Leon Cooperman

This afternoon hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman appeared on CNBC to talk about the markets. Cooperman started with an attack on high frequency trading, stating that it should be banned. Cooperman blamed it for the recent volatility, which he said was scaring the retail investor out of the market...

Lee Cooperman, the billionaire chief executive officer of Omega Advisors Inc., spoke to Bloomberg TV's Erik Schatzker this morning about his hedge fund's investments. Cooperman said investing in U.S. Treasuries "makes no sense," he considers stocks the best investment today and that he likes gold,...

Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors, says he likes eTrade (NASDAQ: ETFC) as one of his favorite picks in the market. He likes eTrade's valuation and likes that it has excess capital even though ETFC can't use it because of the FED regulations. Once the FED let's eTrade use those assets, it'll...

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Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors is speaking at the Value Investing Congress. Mr. Cooperman assumes the U.S. will remain in a slow growth environment, and will not go back into a recession. Cooperman cited Warren Buffett and Jeff Immelt of GE (NYSE: GE), who said the same thing, that the U.S....

Governor Rick Perry has been very vocal on his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, even calling his actions "treasonous." This morning, Governor Perry again went on the attack on Bernanke, this time, speaking to the group who tends to side with him most: Wall Street. Appearing on...

This is not the first time we've heard this either. At the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference the other day, hedge fund managers were there to give their best ideas, have some good food, network with other hedge-funders and talk about a variety of issues pertaining to the world economy. Many of...

Tyler Mathisen of CNBC hosted a panel yesterday at the CNBC/Institutional Investor "Delivering Alpha" conference with six of the brightest minds in the hedge fund world, and asked them for some of their best investment ideas. Up first was Kyle Bass from Hayman Capital, and his idea was to short...

Increase your investing knowledge and experience and network with some of the world's most prolific investors at this year's conference in New York. Scheduled to take place on October 17 and 18 at the Marriot Marquis in New York City, the seventh annual Value Investing Congress is a one-stop-shop...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman told CNBC that his team likes Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Ace (NYSE: ACE), BP (NYSE: BP), Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), and Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR). The Omega Advisors CEO also said that the dollar is headed softly lower from...