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David Einhorn

David Einhorn (hedge fund manager)

David Einhorn (born November 20, 1968), an American hedge fund manager, is the Founder and President of Greenlight Capital, a "long-short value-oriented hedge fund".

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Defriending Apple for Facebook?

Are investors looking to add shares of Facebook to their portfolios by slicing their Apple holdings?That's a question traders and investors have been pondering over the past few weeks, with the market souring on the once-golden Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) as Facebook prepares for its record-setting initial public offering.

"I have seen several hedge-fund-type accounts liquidating various positions to make way for Facebook," says John Glasmann of Precision Securities, a San Diego firm that specializes in IPOs.  "But I have no firsthand knowledge of this to be factual as it relates to Apple."Independent trader Doug Monieson has heard about people selling Apple to buy Facebook shares.  But he says it's more a function of a portfolio balancing issue related to Facebook's IPO that may be causing some tech fund managers to sell Apple.  The Nasdaq is changing the rules for faster inclusion into its flagship Nasdaq 100 Index.  That benchmark is tracked by the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ) -- one of the m...

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  1. Roles For Green Mountain Executives Cut After Margin Calls

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.'s (GMCR) recent problems claimed two more victims Tuesday when its long-time chairman and lead director were forced to reduce the...

  2. Green Mountain Chairman Sells 5 Million Shares On Margin Call

    A plummeting stock price has forced Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR) founder and Chairman Robert Stiller to sell 5 million shares of the coffee company's s...

  3. Herbalife Ramps Up Buyback After Steep Stock Drop

    Herbalife shares slid 10% to $47.17 Thursday morning. The vitamin supplements company said it plans to buy back nearly $428 million of its own shares after seeing it...

  4. Herbalife Says Stock a 'buying Opportunity'

    Herbalife Ltd. said a 19.9% drop in its stock price on Tuesday represents a buying opportunity for the company and that its fundamentals remain sound. The comment by...

  5. FSA Fines Credit Suisse Head Of Credit Sales For Market Misconduct

    In its continuing clampdown on market misconduct, the Financial Services Authority on Tuesday said it had fined Nicholas Kyprios, head of European credit sales at Cr...

  6. Starbucks Hits Single-Serve Market With Its Own Brewer

    Starbucks Coffee Co. (SBUX) is taking on Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR) on its own turf.Just a few months after signing a deal with Green Mountain to sel...

  7. Will Gold Miners Finally Get Some Respect?

    It has been a long and hard road for gold miners.  Despite another record performance for gold last year, miner stocks lagged the physical precious metal.  Gold pric...

  8. FSA Fines Former Merrill Lynch Broker In Greenlight Case

    The fallout from alleged insider trading at U.S. Greenlight Capital Inc. continued Thursday when the Financial Services Authority said it had fined former Merrill Ly...

  9. FSA Fines Former Merrill Lynch Broker In Greenlight Insider Case

    The fallout from alleged insider trading at U.S. Greenlight Capital Inc. continued Thursday when the Financial Services Authority said it had fined former Merrill Ly...

  10. FSA Fines Former Merrill Lynch Executive GBP0.4 Million For Market Abuse

    The Financial Services Authority, or FSA, Thursday said it has fined Andrew Osborne GBP350,000 for engaging in market abuse by improperly disclosing inside informati...

  11. Green Mountain To Sell Fancier Single-Serve Coffee Brewer

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR)--whose stock is still down about 40% since hedge-fund guru David Einhorn's allegations of inflated sales last fall--is com...

  12. Greenlight Capital Takes Stakes In Yahoo, RIM

    David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital late Tuesday disclosed that it bought stakes in Yahoo , Research In Motion , Delphi Automotive , and Tessera Technologies during t...

  1. Limited Brands 1Q Earnings Beat Estimates

    FBN’s Robert Gray breaks down Limited Brands’ first-quarter earnings results.

  2. Einhorn Critical Of Martin Marietta, China

    Martin Marietta Materials shares sank 8% to $68.60 Wednesday after well-regarded investor David Einhorn spoke critically of the company at the Ira Sohn Investor Conf...

  3. What are Hedge Funds Doing With Gold?

    At the end of 2011, gold prices finished almost 20 percent below their all-time nominal highs made in September. European concerns and liquidation actions sent inves...

  4. Einhorn's Greenlight Exits Yahoo, Cuts RIM Stake

    David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital sold its Yahoo stake, while cutting back on share positions in Microsoft , Research in Motion and Dell , according to a 13-F regul...

  5. David Einhorn and Ron Paul Tackle the Fed

    Only in America can you find monetary policy metaphors involving jelly donuts and the Simpsons. In a rare column, hedge fund manager David Einhorn recently penned a ...

  6. Green Mountain Chairman Robert Stiller Ousted

    FBN's Liz MacDonald breaks down the accounting controversy related to former Green Mountain chairman Robert Stiller

  7. Margin Calls Cost Green Mountain Chairman, Director

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.'s (GMCR) recent problems claimed two more victims Tuesday when its long-time chairman and lead director were forced to reduce the...

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