bloomberg.com - 12/19/2008
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The Richest Hedge Funds: John Paulson Strikes Again The man who called the subprime mortgage crisis is back, with four of the top 20 funds -- as his firm's bets against banks pay off big. By Richard Teitelbaum Bloomberg Markets, January 2009 There's not a lot of light in Paulson & Co.'s 28th- ...
bloomberg.com - 12/18/2008
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Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
may ask Congress for the second half of the...
$700 billion bank rescue program, concerned that the deepening recession may spark further financial turmoil. Paulson could soon exhaust the first ...
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Paulson May Seek Next $350 Billion in Rescue Funds ...
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John Paulson in Bloomberg Markets
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... But today, he'll be starring in Bloomberg Markets' latest feature, "The Richest Hedge Funds: John Paulson Strikes Again". Here's an excerpt: ...
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The Clueless Q Trader —
... My reaction to this article was interesting to me, at first I felt like throwing it all in when I saw what the top hedge funds did, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_0109_story1.html , but then, after reading on down, I see the average hedger's lost almost 11%, and the 20th BEST fund only made 7.7%. Then it made me feel even better about myself, when I see what the third best fund has working for them, "Brevan Howard employs a stable of 14 economists who craft outlooks for various world markets and work with more than 70 traders devising strategies to profit from ...
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