Athenahealth CEO said he pulls numbers 'out of his a--' in a video, and David...
Greenlight Capital CEO David Einhorn presented his case against athenahealth at the Grant's Investment Conference last week.The most eye-popping moment was a video clip of athenahealth CEO Jonathan...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn really ripped into GE in his fund's quarterly letter
Closely-followed hedge fund manager David Einhorn, the CEO of Greenlight Capital, blasted General Electric Co. in his fund's first quarter letter.Earlier this month, GE announced plans to exit most of...
View Article'Motherfrackers': Einhorn just came out swinging against the fracking industry
David Einhorn, the founder of Greenlight Capital, came out swinging Monday against the fracking industry at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City."We object to oil fracking because the...
View ArticleHere's David Einhorn's full 'Motherfrackers' presentation on the major...
On Monday David Einhorn kicked off the Sohn Investment Conference with his short thesis on the fracking industry."We object to oil fracking because the investment can contaminate returns," he said.The...
View ArticleThe shale boom? It looks a lot like the dot com bubble, not the financial...
Earlier this week, Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn came out swinging against the shale oil industry. At a presentation Monday, Einhorn said, "We [Greenlight] object to oil fracking because the...
View ArticleMicron shares are getting smoked and David Einhorn is down $145 million (MU)
Micron shares are getting smoked after the company reported disappointing third quarter earnings on Thursday.The stock fell more than 18% in morning trading and was the weakest on the S&P 500.David...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn is out at the World Series of Poker after a brutal hand
Poker playing hedge fund manager David Einhorn was eliminated from the World Series of Poker $111,111 High Roller for One Drop tournament on Sunday. Greenlight Capital's CEO had an Ace/Queen in his...
View ArticleShowtime just released a teaser video for 'Billions' — the new hedge fund...
Showtime has just released a teaser video for its new hedge fund drama, "Billions," and now we can't wait for the premiere.The 12-episode series is billed as a "complex and contemporary drama about...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn's Greenlight Capital loses 1.5% in a 'challenging quarter'...
Closely-followed hedge fund manager David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital second quarter letter to investors has just been sent out.And so far, it's been a challenging year. In the second quarter,...
View ArticleDAVID EINHORN: 'House of Cards' appeared to be scripted to compete with...
David Einhorn has just sent out Greenlight Capital's second-quarter letter to investors. After going briefly over the fund's performance (down 1.5% in the second quarter and 3.3% for the year), Einhorn...
View ArticleInside the sold-out poker tournament with hedge funders, NBA stars, poker...
Hundreds of Wall Streeters filled Gotham Hall in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday night for the annual "Take 'Em To School" charity poker tournament. The sold-out event raised around $850,000 for...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn is getting slammed by gold (GLD, GLX, GLRE)
Gold is slamming hedge fund manager David Einhorn.Greenlight Capital's main hedge fund has fallen about 3% year-to-date, driven in part by the slump in gold prices, according to a Bloomberg report on...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn just had his worst month since 2008 — here's what he said about it
It is just not David Einhorn's kind of market.The billionaire hedge fund manager said on a conference call Tuesday morning that investors are shunning value stocks for momentum stocks, and it's taking...
View ArticleThe same stock that scorched David Einhorn is burning Leon Cooperman
Solar and wind-energy company SunEdison is brutalizing two big names on Wall Street, Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, and Omega Advisers' Leon Cooperman.Einhorn said on a call earlier this week that...
View ArticleHedge funds are starting to take another look at GM again
BOSTON (Reuters) - Several prominent hedge fund managers made bigger bets on U.S. automaker General Motors during the second quarter, despite the company's battling a deadly ignition defect and...
View Article40 old high-school yearbook photos of Wall Street's titans
It's August and kids are starting to head back to school.Before they were masters of the universe, the biggest names on Wall Street were once just regular high-school kids, too.They were members of...
View ArticleThe stock that burned 2 hedge fund billionaires is getting decimated
David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital and Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors both lamented their stakes in SunEdison, a manufacturer of solar-energy components, earlier this month.The share price at the...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn's fund got crushed in August
David Einhorn, the founder of Greenlight Capital, is one of the world's most closely-followed hedge fund managers.When he talks about a company, the stock moves, or get "Einhorned."But the founder of...
View ArticleSteve Cohen just got into a stock that has been nailing hedge funds this summer
Billionaire investor Steve Cohen's family office, Point 72 Asset Management, has taken a 5.1% stake in SunEdison, a solar energy manufacturer, according to government filings.The stock popped briefly...
View ArticleEveryone is asking the wrong question about hedge fund performance
What is a hedge fund anyway? The August market swings made it clear that question is getting harder to answer.Broadly, hedge fund managers are meant to be experts at controlling risk and generating...
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