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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
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
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
Goldman Sachs's Hedge Fund Report: A Must Read
Market Folly submits: Here's an excellent in-depth read from Goldman Sachs that ties directly into our tracking of hedge fund movements. And we say this because the majority of their data was taken from SEC filings and public disclosures, exactly what we track here on Market Folly. In the report,...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, Bank of America Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
External links 2009-08-30
Lone Pine Challenges Shorts with Green Mountain Coffee Stake
Market Folly submits:In a 13G filed with the SEC, Stephen Mandel's hedge fund Lone Pine Capital has disclosed a brand new position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters GMCR. The filing was made due to activity on August 19th, 2009 and Lone Pine now shows an 8.3% ownership stake in the...
Tags: US Market, Retail, Market Folly, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.
External links 2009-09-02
Nasdaq Hits Resistance at Fibonacci Retracement Level
Market Folly submits: The guys over at MarketClub have done some more technical analysis on the Nasdaq chart and are looking closely at a possible shift in the Nasdaq here by using Fibonacci retracements. They believe that index is in a secular bear market and you can watch the Nasdaq...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly
External links 2009-09-03
Raptor Sells Half of Its BigString Position
Market Folly submits: James Pallotta's hedge fund Raptor Capital Management recently filed an amended 13G with regards to their position in BigString (BSGC.OB). Shares of BSGC are traded over the counter and Raptor has disclosed a 3.35% ownership stake in the company with 2,006,780 shares. The amended filing was made...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly
External links 2009-09-09
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
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
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
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
Jim Rogers Shares His Thoughts on the Market
Market Folly submits: It's been a while since we last covered Jim Rogers in full, so we figured now would be a good time to assemble a collective update. In the past, we've extensively covered Jim Rogers' portfolio so make sure you check that out to get a good background....
Tags: US Market, China, Materials/Industrials, Market Folly
External links 2009-06-19
Hedge Fund News Tidbits
Market Folly submits: We've found a bunch of various hedge fund tidbits that aren't long enough to merit their own article, so we decided to collectively assemble them into this melting pot of a post. Without further ado, we present some of the news that has surfaced out of hedge...
Tags: US Market, Market Folly, Ford Motor Co.
External links 2009-06-21
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