How Activist Bill Ackman Finds His Targets—And Makes a Pile Off Them
The hedge fund honcho, who also has had his duds, combines a composed demeanor under fire and an appetite for enormous risk.
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Market Moves
Buy the Dips Is So … Last Month
Investors’ habit of bagging stocks during temporary slips could be going away, El-Erian warns.
Asset Allocation
How Fed Tapering Will Slam Bond Buyers
No more bond buying, plus the government’s dwindling cash reservoir, will bring pain, says Natixis’ Lavorgna.
3 Inflation Scenarios: How Bad Could It Get?
Investors could see either a 1970s-style double-digit ripsnorter, a return to a more normal level, or something in between.
Asset Allocation
Why Wall Street Is Eyeing a Correction Coming Soon
Numerous strategists think things are getting dicey as we enter stocks’ lousiest month historically.
Asset Allocation
The Amazing 10-Year Treasury and Its Slow-Motion Future
Why the benchmark bond is expected to rise, but at a sluggish pace.
Risk
Here’s Morgan Stanley’s Method of Girding for a Rocky Market
The firm’s Mike Wilson urges the use of a ‘barbell strategy’ to cushion the blow from a downturn—or higher rates.
Asset Allocation
Why Is OCERS Looking at Dumping Ray Dalio’s Prized Hedge Fund?
The California county pension program says his Bridgewater Pure Alpha has been dogging it since 2015.
Market Moves
4 Scenarios for the Fed’s Tapering: From Benign to Horrible
What should the pace of reductions be? The slower, the better, says research sage Jim Woods.
Market Moves
The Inflation Threat Is Hooey, Even as Money Supply Climbs, Says Savant
Sure, the Fed has created more dollars, but that doesn’t mean they’ll lead to a price spiral, argues David Waddell.
Asset Allocation
No Need for Taper Trepidation for the Stock Market
The situation now is less fraught than during the 2013 tantrum, argues UBS’s Mark Haefele.
Market Moves
Sure, Delta Cut Goldman’s GDP Forecast, but It’s Not Too Bad
Compared with anemic economic growth in the past decade, things are still looking up.
OK, When Will the Fed Begin Shrinking Its Bond Buying, Anyway?
Split views seen in FOMC minutes are vexing. So let’s hear what Wall Street strategists think.
Alternatives
Woodman, Don’t Spare That Tree: Lumber Price Spiral Is Now Over
The tab for this construction-centric wood, which figures in many asset allocators’ alt strategies, has dropped back as production finally expands.
Here’s Why Inflation Is Up: Oil and Cars, Period
Commonwealth’s McMillan ascribes nasty CPI numbers to a few aberrant items, already cooling off.