High frequency trading firm Jane Street Capital failed in a bid to secure a temporary restraining order against Millennium Management from a Manhattan court on Friday as it looked to stop the multi-strategy hedge find firm using an allegedly stolen trading strategy, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Amid ongoing geopolitical tensions and inflationary problems, hedge funds have turned more bearish on global equities than at any other point so far this year, cutting their long positions and upping short bets, according to a report by Reuters.

The IMF has warned that a “concentration of vulnerability has built up” which poses a potential risk to wider financial stability, given that a small group of hedge funds now accounts for the vast majority of short positions in the US Treasury futures market, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Multi-strategy hedge fund Citadel and Founder Ken Griffin’s market-making firm Citadel Securities have agreed to a deal with British Land and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC to pre-let over 250,000 sq ft of space at the new 2 Finsbury Avenue (2FA) development in the City of London.