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Poker Pros Make Excellent Traders, Says Harvard Finance Professor

bloomberg.com | Mason Levinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Phli Ivey, World Series of Poker, Wall Street, Poker, Risk Management, Traders, Harvard, Recession, Steve Begleiter, Business News

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates...

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Morgan Stanley On Hiring Spree

thestreet.com | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Traders, Morgan Stanley, Sales, Economy, Morgan Stanley Hiring, Business News

Morgan Stanley (MS Quote) is planning to hire as many as 400 traders and sales people, according to a report, as the firm moves to compete better with...

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Even Your Friends are Enemies

Joe the Trader | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Traders, Wall Street, Masters of the Universe, Recession, New York-New York, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Brazil, China, New York, Business News
Joe the Trader

A couple of months ago I had lost out on a job to someone I knew. While it stung, at least I found out who my competition was after the fact. Now I was sitting across the table from my competitor -- who was also my friend.

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Summers/Geithner Plan: Bank Heist One More Time

Diane Francis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard University, Wall Street, Investment Banks, Tim Geithner, Tim Geithner Bailout, Banking Crisis, Banks, Larry Summers, Traders, D.E. Shaw, Leverage, Financial Crisis, Business News
Diane Francis

This plan is more of the same: highly leveraged risk-taking shenanigans facilitated by a naive government and tax dollars.

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Sad, Scared Traders: The Global Financial Crisis In Pictures (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Nour Akkad | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Traders, Slideshow, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Brokers, Economic Crisis, Business News

After the United States began struggling with an economic crisis while the world watched, the crisis conditions spread rapidly into other countries an...

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Traders With Higher Testosterone Make (And Lose) More Money

Bloomberg | Lisa Rapaport | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Dot-Com, Testosterone, Traders, Manic Behavior, Cortisol, Trader Behavior, Business News

Traders who start the morning with high levels of the hormone testosterone, produced in the testes, will probably make more money that day, a study fo...

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Traders Bet On Obama

Reuters | David Alexander | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Election Trades, Election Bets, Hillary Clinton, Traders, Iowa Electronic Markets, Barack Obama, Business News

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton will win several state nominating contests in the coming months but has little chance of becoming th...

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Citigroup To Cut 2,000 More Jobs

New York TImes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Citigroup, Citigroup Layoffs, Job Cuts, Traders, Investment Banks, Investment Bankers, Business News

Citigroup plans to lay off another 2,000 investment bankers and traders before the end of the month, people close to the situation said on Wednesday. ...

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