June 9, 2025
Financial Assets

Hedge funds doing something they have not done since the Covid stock market crash

Hedge funds are selling individual stocks at the fastest pace in years, as tariff threats and recession fears have sent the market into a tailspin.  Professional fund managers have slashed their positions by the largest amount in over two years in the last several days.  Some of their activity is comparable to March 2020, when

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Financial Assets

Trump suffers hugely embarrassing stock market blow in month since taking office

European stocks have hugely outpaced Wall Street in the month since President Donald Trump took office.  This is a blow to the President, who has often boasted about how the stock market sees bumper gains when he is in the White House.  The benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index, which tracks the performance of the 600 largest

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