Hedge Funds betting billions on Markt Crash in Trump’s America

Hedge Fonds have set billions of dollars against Donald Trump’s America due to a market accident.

Goldman Sachs data show that there was an increase in the “short” bets against US shares, which means that retailers earn money when they are value that gives growing concerns about the market.

In January, investors set ten times more bets on US shares than equivalent bets that would increase the shares in leading American companies, said the investment bank. It indicates that many retailers sit from chaos with enormous profits at the beginning of this week when the shares of the Big Tech shares sagged according to a panic of the success of the rival Chinese Ai Deepseek.

The increase in the short bets marks an essential turnaround in the mood from November, when hedge funds stacked in long bets on US shares and predicted that they would rise.

Hedge funds in the immediate vicinity of the US elections in November plowed billions in so-called “Trump trades”. The tax cuts and the collective bargaining policy of the new president would strengthen the economy of America.

An increase in customers who provided their money for the funds after Mr. Trump’s victory contributed to the amount of money managed by the industry to an all-time high of over $ 4.5 trillion (£ 3.6 trillion) to increase.

Mr. Trump has also received significant support from top -class fund bosses, including Bill Ackman, who has become a main opponent for diversity, equity and inclusion (Dei) since the attacks of Israel on October 7, 2023.

In the run -up to the elections, Mr. Ackman, who founded Pershing Square Capital Management in 2004, publicly Mr. Trump. The billionaire hedge fund manager had previously donated millions of Super PAC organizations to support the Democratic Party.

Mr. Trump later appointed hedge fund managers and donors of the Republican Party, Scott Bessent, the finance minister. Mr. Bessent began his career at George Soros’ hedge fund in the 1990s before starting his own investment fund Key Square Group in 2015.

Ken Griffin, who founded Citadel in 1990, was later published in December to support Mr. Trump after he had financially supported the campaign of the Republican candidate. Mr. Griffin, who donated millions on various Republican candidates and political candidates, had previously described Mr. Trump as the “three -time loser”.

At the Dealbook Summit in December, Mr. Griffin said that Trump’s victory was the opportunity to end the “regulatory and legal paralysis” of the bid era and “back to a nation of principles, of strength and possibility, the nation From principles, prosperity and possibilities, the possibility, the possibility, the possibility, the possibility, possibility, to bring the possibility of bringing America back, traces of prosperity and possibilities. According to Politico.

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