Like many carbon-based lifeforms, you perhaps think that bankers are driven only by naked greed. But that is just because you don't understand them: T...

And now it's time for another installment in our continuing series, Manipulating Markets Is Easy. What have traders gone and manipulated this time? Th...

Libor is a joke. Don't get me wrong, the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, is deadly serious business, affecting $350 trillion in derivative...

Speed traders make a fraction of a penny in fees, paid by stock exchanges, for each of the quadrillions of orders that traders can execute within mere seconds -- while losing no money, ever.

-- Gold prices hit the lowest level of the year Wednesday as uncertainty about Europe's political and economic future dominated world financial marke...

And it's finally dropped. No, we're not talking about Tupac's latest album from beyond the grave. It's the "Sh*t Sales Traders Say" video. Admitte...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - A Goldman Sachs technology analyst is under investigation by federal authorities for leaking inside information to hedge funds, t...

By Robert Harris, author of The Fear Index If you want to know why the world economy is in such a mess take a trip to Waxahachie, Texas, and look a...

Alesso Rastani’s fifteen minutes of fame aren’t quite over yet. The "independent trader" that told the BBC that he dreams of another recession...

Historically, fat finger trades -- where a trader presses the wrong key or adds a zero too many on an electronic trading system -- were considered exclusive to equities markets. But they are now stretching their piggy little digits into other asset classes.

NEW YORK: Traders are betting there is a 90 percent chance that hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam will be found guilty of insider trading when the...

Goldman Sachs made up to 35 percent of its 2009 revenue from derivatives, according to recent documents disclosed to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Comm...

The probe into the "flash crash" has yet to report the cause, but whatever it is will provide another example that the system is dangerously unpoliced and that manipulative behavior is unchecked.

PARIS — Jerome Kerviel says he's living the simple life these days. The former French trader accused of gambling away billions of his bank's mon...

While Gary Gensler and his CFTC Vaudeville act continue to fiddle away, their distortion in oil prices is burning a billion dollar hole a day in American consumers pockets.

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

But as President Obama prods the financial industry to do more to help ordinary Americans -- he chided 'fat cat' bankers -- on Sunday for increasing t...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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. ...