Blue Harbour Unloads Its Largest Position (Institutional Investor) Here is how the activist hedge fund fared with its investment in Investors Bancorp,......
(read more)December 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Marshall Wace Joins Hedge Funds in Piling More than $1.3 Billion into Short Bets Against Woodford-Linked Investments (Business Insider) The shock fall......
(read more)June 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Finance Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Trading Firm Is On A Silicon Valley Hiring Binge (Forbes) Stuart Feldman has played a prominent......
(read more)June 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ken Griffin Goes Zen and Makes His Mark on Shed at Hudson Yards (Bloomberg) Citadel founder Ken Griffin said the firm’s new offices at 425 Park Ave.......
(read more)April 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
This article continues Insider Monkey’s analysis of how well recent stock recommendations from leading investment banks and advisory firms have......
(read more)May 7 - Dividend Stocks, News, We Disagree - Comments
Ackman, Einhorn Bets Are Working Out So Far — in March Madness (Bloomberg) Bill Ackman and David Einhorn are back on top. At least when it comes......
(read more)March 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge Funder Phil Falcone Just Listed his New York City Townhouse for $39 Million (Business Insider) Philip Falcone is ready for a bigger house. The former......
(read more)March 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
After being very volatile for the first nine months of the year, the price action in crude has suddenly become quiet as more participants buy into OPEC......
(read more)October 8 - Commodities, News - Comments
With the polls showing a much closer race as November 8 approaches, many pundits believe Donald Trump has at least a 40% chance of becoming the next President......
(read more)September 26 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The bulls are retreating today after the IEA said that demand for crude might be weaker-than-expected. If demand for crude is weaker, global growth could......
(read more)September 13 - Market Movers, News - Comments
It’s been a volatile week as usual in the energy sector. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the notable events that occurred to......
(read more)September 3 - Commodities, News - Comments
Although all three major indexes retracted on Tuesday, five stocks, Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras......
(read more)August 31 - Market Movers, News - Comments
It’s the beginning of another week and crude futures are more than 2% in the red, dragging down the major U.S. indexes, which have all opened Monday......
(read more)August 22 - Market Movers, News - Comments
All three index futures are pointing north in pre-market trading as the Bank of England just announced that it would cut interest rates for the first......
(read more)August 4 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
Last week’s dollar value of insider selling fell by 60% week-over-week, which might seem like great news for the investment community. With the United......
(read more)June 27 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Although Saudi Arabia has tried its best to bankrupt them, many shale drillers are still alive and kicking. A combination of hedging and raising liquidity......
(read more)June 20 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Crude futures were volatile this week. After rallying above the key $50 per barrel mark and igniting some short covering, Wednesday’s EIA report......
(read more)June 11 - Commodities, Market Movers, News - Comments
All three index futures are in the red in this morning’s pre-market as traders worry about a potential Brexit. While a Brexit wouldn’t be......
(read more)June 10 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Silver Arrow Partners, L.P., a New York-based hedge fund led by Raji Khabbaz, has just issued its latest quarterly letter to investors. According to the......
(read more)July 24 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Providers of cheap energy to fuel US economy like Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) and Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR) may have their......
(read more)September 22 - News - Comments
There’s no doubt about it, the US energy market is pretty unique. Not only do we have a one of a kind natural gas market that gives us a competitive......
(read more)September 17 - Commodities, News - Comments
The North Dakota Bakken has helped revive the United S. energy industry, driving the nation’s crude production to its highest level since 1989.......
(read more)September 16 - Commodities, News - Comments
In the oil and gas industry, net pay is more than what is in a paycheck. It’s the term used to describe an area of reservoir rocks that has commercially......
(read more)September 16 - News - Comments
Many people have heard about the “shale revolution” in oil production. However, from a practical perspective, it has been easy to miss. Despite......
(read more)September 16 - Commodities, News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/StockMonkeys.com The U.S. shale energy boom is beginning to trickle down into the economy. According to research firm IHS, America......
