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Hedge-fund managers have amassed a record short position in US natural gas on expectations for an unusually mild northern winter that points to anemic demand for the furnace and power-plant fuel.
Hedge funds have loaded up on stock shorts this month, pushing bearish bets near a five-year high and raising the risk of a sharp squeeze if markets rebound.
Swiss private equity firm Partners Group Holding AG is stopping hedge funds from disrupting its efforts to refinance around €6 billion ($6.7 billion) of debt owed by some of its most troubled companies, even at the risk of shrinking the pool of buyers as their loan prices fall.
Equity option traders will be looking for the market to break out of its inertia as tech company earnings collide with a Federal Reserve meeting and US midterm elections.
Distressed-debt hedge funds Diameter Capital Partners, Redwood Capital and FourSixThree Capital bought about $190 million of Brightline’s municipal bonds from Nuveen this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
A strategy popularized by AQR Capital Management, the world’s largest hedge fund, to help wealthy people slash their taxes on ordinary income is facing the most concrete sign yet that US authorities are preparing to clamp down.