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If you pay attention to the stock market then you've probably heard about the problems in hedge fund land. For the past few months each day is filled with headlines about how much one fund lost and how another is being closed completely, and still others are pulling money out of the market. On Friday, we got a small glimpse on how bad things are getting. Each quarter, hedge funds larger than $100 million must file a 13F disclosing their long market positions as of the end of the quarter. Usually this quarterly ritual is a great way to find new stock ideas, but this quarter the filings just confirm some of the things we've heard about the trouble in the industry.

Below is data from 11 top hedge funds about where they stacked at the end of the quarter. For the most part, the data is showing a significant ...

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Daniel Loeb's Third Point hedge fund released its 13F for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Notably, Third Point's total long exposure went from $3.888 billion to $1.724 billion Here is a summary:

New Stakes:
Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) 100,000 shares
Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) 800,000 shares
AVI Biopharma (Nasdaq: AVII) 100,000 shares
Citigroup (NYSE: C) 200,000 shares
DineEquity (NYSE: DIN) 590,000 shares
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) 3,350,000 shares
CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) 1,000,000 shares
EDCI Holdings (Nasdaq: EDCI) 155,000 shares
Epicor Software (Nasdaq: EPIC) 2,400,000 shares
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) 650,000 shares
JB Hunt (Nasdaq: JBHT) 10,000 shares
Lorillard (NYSE: LO) 1,100,000 shares
Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) 250,000 shares
Rohm & Haas (NYSE: ROH) 700,000 shares
UST (NYSE: UST) ...

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital hedge fund released its 13F for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Here is a summary:

New Stakes:
AIG (NYSE: AIG) new 33,088,568 share ...