Tag: Finance
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Credit Suisse and Nomura just did the first stock trades settled via blockchain technology: This week Credit Suisse cut some US equities trades with the Nomura-owned broker Instinet, using blockchain. This technology has been used before to verify other kinds of transactions. But these trades were a “first” because settlement…
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Nestled in the Austrian Alps is the tiny village of Worgl. In 1932, as the world economy was in the depths of the Great Depression, Worgl too had fallen on hard times: What followed was one of the most radical economic experiments in history. The town created a new form…
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Credit Suisse keeps getting smacked. Let’s review a few of their recent scandals: $4.7 billion charge for losses in trades with Archegos Capital Management, the imploding hedge fund $1.5 billion loss likely in dealings with collapsed supply chain finance company Greensill Capital, just three weeks prior Bonus scandal: Former CEO…
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You walk into the room, palms sweating. You go over your script in your head. You pray to God your computer doesn’t crash. Eyeing you skeptically are a bunch of grey haired money guys. Don’t screw this up. At the very least, that may be how the public imagines the…
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Archegos Capital Management, run by Bill Hwang, is imploding, racking up losses at a record pace: Mr. Hwang alone lost approximately $8 billion in 10 days, a person familiar with the matter said, in what traders and investors say was one of the fastest losses of such a large sum…
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Brokers are selling over $30 billion worth of positions in imploding hedge fund Archegos Capital Management, shaking markets. Wall Street does not know exactly how many positions the fund holds for two reasons: It is very lightly regulated because it’s organized as a “family office,” rather than a typical hedge…
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Ten billion dollar hedge fund Archegos Capital Management is imploding, causing banks to frantically sell its portfolio to stem further losses: One mystery in a dramatic year on Wall Street has been the identity of a trader whose persistent purchases have sent shares in ViacomCBS Inc., Discovery Inc. and a…
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Palantir Technologies, Inc. CEO Alex Karp had some sharp words for Wall Street recently: “We told the Wall Streeters that we will focus on building the long-term health of our company, that we are going to invest in our product development and in our clients, and you just have to…
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GameStop’s 2020 results, released this week, were disappointing, with losses over $200 million last year. These weak results may be the best GameStop is likely to do for some time. The reason is something called the “video game console cycle.” Video game consoles are a huge part of GameStop’s business,…
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It’s no secret that GameStop shares are way up this year, despite recent struggles: This could be an opportune time for the company to sell more shares to fund its transformation from a brick-and-mortar to a digital business. Indeed, the company hints at this in their latest annual report, just…
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