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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

Written By: Patrick Temple-West on May 7, 2008 No Comment

BY PATRICK TEMPLE-WEST – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

In light of Bear Stearns investigation of short selling, is such an investigation required by shareholders?

CME cannot respond directly to specific questions like that, Donohue said. We would refer that to the proper authorities, but as a matter of policy, we do not comment on that.

Should the [...]

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