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Global risks are rising, and that has Pimco investing in higher quality, highly liquid investments like Treasurys, bond investor Bill Gross told CNBC.
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LONDON, Feb 15- Gold prices extended losses on Friday to hit a six-month low as a breach of key chart support levels at $1,625, its previous low for the year, and $1,620 triggered technically-driven selling. Spot gold hit a low of $1,608.11 an ounce, its weakest since Aug. 16, and was at $1,615.01 by 1428 GMT, down 1.2 percent.
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*Coming up: U.S. Industrial output; 1415 GMT. LONDON, Feb 15- Gold fell to a six-month low on Friday, breaking through technical support near $1,630 an ounce, as the euro weakened against the dollar ahead of a G20 meeting, which should give more clues on currencies.
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Feb 14- Hedge fund heavyweights from Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors to Barry Rosenstein's Jana Partners threw in the towel on Apple Inc in the fourth quarter, while other managers found discount retailers Dollar General Corp and Dollar Tree Inc attractive, regulatory filings showed on Thursday.
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BOSTON, Feb 14- Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker's share price.
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A reputation as a safe place to park money during global market turmoil helped drive central London office prices up 52 percent between mid-2009 and the end of 2012. Prices in the smaller luxury residential market grew at a similar pace. As investors feel calmer about the world in general, they are looking more closely at London property holdings.
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SAO PAULO, Feb 11- Brazil's big sugarcane mills have begun to invest in ethanol production again, after licking their wounds from years of slim margins, as an expanding crop and favorable government policies brighten the horizon for the biofuel.
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CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin and Steve Liesman reports the latest detail on an "upbeat speech" from Mario Draghi and comments from George Soros from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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NEW YORK, Jan 24- Billionaire investor George Soros said on Thursday that he favors U.S. monetary easing policy, but warned of a "currency war" because of differences in how countries manage national deficits. "I think the policy, basically, pioneered by Bernanke is actually the right policy," Soros told CNBC in an interview from Davos, Switzerland.
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'Prepping' is the key word in Davos today as 'Team Bartiromo' finalized details for the 40+ interviews about to air over the next three days.
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Jan 21- When the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union, jaws dropped from Belfast to Belgrade. Many think that is a strange way of interpreting the last 100 years, given that the maintenance of a free Europe since the end of World War Two is due more to the thankless diligence of NATO and the unsung generosity of the United States.
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LONDON, Jan 9- Betting against the European Central Bank, and the eurozone's survival in general, proved a costly strategy for hedge funds in 2012..
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*Herbalife shares up nearly 6 pct on Loeb's move. Jan 9- The fight over nutritional supplements company Herbalife Ltd gained intensity and drama on Wednesday as hedge fund titans Daniel Loeb and William Ackman now appear to be squaring off.
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Back in May, as the euro zone veered deeper into crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman penned one of his gloomiest columns about the single currency, a piece in the New York Times entitled "Apocalypse Fairly Soon".
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CNBC's Robert Frank reports some high-profile billionaires, including Warren Buffett, John Bogle and Norman Lear, are calling on Congress to raise their taxes.
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NEW YORK, Nov 14- Patrick McCormack, the manager of hedge fund Tiger Consumer Management, decided to bet against rival David Einhorn in the third quarter.
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NEW YORK, Nov 14- Patrick McCormack, the manager of hedge fund Tiger Consumer Management, decided to bet against rival David Einhorn in the third quarter.
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*ArcelorMittal, Jonah Capital also among suitors-sources. LONDON, Nov 7- A mining venture co-founded by the former boss of Vale, Roger Agnelli, is among suitors considering BHP Billiton's slice of the Mount Nimba iron ore deposit in Guinea, sources familiar with the matter said.
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NEW YORK, Nov 7- U.S. investors hit trading floors Wednesday morning with the same president and the same problems in gridlocked Washington and expected the same solution as always to a looming budget crisis that threatens the economy: punt and deal with it later.
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NEW YORK, Nov 7- U.S. investors will hit trading floors this morning with the same president and the same problems in gridlocked Washington.
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NEW YORK, Nov 7- Traders and investors on Wednesday said the best way for U.S. Investors have had a tendency of downplaying problems emanating from Washington, only to find themselves surprised when lawmakers cannot get together on critical issues.