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Institutional Investor (October 10)

2022/ 10/ 11 by jd in Global News

“Hedge fund performance dispersion widened last month…. Returns for the top hedge funds in September far exceeded those at the bottom. The top decile of hedge funds in HFR’s HFRI 500 index gained an average of 6.4 percent last month, while the bottom decile of funds fell 14.3 percent.”

 

Forbes (June 28)

2022/ 06/ 30 by jd in Global News

“The question on everybody’s mind in the crypto world is whether we’ve reached the market bottom. Nearly $2 trillion in crypto market value has evaporated since November…. But the fallout is far from complete.” With over “600 crypto exchanges around the world operating in a largely unregulated frontier,” there are others that are already insolvent. Many promised unreasonably high yields, which “worked fine when crypto was going nowhere but up. It looks disastrous now.”

 

Institutional Investor (April 4)

2018/ 04/ 06 by jd in Global News

On February 5, after a placid 2017, “the VIX surged from the previous trading day’s close of 17.3 to 37.3…the largest daily percentage increase in the three-decade history of the index, more than doubling in one day.” Some investors have been overreacting to the detriment of performance when they should be simply tuning out the noise. “Volatility can create a risk: that we reduce our market exposure at the point of maximum psychological pain; in other words, we sell at the bottom…. Sometimes the best thing we can do is simply nothing.”

 

The Economist (January 16)

2016/ 01/ 18 by jd in Global News

“Since the new year, the price of oil has surprised even the most bearish punters, plunging by 18%.” With prices already dipping below $30 a barrel, few know how low oil will go or when prices will begin to recover. Analysts have placed the bottom as low as $10, with April deliveries calculated at “anything from $25 to $56 a barrel.” The only thing everyone agrees on is that current supply vastly outstrips demand.

 

Wall Street Journal (July 28)

2015/ 07/ 30 by jd in Global News

When China’s roller-coaster stock market plunged downward in early July, “the Communist Party responded with every measure conceivable to fix the market.” This included the suspension of trading. “At one point in the middle of July 97% of all listed companies’ shares were not trading, 51% because management had sought a suspension and 46% because the share prices were down by the 10% daily limit.” On July 27, the Shanghai Composite took its biggest tumble ever, but this downswing “may be good news. Monday’s drop was due in large part to investor fears that the government is pulling back on market support. If Beijing has learned from its failure to prop up stock prices, that could mean the market finds a bottom.”

 

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