Fast-money investors are ramping up bets against
Hedge funds boosted short positions in equity exchange-traded funds by 8.3% in the week through March 6, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s prime brokerage unit. The pace at which the cohort deployed their bearish bets was exceeded just once in the past five years, the data show.
Appetite for US stocks is subsiding as the escalating war in the Middle East ramps up fears about surging oil prices and inflation. ...