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"Anyone can be angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time for the right purpose, and in the right way. That is not easy." - Aristotle

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Muddy Waters Stands by Allegations Against Litigation Finance Firm Burford Capital had good news to share Tuesday — none of which swayed its activist adversary. Julie Segal January 07, 2020 Carson Block, chief investment officer of Muddy Waters Capital (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg) Burford...

The best -- and most bizarre -- from Day 1 of CES The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) kicked off its first full day yesterday in Las Vegas. As usual, the event featured the best, the brightest, and the most bizarre tech out there. Here are 3 trends we noticed on Day 1: 1. Car culture is still...

Boeing 737 Crashes in Tehran A Boeing 737-800 bound for Kiev from Tehran crashed shortly after takeoff Wednesday morning local time, killing everyone onboard, according to Ukraine International Airlines, the operator. The crash comes at a tense time for Boeing, which is still grappling with...

Billionaire Larry Robbins’ Glenview Capital Crushes 2019 with Eye-popping Returns After a Year that Lost the Firm Billions (Business Insider) Billionaire Larry Robbins‘ Glenview Capital had a banner year, posting returns of nearly 30% in its flagship fund when the average hedge fund returned...

In Disappointing Year, Bridgewater’s Flagship Fund Returns 0.5% (Institutional Investor) Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund firm, had a tough 2019. The firm’s flagship Pure Alpha strategy was essentially flat in 2019, with Pure Alpha 18 Percent, the more leveraged version...

Odey Hedge Fund Slips to Fourth Annual Loss in Five Years (Bloomberg) Crispin Odey’s main hedge fund slumped to a fourth annual loss in the last five years as his bearish bets misfired amid the longest-running equities bull market in history. The Odey European Inc. hedge fund finished 2019 down...

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Thanks to California’s privacy law, one company’s pain is another’s gain As companies scramble to ensure they’re in compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act, a surge of startups is hoping tocash inon data solutions. It’s a California Gold Rush redux Companies meeting...

WeWork broke SoftBank’s heart. Now, SoftBank’s leaving other startups at the altar Despite submitting term sheets promising hundreds of millions of dollars in investment months ago, SoftBank has backed out of a number of investments recently, raising eyebrows and blood pressures across the...

You can find Alexa almost everywhere these days... Everywhere, that is, except on birth certificates: After Amazon released its Echo, the popularity of Alexa as a baby name dropped 33%. Go figure. Today: Alexa has her eye on your passenger seat California’s privacy law is both bitter and sweet...

Japan Asks Lebanon for Help Japanese authorities are asking their counterparts in Lebanon for help with Carlos Ghosn, a day after officials in Japan said they may push for the former executive's extradition back to the country where he was charged. The Middle Eastern country does not normally...

Ghosn Puts Pressure on Japanese Justice After Carlos Ghosn fled Japan for Lebanon, which does not have an extradition deal with the country, Japanese prosecutors were arguing that he should not have been allowed bail ahead of trial. While Japan's justice system has been criticized for being...

Oil Spikes to $70 Markets were making big moves on Monday morning, with oil soaring to $70 on worries an escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran could disrupt supply. The Iran tension follows events last week that also pushed up the price of oil: attacks on Saudi assets and stand-offs...

Korea: Lime Asset Faces Legal Action for Concealing Hedge Fund Losses (RegulationAsia.com) Lime Asset Management suspended redemptions in three funds in October. One of them had 240bn won invested with New York-based IIG, which has since been charged with securities fraud. South Korea’s FSS...

US Hedge Funds Dump Datalex Stakes at Huge Losses (BusinessPost.ie) Two US hedge funds have sold major stakes in the troubled Irish software company Datalex at enormous losses, stock exchange filings show. Highclere Investments, run by American hedge fund boss Ed Makin, and Kabouter Management...

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