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Einhorn's Greenlight Exits Apple, Buys Altice USA And BT Group
What Are Seth Klarman's Plans For Viasat Inc?
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Insider Monkey
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Friday, October 5, 2018 7:18 PM EDT
Seth Klarman’s Baupost controls more than 23% of Viasat Inc’s outstanding shares. Baupost has been a decade-long investor in this sleepy stock. Viasat Inc’s shares trade pretty much at the same price they were trading five years ago.
How A Fund Betting On "The End Of The World" Outperformed The S&P 500
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Tyler Durden
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Saturday, September 22, 2018 7:32 PM EDT
"Black swan" fund Universa Investments chief investment officer, Mark Spitznagel isn’t betting on some unpredictable event causing a crisis but instead a predictable one—an eventual blowback from unprecedented central-bank stimulus.
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The Stealth Reason Why The Stock Market Keeps On Rising
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Gordon T Long
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Saturday, September 15, 2018 6:35 PM EDT
It has become increasingly critical to properly assess shrinking stock supply to know both why the stock market may still continues rising in the face of quantitative tightening and what consequentially might trigger an equity market reversal.
Q&A: SEC Trying To Improve Private Market Access; Bitcoin Mining
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Adam Sharp
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Sunday, September 9, 2018 2:59 PM EDT
The SEC created equity crowdfunding rules to give retail investors access to private markets because it had no choice. The JOBS Act of 2012 mandated it. Of course, it took the SEC a mind-numbing four-plus years to issue the enabling rules.
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FAANG-Avoiding Funds Just Had Their Worst Month Since 2009
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Tyler Durden
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Saturday, September 8, 2018 7:40 PM EDT
In the month when the S&P 500 cleared a new all time high, rising above 2,900 while setting a new record as for the longest "bull market", hedge funds were dazed and confused by the market action, suffering another month of sharp underperformance.
Einhorn's Greenlight Crashes 25% YTD After 8% Drop In August
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Tyler Durden
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Saturday, September 1, 2018 5:33 PM EDT
Einhorn got clobbered on both side of his portfolio, with his 20 biggest long positions falling sharply, while his 20 largest shorts - most of which are the prominent growth and tech names that have been beaten down recently - surged.
The Dow Jones Advances As Gold Declines
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Mark Lundeen
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Sunday, August 19, 2018 2:24 PM EDT
The Dow Jones did well this week. Hopefully it can take that out next week, but who can say whether it will or not? So let’s all cross our fingers and hope for the best.
Implication From Zoe's (ZOES) Acquisition
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John Gordon
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Friday, August 17, 2018 6:38 PM EDT
Zoes (ZOES) was acquired Friday by Cava, a smaller Mediterranean concept, and partners, for 33% over Thursday's closing price. This transaction calls out several factors present now in the restaurant space.
The Pool Of Publicly Traded Stocks Is Shrinking. Here's What Investors Can Do
Article By:
Frank Holmes
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Monday, August 13, 2018 6:22 PM EDT
More companies have delisted, than gone public in every year of the past 20 years except one, 2013. The pool is getting smaller even while the population and economy are expanding.
Third Point Adds NXP And Campbell's Soup Stakes, Exits Alphabet Class A
European Private Equity Activity Increases In Q218
Article By:
AllAboutAlpha
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018 5:54 AM EDT
Despite a slow start to the year, PE deal activity picked up notably in the second quarter. Across the continent, there were 804 deals 2Q with a total valuation of €88.5 billion.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Discord Going Strong
Article By:
Sramana Mitra
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Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:36 PM EDT
Discord has more than 87 million registered users of which 14 million are daily active users. It records more than 9.5 billion messages a month and is adding more than 1.5 million new users per week across 130 countries.
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