“Fund managers are bailing on emerging markets, commodities and energy-related stocks at a record pace, suggesting that capitulation could be at hand, according to the latest fund-managers survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch,” MarketWatch reports. Fears on Greece have been replaced by fears of Chinese recession / EM debt crisis. This has manifested … Continue reading
Hedge Funds shifted their strategies last week by grabbing up WTI crude following the previous week’s record selling. Also Market Neutral and Equity Long/ Short funds trimmed their net long positions, while Macro hedge funds increased their long exposures to key indexes, 10-year Treasuries and the U.S. dollar Big speculative hedge funds raise short … Continue reading
Russia’s plan of hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup could be in jeopardy after the president of soccer’s international governing body, Joseph “Sepp” Blatter, announced on Tuesday that he would resign. “Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Vladimir Osakovskiy estimated that the total cost of the event would pump around $50 billion in to the economy,” Business Insider reports. The … Continue reading