Recent content by skippyupwood

Looks like Hillary Clinton is starting to recover a bit

Unfortunately most of the city recruitment firms are either focused on back/middle office (compliance/accounting etc) or are interested in people with several years experience. I actually interviewed with one of the two firms that you mentioned but they needed hardcore quant people. In terms...

I'm a twenty-six year old student who is about to finish his PhD in Economic History at the LSE. I've had two internships at Investment Banks and I've written a column in the student newspaper on the stock market. I've traded my own PA with reasonable success (though I had to suspend my account...

Do you know of any good free newsletters that focus on fundamentals? I'm thinking of starting a weekly newsletter looking at geopolitical events and how they impact on Gold / Oil / and other commodities and I would like to look at what's already on the market. Note: I'm interested in serious...

Anyone want to predict the vote shares/order of the candidates in today's NH primary?

For all you GOPers who are depressed about the press attention surrounding Obama, here is something that should put it into perspective. http://thepoliticaltipster.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/why-a-mccain-vs-obama-contest-could-result-in-a-republican-landslide/

Hillary benefits from Edwards' campaign collapsing (though I don't think it will), since her poll ratings have been negatively correlated with JRE. (Obama and Edwards' poll ratings have a positive correlation implying that they do not share the same group of supporters).

The blind bio poll is one of the most pointless polls ever, imagine if you were asked the following question: "Candidate A worked as a family doctor delivering over 4,000 babies while candidate B has lobbied for various foreign countries and is onto his third marriage" - many people would...

Given that Ron Paul has absolutely no chance of winning New Hampshire you might be pleased to know that you can still make a virtually risk free 17% by shorting Ron Paul on Intrade. http://tiny.cc/JzBms