Hedge funds have sharply ramped up their selloff in global stocks, according to data from Goldman Sachs Bank's Prime Services Desk unit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/hedge-funds-sold-most-global-equities-since-april-goldman-says">cited </a>by Bloomberg. Net selling in the week ended Feb. 19 reached the fastest pace since April 2025, when U.S. President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modifying-reciprocal-tariff-rates-to-reflect-trading-partner-retaliation-and-alignment/">announced</a> new duties and triggered a stock market crash.

Hedge funds accelerated the selloff to the highest since April 2025. Which stocks escaped the selloff

The gap in insider selling and buying of stocks hit a five-year high in January, Bloomberg writes

Insiders mostly sold off stocks amid the S&amp;P 500's record highs. What does that tell us?

The year 2025 abruptly reversed the dynamics of the currency market: the dollar's exchange rate against the currencies of major U.S. trading partners, which had risen by 40% between 2010 and 2024, fell sharply. The first half of the year was marked by the strongest dollar <a href="https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/us-dollar-declines">depreciation</a> in half a century, down 11% since 1973. In the following months, the nominal effective exchange rate <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1NxFg">recovered</a> about a quarter of the decline, while the real exchange rate <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RBUSBIS">remained</a> roughly flat at the end of the first half of the year.

The dollar under Trump has suffered its strongest decline in half a century. This may not be the end 

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Hedge funds attracted almost $34 billion in the three months ending in September, according to Hedge Fund Research data <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/hedge-fund-assets-hit-5-trillion-most-inflows-since-before-financial-crisis">cited</a> by Bloomberg. This is the largest quarterly net inflow since 2007, that is, since the period before the global financial crisis, which changed the attitude of investors to risk. As a result, the assets of the global hedge fund industry reached a record $5 trillion, the agency writes.