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CNBC Airs Commercial Bashing CNBC
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Fox Business seems to have begun running a campaign attacking CNBC and the network’s, perhaps E! network-esque, coverage of financial news. Somehow they managed to get CNBC to actually air...
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The Ackman/Icahn Showdown On CNBC
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Let me bring you up to speed: Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman presented a short thesis for Herbalife, a global nutrition and weight management company, accusing the organization of being a pyramid...
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Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher Discusses QE3 And The State Of The Economy
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher was on CNBC last week to discuss the Fed’s decision to implement QE3, and chat a bit about the general state of the economy. Fisher...
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HFT Meets Its Match As A Bum Rush Of Accurate Information Is Flooding The Public Debate
There has been a bum rush since the WSJ article on order queues, trading matching engines, data feeds, and what should be characterized as a blatant slanting of the schematics...
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Floating Path Responds To Irene Aldridge
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First and to the point, from Irene: On the other extreme are employers in the financial services industry. Just open the “Jobs” page in “Money and Investment” section in The...
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Political Spin In The Harvard Cheating Scandal
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Harvard students are fighting back against their school’s accusations of cheating on a take home exam for a course titled none other than, Introduction To Congress. According to Bloomberg News...
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Direct Edge CEO on Knight Trading
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Bill O’Brien is the CEO of Direct Edge, an electronic exchange partially owned by Knight Capital. In an interview with CNBC today O’Brien spun off what sounded like structured, legal...
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Another Moment Of Glory For CNBC
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Pointed out by CalibratedConfidence, we find yet another instance of CNBC broadcasters acting like freaking idiots. This is from September of 2009, in which Trish Regan and Larry Kudlow are...
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The Bernank Speaketh
It’s that time again: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling congress what the situation is and taking questions. The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress is below, and...









