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.
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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
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
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 [...]