to source code and register what CFTC... Read More
In a sign of the times, networking equipment leader Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has resorted to a cut in its workforce by almost 2 percent, which is approximately 1,300 jobs. The... Read More
