FirstEnergy Corp (NYSE:FE) (The Motley Fool) What happened: Shares of First Energy (NYSE:FE) spiked on Monday and were up 15% at 10:45 a.m. EST after......
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To the 10 biggest socially irresponsible companies in America, profit often comes first. While the desire to increase profits does not necessarily mean......
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Looking for the one or more of the 10 best companies for chemical engineers? Chemical engineers are in high demand around the world amid the burgeoning......
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After having been range-bound for more than three months, crude futures have recently shown substantial volatility, having fallen below the pivotal $50......
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Discovery Capital Management is a US-based hedge fund founded in 1999 by Robert Citrone. Based in Connecticut, Discovery Capital focuses on liquidity,......
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OZ Management is one of the largest hedge funds in the world with more than $61 billion in assets under management (for further hedge fund reading, don......
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Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller is the founder and CEO of the Duquesne Family Office. Druckenmiller is one of the all-time great investors,......
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Heavy insider buying is usually interpreted as a bullish signal within the investment community because there’s only one reason corporate insiders are......
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There’s a lot of hate in the world, unfortunately, and the 11 most hated companies in America in 2017 are getting at least 23% of that global hate......
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After getting thrashed for more than two years, the oil industry has slowly started to recover, amid OPEC’s decision to slash oil production by 1.2......
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Oil prices have rallied in recent weeks as OPEC successfully put aside its geopolitical differences and agreed to cut production. On the back of the decision......
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Investors are hopeful that big oil producers will agree to slash oil production in the crucial OPEC meeting next week in Vienna, Austria. On Monday, the......
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It’s another quiet day on the Street as the main indexes are moderately in the green while the VIX is down 3% to trade below 15. Among the stocks......
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Crude futures are in the green today after yesterday’s API report showed a surprise draw in inventories. Not surprisingly, the major index futures......
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With volatility on Wall Street low, traders are looking forward to Friday’s release of the personal income and outlays report as a potential catalyst......
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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......
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BlueCrest Capital Management, founded by billionaire Williams Reeves and Michael Platt in 2000, is one of the largest hedge fund firm in Europe. According......
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Although oil prices are only half of what they were two years ago, many savvy investors believe that the worst has past and that the industry has nowhere......
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Discovery Capital Management is a Connecticut-based hedge founded in 1999 by billionaire Rob Citrone, whose net worth currently stands at $1.04 billion......
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Although Stanley Druckenmiller is not optimistic about the stock market, his family office is still actively managing its equity portfolio. The legendary......
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Most investors are smiling today, as the US stock market continues its rally, with the Dow setting a new intraday high. Oil prices are also surging after......
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Through extensive research, we determined that imitating some of the picks of hedge funds and other institutional investors can help generate market-beating......
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Vranos’s Ellington Hires Stohr to Bolster Distressed-Debt Team (Bloomberg) Michael Vranos’s hedge fund Ellington Management Group has hired former......
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It’s the first day of the week, and traders are anticipating the upcoming FOMC meeting in the middle of this month. Following Friday’s disappointing......
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Markets opened higher today, but started declining after the announcement of manufacturing data, according to which the Institute for Supply Management......
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If one makes a list of the sectors that have underperformed in the last two years, there is no doubt that the energy sector will occupy the one of the......
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Billionaire Jeffrey Ubben is among the few activist investors today who, unlike more aggressive activists that pressurize companies to accept their demands......
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Both small- and large-scale investors continue to seek bargains in the energy industry, as energy stocks have plummeted significantly over the past year......
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At a time when the three big indexes, the S&P, NASDAQ, and Dow Jones, are roughly flat, investors are selling Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE), Vanguard......
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Jeff Ubben of ValueAct Capital is a pretty successful investor. Not only has he built up his fund to have an equity portfolio of $17.20 billion since......
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Earlier this week, several fundamental events took place in the energy sector, which is most likely to affect not just some individual stocks, but the......
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With many investors expecting the Fed to raise rates this week and the high yield bond market beginning to show signs of rolling over, several new and......
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ValueAct Capital, led by Jeffrey Ubben, recently submitted its latest 13F to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the reporting period of September......
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Shares of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL), and Campus Crest Communities Inc (NYSE:CCG) are trending this morning......
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Both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 are slightly in the green this morning as positive momentum continues to buffet the market. However not all stocks are......
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Shares of Williams Companies Inc (NYSE:WMB), Energy Transfer Equity LP (NYSE:ETE), Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), and Halliburton Company (NYSE......
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Jorge Paulo Lemann’s 3G Capital has recently submitted its 13F filing for the second quarter, which revealed a $1.32 billion equity portfolio with......
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Noam Gottesman is a hedge fund billionaire who co-founded GLG Partners in 1995 under the Lehman Brothers International (Europe). According to Forbes real......
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In its most recent 13F filing with the SEC for the reporting period quarter ending June 30, Jeffrey Ubben‘s ValueAct capital revealed an equity......
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Simon Sadler‘s Segantii Capital recently filed its 13F form for the reporting period of June 30 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The......
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Is Halliburton a good stock to buy now? A recent report from Wells Fargo’s Judson Bailey discussed the struggle of the offshore drilling industry and......
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It is not every quarter that you get to spot drastic changes in the equity portfolio of Jeffrey Ubben‘s ValueAct Capital. The fund invests with......
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Tom Gayner’s Markel Gayner Asset Management, the investment division of Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) has filed its 13F with the Securities and Exchange......
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South Ferry Capital Management, managed by John Reilly, has filed its Form 13F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the reporting period......
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Adam Usdan’s Trellus Management Company hedge fund was set up in 1994 and its investment strategy focuses on small, mid and large-cap companies. With......
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Activist Jeffrey Ubben‘s 14 picks in companies with a market cap of $1 billion or more (his entire portfolio) delivered weighted average returns......
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We recently updated Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital’s performance for the first quarter of 2015 with the firm achieving returns of 8.4% in its......
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One of the key principles of smart investing is diversification. The majority of funds that we track have largely-diversified equity portfolios with at......
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David Tepper‘s Appaloosa Management has recently submitted its 13F filing with SEC, and it is anything but usual. It seems that the fund is either......
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The percentage drop in stock prices of Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL),Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:GDP) and Linn Energy LLC (NASDAQ:LINE) was......
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