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Black Wednesday, or the 1992 sterling crisis, was a financial crisis that occurred on 16 September 1992 when the UK Government was forced to withdraw sterling from the (first) European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM I), following a failed attempt to keep its exchange rate above the lower limit required for ERM participation.
In 1992, on what became known as Black Wednesday, Soros' lead fund, Quantum Fund, became famous for profiting from the devaluation the pound when the currency left the Exchange Rate Mechanism. Soros had bet his entire fund in a short sale on the ultimately fulfilled prediction that the British currency would drop in value, netting him a profit ...
335 (With notes and Index) ISBN. 978-0-07-160844-2. Soros: The World's Most Influential Investor is a non-fiction book by Robert Slater, first released by McGraw Hill in 1996, that describes the early life, education, work, and philanthropy of a man many consider to be the most influential and successful investor of the twentieth century.
George Soros HonFBA (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.
Soros also has been at the center of false claims that he financially supported the first national Women’s March and organized the Charlottesville, Va., protests and counterprotests in 2017.
For example, he called Bragg “this Soros Prosecutor” in a social media post on Wednesday; in a statement last year, he claimed that Bragg was “hand-picked and funded by George Soros.”
Soros describes "Black Wednesday", the time he made 1 billion dollars selling the British pound short, as well as the roughly $600 million he once lost speculating on the yen in February 1994. In simple terms, "Black Wednesday", was a formal devaluation of the British pound by around 20% against the dollar, the German Mark, and other currencies ...
Managing the Quantum Fund with George Soros. Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller (born June 14, 1953) [1] is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist and former hedge fund manager. He is the former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010, [2] at which time it had over $12 billion ...