Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
Jeremy Siegel defends the Efficient Markets Hypothesis: When you are at Wharton as I was during my undergraduate years, it is hard to escape the aura of the school’s most famous finance professor Jeremy Siegel. Even before I was interested in the stock market I had read his now somewhat controversial bookStocks for the Long (Read More)
Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
Nassim Taleb says that we need to build a society that is resistent to expert mistakes!Nassim Taleb thinks that VaR or Value at Risk style quantitative risk management was behind leverage and that we have to ban VaR from being used as risk measuments methods. These risk measuments methods were used by Wall Street to hide ri (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Last week’s inaugural list of top clicks was such a hit we decided to make it a regular feature. So without any further ado here are the top ten posts Abnormal Returns readers clicked on for the week ended on Friday, November 6th. The description is as it read in that day’s linkfest.Vitamin D and negative moods makes a po (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
from Google Reader:
As Reuters notes:An independent U.S. senator on Friday introduced a bill that would give the government the power to identify and break up financial firms that are "too big to fail," an idea that is catching on. "If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist," said Senator Bernie Sanders in a statement (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
from Google Reader:
In a must-read essay, Senator Ted Kaufman reveals that - despite all of the talk coming out of Washington - high-frequency trading is set to explode:We've gone from an era dominated by a duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to a highly fragmented market of more than 60 trading centers. Dark pools, which allow c (Read More)
InformedTrades:
Hi FolksSorry about the technical problems we are having, but I am sure it will all be fixed shortly.Some pretty big news on Friday- Gold hit a new all time high, going over $1100 an ounce before finally settling just below that.Also, unemployment numbers came in worse than expected, and unemployment went over 10% for the f (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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OBAMA RIDES TO CHRIS DODD’S RESCUE: Dodd Getting Presidential Help in Reelection Campaign.Embattled Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Ct.), whose low approval ratings make him one of the most vulnerable Democrats seeking re-election next year, gets help from President Obama tonight.Obama will appear at (Read More)
Submitted by Email Wire
from blog:
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 07, 2009 ) Dallas, TX - Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) decreased 7.14% to $1.04 on a volume of 50.97 million shares after the company announced Thursday a policy under which thousands of borrowers on the verge of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting their homes from Fannie... (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Tian LiHong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Donald Tsang on Wednesday pledged to take a series of measures to enhance Hong Kong's competitiveness as a global financial center "We should fully grasp the opportunities presented by 'One Country, Two Systems'," said Tsang when delivering his annual p (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Oscar MasonThere are so many persons believing today of some home based business ideas but they really don't know what to do or which business to take up? The purpose why more and more folks are going for home based business ideas is that they want to be their own chiefs People want flexible timetable to work inst (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
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Joe Raedle / Getty Images No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. Lee Siegel on America’s shameful epidemic.Nidal Malik Hasan may have shouted “Allahu Akbar” before his murderous onslaught at Fort Hood, but his actions were part of an Am (Read More)
Submitted by Email Wire
from blog:
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 07, 2009 ) Dallas, TX - Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:HA) is one of the most active gainers in today`s trading session as it surges over 2.64% to $7.00 after crude oil fell 2% today. The Stock hit an intraday high and an intraday low of $7.11 and $6.96 respectively. In the... (Read More)
Submitted by Email Wire
from blog:
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 07, 2009 ) Dallas, TX - JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU) is one of the most active gainers in today`s trading session as it surges over 8.49% to $5.24 after crude oil fell 2% today. The Stock hit an intraday high and an intraday low of $5.30 and $4.76 respectively.... (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Desmond HealyLike a lot of people, you've been looking for business opportunities online but can't stop living in fear and thus are stuck in a "No" mentality You are aware that there are many scams and have closed your mind to a lot of possibilities However, you also know that financial freedom and independence i (Read More)