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Making Insider Trading Legal
Thanks to gaping loopholes implicitly endorsed by the Supreme Court, hedge funds now essentially have a license to cheat. By Patrick Radden Keefe.
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Next financial crash is coming – and before we've fixed flaws from last one
The next financial crisis is coming, it’s a just a matter of time – and we haven’t finished fixing the flaws in the global system that were so brutally exposed by the last one. That is the message from the International Monetary Fund’s latest Global Financial Stability report, which will make sobering reading for the finance ministers and central bankers gathered in Lima, Peru, for its annual meeting.
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Synthetic biology lures Silicon Valley investors
Tech funders warm to start-ups that use microbes in manufacturing.
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What are Alternative Investments?
And why you should give them a try.
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Help! My short position got crushed, and now I owe E-Trade $106,445.56
His name is Joe Campbell, and he claims he went to bed Wednesday evening with some $37,000 in his trading account at E-Trade. One notable development on the pharma front later, and Campbell woke up to a debt of $106,445.56. Now, he may end up liquidating his 401(k). And his wife’s. That’s where you come in. At least where Campbell desperately hopes you come in. Of course, sympathy in the trading community over such gaffes is typically in short supply.
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Airbnb Raises Over $100 Million as It Touts Strong Growth
Airbnb Inc. has raised over $100 million in a new round of funding that has closed, according to a person familiar with the matter. The round was done at the same $25.5 billion valuation where the company raised capital over the summer.
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Does it matter that Silicon Valley’s unicorns are overvalued?
Square's IPO has shown the rollercoaster ride that overblown private valuations can result in. By James Titcomb.
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Value of gun manufacturers' stocks almost doubled in 2015
Stock markets around the world closed down on the last trading day of 2015, with the Dow suffering its first annual drop since 2008. But for the two largest stock market-listed gun manufacturers 2015 has been another great year – their value has doubled. In a year marred with gun violence and peppered with calls for tougher gun control measures, Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger and Company have been two of the best performing stocks in the US.
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Chinese stock markets halt as shares plunge 7%
Chinese authorities for the first time closed the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges early under a "circuit breaker" mechanism to curb volatility after shares fell seven percent Monday, raising concern over their commitment to market openness.
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China stocks halted for the day after sharp plunge
Trading on Chinese stock markets was halted for the day on Thursday just 30 minutes after the start of trading.
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Sell everything ahead of stock market crash, say RBS economists
Royal Bank of Scotland warns of ‘cataclysmic’ year with slumps in shares and oil and advises clients to shift to bonds
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For Oil Drillers And Retirement Savers, This Is Not A Good Day
This day is starting out really nasty if you happen to be an oil driller — or a baby boomer who would like to retire with a nest egg.
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The stock market just did something it's done only 3 other times in the past 100 years — and it's not good
Wednesday's tumble in stocks officially sent the averages into a "correction" in the shortest amount of time since 3 other infamous market crashes.
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Why the correction? Machines have taken over
"It feels like sell program after sell program," said Michael Cohn, chief market strategist at Atlantis Asset Management.
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LinkedIn plunges 44%
LinkedIn's stock had its worst day ever. Shares cratered by as much as 44% in trading on Friday after the company reported a quarterly loss on Thursday, with guidance that was weaker than expected. It was the worst decline ever for the stock and has erased about $10 billion of the company's value. The social network for professionals said that it expected first-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55, but analysts had estimated $0.75, according to Bloomberg.
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Japanese stock market plunges 5% as global rout gathers pace
The global stock market rout has continued in Asia Pacific with Japanese stocks plunging nearly 5% as investors continued to dump risky assets amid uncertainty about the stability of the financial system. Tokyo recorded its biggest weekly fall for more than seven years after fears over a slowdown in the global economy and an overnight selloff in banking shares sent the Nikkei share average down by 4.84%.
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Morgan Stanley Analyst Fears the Movie The Big Short Has Discouraged Investors From Buying Risky Auto Loans
Apparently, the plot and popularity of the The Big Short—the critically-acclaimed Adam-McKay directed adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book—rattled some analysts at Morgan Stanley.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sells entire stake in Apple
Icahn has sold his shares in the company over concerns at China’s influence on its stock price
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sells entire stake in Apple
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn says he had sold his entire stake in Apple Inc, citing the risk of China’s influence on the stock. In an interview with US cable television network CNBC on Thursday, Icahn also said he was “still very cautious” on the US stock market and there would be a “day of reckoning” unless there was some sort of fiscal stimulus. Icahn had been a huge cheerleader of Apple, acquiring a stake in the company...
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Here’s all the money in the world, in one chart
Ever wonder how much money there is in the world? The answer is complicated, which you might expect -- but it has nothing to do with tallying up all the numbers. Rather, it’s more about what parameters are used.
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