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Money Matters by Katy Marquardt and Kirk Shinkle

April Fool's Gag Pranks Financial Media

April 01, 2008 03:56 PM ET | Katy Marquardt | Permanent Link | Print

As I was enjoying my own April Fool's joke this morning—which involved a fake E-vite to a lame smoothie party—hedge fund manager Doug Kass was pranking the financial media. In his early market commentary, "Time to Buy the Bull?" the typically bearish Kass announced he was raising his year-end targets for the S&P 500:

While I initially expected a 5% to 10% decline in the S&P 500 this year, my new year-end S&P target is 1,666, for a gain of 26% from current levels. I might be low.

The Big Picture gives a rundown on which news organizations fell for the stunt (all links are now wiped clean).

Tags: media | stock market

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Katy Marquardt came to U.S. News from Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, where she profiled rising stars in the mutual-fund world and wrote about investing in stocks and racehorses. Katy hails from Abilene, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas-Austin.

Kirk Shinkle is a senior editor at U.S. News. Formerly, he covered business and economics on both coasts for Investor's Business Daily. A native of the Montana-Texas corridor, he currently resides in the wilds of west Brooklyn. His checkered online evolution looks like this: Friendster, still (!). MySpace, no. Facebook, yes. He blogs here, Twitters occasionally, and has yet to Tumblr.

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