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FCA halts short-selling of Italian stocks following market slides
The Financial Conduct Authority has introduced a temporary ban on the short selling of certain Italian stocks, which will last until the end of Friday’s trading, in a move to calm the sustained frenzied selling following hefty slides in global stock markets this week. |
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Horseman eyes Korea volatility for autocallables opportunities | Fri | 13 Mar 2020, 11:35 | Recent spikes in Korean stock market volatility following the global sell-off could see an upswing in margin calls in its autocallables market, potentially driving the index even lower, with investors taking advantage of the higher volatility to obtain higher yields. |
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Hedge funds down 2.81 per cent in February, says Backstop BarclayHedge | Fri | 13 Mar 2020, 11:35 | Hedge fund losses picked up in February with the industry down 2.81 per cent for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P Total Return Index was down 8.2 per cent for the month. |
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Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index down 1.99 per cent in February | Fri | 13 Mar 2020, 11:35 | The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -1.99 per cent in February, underperforming the -1.44 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. |
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Tether tops USD5bn market cap | Fri | 13 Mar 2020, 11:35 | Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin, has surpassed USD5 billion in market capitalisation. |
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CloudQuant proves value in PA Signals alt date set | Fri | 13 Mar 2020, 11:35 | CloudQuant says it has proven the value in the Precision Alpha Machine Learning Signals (PA Signals) alternative data set. Its detailed data science study shows a long-short portfolio outperforms the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF by an average of 37.9 per cent per year after transaction costs. |
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