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by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Apr 06, 2021 - 05:45 PM One week ago, in our initial take on the biggest hedge fund collapse since LTCM, we explained that - in our view - the catalyst for the failure of the Archegos hedge fund, which had as much as 10x leverage allowing it to hold some $100BN in positions, was Morgan Stanley and Goldman breaking ranks with their fellow prime brokers, and sparking the biggest margin call since Lehman and AIG. Turns out we were right. In the most detailed account yet of...

29 TV Shows and Films to watch over Easter Share this article With any luck, some of the restrictions will lift over the next couple of weeks but until then, you may have some spare time over the Easter holidays that you’re not quite sure how to fill. Don’t worry, OTB Sports Sue Murphy has you covered. Disney+ Wandavision It will take a while to climatise but this is worth the investment – Wanda Maximoff is back as the star of Wandavision with her husband, Vision. It kicks off in the I L...

by Tyler Durden Authored by Vassilis Karamanis, FX and rates strategist who writes for Bloomberg Albert Einstein is widely credited as saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The phrase keeps coming to my mind as I read story after story on the Archegos Capital Management saga and look at a series of charts on the euro. At first, the two might seem unrelated, but they both hold relevant lessons about market complacency. The story rea...

NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American Playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time. The playwrights, Asian American women, are Jaclyn Backhaus, Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Moench. The idea was conceived and will be directed by Les Waters for NAATCO. NAATCO will develop t...

Kraven the Hunter, which is set to be directed by Triple Frontier‘s J.C. Chandor. And while the 56 year-old action icon had been approached for the title role, the legendary big game hunter just doesn’t feel like an obvious fit for the actor’s established screen persona. Spider-Man 3, but the multiverse seemed to draw a line under that. It’s unclear what the character’s upcoming solo outing will bring us, but Chandor is a solid filmmaker that’s delivered strong work in a variety of...

While a band of activists on internet chatrooms were busy inflating and then crashing the value of GameStop, AMC cinemas and silver, they were also creating another surge.Such was the interest in

Journalist, activist, New York University professor and tech issue expert, Scott Galloway is also in talks to consult on the script. The only star attached to the film is Noah Centineo. Centineo is known mainly for his role as Peter Kavinsky in the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy on Netflix, and his role as Jesus Adams on The Fosters. It is not yet known what his role will be in the GameStop project. Also according to Deadline,  the intention behind the film is to use the Ga...

After a wild week of stocks, you can’t stream most of the biggest Wall Street films Chaim Gartenberg It has been a wild week for the stock market, with amateur traders from Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets subreddit battling traditional investors. The past several days have been full of massive swings in stocks like GameStop and AMC and app-fueled drama that’s sparked a larger debate over the nature of Wall Street as a whole. But if you were hoping to kick back this weekend, rel...

Tokyo Tribe) and Yuzuka Nakaya ( The Forest of Love). Joseph Trapanese ( Tron: Legacy,  The Greatest Showman) composed the original score.  “We’re excited to once again work with Nicolas Cage on a highly-anticipated film directed by the celebrated Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer of RLJE Films. “Following the success of  Mandy and  Color Out of Space,  Prisoners of the Ghostland is already receiving great buzz and we cannot wait for audien...

Failing in order to succeed Margin Call: Active investment managers need to be prepared to fail to give clients better returns than general sharemarket. It is hard to imagine anyone would willingly entrust their savings to a failure. Indeed, few professional services will ever concede to having a guaranteed failure rate. But that is exactly what an active investment manager is going to deliver its clients. Guaranteed failure is part and parcel of being a truly active investment manager. From ...