Porsche buys Volkswagen Shares

• Porsche buys Volkswagen Shares

"IT IS hard to feel sorrow for hedge funds. Their reputation as ruthless investors and the largely unwarranted blame for amassing huge sums of cash as the financial system crumbled have earned them unflattering comparisons to locusts, spivs and far worse. But if there were ever a moment when the hedge funds might be deserving of a modicum of pity it may be now. On Tuesday October 28th Volkswagen’s share price briefly made it the most valuable company in the world, at a time when many hedge funds had placed substantial bets that the German car company’s value would shrink."