hedge funds

Several funds have plans to go to the European Court of Human Rights if the country doesn’t make good on its bond payments.

Hedge funds raised their wagers on higher commodity prices by the most since July 2010 after signs of accelerating U.S. growth bolstered optimism that demand for raw materials will strengthen.

Hedge funds reduced bets on higher commodity prices to the lowest level since 2009 just as raw materials headed for their biggest weekly rally in two months.

With the S&P 500 about to end its best month in almost 40 years, many would be happy to cash in gains and start packing for the ski slopes.

I spend most of my time digging into Wall Street, hedge funds and private equity firms, looking for both the good and the bad.

Hedge funds are becoming lenders, but there are risks for those involved and for the broader economy.

Authorities suspect insider trading at some expert network firms, which match investors like hedge funds with outside experts.

A former Wall Street titan was convicted Wednesday of making a fortune by coaxing a crew of corporate tipsters into giving him an illegal edge on blockbuster trades in technology and other stocks — what prosecutors called the largest insider trading case ever involving hedge funds.

In his first interview for publication since his arrest, Bernard L. Madoff insisted that his family knew nothing about his crimes, but some banks and hedge funds “had to know.”

Dec. 29 -- Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed new charges as part of a national probe of insider trading, accusing consultant Winifred Jiau of California with selling inside information to two unidentified hedge funds.