HEDGE FLOW-Hedge funds add bearish bets in Japan's stocks at fastest pace in over 5 years, Goldman Sachs says-August 2024-www.financetom.com

World

HEDGE FLOW-Hedge funds add bearish bets in Japan's stocks at fastest pace in over 5 years, Goldman Sachs says

News World Market Environment Technology Personal Finance Politics Retail Business Economy Cryptocurrency Forex Stocks Market Commodities

HEDGE FLOW-Hedge funds add bearish bets in Japan's stocks at fastest pace in over 5 years, Goldman Sachs says

Aug 9, 2024 1:44 PM

NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Hedge funds added bearish

bets in Japanese stocks at the fastest pace in over five years

for a week between Aug. 2 and Aug. 8, as the Nikkei

faced on Aug. 5 the worst day for the index since Black Monday

in 1987, Goldman Sachs ( GS ) said in a note on Friday.

The bank said hedge funds added 1.7 shorts, or bets stocks

will fall, for each long position for the week between Aug. 2

and Aug. 8.

Previous page： Equity Markets Close Higher After Latest Earnings, Tariffs on Indian Imports Next page： Weekly Crude Inventories Log Surprise Drop; Oil Prices Fall

Comments

Welcome to financetom comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.

Show More Comments

Related Articles >

Equity Markets Close Higher After Latest Earnings, Tariffs on Indian Imports

Aug 6, 2025

04:27 PM EDT, 08/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US benchmark equity indexes closed higher on Wednesday, after latest earnings reports and additional tariffs on imports from India. The Nasdaq was up 1.2% to 21,169.42 while the S&P 500 increased 0.7% to 6,345.06. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2% to 44,193.12. Among sectors, consumer discretionary led the gainers while healthcare rallied...

Weekly Crude Inventories Log Surprise Drop; Oil Prices Fall

Aug 6, 2025

03:39 PM EDT, 08/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Commercial crude stockpiles in the US unexpectedly fell last week as motor gasoline and distillate fuel inventories shrank, government data showed Wednesday. Inventories of crude, excluding the strategic petroleum reserve, dropped by 3 million barrels to 423.7 million barrels through the week ended Friday, the Energy Information Administration said. The consensus was for...

EMERGING MARKETS-Chilean peso slides on reserve build-up plan; Trump hikes tariffs on Indian goods

Aug 6, 2025

* Trump imposes additional 25% tariff on India * Brazil's president sees no point in tariff talks with Trump * Oil prices slide to 8-week low as US-Russia talks stir sanction uncertainty * Chile cenbank to accumulate $18.5 bln in international reserves (Updates with afternoon levels) By Ragini Mathur, Johann M Cherian and Sukriti Gupta Aug 6 (Reuters) - Chile's...

TSX Closer: The Index Closes Up 350 Pts To Second-Straight Record Close; Shopify In Focus

Aug 6, 2025

04:14 PM EDT, 08/06/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The Toronto Stock Exchange posted its second-straight record close Wednesday, as Rosenberg Research seems to have called it correctly in a morning note when it said stocks are mainly detached from weak economic data, while individual stocks like Shopify ( SHOP ) shone. Despite weaker commodity prices, the resources heavy S&P/TSX Composite Index...