Exxon Shares Jump as Activist Investor Jeff Ubben Joins the Board (CNBC) Exxon Mobil announced two board seat changes Monday, including activist investor...
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March 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Viking’s Global Equities Hedge Fund Gains: Hedge Fund Update (Bloomberg) Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Investors made money in its main hedge...
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Daniel Loeb’s Hedge Fund Wants Centene to Consider Selling Itself (The Wall Street Journal) Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC has built a stake in Centene...
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May 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKRX) (The Motley Fool) What happened: Shares of Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKRX), a specialty generic pharmaceutical company, are getting...
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February 27 - Market Movers, News - Comments
The top 15 online shopping sites in America generate billions of dollars in sales every year and are expected to dominate the market in the years to come...
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November 20 - News - Comments
Macy’s Inc (NYSE:M) stock fell 7.73% on Friday to $19.69 after rival J C Penney Company (NYSE:JCP) warned of poor performance in the third quarter...
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November 1 - Market Movers, News - Comments
With half of 2017 already gone, it is high time to watch out for the 10 Best Blue Chip Dividend Stocks in 2017. A blue chip company is generally considered...
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July 20 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
1. U.S. Stock Market: “U.S. and European stocks fell on Thursday, along with the U.S. dollar, while U.S. Treasury yields reversed earlier declines...
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May 11 - Commodities, Futures/Forex, Gold, Market Movers, News, Tech - Comments
The 10 biggest companies that support Trump are mostly composed of giant retail stores based in the U.S. This is because despite the U.S President’s...
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April 22 - Lists, News - Comments
It’s another quiet day on Wall Street as all three major index futures are modestly in the green. In addition, crude futures are up 0.9%. In this...
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March 16 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Rob Citrone is the founder of Connecticut based hedge fund Discovery Capital Management, which had a 13F portfolio value of $4.71 billion as per their...
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December 4 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
M&A activity continues to be robust, after several major companies announced their intentions to tie the knot today, which has helped push the markets...
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October 31 - Market Movers, News - Comments
After two sharp down days in the previous three trading sessions, the bulls are back in charge on Wednesday. In the middle of the morning, the Dow is...
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September 14 - Market Movers, News - Comments
The retail sector has not had the best of years, with indexes like the SPDR S&P Retail (ETF) (NYSEARCA:XRT) up by 0.65% since the start of the year...
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September 11 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Dividends are a shareholder’s best friend. Not only do dividend stocks have wider moats than the average stock, but studies have also shown that...
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September 9 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
US stocks are in the green on Thursday, as investors react to a wave of strong earnings reports from the retail sector. A small decline in weekly jobless...
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August 11 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
Hedge fund Greenlight Capital, co-founded by well-known money manager David Einhorn in 1996 with $900,000 from friends and family, suffered its worst...
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July 27 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Wall Street is in an optimistic mood as all three indexes are considerably higher than yesterday’s close. The Dow Jones is S&P 500 and NASDAQ...
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June 23 - Market Movers, News - Comments
It’s a red day on Wall Street as all three indexes have opened in the red. The S&P 500 is off 0.7%, the Dow is down 100 points, and the NASDAQ...
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June 16 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
A study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, released in 2014, concluded that retail was the main pillar of growth for the U.S. economy. According...
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June 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It’s been a rather quiet Friday on Wall Street as the NASDAQ has inched up, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones are slightly in the red. Among the...
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May 13 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Disappointing earnings have pushed US stocks lower this morning, but the decline did not last long. The EIA’s weekly inventory has shown a reduction...
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May 11 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
David Einhorn‘s Greenlight Capital had a disastrous 2015 as the fund posted losses to the tune of 20%. This marked the second losing year in the...
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Ira Sohn Investment Conference is one of the most awaited events that aside from supporting an important cause, ending childhood cancer, also has the...
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April 14 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
If there is one topic that has been continuously discussed in business news since the beginning of this year, it has to be the underperformance of the...
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April 9 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
If one starts a discussion on activist investors or their campaigns today, there is only a slim possibility that the name Starboard Value LP won’...
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Billionaire Ray Dalio‘s Bridgewater Associates has created more wealth for its investors than any other hedge fund in history. Since the fund has...
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April 8 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
While investors like Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn make headlines every other day, Ray Dalio shies away from the limelight despite being the manager...
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March 31 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Though the broader market is undergoing a correction this year, there are a few stocks which have managed to perform remarkably well despite the slump...
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March 4 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
David Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital in 1996 with $900,000, some of which was borrowed from friends and family. Now, his fund is a financial titan...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In its latest letter to investors, David Einhorn‘s Greenlight Capital said that its funds lost 3.8% in the fourth quarter of 2015 – net of fees...
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The U.S stock market is trading slightly in green territory despite declining oil prices caused by fears about the state of China’s economy. Amid...
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January 11 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Mark T. Gallogly‘s Centerbridge Partners held an equity portfolio with a market value of $1.72 billion at the end of September according to the...
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December 11 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Tricadia Capital Management, led by Michael Barnes and Arif Inayatullah, disclosed recently filed its latest 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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November 13 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The U.S. stocks managed to regain the ground lost during the first hours of trading today and have turned positive around noon. There are, however, some...
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November 11 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Tech - Comments
Shares of Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST), American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL), and Macy’s, Inc...
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October 26 - Market Movers, News - Comments
The FMCG (or fast moving consumer goods) industry, also known as the packaged goods or consumer non-durables sector, is largely considered a sector that...
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October 2 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) has launched another salvo in its continuing battle with other retail giants, including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT),...
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September 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Over the decades, companies have developed a long-lasting practice of spinning-off their real estate assets into independent, publicly-traded Real Estate...
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September 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With the data from the latest round of 13F filings now gathered and processed, we’ve identified five stocks that received a large influx of cash in...
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August 19 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Jeffrey Smith’s Starboard Value LP has filed its 13F with the SEC for the reporting period of June 30, 2015. The investor is known for his activist...
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August 16 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Senator Investment Group, which is led by former Merrill Lynch colleagues, Douglas Silverman and Alexander Klabin, recently filed its 13F form with the...
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August 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
At an investment conference taking place in New York today, three prominent activists that we track at Insider Monkey shared their latest thoughts on...
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July 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital has filed its 13F with the SEC for the reporting period of March 31. Einhorn is known for his long/short equity investments...
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May 21 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
One of the top gainers in Monday intraday trading is Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc (NYSE:PNK). The stock of the casino operator spiked by 20% at the beginning...
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March 9 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
According to a Brandwatch study, key retail brands in the U.K. and U.S. markets are unable to listen to and respond to the audiences of Facebook Inc (...
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February 17 - News, Tech - Comments
Retailers are supposed to be feasting in the holiday season, but this not always the case, as some of these retailers get it completely wrong in the holiday...
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December 16 - News - Comments
The future looks very bright for Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE:M), according to the company’s CEO, Terry Lundgren. While on an interview on CNBC he explained...
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November 29 - News - Comments
J C Penney Company Inc. (NYSE:JCP) financial woes could slowly be creeping in as the company continues to register a slowdown in sales across its stores...
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November 9 - News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Apple Pay will hit the stores tomorrow and all the details related to how the new payment method will function are already available. According to abcNews...
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October 19 - News - Comments
