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Next year's top pick for hedge fund strategies is so-called macro, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump centre-stage as investors bet on how global policy decisions will impact economic conditions and play out in financial markets. Hedge fund returns benefited this year from wild market swings sparked by politics such as November's U.S. election, and twists in monetary policy such as Bank of Japan rate hikes. And investors are readying for more volatility in the year ahead, seven hedge fund investors and portfolio managers told Reuters and a recent survey showed.

(Bloomberg) -- First it was a collapse in the currency. Now the rest of Brazil’s financial markets are in the cross-hairs as investors lose faith in the government’s ability to contain a deepening fiscal crisis.Most Read from BloombergHow California Sees the World, and ItselfThe selloff that sent the real plunging to a record low is engulfing everything from stocks to local-currency debt to dollar bonds, with traders even piling into hedges against a sovereign default. Market watchers say extrao

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for a ninth straight day on Tuesday, its longest losing streak since 1978.

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(Bloomberg) -- After a dismal year, shares of Europe’s automakers are finally finding some positive momentum as signs of additional Chinese stimulus draw investors to the sector’s lowly valuations.Most Read from BloombergHow California Sees the World, and ItselfThe Stoxx 600 Autos and Parts Index is up more than 4% in December, set for its best month since February, though is still down the most of any sector in the broader benchmark year-to-date. Even after the recent gains, carmakers trade at

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy's Banco BPM said it has asked market watchdog Consob to adopt measures to protect the bank's stakeholders and its bid for Anima, after rival UniCredit launched its own bid for BPM. Banco BPM had complained before that UniCredit's 10 billion euro all-share bid jeopardised its buyout proposal for fund manager Anima.

(Bloomberg) -- There is arguably no leader in all of Europe who’s more chummy, or ideologically aligned, with Donald Trump than Hungary’s Viktor Orban.Most Read from BloombergHow California Sees the World, and ItselfWhich goes a long way to explaining why at a time when the mood is markedly glum across European financial markets, there is a sense of optimism in Budapest. Here, investors aren’t fretting so much about the prospect of new Trump tariffs or NATO-funding feuds — like they are in, say,