Bloomberg Investment Firms Bet Against Cathie Wood’s Top ETF as Tech Faltered (Bloomberg) — Cathie Wood’s recent travails have been a boon for some of her peers in money management.About two dozen investment advisers including Balyasny Asset Management and a unit of Blackstone Group Inc. bought bearish put options during the first quarter on the Ark Innovation exchange traded fund, her firm’s main investment vehicle, regulatory filings show.While money managers often buy puts on ETFs to… Source link
Read More »Do Large Publishers Have an Unfair Advantage in Google Search?
Larger publishers seem to appear more often in search results, sometimes multiple times in the response to a single query. But is it an unfair advantage? See how single companies perform against large publishing conglomerates today. Do Large Publishers Have an Unfair Advantage in Google Search? A client asked recently if we could report a competitor for double-serving in organic search results. (If you’re not familiar with this Google Ads policy, it prohibits a company from trying to gain an… Source link
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Bloomberg Pivotal Week Confronts Emerging Markets at Mercy of U.S. Yields (Bloomberg) — That the immediate fate of emerging markets is likely to be determined by the path of the dollar and Treasury yields is barely in dispute.But what is less clear is which direction the U.S. currency and bond market will take, as investors weigh the competing forces of Covid-19 infections and the prospects of a global economic rebound. Another uncertainty is which developing economies are best-placed to ride… Source link
Read More »Buccaneers could have Super Bowl advantage with schedule
COVID-19 changed a lot of the NFL’s practices during the regular season, and that will continue through the Super Bowl. The normal timeline for Super Bowl arrival and prep is being adjusted for pandemic safety reasons, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Sunday. While teams usually arrive in the host city a week ahead of time, they won’t be allowed into Tampa until two days before the big game. That is except for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, of course. The winner of Sunday’s AFC championship… Source link
Read More »Amazon and Google’s True Advantage
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. My colleagues wrote about the eye-popping sales numbers coming from America’s technology superstars, including Google, Facebook and Amazon. Their sales and profits this year, in the middle of a pandemic, are truly hard to fathom. It’s so much money, you guys. But these companies also spend gobs of money, which in turn helps them make more money. The ability to spend like crazy — because Big Tech… Source link
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