by confoundedinterest17 Company spent $50.7 million on 100-ounce gold bars in August Customers can now pay for software in gold or Bitcoin Palantir Technologies Inc. said it’s preparing for another “black swan event” by stockpiling gold bars and inviting customers to pay …
(Bloomberg) — Hedge funds plowed money into bets that the commodities rally of 2021 still has further to run, snapping three straight weeks of reductions. Net-long positions on a basket of 20 commodities rose by 8.3% in the week ended …
It’s been a while since Wall Street banks recommended anything to do with either gold or gold stocks, but in a surprising reversal, last week one of Wall Street’s biggest bulls Credit Suisse said that the time has come to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iWBv7SuOH0 Are foreigners to blame for America’s out of control housing prices? RT America’s Faran Fronczak (04:05) discusses how billionaires from all over the world are actually the ones driving these prices up, even though Washington wants to blame China. …
by Lance Roberts The “Fear Of Missing Out” has infected retail and hedge funds alike as they ramp up exposure to chase performance. We have previously discussed the near “mania” of retail investors taking on exceptional risk in various manners. From increasing leverage, engaging …
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 7/14/21 Bear Stearns had similar problems with hedge funds in 2007… JP Morgan warns hedge funds to expect intraday margin calls https://www.risk.net/investing/785322… US bank may demand variation margin ‘up to seven’ times a day …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold in today’s portfolio, why $15,000 gold is a realistic forecast, and bracing for the next jump …
Via Gen Z Conservative A very dangerous trend has been discovered as of late: hedge funds are buying up American housing. The Wall Street Journal, Federalist, and ZeroHedge have all reported on the problem, but the most succinct and useful depiction of what’s happening …
by: Stefan Gleason The gold market has seen many momentum shifts in recent months. At the end of the day, however, the market really depends on one simple factor: Are the big money inflows trending in a bullish or bearish …
by confoundedinterest17 There is a lot of noise about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum being hedges against inflation. Here is Bitcoin against core PCE prices YoY. Only if inflation is truly transitory and declines. Ethereum as a hedge against inflation? Ethereum …
(Bloomberg) — The Department of Justice is investigating the market-rattling meltdown of Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management in March, a debacle that left big banks in Europe, Asia and the U.S. nursing more than $10 billion in losses. Federal prosecutors …
Institutional investors are dumping bitcoin in favor of gold, reversing a recent trend that’s played out over the last two quarters, according to a new report from JPMorgan. Based on open interest in CME bitcoin futures contracts, the firm said …
Daniel Kamensky, founder and former manager of New York-based hedge fund Marble Ridge Capital, has been sentenced to six months in prison for bankruptcy fraud, according to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office in the southern district of …
Hedge funds have been getting rid of equities at pace not seen since GFC @BankofAmerica pic.twitter.com/z0z8cljv5f — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) May 5, 2021 most shorted index going to the wrong way pic.twitter.com/LZB2utAJiO — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 4, 2021 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1389652807557451777 …
Ugh. Bank of America's hedge fund clients selling equities at the strongest pace since at least 2008, while retail investors have been net buyers for the past 10 weeks straight. pic.twitter.com/O7gAscVZ4i — Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg) May 4, 2021 OUCH! Stocks …
SPAC IPO are seeing more cash, money, debt flowing in while their performance drops. More money moving into the stock market. Value stocks have seen more inflows and tech stocks and other growth stocks are also performing well. More money …
"Buy gold, because it is a hedge against inflation." https://t.co/n6U5gnzCGZ — Tom McClellan (@McClellanOsc) April 21, 2021 It’s getting really hard for Fed to ignore inflation signs – companies are warning of price hikes and NY Feds own Inflation gauge …
It’s Official US hedge funds dumping $100 bln of US treasuries pic.twitter.com/OvZ0LEXgEh — Willem Middelkoop (@wmiddelkoop) April 16, 2021
New reports have Credit Suisse now admitting to over $7 billion (and counting) in losses from a bad $320 billion loan to family office Archegos when Credit Suisse bank was adamant only a few weeks ago that, at most, …
by visualcapitalist The world of hedge funds has recently garnered notoriety during the GameStop/WSB debacle, in which an us-versus-them mentality began to brew for smaller investors. In markets, hedge fund managers are considered the big fish in the pond. Not only do they oversee billions …
Feds’s low-interest rates are subsidizing hedgies gamble implosions The full postmortem on Archegos Capital won’t be written for a while, but one thing is already clear: This little-known hedge fund run by a trader named Bill Hwang has become the latest lightning …
More details are coming out about Archegos and the growing repo and collateral problems. And the Fed is going to have to an more insane amounts of emergency liquidity. A recent CNBC article that former Wall Street investment bank VP …
New Post – Important – The Deal that Broke the Bank – It is time to Connect the Dots. What is with Risk Divergence between banks in the USA vs. Europe and Japan?https://t.co/R6YsBBQuIv via @BearTrapsReport pic.twitter.com/3qQNLrq5qL — Lawrence McDonald (@Convertbond) …
from Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back… Hedge Funds blowing up. Archegos Fund gone. This is what happens at the top of a cycle or bubble. More stimmies on the way, thanks President Biden. Right on the heels of …
by Simon Black Ray Dalio is the founder of one of the largest investment firms in the world and has amassed a personal fortune nearing $20 billion from his business and investment acumen. In short, he understands money and finance in …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-29/credit-suisse-flags-potential-significant-loss-from-hedge-fund The article is linked above, we should dig more into this as news comes out and find out the exact causes. Apparently 20B in shares had to be sold, that just doesn’t happen left and right. This is …
$$$ Market talk that the unwinding of the Archegos hedge fund amounts to positions of up to $120 billion (80 long / 40 short) https://t.co/w3W6gZNfMo — Gregor Peter (@L0gg0l) March 28, 2021
As equities surge to all-time highs, volatility has all but vanished. Hedge funds are betting the calm will last, shorting the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, at rates not seen in at least 15 years. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/hedge-funds-are-shorting-the-vix-at-a-rate-never-seen-before?srnd=premium
