Hedge funds

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U.S. stocks rose from a two-month low while Treasuries and gold fell as data showed rising consumer spending and corporate earnings beat estimates.

Puerto Rico debt is rallying the most in two years, even under the threat of a cut to junk, as the commonwealth prepares to sell bonds for the first time since August.

Discovery Capital Management LLC, the $15 billion macro-economic hedge fund run by Rob Citrone, is betting on a strengthening economy in Mexico, echoing comments from money managers including Laurence D. Fink’s BlackRock Inc. and Bill Gross’s Pacific Investment Management Co.

The contraction in the U.S. market for borrowing and lending securities amid rising interest rates and heightened global bank regulation will increase this year, according to Fitch Ratings.

Certain securities salespeople are giving the brokerage industry a bad name by putting clients into manifestly unsuitable securities, namely leveraged and inversed ETFs, which are attracting wary and watchful eyes among U.S. regulators.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the probe that led to his settlement with BlackRock Inc. over analyst surveys is looking at brokerage firms and individuals who provided nonpublic information that could have been used to trade.

U.S. stocks fluctuated as investors scrutinized data showing a slowdown in jobs growth for clues on the pace of Federal Reserve stimulus cuts.

Emerging-market stocks rose for the first time this year after the International Monetary Fund said it will raise its forecast for world growth.

State Street Corp., the second- biggest provider of exchange-traded funds, plans to introduce its first actively managed stock ETFs in partnership with MFS Investment Management.

Investors prizing Princeton University bonds have fueled gains relative to top-graded municipal debt.

William Kohli, the world’s top global bond fund manager, has made daring moves during his career from an early age.

During a year in which Japan stocks were the top performers in the benchmark MSCI AllCountry World Index ex-U.S., the fund was light on that country as its managers took a wait-and-see approach to the Bank of Japan's aggressive (and, in the end, highly successful) asset-buying program.

Legal & General Group Plc, the largest manager of U.K. pension assets, agreed to sell an office building in London’s Midtown district to Orchard Street Investment Management LLP for 85.1 million pounds ($140 million).

Five years after the equity bull market started, U.S. investors returned to stocks in 2013, just in time for the best relative returns versus bonds on record.

Hedge funds got less bullish on gold for the seventh time in eight weeks as the U.S. economy strengthens and inflation fails to accelerate, driving prices to the biggest annual drop in more than three decades.

Moore Capital Management LP, the hedge-fund firm run by billionaire Louis Moore Bacon, offered positions to money managers at SAC Capital Advisors LP, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

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