Greenlight Capital

Most experienced investors have some idea about the significant structural changes that have occurred in the U.S. equity market over the last six to seven years. Regulatory changes and new technology have opened the way for significant fragmentation in the trading of stocks. Today, there are...

Investors eagerly awaited 13F filings from top activist hedge fund managers. Always included in the list is David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, who made several big calls. New Picks: Conn’s (NASDAQ: CONN) was one of Einhorn’s largest entries for the quarter with the position worth $128.2...

Best-selling financial journalist Michael Lewis thinks that the U.S. stock market is rigged in favor of high frequency traders, stock exchanges and large Wall Street banks who utilize speed trading to gain an edge over everyone else. In his newest book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Lewis...

U.S. stocks traded mostly higher today despite a key measure of home builder confidence falling in February. The New York Fed's general business index also showed signs of vulnerability. Despite the weak economic data which is partially due to weather, the Nasdaq index rose for the eight...

Wednesday marked another day of mixed trading as investors and traders continue to find little clarity from the quarterly results released so far. With the markets being a "mixed bag" major indices ended the day little changed with the Dow ending slightly in the red and both S&P 500 and...

While speaking with Bloomberg Television, hedge fund manager and founder and president of Greenlight Capital David Einhorn went over his views on Green Mountain Coffee (NASDAQ: GMCR) as an investment, discussing both what he sees as their misleading numbers and empty promises. “Yes. We are still...

Hedge fund manager, founder and president of Greenlight Capital David Einhorn spoke with the folks at Bloomberg Television on Wednesday where he discussed a variety of things, including how the government shutdown looks and where he thinks it's going from here. “I think that almost everybody...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) is headed back to NASDAQ-100 for an encore run in the index, meaning the stock famously sold short by David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital will soon rejoin the PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ: QQQ). The $36.5 billion QQQ is also known as the NASDAQ 100 tracking...

Wednesday marked the last day Wall Street's hedge-fund managers could have filed their 13Fs for the latest quarter. "Whale watchers," a term coined by financial media sources for those who love to following these high-profile traders into positions, have been tuned into the SEC's EDGAR website...

Futures Flat Ahead of Fed Speak U.S. equity futures traded flat in early pre-market trade ahead of some key earnings reports, notably from drug store chain CVS (NYSE: CVS). Also, a speech from Fed President Charles Evans could move markets this morning. Top News In other news around the markets...

David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital, the $8 billion hedge fund, released its second-quarter update to clients Friday and the poker-playing hedge fund manager's musings helped boost at least two ETFs. Shares of the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX) rallied closed near their highest...

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the largest U.S. technology company by market value, are trading slightly lower in early afternoon trading despite news that David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital has boosted its stake in the iPhone maker. On a Tuesday conference call for, Einhorn said, "We've added to...