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The next governor of the Reserve Bank of India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghuram_Rajan In 2005, at a celebration honoring Alan Greenspan, who was about to retire as chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Rajan delivered a controversial paper that was critical of the financial sector. In...

+1. :)

The Kospi 200 futures market is trading. http://eng.krx.co.kr/mki/fts/fts_l_003.jsp

Technical problems at IB, apparently...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/12/former-barclays-chief-points-out-bonuses-were-paid-fruadulently.html City people have always been paid well relative to others, but megabonuses are quite new. From my own experience, in the mid-1990s no more than four or five employees of Barclays’...

Opening delayed by one hour due to nationwide college examination.

http://eng.krx.co.kr/abk/nts/nts_d_001.jsp?ntc_cd=0036&ntc_seq_cd=18551

http://www.dailytech.com/The+Dark+Side+of+the+Cloud+Sidekick+Customers+Lose+All+Their+Data/article16470.htm Microsoft's subsidiary Danger, purchased in 2008, is one of the most extensive adopters of cloud computing. ************************** However, Danger has experienced a...

Looks like many (most?) TWS users are reasonably happy with version 898, negating the need for a "TWS Lite" campaign. Perhaps kiwi can post his experience with TWS version 898 in due course for our benefit?

kiwi, I'd invite your views on the following suggestion. How about a TWS Lite version along the lines of CQG Trader? http://www.cqg.com/Products/CQG-Trader.aspx I wonder if many IB customers would welcome a TWS version which is execution-oriented and without technical analysis tools. It...

http://vixandmore.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-vxx-is-not-good-short-term-or-long.html Today, for instance, the VIX closed at 28.27 and VXX closed at 52.35. Back on June 9th, the VIX also closed at 28.28, yet on that day VXX closed at 74.26. That 29.5% drop in VXX while the VIX held steady is...