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Mr. Tourre is a 2000 graduate of École centrale Paris, where he studied mathematics, and a 2001 graduate of Stanford University, where he received a masters degree in Operations Research. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2001 and moved to the structured products correlation trading desk in New York...

If you are aware of this : you pretty fast understand why Greece needed a "bailout"...

A handful of high-frequency trading firms accounted for an estimated 70 percent of overall trading volume on U.S. equities markets in 2009. One firm with such a computerized system traded over 2 billion shares in a single day in October 2008, amounting to over 10 percent of U.S. equities trading...

Does this mean I have to earn more than 9,5 % through trading in order to observe an appreciation in my real assets ?

Deposits The Tables of this section present a more detailed analysis of credit institutions deposits than the one given in the ‘Aggregated balance sheet of credit institutions’ . The Tables give the breakdown of deposits by economic sector (general government, corporations, and...

A Greek woman, aged 45, once working as an government employee, now retired - complained she had to forbear cuts in her 2000 EUR "government pension". Asked about why she retired at the age of 45, she wasn't able to give a staright answer. Certainly an extreme example, but showing the mindset of...

U.S. prosecutors charged a former Societe Generale trader on Monday with theft of a computer code used in high-frequency proprietary trading in the bank's New York office. Since the July arrest of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc programmer on similar charges, regulators and prosecutors have been...

GS down 10 %. Remarkable day.

.... Shares fell 2.6% in after-hours trading when the Journal's story broke. They tumbled 5.3% after the opening bell Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. Those investors may be starting to concede that the looming legal issues surrounding the firm may at last drive away Goldman's client...

Of course it' s not news, the strange thing about it is, that criminal charges are brought op before SEC civil claims...question is : WHY NOW ?

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was downgraded to “neutral” from “buy” at Bank of America Corp. because federal prosecutors are weighing criminal fraud charges against Wall Street’s most-profitable firm. Bank of America also reduced its share-price estimate on...

Buy Richard Bove...:D

No, selling crap through GS desks might be shitty now...

http://www.eurex-bonds.com/

That’s the yield on the three-month German bill, and it is has been verging on the negative in recent days. In fact it reached a low of 0.09 on April 20 — the day Bundesbank President Axel Weber said Greece may need more bailout money than initially expected. That was its lowest since 1993...

It's easy to explain : German fund managers "BELIEVE" nobody has to pay for Greece bailout and for the shrinkage in EUR GDP stemming not only from Greece but also Spain, Ireland, Portugal etc. Trillions in government spending and nobody has to pay the bill. LOL ! Good joke.

Pia Capital Management launches with $300m Following HFMWeek’s exclusive report that Christopher Pia, formerly of Moore Capital Management departed Louis Bacon’s firm to set up Pia Capital Management, the portfolio launched today with approximately $300m. The offering, called the Pia...

Moore Capital Management, the veteran hedge-fund firm ensnared earlier this year in a U.K. insider-trading probe, agreed to pay $25 million to settle a regulatory investigation over allegedly manipulative commodity-futures trading two years ago. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

MADRID (MarketWatch) -- The number of persons unemployed in Spain reached 20.05% of the population in the first quarter of 2010, the National Institute of Statistics said here on Friday. The total number of jobless now stands at 18,394,200, a gain of 251,800 on the prior quarter. The jobless...