Athena Capital Research was hit with a $1 million penalty Thursday to settle charges the New York City-based high-frequency trading firm manipulated prices of thousands of Nasdaq-listed stocks...
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17 October 2014, 11:46
MOSCOW--The Bank of Russia sold as much as $12.95 billion in the first half of October to support the ruble as the falling oil prices battered the sanctions-hit Russian economy, the central bank's data showed Friday. The central bank said it pushed the ruble's trading band 30 kopecks higher to 37...
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17 October 2014, 09:51
Global investment banks in Hong Kong are stepping up their hiring of students from local universities, but competition for graduate traineeships is stronger than ever and banks are increasingly selective about who they hire...
Banks
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17 October 2014, 09:25
You won’t find many people out there that believe interviews are “fun,” particularly in banking or consulting. At best, they are an endurance test that you can derive some joy out of passing...
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17 October 2014, 09:09
Call it coincidence if you will, but the biggest initial public offering of all time also happened to hit Wall Street the same day the stock market peaked. Almost at the exact moment, actually: Just eight minutes after Alibaba's much-ballyhooed Sept...
Market News
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16 October 2014, 22:29
By Michael Aneiro The high–yield bond market has been suffering lately, and yesterday’s bizarre, wild ride for bonds and stocks alike didn’t do junk bonds any favors, with that market down another 0.55% yesterday, per a benchmark Bank of America Merrill Lynch index. High yield is now down 1...
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16 October 2014, 21:48
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — It’s been an ugly month on Wall Street. The selloff that began around Sept. 18 accelerated last week and then turned vicious on Wednesday. The S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.19% is now down nearly 8% from its all-time high in September...
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16 October 2014, 21:30
Greek government bond yields spiked beyond 8 percent on Thursday morning, in a sign of growing concern about the country's economic stability given the possibility of snap elections and plans to exit its bailout early. The 10-year note was yielding 8.86 at 11.00 a.m...
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16 October 2014, 12:52
Big name managers including so-called "Tiger cubs" Rob Citrone, Philippe Laffont and Chase Coleman, who used to work under veteran hedge fund manager Julian Robertson at Tiger Management, have all fallen into the red as technology stocks have been hard hit...
Company News
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16 October 2014, 12:35
The selloff in global markets is set to continue as a bear market takes hold "for a long period of time," according to widely followed investor Dennis Gartman, who warned investors not to go long on stocks...
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16 October 2014, 12:22