Currency trading with Retirement money at The Hedge Funds Weblog

I saw a story the other day , How Retirement Funds are looking into the world of Currency trading. And the thought behind it was, "Stocks and bonds are tied to the business cycle and currencies have low correlations with are markets. As one who has traded Stocks, Bonds and Currency's over the decades, I find this train of thought Scary. Trading currencies are no deferent then any other product.To think, [...] Read More


2008: The Year of Carbon Finance and Trading at The Hedge Funds Weblog

The seventh annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit is presenting answers to carbon trading questions such as; What is carbon neutral? How are clean energy technologies tied to emissions trading? What are the carbon investment opportunities? These and other timely questions will be discussed and answered at the sixth annual Wall Street Green Trading and Finance Summit. Experts from Morrison & Foerster, Evolution Markets, Point Carbon, NYMEX, Natsource, orion Energy Services, [...] Read More


Alternative Investor Partners With Former Head Currency Trader at Tudor at The Hedge Funds Weblog

In a HedgeCo story today; alternative investor Last Atlantis Capital Management and Jerry Considine, former head currency trader at Tudor Investment, have partnered to introduce LACM Foreign exchange, Share Class W within the Last Atlantis Partners Fund. The share class will be traded by Mr. Considine and seeks to capitalize on near-term opportunities in the global currency futures and foreign exchange markets. The short-term, largely discretionary methodology was developed by Mr. [...] Read More


Currency Crunch? at The Outsourcing Weblog

Wasdin Given the weakening dollar, we may be heading toward some challenges to existing deals caused by the decreasing strength of the U.S. dollar. The pain of these changes will not be felt equally, as some deals have currency-adjustment provisions that favor the client, while other deals have provisions that favor the supplier. Assuming that these clauses are enforced to their fullest extent, some deals may become economically unfeasible for [...] Read More


Geithner on Currency Manipulation, and China's Reaction... at China Venture News

China is manipulating the value of their currency, the yuan renminbi. At least that's what Obama's new Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner says. The statement came as part of his 102-page response to questions from the Senate Finance Committee - part of the confirmation process in which the Senate approved him for the job. Naturally, the Chinese government sees things differently, and doesn't mind saying so. From the Washington PostSu Ning, vice [...] Read More