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Cohen, Asness, Laffont Bet On ChargePoint - Will Q1 Earnings Spark A Breakout?
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 10:32am | 479ChargePoint Holdings Inc (NYSE:CHPT) is about to plug into the earnings grid, and Wall Street's biggest brains are already circling the EV charging play. The company reports first quarter results after the bell Wednesday, with expectations for a loss of 5 cents per share on $108.07 million in...
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Billionaire Investor Steve Cohen Warns Of 'Significant Correction' As Trump Tariffs, Immigration Crackdown, And Spending Cuts Shake Market Confidence: 'It's A Tax'
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 4:33am | 507Billionaire investor Steve Cohen, chairman and CEO of Point72 Asset Management, has turned bearish on U.S. markets for the first time in recent memory, citing concerns over trade policies, immigration restrictions, and federal spending cuts that could trigger a significant market correction. What...
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Point72's Steve Cohen Ends 40-Year Run As Trader, Will Continue At Hedge Fund To Advise
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 6:13pm | 389Steve Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund founder, has hung up his spurs as a trader after four decades. Cohen, 68, will still remain its co-chief investment officer at Point 72 Asset Management with Harry Schwefel, but he has backed away from investing clients’ capital to focus on firm growth,...
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Steve Cohen Bets On Las Vegas: New York Mets Owner Takes 5.5% Stake In Sphere, Could More Sports Events Be On The Horizon?
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 10:42am | 639New York Mets owner Steve Cohen‘s new stake in Sphere Entertainment Co (NYSE:SPHR) could signal a future bet on more sports-related events at the ball-shaped venue. What Happened: Cohen's Point72 Asset Management hedge fund recently disclosed a 5.5% stake in Sphere Entertainment with 1.56...
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Billionaire Steve Cohen's Point72 Can Save $25M By Using AI: Top 5 Tech Stocks Of Firm's Portfolio
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:25am | 910In the rapidly evolving landscape of finance, billionaire investor Steve Cohen‘s Point72 Asset Management is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to make significant strides. With Cohen at the helm, Point72 has embraced AI technologies, leading to substantial cost savings and...
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Farfetch Gains Glamorous Investors: Steven Cohen-Backed Point72 Makes Luxe Bet With 5.1% Share
Saturday, December 2, 2023 - 11:57am | 484Farfetch (NYSE: FTCH), a prominent player in the luxury fashion industry, has attracted notable investment interest, as evidenced by a recent SEC filing. Point72 Asset Management, L.P., along with associated entities and noted investor Steven A. Cohen, reported owning 18,132,...
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Steve Cohen Keeps Betting On Biopharma With Purchase Of 119M+ Bionomics Shares
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 10:56am | 496NY Mets owner billionaire Steve Cohen has bought as many as 119,092,680 ordinary shares of clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Bionomics Limited (NASDAQ: BNOX) through his Point72 asset management firm, again showing support for the biopharma sector. See recent buy of Cybin (NYSE: CYBN)...
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GameStop Film 'Dumb Money' Stars Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Seth Rogen: Cast Details, First Trailer Released
Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 4:45pm | 1311A highly anticipated movie that features one of the most infamous stock market storylines of the last decade has revealed more details of its cast and released a first trailer. What Happened: A fierce battle between retail traders and hedge funds will be chronicled on the big screen with the...
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Steve Cohen's 'Comeback' Draws Closer
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 1:31pm | 256Bloomberg Tuesday reported that hedge fund legend Steve Cohen has “unofficially” began positioning to sign up clients for a new fund. Citing people familiar with Cohen’s plans and family office performance, the report also suggests that the man known for his high-flying returns...
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Steve Cohen Is Back: 4 Interesting Facts About The Hedge-Fund Billionaire
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 12:30pm | 650Hedge-fund billionaire Steve Cohen is returning to his trading roots after being involved in one of the biggest insider trading scandals. Cohen, formerly with SAC Capital Advisors, hopes to raise over $20 billion in assets and is planning to launch a new fund in 2018, according to a Wall Street...
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Steve Cohen's Latest Investment Might Produce the Next Steve Cohen
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 3:09pm | 602Point72 Ventures, the VC arm of Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management firm, invested $2 million in micro-investing fintech company Acorns as part of the company's Series D round earlier this year. Point72 Ventures’ previous investments have focused on quant trading technologies, so...
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Exclusive: Point72's Fintech Venture Wants To Solve The Biggest Problems In Finance
Monday, August 15, 2016 - 3:27pm | 575Master investor Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management has been looking at fintech lately with the formation of Point72 Ventures. It has acquired key talent to run the division, like Pete Casella, formerly of JPMorgan, and Alex Tarhini, from Barclays Techstars, and has made investments in...
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Hedge Funds Suffer From A 'Sameness' That's Hurting Performance
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 1:54pm | 266Citing Doug Haynes, the president of Steve Cohen's investment firm, Point72 Asset Management, Business Insider reported the hedge fund industry has a well-documented performance problem, which is directly connected to a lack of diversity in the industry. Hedge funds are suffering from groupthink,...
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Steve Cohen On Hedge Funds: I'm Blown Away By The Lack Of Available Talent
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 8:54am | 262Steven Cohen, the billionaire investor and hedge fund manager, has somewhat discouraging words for finance professionals looking to find a high paying job at a hedge fund. Cohen, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday said that he is "blown away by the lack of talent" of...
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Pernix Therapeutics Soars 75% Following Report of 5.8% Stake by Point 72
Monday, May 2, 2016 - 9:14am | 109Shares of Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PTX), a nano-cap specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on products that addresses unmet medical needs, soared higher by more than 75 percent early Monday morning. Investors and traders were reacting to Point72 Asset Management's...