In a recently submitted 13G filing with the SEC, legendary activist investor Carl Icahn's Icahn Capital LP revealed that it had increased its activist stake in the liquefied natural...
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September 15 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News
Master of short-selling, Jim Chanos, has revealed his latest short bet: Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSEMKT:LNG), a developer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants.
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September 9 - Hedge Funds, News
Jim Chanos is one of the most popular short sellers in the investment industry.
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August 26 - Hedge Funds, News
Kynikos Associates, led by legendary Yale graduate Jim Chanos, is a New York City-based hedge fund famous for its short positions.
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June 22 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Warren Buffett had plenty of admirers Saturday at the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska.
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May 7 - Hedge Funds
Jim Chanos is running the biggest hedge fund that employs mainly a short-selling strategy to obtain returns.
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, News
The problem with Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and other companies which make luxury items and are selling them or want to sell them in China is that the anti-corruption drive...
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January 16 - News, Tech
Aurelius Capital Management, one of the main plaintiffs against Argentina in New York District Judge Thomas Griesa’s courtroom, has denied being part in a lawsuit filed against...
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January 7 - Hedge Funds
The Madison Square Garden Company surprised many on Monday when it announced — besides exploring a potential breakup of itself — that it was adding two financiers to its board...
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October 28 - Hedge Funds
Bill Ackman wants to clear up a few things.
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October 24 - Hedge Funds
Usually, conferences, where some of the best investors voice their opinion about the markets, economy and even present some of their best stock picks, represent a great source...
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October 21 - Hedge Funds, News
The upcoming Brazilian election has had its fair amount of impact on Brazilian stocks with most of them bouncing up and down heading into Sunday’s big event.
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October 21 - News
Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos on Monday said he is betting against Brazil's national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR) (NYSE:PBR), saying it "exists to serve ...
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October 20 - Hedge Funds
Steve Wynn, the billionaire casino mogul, has filed a lawsuit accusing prominent short-seller Jim Chanos of slander over an alleged statement that Wynn violated a U.S.
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September 26 - Hedge Funds
Izzy Englander and his palatial new duplex.
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September 4 - Hedge Funds
Tiger Global Management LLC, the $14 billion investment firm run by Chase Coleman, increased its stakes in industrial companies last quarter and reduced holdings of technology...
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May 19 - Hedge Funds
These days it’s difficult to miss Kyle Bass, the founder of Hayman Capital Management, trumpeting Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc (NYSE:NSM).
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April 3 - Hedge Funds
Jeff Altman and John Paulson, two of last year’s best-performing hedge-fund managers, are predicting that stocks will continue their rally in 2014 even as the bull market approaches...
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January 21 - Hedge Funds
Manhattan hedge fund that takes credit for forcing Wausau Paper Corp.
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January 20 - Hedge Funds
When the "Oracle of Omaha" talks, people listen, which is why the oil sector and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) -0.02% got lots of attention after regulatory filings revealed...
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November 20 - Hedge Funds
Two former analysts of Jim Chanos’s Kynikos Associates Ltd., which rose to fame shorting Enron Corp., started a new London-based hedge fund earlier this month to bet on falling...
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October 31 - Hedge Funds, News
Poker Night on Wall Street: Due to the nature of poker, it's only natural that hedge fund managers are probably dominant in the sport (that's right, it is a sport).
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October 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Jeffrey Vinik, the money manager who shut his hedge fund earlier this year after returns slumped, is providing $20 million in startup capital for an investment firm run by his...
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, News
No matter if you are getting your start in hedge funds or have been working in the industry for an extended period of time, it is essential to avoid as many mistakes as possible...
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October 2 - Hedge Funds
The short sellers' favourite short seller, Jim Chanos packs more punch than the $US6 billion in funds he oversees.
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September 20 - Hedge Funds
The SEC crackdown on rogue hedge funds continues.
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September 18 - Hedge Funds
Jim Chanos is a legendary short seller.
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, News
Shares of Herbalife hit an all-time high Tuesday, fueled by talk of an aggressive buyback operation by the nutritional supplements marketer.
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September 17 - News
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has certainly been a tech company that has found itself prominent in the headlines in the days since the Labor Day weekend.
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September 10 - News
BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), in the wake of the major smartphone-market announcement this week that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is initiating a $7.2 billion acquisition...
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September 4 - News
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) certainly could not allow a holiday weekend to go by without making some headlines.
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September 3 - News
At the moment, there are a multitude of gauges market participants can use to analyze publicly traded companies.
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September 3 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), UBS AG (ADR) (NYSE:UBS), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
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July 29 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE:DB), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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July 25 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Dell Inc.
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July 24 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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July 19 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: The Blackstone Group L.P.
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July 17 - Hedge Funds
Michael Dell has been advised to raise his $24.4 billion offer for Dell Inc.
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July 4 - Hedge Funds
At the Ira Sohn conference on Wednesday, Jim Chanos gave a presentation on being short Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ:STX).
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June 4 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL), Nuance Communications Inc.
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April 25 - Hedge Funds
The conference, which was held in Sonoma, CA on 5th April 2013 covered an array of topics including China, monetary policies, resource constraints and growth.
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April 19 - Hedge Funds
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been very active in the news since the calendar changed into 2013. We've covered some of those items here. And here. And here.
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January 10 - News
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) made quite a hubbub over its new line of Kindle Fire HD devices in the fall as part of the company's ramp-up to the holiday shopping season.
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January 3 - News
Today is a very good to be famed short-seller Jim Chanos, the founder and president of Kynikos Associates, a $6 billion hedge fund.
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November 21 - Stock Analysis
Kynikos Associates, managed by Jim Chanos, recently filed its 3Q 13F with the SEC.
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
A "walled garden" concept in the technology sector is not an old idea - America Online, also known as AOL, Inc.
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November 20 - News
There is a new shopping concept on the Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web site that seems to combine features of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) with those of Pinterest to develop not ...
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November 20 - News
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has become a bit of a four-letter word in the European Union and is being held up as a poster child for tax loopholes in the EU that the Union believes...
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November 14 - News
