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Activist Elliott’s Citgo Deal May Deliver a Windfall in Wake of Maduro’s Ouster

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Since the 1980s, Citgo Petroleum has operated as the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company.

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Hedge Funds Start to Hedge Their AI Bets

Wall Street’s smart money is starting to take out some short positions on the AI trade, albeit mostly around the industry’s fringes.

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‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Shut Down His Fund. So Now What?

The cult hero/curiosity has launched a social media broadside against the AI trade that has fueled this year’s market rally.

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Nelson Peltz Says $7B Take-Private Bid Would Let Janus Henderson ‘De-Risk’

Trian and General Catalyst said they want to free Janus Henderson “from the constraints of operating as a public company.”

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Hedge Fund Assets Reach Record $5 Trillion With Most Inflows Since 2007

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The last time this many people piled into hedge funds, the only great recession anyone might have been aware of was Larry David’s hairline.

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Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Wants to Be the Next Berkshire

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Pershing Square has announced a formal bid for Howard Hughes, the real estate developer where Ackman served as chairman for over a decade.

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Hedge Funds are Pushing Back on SEC’s Short-Selling Rules

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Industry groups representing a coalition of hedge funds havefiled a lawsuit seeking to challenge short selling rules implemented by the SEC.

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

‘If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?’

It sounds like something a gunslinging, billionaire hedge fund manager might say. And it is. Ray Dalio, founder of the highly secretive, $100 billion hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, is still in damage-control mode following the release of a book…

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The World’s Central Banks Are Fretting Hedge Funds’ Risky Bond Bets

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Corporate America Keeps Dumping Pension Plans

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