So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
Citibank, the poster child for sick banks and the victim of a weeks-long short raid, announced that it operated at a profit for the first two months of 2009.
The company launched four funds earlier this summer called the Rydex SGI Event Driven and Distressed Strategies Fund, the Long Short Interest Rate Strategy Fund, the Long Short Equity Fund and the Alternative Strategies Fund.
Even if you disagree with my strategy you can still make money by using my concept of using GTC Limit Orders to buy weakness to a value level to become more long or less short, or to sell strength to a risky level to become less long or more short.
However, Commerzbank's have climbed even faster, and its return on equity slumped to a miserable 4.5% in the first half of this year, far behind its rivals and a long way short of its long-term target of 15%.
Commercials are still net-short, but added more gross long than short positions.
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Commodity long-short-most investors have commodity long-only.
But the Federal Reserve had already started raising short-term interest rates, flattening the yield curve, the difference between short and long rates. (Since banks borrow short and lend long, their margins are higher when the curve is steep.) When this began eating into lenders' profits, they reacted by pushing subprime rates back up.
In the legacy report for platinum, non-commercials added both gross long and short contracts, but added more gross shorts, lowering the net-long position for funds to 20, 053.
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Recent cuts in short-term interest rates should help banks, by steepening the yield curve (the difference between long and short rates) and thus boosting the spread they can earn.
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One way to get that effect on the Chicago Merc is to make two trades--one in which you are long dollars and short euros, another in which you are short dollars and long, say, the Swedish krona.
To make a long story short, I had a hard time getting it back from her.
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Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.
Long-short strategies fail to make money as managers are simultaneously buying and selling beta.
One example is the large increase in long-short mutual funds over the past few years.
Our firm and our clients have no direct long or short positions in such bonds.
However, I currently find myself both long and short, with a bias towards the short side.
The Alternative Strategies Fund focuses on a stock hedging asset class, or a stock long-short.
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To make a long story short, cloud computing is (almost) the future of IT.
To cut a long story short, my friends helped the BBC team reach Mopti.
In the listings below, I have calculated the final tallies of each long and short.
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The long and short-term strategies indicated the re-configuration of all stores divided into boutiques.
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The climate may further cool if additional natural long and short-term cycles also enter into cooling phases.
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As a note, neither our firm nor our clients have long or short positions in the stock.
OK, all this is a long way short of proof that traffic density alone causes these differences.
Globe Wireless, an American firm, has long used short-wave for maritime e-mail service to thousands of ships.
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