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, Quick introduction
on April 15, 2010
Over the past few months, silver has been performing quite strongly and moved past previous resistance levels and continues to surge ahead inspite of big concentrated short positions by commercial tra...
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, Investing
on December 9, 2009
We spend a lot of time thinking about investing. Should we buy or sell? Stock or bonds? Is there really a future in greentech, or is it just a passing fad? Am I getting the return on my investment ...
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Investing
on January 7, 2009
TimesOnline reports; Adolf Merckle, the 74-year-old head of a conglomerate that employs thousands in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, killed himself on Monday.
After writing a Suicide note for his fa...
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Investing
on October 28, 2008
A new online game has been brought to my attention, it's called Wall Street Survivor, where novice investors can contemplate their present and future investment plans without gambling with their h...
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on October 23, 2008
Confidence among North American investors fell particularly sharply from a revised level of 75.1 to 50.8. Elsewhere, the declines were less dramatic, with European confidence falling just 1.5 points t...
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on September 2, 2008
100 Women in hedge funds is presenting Notre Dame's Scott Malpass to discuss how endowments approach investments and stay the course in these curious and uncertain times. The event is being held a...
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on August 20, 2008
In a Reuters release today, it is reported that Asian stock markets edged higher, rebounding from a two-year low.
Chinese shares surged on hopes for policies from Beijing to jumpstart growth, though ...
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on July 30, 2008
My colleague at HedgeCo, Aaron Wormus, does a really good job here at what probably is the most complete (and simplest) description of the Sharpe ratio."Explaining the Sharpe Ratio (again)"
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on July 28, 2008
The SEC has released a new `ComplianceAlert´ letter identifying common deficiencies and weaknesses that SEC examiners have found during recent compliance examinations of registered investment companie...
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on July 17, 2008
In a HedgeCo story this morning I wrote about Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and the opening of an office in the United Arab Emirates' Dubai International Finance Centre.
BGI has been active in ...