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Visualizing The Assets And Loans Of The World’s 50 Biggest Banks
Using data from an excellent paper recently published on the difficulty of breaking up big banks, Simon Rogers created this very cool visual of the exposure of the world’s 50...
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Latest HFT Shenanigans: AMZN, WMW, And More Early Data Releases
Here at Floating Path we’re hoping to aid in bringing to light market manipulation by high frequency traders. The topic is one that, for the most part, goes under-reported by...
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Like All Market Rallies, Japanese Retail Investors Are Late To The Party
It is often said that retail investors buy at the tops and sell at the bottoms. Over the years, data has piled up to prove this adage has some merit....
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Latest HFT Shenanigans: Consumer Confidence and Chicago PMI
A holiday-shortened trading week didn’t stop us from witnessing plenty more examples of high frequency trading manipulation. With the help of the folks over at Nanex, we’ve again compiled the instances in...
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Corporate Pensions Remain Drastically Underfunded
The great recession damaged many U.S. corporate pension funds, a debt that, along with public pensions, goes widely unnoticed in the financial media. The below chart from Citi shows that...
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The Bubble Bubble
Paul Hawtin of Marketwatch noticed there has been increasing talk on Twitter lately of “bubbles” in the financial markets. After creating an algorithm to search tweets for occurrences of “bubble”,...
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The Latest In HFT Shenanigans
This past week in the markets may have been lower on volume towards the end, but one thing that wasn’t lacking was high frequency trading running amok. With the help...
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Hedge Fund Performance Lagging Way Behind The Market In 2013
In a recent release, Goldman Sachs compares the year-to-date performance of the S&P 500, the average mutual fund, and hedge funds. The S&P 500 has gained 15.4% this year and...
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How A Bloomberg Terminal Works
With all the fuss regarding Bloomberg terminals lately, here’s a little primer from the New York Times. This is a great video for those slouches that can’t afford the $20,000...
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Poland: The Hottest Financial Spot In Europe
Most wouldn’t have expected it, but indeed Warsaw is the new spot to be if you’re a big investment bank. According to Bloomberg, central European countries saw about $490 million...
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Beware Hedge Funds That Advertise
A new study considers the effect of advertising on hedge fund inflows. The researchers find that advertising does positively impact fund flows, but that returns tend to slip following a...
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Quote Spamming And The Latest HFT Shenanigans
Right before the close on Friday, the S&P 500 dipped 1.4 points in the blink of an eye. This may not have caught the attention of many, but was unusual...
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Comparing Real Returns Of Stocks, Bonds, And T-Bills
Catherine Mulbrandon provides this thoughtful chart plotting the nominal and real returns of stocks, 10-year bonds, and t-bills since 1928. Real returns are inflation adjusted, making clear there are many...
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Uncle Sam Runs A VC Firm
That’s right! According to the latest issue of Fortune, the CIA has a secret investment arm called In-Q-Tel created to sniff out new technology startups. And you thought only the...
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Yes, Hedge Funds Are Manipulating Stock Prices
A new study wonders if hedge funds pump stock they hold ownership in higher just before the funds have to report their quarterly earnings. The evidence is convincing that prices...
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The Bloomberg Spying Scandal Web
The recent news of Bloomberg journalists using supposedly restricted data from the Bloomberg terminal to gain information about the habits of the terminal’s clients has sparked some outrage from finance...
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Bloomberg Leak Revives Big Data Fears
As most news outlets, other than Bloomberg, have reported since Friday, the data provider fell into some hot water with Wall Street when data leaks were discovered at some point...
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New Study Finds Financial Advisers Still Having Nightmares From 2008 Market Collapse
A recent study finds that many financial advisers are still feeling the psychological pain created by the market collapse of 2008. The researchers conclude that a strategic shift has taken...
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China May Be The Most Pollutive Nation, But It Also Has The Greatest Capacity For Renewable Energy
China, with its 1.3 billion citizens, is more pollutive than any other nation by a wide margin. Goldman Sachs notes that China had 8321 million metric tons of carbon dioxide...
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How Companies In The S&P 500 Are Spending Their Capital
A release from Goldman Sachs shows the percentage breakdown and nominal total of how companies in the S&P 500 have used their capital since 1998. In 2012, capital expenditures by...
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Another Asian Whore
As we all know, western bankers tend to do as they please in Southeast Asia. The deal Bloomberg is reporting regarding the recent Goldman Sachs $6.5 billion bond sales in Malaysia seems...
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The Relationship Between Inflation And The S&P Composite
Visualizing Economics has put out a great chart showing the relationship between the S&P composite price/earnings ratio (using trailing 10-year earnings) and inflation. Graphed back to 1880, the years are...
