Nell Mackenzie

November was a month of clear winners and losers from Donald Trump's Nov. 5 U.S. election victory.

Employee perceptions of how hedge funds handle diversity and inclusion have fallen to their lowest level since before 2021, when Reboot Financial Services began its annual report, the financial services campaigning group said on Tuesday.

Global hedge funds sold U.S. electric and water utilities stocks at the fastest pace in two months while buying U.S. materials stocks such as chemicals, metals and mining as well as paper and forest shares in the week to Friday, Goldman Sachs said.

World markets cheered the selection of fund manager Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury Secretary on Monday on hopes he might restrain debt levels, while falling yields weighed on the dollar and commodities such as gold and crude declined.

Muddy Waters has taken a short position in cosmetics company Elf Beauty , the hedge fund's chief executive Carson Block said at the Sohn conference in London on Wednesday.

More UK fund managers say they've paid higher costs in 2024 to protect their investment portfolios against fluctuations in currency markets, according to survey results by software provider, MillTechFX.

Hedge fund D.E. Shaw took a 102 million euro ($108 million) short bet against Bayer on Tuesday, a regulatory filing in Germany showed, following an earnings presentation that sent its shares to a 20-year low,

Hedge funds snapped up bank stocks at the quickest clip in three years while taking bets against renewable electricity producers last week, a Goldman Sachs note showed, as investors reacted to Donald Trump's win in the U.S. presidential election.

Hedge funds including BlueBay were turning their attentions to crude oil, U.S. Treasuries, tech and U.S. banks on Wednesday, after Donald Trump was elected president.

Hedge funds BlueBay and Phoenix were turning their attentions to crude oil, U.S. Treasuries and U.S. banks on Wednesday, after Donald Trump was elected president.