(read more)September 15 - Commodities, News - Comments
Photo credit: ConocoPhillips Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR) has a plan and is sticking to it. It’s a good thing too, because the plan is......
(read more)September 12 - News - Comments
In the Bakken, production growth steals all the headlines. But there’s a far more important development taking place: the lowering of drilling costs......
(read more)September 12 - News - Comments
Investing is a marathon, not a sprint. If you understand the fundamental factors that drive margins and profits, then you can gain an advantage over shortsighted......
(read more)September 10 - News - Comments
Imagine this: You are an E&P player, and you are going to drill 100 wells in one year. The cost savings from dropping the well costs from $10 million......
(read more)September 10 - News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/shannonpatrick17. The most divisive pipeline project in North American history looks to have lost a key advocate. Harold Hamm, CEO......
(read more)September 9 - News - Comments
The story of North Dakota’s oil boom from the Bakken shale — and how important it is to the state — can be told in one picture. Source......
(read more)September 4 - News - Comments
There was more bad news for TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s troubled Keystone XL pipeline last week. The fate of the project is likely......
(read more)September 3 - News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/U.S. Army. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, the increase in oil and gas production......
(read more)September 3 - News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/James Gordon Syria is in the global spotlight this week after U.S. intelligence officials were able to confirm that chemical weapons......
(read more)August 28 - News - Comments
I had a conversation with a friend recently about investing in oil. It went a little something like this. Friend: “I’m thinking about investing......
(read more)August 28 - Commodities, News - Comments
Despite North American oil production picking up in the past few months, the global scene presents a different picture. Inventories and spare capacity......
(read more)August 26 - Commodities, News - Comments
Is Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NBL) a buy? If you were to ask many of your peers, hedge funds are seen as delayed, outdated investment vehicles of a forgotten......
(read more)August 25 - News - Comments
When someone talks about “the new normal,” we assume that it denotes a new permanence that will dictate things for the rest of time. But we......
(read more)August 25 - Commodities, News - Comments
Photo credit: ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) Despite some fairly large onshore acquisitions over the past few years, big oil has largely remained on the sidelines......
(read more)August 23 - News - Comments
Is Devon Energy Corp (NYSE:DVN) a sell? To many market players, hedge funds are perceived as useless, old financial vehicles of an era lost to time.......
(read more)August 22 - News - Comments
Photo credit: ConocoPhillips Genscape, which is a leading provider of energy information, recently estimated that June’s Bakken daily oil production......
(read more)August 20 - News - Comments
While it might only be the third-largest driller in North Dakota, Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES) has drilled 18 of the 50 top producing wells in the Bakken region......
(read more)August 19 - News - Comments
Just about every day we hear a story of how China has passed the U.S. in some metric, or how China is slowly catching up to us. For the most part, these......
(read more)August 17 - News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/nestorgalina “America has a long history of achieving the impossible. We defeated the British. We landed on the moon. We invented......
(read more)August 12 - News - Comments
Energy independence is one of the only topics that doesn’t incite partisan battles or ideological bickering. People have different ideas on how......
(read more)August 12 - News - Comments
Photo Credit: Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) The move to multi-well pad drilling has been saving oil and gas producers big bucks. Companies......
(read more)August 12 - News - Comments
OPEC’s profits have yet to dry up. Photo credit: Flickr/Mark Rain Export earnings among OPEC members rose to $1.26 trillion last year. That’......
(read more)August 11 - News - Comments
President Obama’s critical comments of TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline suggest the chances of the projects......
(read more)August 3 - News - Comments
North Dakota’s oil and gas production hit a new all-time high this past May according to recently released data from North Dakota’s Industrial......
(read more)July 29 - News - Comments
Dividend stocks are everywhere, but many just downright stink. In some cases, the business model is in serious jeopardy, or the dividend itself isn’......
(read more)July 29 - News - Comments
