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    (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia’s flagship investment conference began on Wednesday with top global asset managers predicting that 2021 would bring a return to growth as nations get the Covid-19 pandemic under control -- and with it a rise in inflation.“We will see a rebound in growth and a rebound in inflation,” Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio said during the opening panel of the Future Investment Initiative, or FII. “With that, you’re also going to see a pick up in deficits,” leading governments to sell more bonds.That view was shared by BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink, who predicted that developed countries would likely reach herd immunity around September. “I think we are going to have a huge amount of job creation, but all these elements are highly potentially inflationary.”Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s signature event will host top global executives like Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’ David Solomon, Blackstone Group Inc.’s Steven Schwarzman and SoftBankCorp.’s Masayoshi Son.BlackRock’s Fink Sees a Return to Growing Inflation (4:46 p.m.)“It is fair to assume we are going back into an era of growing inflation,” Fink said, predicting that developed countries would establish herd immunity against Covid-19 around September.China’s Currency May See More Demand, Says Dalio (4:36 p.m.)China is moving toward “internationalization” of its currency which may see more demand, Dalio said. Last year was a defining one for China, he added, and it did a “remarkable” job differentiating growth and developing attractive markets for foreign investors.Credit Suisse CEO Says UK Will Recover from Brexit Challenge (4:34 p.m.)Credit Suisse Chief Executive Officer Thomas Gottstein said the UK would eventually recover from the challenges posed by its withdrawal from the European Union.“I’m convinced that also the UK will do just fine over time,” he said. “In the short term it (Brexit) is a challenge.”Saudi’s Public Investment Fund Chief Says Investing in Tech, Pharma (4:30 p.m.)Yasir Al-Rumayyan, who heads Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the PIF was investing in a full spectrum of technology, early stage autonomous driving and pharmaceuticals but is concerned about the growing power of larger tech firms.“We are worried not only from the valuation standpoint about how some of these technology companies are having bigger powers,” he said, “and a lot of the regulators in the world are beginning to be more concerned.”Rumayyan also said he was increasingly cautious about the disconnect between “real economy and financial markets”BlackRock’s Fink Says Fundamentals Favorable in 2021 (4:26 p.m.)“The fundamentals going into 2021 and beyond are pretty favorable for long-term investors,” BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said. He also said $50 trillion needs to be put to work to get to net carbon zero.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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    (Bloomberg) -- Day traders have pushed BlackBerry Ltd.’s share price to levels not seen in more than nine years. They’ve also given a jolt to a Canadian investment company that got crushed in last spring’s market crash.BlackBerry soared 22.6% to $23.19 as of 9:38 a.m. in New York on Wednesday, bringing its gain for the year to nearly 250%. That is repaying the patience of Prem Watsa and his Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., which owns 8.3% of the software firm’s shares.Once the toast of the mobile tech world, BlackBerry failed to keep pace with competitors including Apple Inc. and the stock lost most of its value in 2010 and 2011. Around that time, Watsa, a value investor who has tried to model Fairfax after Berkshire Hathaway Inc., began building a large stake, which also includes convertible debentures with a conversion price of $6 each that could be turned into 55 million shares.The run-up in BlackBerry shares this year would drive a pretax gain of about $1.16 billion for Fairfax in the first quarter, Phil Hardie, a Toronto-based analyst at Bank of Nova Scotia, told clients in a note before markets opened on Tuesday. Hardie upgraded his recommendation on Fairfax’s shares to a buy-equivalent.Fairfax closed at C$488.94 on Tuesday. With a 12.7% gain as of Tuesday’s close, it’s the best-performing financial stock in the S&P/TSX Composite Index this year after being one of the worst in 2020 with a 29% drop.Scotiabank’s most bullish scenario for Fairfax “implies almost 50% upside and assumes that the stock sheds its valuation discount and trades at book value, with Fairfax locking in recent gains in BlackBerry through hedging or monetizing its position,” Hardie wrote. Fairfax didn’t respond to a request for comment.Watsa has been waiting for such a payoff for years. Fairfax even organized a bid to take BlackBerry private in 2013 -- the same year the latter changed its name from Research In Motion Ltd. -- then abandoned it in favor of a bond deal and management shakeup that brought in John Chen as chief executive officer.Despite an unrealized loss of $50 million on the investment as of 2019, Fairfax’s letter to shareholders last March made clear Watsa still believed in the CEO, who has focused BlackBerry on enterprise software. “We continue to support John Chen as he works diligently to make BlackBerry a growth company again,” Watsa wrote.The sudden rise has been partly fueled by Reddit forums and social media channels where retail speculators seek out unloved or heavily-shorted stocks like GameStop Corp., hoping to drive them up quickly.RBC Capital Markets downgraded its recommendation on BlackBerry to a sell-equivalent Tuesday, citing the torrid rally and unchanged fundamental outlook. Analyst Paul Treiber kept his price target at $7.50. Scotiabank also elected to cut BlackBerry’s stock rating to a sell-equivalent early Wednesday, as analyst Paul Steep calling the share run “overdone.” Still, shares are gaining about 11% in premarket trading Wednesday.Watsa, 70, founded Fairfax in 1985, following Warren Buffett’s strategy of using insurance float as a way to build an investment portfolio. With a market value of more than C$14 billion it’s a fraction of Berkshire’s size, though it’s more than twice as large as buyout firm Onex Corp.(Updates with Wednesday share move in second paragraph)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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