Is Soros betting on a market crash?

"Tyler Durden" of the blog ZeroHedge has been examining the investment track of George Soros's hedge fund and found that the billionaire "open society" manager has been squirreling away a ton of cash, betting on a crash of the stock market: Back in February we observed, with some surprise, when Soros Fund Management, the investment vehicle of the famous Hungarian billionaire investor revealed in its Q4 13F that the firm had taken its bearish S&P 500 ETF - aka SPY - put exposure to a then record $1.3 billion notional, prompting us and many others to ask if Soros was preparing for a market crash. Fast forward to today when following the latest 13F disclosure from the same fund, we note, with double the surprise that a quarter after the same ETF put was lowered to "only" $299 million notional, Soros has once again increased his total SPY Put to a new record high of $2.2 billion, or nearly double the previous all time high, and a whopping 17% of...(Read Full Post)