• The Finer Points Of Hedging… Or Not (The Capital Spectator) • No need to fear celebs’ advice when buying or selling stocks (Business Day) • REITs Prune Their Portfolios in Shift Back to Basics (WSJ) • Stock Buybacks: They are big, they are back and they scare some people (Musing on Markets) • T...
BEIJING—A Chinese probe into trade financing found nearly $10 billion in fake deals, a senior official said, in the latest warning over practices that raised concern over potential losses among foreign and Chinese banks this year...
Where is Goldman Sachs hiring? If you’ve been paying attention to presentations by CEO Lloyd Blankfein and COO Gary Cohn, you’ll already know the answer: Goldman Sachs is hiring in ‘high value locations.’ Where are these high value locations? Try Salt Lake City. But more than that, try Bangalore...
If you’re an elite person looking for an elite career, you will probably have considered a career in investment banking. But you may also have weighed-up a career in strategy consulting. Banking and strategy consulting both pay well...
If you’re looking for a banking job in Singapore, you may want to consider applying to Mizuho. The Japanese bank has announced in local media that it will be increasing its 600-strong Singaporean headcount by 50%, taking on another 300 people in the next three to five years...
Not long ago, JPMorgan’s analysts issued a note. In it, they said that fixed income sales and trading revenues across all banks are likely to fall by 3% this year and by 3% next year. They also suggested that Morgan Stanley’s restructuring of its fixed income business was looking pretty good...
Russia's biggest crude oil producer Rosneft may back out of a deal to buy Morgan Stanley's oil trading unit, as Western sanctions make it virtually impossible to finance day-to-day operations, Reuters reports...
Situation The early days of the Retail Online Trading Industry are, or more accurately should be, a thing of the past. Why? Because the latest Business and Technology transformations have eventually made the impossible possible. With daily volumes estimated at USD 300+ Billion, Retail Forex (i.e...
Traders don’t want to work for Goldman Sachs any more. This isn’t a statement of fact, but it’s a fair supposition based upon the facts: Goldman traders keep leaving for hedge funds...
NVIDIA has announced two new graphics cards for the PC, the flagship single-GPU GTX 980 and the mid-range GTX 970. Both are based on NVIDIA’s 10th generation Maxwell architecture, which succeeds Kepler...
We are pleased to announce about the geographic expansion of the company by the establishing of a new representative office. MetaFintech LLC has become the company's official agent in the largest international business center of the Middle East - Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
Investors bracing for higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve in 2015 need to expand their horizons or risk being taken aback...
Millennium Management has continued its London expansion, poaching senior traders, researchers and portfolio managers from JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Nomura as well as targeting other hedge funds for talent...
The WSJ: Alibaba founder Jack Ma has become the richest man in China, according to the Hurun Rich List...
Laura Ramadei, is a bartender in New York City. She posted an open letter on Facebook to the hedge fund manager who she said groped her. She said he only left a $2 tip. She posted his receipt on facebook: Interestingly, the New York Post got a hold of Lederman and asked him about the incident...
Andrea Orcel is shaking up UBS. As Financial News noted last week. UBS has been hiring all sorts of new senior investment bankers this year (eg. Ian Carnegie Brown, Nick Reid, Giles Borten, Glenn Rewick) as Orcel ‘hot rods’ the investment bank for better performance...
Chinese social Finance website Xueqiu.com got USD40 million investment from Renren.com and Morningside Ventures. Xueqiu's products include website and application for smart devices...
Apple has said that opening weekend sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have topped 10 million, a new record, the company said Monday morning...
British Forex Trader Magazine has appeared today in MetaTrader Market. Thus, any MetaTrader platform user can now download up to eight different financial publications from the Market. The archive of Forex Trader Magazine contains 6 issues from October 2013...
It’s a little ironic that the UK has been so quick to bash its bankers when the financial services sector is such a prominent part of the country’s economy...
