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- Playing the Oil Market
- Market Folly submits: In a recent TheStreet.com article, "Looking Ahead With Hope and Trepidation," Eric Bolling wrote about some of his recent stock picks and gave his take on current financial crisis that the U.S. is facing. Overall, Bolling is putting an emphasis on being nimble and being...
- External links 2008-11-05
- HSBC: Interesting Options Activity, Proceed with Caution
- Market Folly submits: While we usually leave all the options coverage for some of our other favorite blogs, we simply had to point out this interesting activity in HSBC HBC. Optionmonster has highlighted the fact that as of Monday (Jan. 12): HBC traded 173,000 puts versus average of 7,700...
- External links 2009-01-14
- Paulson & Co.: Huge Profits from Lloyds Short
- Market Folly submits: Paulson & Co. has made a ginormous (yes, ginormous) amount of money from the financial carnage over the past two years. Here is yet another example courtesy of Bloomberg: Feb. 13 Bloomberg -- Paulson & Co., the hedge fund run by billionaire John Paulson, may have...
- External links 2009-02-17
- Farallon Capital Ups RAIL Stake, Reduces CSE
- Market Folly submits: In a new 13G filing made due to activity on March 19th, 2009, Thomas Steyer's Farallon Capital Management has disclosed a 6.2% ownership stake in FreightCar America RAIL with an aggregate amount of shares beneficially owned of 734,883. This is up from the 542,115 shares they owned...
- External links 2009-04-01
- What's Interesting About the World's 50 Safest Banks
- Market Folly submits: While this list was released back in March 0f 2009, we wanted to publish it up as we forgot to at the time. Global Finance World publishes a list of the World's 50 Safest Banks and they edited it mid-year which reflects the turmoil within the...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Credit Card Delinquency Wave Reaching Tidal Force
- Market Folly submits: This is a story that has been brewing for a while and we've tried to cover it when we're not tracking hedge fund portfolios. So far in 2009, the data surrounding credit card charge offs and mortgage delinquencies has not been pretty... at all. Just now after...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Einhorn Expands Ratings Agency Shorts With McGraw Hill
- Market Folly submits: While David Einhorn's short position in Moody's MCO is by no means new information, we did recently learn that his hedge fund Greenlight Capital is now also short McGraw Hill MHP, the parent company of fellow ratings agency Standard & Poor's. He initiated the position after a...
- External links 2009-09-12
- Problem Bank List Updated: Sovereign Defaults Ahead?
- Market Folly submits: We wanted to take a moment and post up some updated data regarding the 'problem bank list' since we saw late last week that yet another major bank (Corus Bank CORS) has failed. The FDIC releases this data monthly with a delay and Calculated Risk (a great...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Lehman's Demise: Trading Floors and Credit Run Amok
- Market Folly submits: A few weeks ago we posted up a great interview with Lawrence McDonald, the author of New York Times Bestseller book, A Colossal Failure of Common Snese: The Insider Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. Our buddy Misstrade interviewed Larry regarding his background and his experience...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Farallon Takes Money off the Table in CapitalSource
- Market Folly submits: In an amended 13D filed with the SEC after the close Monday, Thomas Steyer's hedge fund Farallon Capital has updated its stake in Capitalsource CSE. The filing was made due to activity on September 17th, 2009 and Farallon now shows a 5.7% ownership stake with 18,576,341 shares....
- External links 2009-09-30
- Citadel's E*Trade Stake: The Selling Continues
- Market Folly submits: We haven't covered the activity from Ken Griffin's hedge fund firm Citadel Investment Group for a bit because it's been a tornado of SEC 13D and Form 4 filings on Citadel's stake in ETrade Financial ETFC and we didn't want to bombard you with posts on it...
- External links 2009-10-15
- Hedge Fund Eton Park Favors Newly IPO'd Verisk
- Market Folly submits: Freshly public company Verisk Analytics VRSK has at least one major believer as Eric Mindich's hedge fund Eton Park Capital filed a 13G on the company with the SEC. In the filing, Eton Park disclosed that it now has a 7.15% ownership stake with 9 million shares....
- External links 2009-10-18
- Tiger Global Cuts Longtop Financial Stake Further
- Market Folly submits: In an amended 13D filed with the SEC, Chase Coleman's hedge fund Tiger Global has disclosed a 5.0% ownership stake in Longtop Financial Technologies LFT with 2,540,566 shares. The filing was made due to activity on October 15th, 2009 and marks the fact that Tiger continues to...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Tibman's 'The Murder of Lehman Brothers'
- Market Folly submits: This is now the second book we've read on the demise of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ.PK) and today we're here to review Joseph Tibman's The Murder of Lehman Brothers: An Insider's Look at the Global Meltdown. What's interesting about this read is that it provides...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Farallon Reduces CapitalSource Stake, Clarifies Corporate Succession
- Market Folly submits: Due to activity on October 14th, 2009, Thomas Steyer's hedge fund Farallon Capital Management filed an amended 13D on Capitalsource CSE. Farallon is now showing a 3.9% ownership stake in the company with 12,582,795 shares, which is a decrease from its previous holdings. (As we covered in...
- External links 2009-11-03
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- Financial Landscape: Writedowns, Losses and Capital Raised
- Market Folly submits: Amid all the financial chaos, I thought it would be a good idea to post up a simple chart breaking down the financial landscape in terms of writedowns, losses, and capital raised. From Bloomberg, you'll see how institutions are looking in terms of raw numbers: writedowns/losses versus...
- External links 2008-09-17
- Tiger Global Reduces Stake in Longtop Financial Technologies
- Market Folly submits: Chase Coleman's hedge fund Tiger Global just recently amended their 13D filing on Longtop Financial Technologies LFT. A 13D filing signifies an activist investment in a company and must be filed when a firm or investor acquires 5% or more of a company's shares. Tiger made this...
- External links 2009-06-29
- Tiger Global Discloses Decreased Position in Longtop Financial Technologies
- Market Folly submits: In an amended 13D filing with the SEC, Chase Coleman's Tiger Global Management has disclosed a 17.7% ownership stake in Longtop Financial Technologies LFT, with 8,951,065 aggregate amount of shares beneficially owned due to activity on March 9th, 2009. This is a slight decrease from their 10,083,165...
- External links 2009-03-19
- Tiger Global Unloads More Shares of Longtop Financial Technologies
- Market Folly submits: In an amended 13D filing with the SEC, Chase Coleman's hedge fund Tiger Global is now showing a 14.2% ownership stake in Longtop Financial Technologies LFT with 7,293,499 shares. The filing was made due to activity on July 1st, 2009 and signals that Tiger was selling even...
- External links 2009-07-22
- Tiger Global Continues to Dump Longtop Financial Shares
- Market Folly submits: Chase Coleman's hedge fund Tiger Global has recently amended its 13D filing on Longtop Financial Technologies LFT and the fund now shows a 6.8% ownership stake. Tiger Global is now left holding 3,491,928 shares as the filing was amended due to activity on September 22nd, 2009. This...
- External links 2009-10-08
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