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  • Scorecard: How's Bill Ackman Doing? Friday, 24 May 2013 | 8:56 PM ET
    Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP.

    With the departure of Procter & Gamble's CEO, Bill Ackman has collected another big-game trophy. But how is his hedge fund doing overall? Let's check the scorecard.

  • Paul Tudor Jones Issues an Apology Friday, 24 May 2013 | 4:40 PM ET
    Paul Tudor Jones, chairman and chief executive officer of Tudor Investment Corp.

    After taking some serious heat for remarks that suggested mothers can't be good traders, Paul Tudor Jones issued this apology.

  • SAN FRANCISCO, May 24- Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on Friday. The investment comes on the heels of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging company Tumblr, showing the high prices fast-growing services that targeting Internet users can command.

  • SAN FRANCISCO, May 24- Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on Friday. The investment comes on the heels of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging company Tumblr, showing the high prices fast-growing services that targeting Internet users can command.

  • Do Babies Destroy a Woman's Ambition?  Friday, 24 May 2013 | 2:50 PM ET

    Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones made a comment about female traders losing ambition after having a child. "Fast Money" trader Karen Finerman, Metropolitan Capital, strongly disagrees. (5:38)

  • Phil Falcone's Helicopter Heads to Hamptons Friday, 24 May 2013 | 2:49 PM ET
    Phil Falcone

    Someone is starting the holiday weekend early.

  • Yes, Mr. Jones. Mothers Can Be Great Traders Friday, 24 May 2013 | 2:40 PM ET
    Paul Tudor Jones, chairman and chief executive officer of Tudor Investment Corp.

    Finerman responds to Paul Tudor Jones' comment that trading is difficult for mothers because connecting with a child is a "focus killer."

  • At a conference in Dublin on Friday the head of Ireland's largest bank gave small business leaders the "15- second elevator pitch" he gives to U.S. executives when he is in New York or Boston.

  • NEW YORK, May 23- Lawyers for SAC Capital Advisors called a meeting with U.S. prosecutors and FBI agents in April to argue that there should be no insider trading charges filed against the $15 billion hedge fund or its founder, Steven A. Cohen, according to sources familiar with the matter. A lawyer for SAC Capital did not respond to a request for comment.

  • NEW YORK, May 23- Lawyers for SAC Capital Advisors called a meeting with U.S. prosecutors and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in April to argue that there should be no insider trading charges filed against the $15 billion hedge fund or its founder Steven A. Cohen, according to sources familiar with the matter.

  • NEW YORK, May 23- U.S. prosecutors are seeking testimony from three senior executives of the $15 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York issued subpoenas to SAC's president, chief compliance officer and head of trading, according to the Journal's report.

  • Huge Japan Stimulus Still Not Enough: Kyle Bass Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 1:19 PM ET
    J. Kyle Bass

    The gargantuan stimulus Japan is pumping into its economy will have to be even larger to achieve the desired results, said Hayman Capital founder Kyle Bass.

  • 10 Stocks That Hedge Funds Love Wednesday, 22 May 2013 | 2:40 PM ET

    Goldman Sachs revealed the stocks most popular with the nearly $2 trillion hedge fund industry. The so-called VIP list has outperformed the S&P 500 this year.

  • Top 50 Hedge Funds Ditch News Corp. for Boeing Wednesday, 22 May 2013 | 5:00 AM ET

    The world's largest hedge funds have bolstered their equity holding so far this year, adding more to Boeing than any other stock, according to research firm FactSet.

  • Opportunities in Market 'Dislocations': Pro  Wednesday, 22 May 2013 | 2:30 AM ET

    Simon Waxley, senior portfolio management at Whitebox Advisors, tells CNBC that Europe is in a dislocation at the moment and they are trying to exploit moves around this.

  • Struggling electronics giant Sony Corp, though, with more foreign and fewer bank shareholders, may prove something of an exception. That's the hope, at least, of Californian billionaire Daniel Loeb, whose Third Point hedge fund has built up a more than 6 percent stake in Sony, making it the group's biggest stockholder.

  • Is Sony un-Japanese enough to entertain change? Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 4:56 PM ET

    Struggling electronics giant Sony Corp, though, with more foreign and fewer bank shareholders, may prove something of an exception. That's the hope, at least, of Californian billionaire Daniel Loeb, whose Third Point hedge fund has built up a more than 6 percent stake in Sony, making it the group's biggest stockholder.

  • BlackRock Buys MGPA, Creating $25 Billion Fund Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 8:26 AM ET
    BlackRock Inc. headquarters in New York City.

    BlackRock has bought private-equity real estate fund MGPA in a deal that boosts its presence in Asia and continental Europe.

  • Shortselling: 'a Nightmare Right Now': Pro  Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 4:30 AM ET

    Will Duff Gordon, research director at Markit, tells CNBC that the rising tide and record bull market mean that being a short seller is 'a nightmare right now'.

  • NEW YORK, May 20- The decision by U.S. prosecutors to compel Steven A. Cohen to testify before a federal grand jury about allegations of insider trading at his $15 billion hedge fund is leaving many criminal defense lawyers scratching their heads.

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