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    UBS cuts 23 out of 30 NYSE floor jobs

    "Please tell me they didn't give Art Cashin the axe !!! If he is gone they should just retire the whole place" isn't it about time for that fossil to finally drink himself to death?
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    Top 10 hard-to-fill US jobs

    my understanding is that their is actually an increase of the amount of freight because of China exports. Besides that, DOT changed how many hours drivers could drive in a day so that caused some freight to move lower. In addition drug testing got stricter which disqualified alot of people. I...
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    Top 10 hard-to-fill US jobs

    cashmoney69 Registered: Nov 2005 Posts: 1712 New Post 03-29-07 03:14 PM why is truck driver on the list? because their is a huge shortage of them especially long haul
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    Loonie ... the infamous USD/CAD

    to be more specific, if their is a sharp intra day move in crude (such as on a stockpile number that is out of whack) will their be a move in cdn/usd because Canada is such a large oil exporter?
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    Loonie ... the infamous USD/CAD

    crude
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    Loonie ... the infamous USD/CAD

    how much is the cad affected by moves in cl?
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    15-20% interest rate in early 80's

    i think i got 16% on the cd i bought with my bar mitva money in 1981
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    working for a hedge fund in NY

    people have come ot this country with less and are billonaires now
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    Liz Claman: RBOB Crack Spread

    one of my favorite things about the trading business is that our sixth grade sense of humour never goes out of style. Like when your in a room full of guys trading with CNBC on and whenever they say something that can in anyway be construed in perverted way you do the Bevis and Butthead "hah...
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    My life is just starting at age 33

    if you have 25k plus a years living expenses you could quit your job try prop and if dosnt work go back.
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    Wall Street On Edge NOW: 6.5 Trillion Mortgage Market Crisis - Regulators Scrambling

    I have heard that lawyers are running adds in parts of California looking for sub prime borrowers who did not understand their loans and want to sue because they are being foreclosed. its just like the internet stocks it was all good when it was going up, but once it stopped everyone sued everyone.
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    Developments at Assent LLC

    I have no idea what going at any branch of assent however If someone is not being paid money they are owed as a result of what happened, I would recomend going directly to the corporate legal department at Sungard (their headquarters are in Wayne PA) and explain the situation. Make certain that...
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    AMEX Rules

    the main rule at the amex is that the floor will do anything they want with the few orders they get and then wonder why no one wants to trade there any more.
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    Developments at Assent LLC

    btw the answer your first question, the reason Sungard bought assent was because at the time sungard owned the Brut ECN. They figured that acquiring a large volume nasdaq trading shop could result in that volume being pushed to Brut their increasing market share and making Brut worth more.
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    A jewish American banker

    as a Jewish American I am still waiting for my piece of this pie. When is my turn to be an elder of zion?
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    Dressing Attire for Prop Trading Interview

    if its a salaried job wear a uit if its a deal where you put money down or a equity prop shop where you dont get paid but trade their money khaki's
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    How did your data provider/platform hold up today?

    Was this per chance sent to the Amex? On a normal day they rip you off yesterday I cant even imagine. Set Inet as default for Amex stocks.
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    Personal Bankruptcy Chapter7/Series7

    i have known guys who filed and were accepted their is sometimes a delay
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    Amex boycott !!!!

    probably they routed out. the plunge in a AMEx seat lease from 10,000 a month to 400 a month should be a cautionary tale for all exchanges that in a completive world you can not keep screwing your costumers and get away with it. I'll give you one example, I like to piece out of my winners and...
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    Trading and Dating

    another funny story from my dating days. back in 1999 whe I had more money then brains I dated a girl for a while. She liked to find creatvive ways to spend my money One tuesday she calls me and says "i got an idea, lets take a limo to Atlantic City tonight and come back late". I told her I...
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