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Harbinger Adds More Zapata to Its Portfolio
Market Folly submits: Recently, Philip Falcone's hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners filed an amended 13D on shares of Zapata ZAP. The fund now shows a 51.6% ownership stake in Zapata with 9,950,061 shares. The filing was made due to activity on November 3rd, 2009 and Harbinger ever so slightly boosted...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, Stonemartin Plc., Zapata
External links 2009-11-08
Cooperman Ups His Stake in Given Imaging
Market Folly submits: In a 13G filed with the SEC, noted investor and hedge fund founder Leon Cooperman has disclosed a 5.4% ownership stake in Given Imaging GIVN. The filing was made due to activity on October 28th, 2009 and Cooperman's fund now owns 1,588,409 shares. This is an increase...
Tags: Healthcare, Market Folly, Given Imaging Ltd.
External links 2009-11-08
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...
Tags: US Market, Financial, Market Folly, Wells Fargo & Co.
External links 2009-07-07
Soros Discloses EXAR Position
Market Folly submits: In a new 13G filing made with the SEC, George Soros' hedge fund firm Soros Fund Management has disclosed a brand new position in Exar EXAR. Soros has a 5.67% ownership stake in the company with 2,465,754 shares and the filing was made due to activity on...
Tags: US Market, Software, Chip, Market Folly, Exar Corp., Extreme Networks
External links 2009-07-15
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...
Tags: US Market, Software, Market Folly
External links 2009-07-22
Dan Loeb's Third Point Continues Selling Maguire Properties
Market Folly submits: Dan Loeb's hedge fund firm Third Point LLC has filed yet another amended 13D with the SEC. This time around, Loeb was continuing to sell shares of Maguire Properties MPG as they now show a 3.75% ownership stake in the company with 1,800,000 shares. The filing was...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, Maguire Properties Inc.
External links 2009-07-22
Gold to $980 or Bust?
Market Folly submits: Adam Hewison over at MarketClub just put another free technical analysis video on gold that touches on possible cyclical patterns in gold on a monthly basis. He thinks gold will head higher until $980 or so where we'll see some resistance. In the diagram he points out...
Tags: US Market, Gold & Precious Metals, Market Folly, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-07-23
Important Support Levels for Gold in View
Market Folly submits: We're back with some more gold technical analysis. It doesn't take a genius to point out that both $1000 and $900 are the key levels in gold, if nothing more for pscyhological reasons. Gold has stalled out around $1000 in the spot market numerous times and it...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, Market Folly, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2009-08-02
SAC Capital Discloses Vanda Pharmaceuticals Stake
Market Folly submits: In a 13G filed recently with the SEC, hedge fund SAC Capital has disclosed an 8.6% ownership stake in Vanda Pharmaceuticals VNDA. SAC now owns 2,279,423 shares. You may be familiar with this stock as it has recently surged after the company's schizophrenia drug got FDA approval.In...
Tags: US Market, Healthcare, Market Folly, Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.
External links 2009-06-11
The Pound Could Be Trading Up for a While
Market Folly submits: Wanted to highlight an intriguing chart from Kevin. He points out that the British Pound is essentially trading in cycles over an extended time period, hitting a pivotal low every 8 years or so. Under this premise, the GBP has hit one of those 'bottoms' a few...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly
External links 2009-08-03
Coatue Joins Citadel in Taking Big Stake in E*Trade
Market Folly submits: In a 13G filing made with the SEC late last week, Coatue Management has disclosed a 5.03% ownership stake in E*Trade Financial ETFC and they own 56,057,572 shares. This is a brand new position for them, as they did not show a holding in ETFC as per...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, E*Trade Financial Corp.
External links 2009-08-03
Why Is Bill Ackman Reducing His Target Holdings?
Market Folly submits: In an amended 13D filing, Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management is now showing a 4.4% ownership stake in Target TGT. This is down from their previous 7.8% ownership stake in the company. Pershing Square reduced their overall position through a combination of transactions including...
Tags: Retail, Market Folly, Target Corp.
External links 2009-08-13
Blue Ridge Takes Ownership Stake in PennyMac Mortgage REIT
Market Folly submits: In a recent 13G filing with the SEC, John Griffin's hedge fund Blue Ridge Capital has disclosed a 9.5% ownership stake in PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust PMT. The filing was made due to activity on July 29th, 2009 and they now own 1,584,000 shares. PMT just recently...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly
External links 2009-08-16
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...
Tags: US Market, Financial, Market Folly, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
External links 2009-08-19
Harbinger Capital Partners Amends 13D on SkyTerra Communications
Market Folly submits: In an amended 13D filed with the SEC due to activity on August 19th, 2009, Philip Falcone's hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners has disclosed a 70.7% ownership stake in SkyTerra Communications (SKYT.OB). Shares of SKYT are traded in OTC markets and Harbinger's ownership position is via numerous...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly
External links 2009-08-24
Tontine Unwinds Its Broadwind Energy Position
Market Folly submits: Jeffrey Gendell's hedge fund firm Tontine Associates has just filed a Form 144 with the SEC disclosing that it will be selling 378,256 shares of Broadwind Energy (BWEN.OB) with an aggregate market value of just over $4 million with 96,546,782 shares outstanding. Additionally, the filing shows us...
Tags: US Market, Energy, Market Folly
External links 2009-07-02
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...
Tags: Software, China, Market Folly
External links 2009-06-29
Jana Partners Discloses Immucor Stake
Market Folly submits: In a recent 13G filed with the SEC, hedge fund Jana Partners has disclosed a 5.5% ownership stake in Immucor BLUD. Jana now owns 3,865,413 shares and this is a brand new position for it, as it previously did not hold it as of March 31st, 2009...
Tags: US Market, Biotech, Healthcare, Market Folly, Immucor Inc.
External links 2009-06-11
Atticus Takes a Position in Transatlantic Holdings
Market Folly submits: In a 13G filed with the SEC Tuesday, hedge fund Atticus Capital has disclosed a 5.6% ownership stake in Transatlantic Holdings TRH due to activity on June 8th, 2009. It now holds 3,689,600 shares. This is a brand new position for Atticus, as we previously did not...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, Transatlantic Holdings Inc.
External links 2009-06-11
Paulson Bets on Real Estate With CB Richard Ellis
Market Folly submits: John Paulson's hedge fund firm Paulson & Co has made another bet. And, this time around, the firm is focusing again on the real estate recovery theme. After recently announcing its real estate recovery fund, Paulson has now announced that it will buy $100 million worth of...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.
External links 2009-06-13
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