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Pershing Square manager Bill Ackman exited his market hedge positions earlier this week and used the more than $2 billion in proceeds to bulk up on his fund’s existing stakes as well as reinvest in coffee chain Starbucks. In a letter to Pershing stakeholders dated Wednesday, Ackman said the fund completed the exit from his bets

Brendan McDermid | Reuters It might be premature to declare the bear market dead, but Thursday’s action sure checked off some important boxes. Conventional Wall Street wisdom is that bear markets, or 20% declines from 52-week highs, die on bad news, and Thursday featured some of the worst the U.S. economy has ever seen.  Nearly

Dell CEO Michael Dell Getty Images Executives are loading up on their company shares as the coronavirus-driven sell-off dents the broader market, signalling the heads of U.S. businesses are confident their companies will rebound.  The heads of Dell Technologies and Wells Fargo are purchasing shares while outsiders ditch riskier assets, sucking trillions in value from

Ken Griffin Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Renaissance Technologies’s James Simons, Citadel’s Ken Griffin, Points72’s Steven Cohen and Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper were among the biggest hedge fund earners in 2019 with each man raking in over $1 billion, according to Institutional Investor’s Rich List. No. 1 on the list was Christopher Hohn of TCI Fund Management,

Stocks’ swift and steep sell-off is providing the type of buying opportunity that doesn’t come around all that often, and investors should take advantage of the downturn, according to Ariel Investments’ chairman John Rogers. “I think this is a maybe once in a lifetime opportunity to buy stocks at bargain prices,” he said Wednesday night

The coronavirus pandemic is shutting down entire sectors of the economy and putting millions of Americans out of work, but one corner of Wall Street may find opportunity amid the carnage: private equity. The group, which includes investment giants Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, has a record $1.5 trillion in cash ready to deploy and has

Energy companies are coming under pressure as oil prices sink, but Chevron CEO Michael Wirth said the company has no plans to slash its dividend. “Our dividend is our number one priority and it’s very secure,” he said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” ”We’re taking actions to preserve cash. It will have some impact on production

Stocks are a good value for investors who think the economic hit from the coronavirus is temporary, Oakmark Funds partner Bill Nygren told CNBC on Tuesday.  “We think stocks are really cheap if you believe, as we do, that the economy is going to eventually recover, as will the P/E multiples,” the value investor said on

President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing joined by Vice President Mike Pence in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on March 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images This is a developing story. Check back for updates. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence

A man wearing a face mask takes a selfie at the Charging Bull statue on March 23, 2020 near the New Stock Exchange in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Markets have historically “reacted most negatively” to unknown diseases, tending to plunge more during epidemics as compared to natural disasters such

Twenty-two days. That’s all it took for the S&P 500 to fall 30% from its record high, the fastest drop of this magnitude in history. The second, third and fourth quickest 30% pullbacks all occurred during the Great Depression era in 1934, 1931 and 1929, respectively, according to data from Bank of America Securities. “This

President Donald Trump has long pointed to the stock market’s success under his administration as a tangible endorsement of his economic policies and had often boasted about the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s gains since his election. That was, of course, before investors knew about the new coronavirus. With COVID-19 and measures to contain its spread

A man cleans up on the trading floor, following traders testing positive for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters The crash that no one called has investors calling back to earlier cataclysms, grasping for historical threads that can serve as

Traders, some in medical masks, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 20, 2020 in New York City. Trading on the floor will temporarily become fully electronic starting on Monday to protect employees from spreading the coronavirus. The Dow fell over 500 points on Friday as investors continue to

The adage “keep calm and carry on” might, in the end, be the best advice for investors to follow during times of extreme market volatility such as the present. While it might seem counterintuitive to sit back and relax while stocks post swift and steep losses, for investors with longer-term time frames it typically pays

Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Halftime Report. Scott Mlyn | CNBC CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday the coronavirus-slammed stock market is due for bounce because there has been so much selling in recent weeks. “I think there’s a technical rebound coming,” Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “I don’t know how long it will last because I

A trader reacts during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 28, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. Photo by Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images We are all exhausted and depressed, having experienced this week one of the worst stock market declines in modern history. I

Getty Images Companies holding low-rated debt are in for a brutal stretch as the economy heads into a coronavirus-induced recession, according to a forecast Friday. S&P Global Ratings said the default rate for high-yield, or junk, bonds is heading to 10% over the next 12 months, more than triple the rate of 3.1% that closed

A Bank of America financial manager shows a customer how to use the ATM with Teller Assist station in Cherry Creek. Andy Cross | Denver Post | Getty Images Bank of America said it was boosting pay for bank tellers by $400 a month and reducing daily work shifts by at least two hours amid

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday he fears that the coronavirus-driven halt in the economy could leave the U.S. with only three retailers after the crisis ends. “If we come out of this sooner, then other, small businesses can open. If we come out of this later, there are going to be three retailers in this country,”