Christopher Langner

The British pound plummeted more than 6 percent in around one minute, sharing some characteristics with the flash crash seen in the U.S. market back in 2010. According to Gadfly's Christopher Langner, liquidity, fear and large positions are some of the common characteristics shared by flash crashes...

Investors withdrew more than $25 billion last month from hedge funds at a time when many insiders are claiming the industry is "under assault." According to Bloomberg Gadfly's Christopher Langner, the mass exodus of customers out of hedge funds is not a sign that the industry is dying, but it is...

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about Bitcoin and the potential of digital currencies. So far, very few banks and countries have made much actual progress in creating digital currencies, but Bloomberg’s Christopher Langner believes that Misubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (ADR) (...

Q1 of 2016 was the worst quarter for hedge funds in at least seven years, but hedge funds dedicated to the Chinese market are having a particularly tough go of it. According to Bloomberg’s Christopher Langner, shorting stocks in China can be a difficult proposition these days. Shorting...