Exclusive-OPEC hears bearish message on oil from top swap dealer’s presentation
By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) -An OPEC technical panel invited a top financial market dealer to give a presentation this week which painted a bearish outlook for the oil market, according to…
Hedge funds boost bearish bets on US equities amid market jitters
By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hedge funds increased their bearish bets mainly on U.S. stocks last week when the major stock indexes plunged, Goldman Sachs showed in a report. The…
Hedge funds sell energy stocks, increase bearish bets – Goldman
By Carolina Mandl and Nell Mackenzie NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds ditched energy stocks last week for the first time in three weeks, despite a rally in oil prices triggered by…
Morgan Stanley turns “bearish” on emerging market FX again
LONDON (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley’s analysts returned to a ‘bearish’ stance on emerging market FX on Tuesday, predicting China’s economic strains would continue to push down its currency and flagged the growing…
Exclusive-Bridgewater’s flagship fund was bearish on US stocks as rally fizzled
By Nell Mackenzie and Carolina Mandl LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bridgewater Associates’ flagship fund had a bearish view on U.S. stocks in late July just as a rally that saw the benchmark…
Investors least bearish since February 2022 – BofA
MILAN (Reuters) – Sentiment among global investors improved in August to its least bearish since February 2022 with cash allocations falling to a 21-month low, a Bank of America survey showed on…
Hedge funds turn bearish again as yields spike
By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global hedge funds increased their bets that stocks will fall in a week when bonds yields rose after the United States’ credit rating was downgraded,…
Billionaire investor Loeb cuts bearish bets to avoid short squeezes-letter
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb has reduced the size of short bets on single named companies to limit the vulnerability of his hedge fund, Third Point, to…
Hedge funds rush to unwind bearish stock positions
By Carolina Mandl and Nell Mackenzie NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Global hedge funds rushed to unwind bets that U.S.-listed stocks will fall, as a persistent rally threatens their performance, JPMorgan Chase and…
Bearish bets on Asian currencies firm as weak China growth weighs: Reuters poll
By Upasana Singh (Reuters) – Investors increased bearish bets on most Asian currencies, as a stuttering post-pandemic recovery in China, the world’s second-largest economy, weighed on sentiment, a Reuters poll showed on…
Nvidia surges to year high after bearish HSBC analyst capitulates
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Nvidia’s stock jumped to its highest in a year on Tuesday, extending a recent rebound after HSBC flipped its recommendation on the graphics chipmaker to “buy” from…
Investors cut bearish bets on most Asian FX as policy rate bets shift: Reuters poll
By Savyata Mishra (Reuters) – Investors turned less bearish on the Chinese yuan and the Singaporean dollar as they cut short bets across most Asian currencies, a Reuters poll found, as fears…
Big bond investors stick to bearish bets in wild week for markets
By Naomi Rovnick and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON (Reuters) – Some of the world’s biggest bond fund managers are riding out wild swings in government bond markets, holding on to bearish bets given…
Investors turn more bearish on Asian FX amid return of King Dollar: Reuters Poll
By Harshita Swaminathan (Reuters) – Investors turned even more bearish on Asian currencies after China’s tepid growth target and the U.S dollar’s renewed strength after the Federal Reserve chair warned of higher…
Bearish bets on Asian FX return on renewed woes over Fed rate hikes – Reuters poll
By Tejaswi Marthi (Reuters) – Investors returned to placing bearish bets on all Asian currencies shortly after on the increasing likelihood that the U.S. Federal Reserve would continue hiking rates for longer,…
Marketmind: Powell has spoken – bullish or bearish?
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has spoken and luckily for bulls and bears, there was something…
Investors avoiding China stocks face less pain in bearish year for markets
By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging market investors who avoided Chinese shares this year have seen less pain than those with portfolios exposed to the gamut of EM stocks, a…
Hedge funds mounted bearish UK bets as Truss became PM
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – In the first half of September bets against sterling posted the biggest two-week rise since 2013, a sign that hedge funds may have ramped up short…
Bearish bets on Asian FX hit record highs as dollar rallies further: Reuters poll
By Harish Sridharan (Reuters) – Bearish bets on several Asian currencies hit a record high, driven by a slump in the Chinese yuan and a towering dollar as investors brace for more…
Market indicator in “extremely bearish” territory for 3rd straight week – BoFA
LONDON – A market indicator measuring how investors are positioned held at “extremely bearish” levels for a third consecutive week as investors yanked more cash out of equities and bonds, BoFA Securities…
Philippine cenbank’s modest rate-hike stance lifts bearish bets on peso- Reuters poll
By Savyata Mishra (Reuters) – Bearish bets on the Philippine peso grew as the central bank adopted a more modest approach than its peers to tamp down inflation, while short positions on…
Bridgewater’s bearish bets on European stocks jump to $10.5 billion – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) – Bridgewater Associates has raised its short position on European stocks to $10.5 billion, nearly doubling from the previous week, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday, in a sign…
U.S. retail investors turn bearish and elusive in latest selloff
(Reuters) – Individual U.S. investors are turning bearish and staying away from buying the dip this week, data showed, a sharp reversal from the frenzied trading during the peak of the pandemic.…
Asia FX bearish bets firm as cenbanks catch-up to Fed tightening- Reuters poll
By Indranil Sarkar (Reuters) – Bearish bets on most Asian currencies firmed, a Reuters poll found on Thursday, as several regional central banks trail the U.S. Federal Reserve in tightening their monetary…
Bearish bets on Asian FX ease as central banks tilt towards rate hikes – Reuters poll
By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) – Bearish bets on most Asian currencies eased as regional central banks sought to normalise policy due to surging inflation, while investors turned bullish on Singapore dollar for…
Bearish bets on Asia FX rise amid Ukraine crisis, rupee shorts near two-year high – Reuters Poll
By Shashwat Awasthi and Harshita Swaminathan – Investors raised their bearish views on most Asian currencies, with short bets on the Indian rupee at a near two-year high, as Russia’s invasion of…
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