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Written By: John Yoo on August 12, 2010 No Comment
Book Review: Traders, Guns and Money

Combining wit and humor, Satyajit Das shares some brutally honest yet enlightening insights collected during his 25 years in the derivatives market.

Written By: John Yoo on July 29, 2010 No Comment
Financial Planners: Are they right for you?

Joseph Smith, the founder of JAS Financial Services LLC., provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions regarding financial planners.

Written By: Charlie Mead on May 20, 2010 No Comment
Book Review: Lords of Finance

Liaquat Ahamed’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lords of Finance” weaves international exchange rates, foreign reserves and the inter-war period’s “barbarous relic” – gold – together from the vantage point of four men who directed the fates of millions toward the granddaddy of all economic crises: The Great Depression.

Written By: Sonja Elmquist on May 12, 2010 No Comment
The devil’s in the details

In Richard Bookstaber’s 2007 recounting of every major financial crisis since the 1980s, the details are everything.

Written By: Max Frumes on February 12, 2010 No Comment
Regulation, crisis and the PE/VC conversation

Present-day and next-generation investment industry leaders debated future of funds at the Kellogg School of Management’s private equity and venture capital conference in Chicago, with the conversation returning to value creation.

Written By: Graydon Gordian on January 28, 2010 No Comment
BATS moves in on the options market

BY GRAYDON GORDIAN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Once upon a time it was considered nearly impossible to get the Securities and Exchange Commission to grant a new exchange license. Nowadays, it only takes a few months.

Written By: Shahzad Chaudhary on July 23, 2009 No Comment
CME earnings beat expectations

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BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY — MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The CME Group released its second quarter earnings today, smashing analyst expectations by 10 cents with a diluted EPS of $3.33.

The exchange’s CEO, Craig Donohue, credited strong cost-cutting measures and the success of new innovative products for the strong quarter, specifically mentioning [...]

Written By: KatieRogers on July 8, 2009 No Comment
Wired Money: Can widgets and Web sites change the way we look at personal finance?

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BY KATIE ROGERS – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

In an age of economic uncertainty, what we know for sure is Americans are still willing to stretch their budgets when it comes to electronics.

Because of our obsession with computers, phones and other gadgets that put life’s essentials at our fingertips (quite [...]

Written By: CTPou on February 11, 2009 No Comment
A trader’s success may correlate with length of fingers

BY CLAUDIA-TERESA POU / MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

CME Group trader Gene Boccio shows off his digit ratio.

Caution, traders don’t show your hands to the world. Just one look at your hand may tell us a lot about your paycheck—that’s according to a study of 44 male traders in London. 

That’s right, [...]

Written By: Frank Carlson on May 14, 2008 No Comment

BY FRANK N. CARLSON-MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Yesterday evening investor and philanthropist George Soros spoke about his new book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Soros has recently been making the rounds on shows like

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