Tag: GME
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Ken Griffin’s Citadel is one of the biggest hedge funds on earth. But last year, its performance lagged well behind the S&P 500. From CNBC: Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s various hedge fund strategies at Citadel all posted double-digit returns for 2023, but they failed to beat the S&P 500. Citadel’s multistrategy…
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Hedge funds are fighting hard to keep short sales secret. An industry association has sued the SEC to stop new disclosure rules, according to a new report in Barron’s. Hedge funds sued the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that the agency broke the law when it finalized a pair of…
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It should’ve been the trade of a lifetime. Instead, Carl Icahn’s bet against shopping malls has cost him $742 million — and counting. The Big Short 2.0 Reporters called it the Big Short 2.0. In 2019, the hedge fund billionaire placed a massive bet that the growth of e-commerce would…
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FBI agents raided the homes of prominent short sellers last year. Now, criminal charges may be imminent. From a new report in Bloomberg: Anxiety over the Justice Department’s investigation intensified several weeks ago when the head of its market integrity and major frauds unit predicted at a legal conference that…
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Short sellers are running for the exits as markets rally. Short covering has hit its highest level in over 7 years, according to a Financial Times report: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Equity markets have risen sharply so far this year, led by many of the speculative stocks that…
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Well, that was fast! With 2023 less than a month old, short sellers have already lost $81 billion. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Many are running for the exits. From a new report from The Wall Street Journal: Short sellers who have incurred hefty losses are actively trimming their…
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A new lawsuit in federal court in Florida alleges that a top Robinhood executive sold his stock shortly before he limited buying in shares of some meme stocks: Robinhood Securities President and COO, James (Jim) Swartwout, who Tenev points to as making the ultimate call to PCO, says in an…
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Losses betting against meme stocks have hit hedge funds hard this year. The latest data from Barclay Hedge shows year-to-date gains for equity long/short funds of 8.51%. (This is the type of fund that would typically take short positions in stocks.) Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has returned 18%. One of…
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There have been a lot of winners in GameStop’s dizzying, over tenfold rise in the last year. An unlikely one is the Mormon Church, which made over $8 million on GameStop shares through its investment arm: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ play for stock in GameStop paid…
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It’s no secret that GameStop shares have gone vertical, up more than ten fold this year. Besides making millionaires of a lot of Redditors, this also lets GameStop sell more shares at high prices, enabling them to raise capital with ease. And raise they did, to the tune of $550…
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