World’s Top Hedge Fund Soars 275% With Bets on China Schools

Laveta Brigham

(Bloomberg) — Long before he ran the world’s best-performing hedge fund, Qian Yongqiang chaired China’s biggest online dating service. The Yale graduate would spend hours tracking down attractive users with suspicious profiles, sifting through accounts and deleting thousands of scammers to improve the site’s authenticity and ensure its success. Now […]

World’s Top Hedge Fund Soars 275% With Huge Bet on China Schools

Laveta Brigham

(Bloomberg) — Long before he ran the world’s best-performing hedge fund, Qian Yongqiang chaired China’s biggest online dating service. The Yale graduate would spend hours tracking down attractive users with suspicious profiles, sifting through accounts and deleting thousands of scammers to improve the site’s authenticity and ensure its success. Now […]

Goldman Sachs’s Third-Quarter Profit Soars

Laveta Brigham

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -1.55% ’s third-quarter profit nearly doubled, the latest confirmation that, even in a pandemic and a recession, Wall Street can still make money. Goldman reported a quarterly profit of $3.62 billion, or $9.68 a share, on revenue of $10.78 billion. Both measures were better than […]

online bartering soars in virus-hit Philippines

Laveta Brigham

Struggling to make ends meet, Lorraine Imperio swapped a pair of Nike slip-on shoes for a whole dressed chicken on an online bartering site, one of dozens that have sprouted up during the Philippines’ virus lockdowns. With millions stripped of their jobs and many forced to stay home to slow […]