WestLB said this afternoon that it will report a full-year loss of over $145 million (100 million+ euros) because “of persistently difficult market developments.'' Up until today, the Dusseldorf-based bank had been forecasting a profit. Profit, no profit—they’re pretty much the same thing, so it’s easy to see how one might confuse one for the other. LINKThe Revenge of Quantocide?
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AQR Denies Something Or Other
The flacks for AQR Capital Management have been working overtime, denying reports of redemptions, losses and a scrapped IPO.
..."In our long-only funds, all funds are up, in the single digits or double," said AQR in a statement. "Among our hedge funds, some are up in the double digits, while are few are down but only in the single digits, though one hedge fund, which represents less than 1 percent of our AUM, is for the moment down in the double digits."
