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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...
